• 센서학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.441-446
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• 2023

Electrical and optical characteristics of the GaN-based light-emitting diode (LED) with the improved multi-quantum well (MQW) structure have been studied for light source in bio-sensing systems. Novel GaN/In_0.1GaN/In_0.2GaN/In_0.1GaN/GaN and Al_0.1GaN/GaN/In_0.2GaN/GaN/Al_0.1GaN (MQW) structures were suggested, and their radiative recombination rate, light output power, electroluminescence, and external quantum efficiency were compared with those of the conventional GaN/In_0.2GaN/GaN MQW structure using device simulation. The LED with the GaN/In_0.1GaN/In_0.2GaN/In_0.1GaN/GaN MQW structure showed an excellent recombination rate of 5.57 × 10²⁸ cm^-3·s^-1 that was more than one order improvement over that of the conventional LED. In addition, the efficiency droop was relieved by the suggested stepped MQW structure.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.358-365
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• 2011

LED는 친환경적 특성, 긴 수명, 우수한 효율 등의 장점이 있어 최근 기존의 백열전등 및 형광등을 대체하는 조명 수단으로 각광받고 있다. 또한, LED는 전기를 빛으로 변환하는 속도가 굉장히 빠른 반도체로 정보의 변조 및 인코딩이 용이하기 때문에 통신 소자로서 활용이 가능하다. 이를 이용하여 기존의 조명 기능을 수행함과 동시에 부가적으로 근거리 무선 통신을 수행하는 것을 가시광 통신 시스템이라 한다. 기존의 전압원 구동 가시광 통신 시스템의 경우, 스위치의 선형 영역 구동으로 인해 전력 변환 효율의 저하 및 발열이 심각하였다. 본 논문에서는 스위치를 스위칭 영역에서 구동시킴으로써 전력 변환 효율과 발열의 획기적인 개선이 가능한 고효율 스위칭 방식의 LED 드라이버를 제안한다. 또한 3MHz 무선 오디오 통신 시스템에 제안된 20W급 LED 드라이버를 적용하여 그 타당성을 검증한다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제27권11호
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• pp.967-974
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• 2018

In this study, we evaluated the photocatalytic oxidation efficiency of aromatic volatile hydrocarbons by using $WO_3$-doped $TiO_2$ nanotubes (WTNTs) under visible-light irradiation. One-dimensional WTNTs were synthesized by ultrasonic-assisted hydrothermal method and impregnation. XRD analysis revealed successful incorporation of $WO_3$ into $TiO_2$ nanotube (TNT) structures. UV-Vis spectra exhibited that the synthesized WTNT samples can be activated under visible light irradiation. FE-SEM and TEM images showed the one-dimensional structure of the prepared TNTs and WTNTs. The photocatalytic oxidation efficiencies of toluene, ethylbenzene, and o-xylene were higher using WTNT samples than undoped TNT. These results were explained based on the charge separation ability, adsorption capability, and light absorption of the sample photocatalysts. Among the different light sources, light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) are more highly energy-efficient than 8-W daylight used for the photocatalytic oxidation of toluene, ethylbenzene, and o-xylene, though the photocatalytic oxidation efficiency is higher for 8-W daylight.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.101-105
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• 2019

LCD의 광 효율을 향상시키기 위해 LCD backlight unit (BLU)의 광원으로 적색, 녹색, 청색의 광원을 사용하였으며, RGB 광은 lenticular lens array (LLA)를 통해 집광되어 각각 컬러 필터의 적색, 녹색, 청색 필터에 색일치되는 조건으로 광이 지나도록 설계하여 시뮬레이션하였다. 광원의 위치에 따라 Type-A와 Type-B 두 가지 방식으로 시뮬레이션을 진행하였으며, 그 결과 LLA를 사용하지 않았을 때와 비교하여 Type-A는 휘도가 210%로 상승하였으며, Type-B는 270% 상승함을 확인하였다. LLA의 최적의 조건은 렌즈의 높이가 $25{\mu}m$, 렌즈 간의 간격이 $3{\mu}m$일 때, 효율이 최대가 됨을 확인하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.444-445
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• 2009

The metallic contact system of silicon solar cell must have several properties, such as low contact resistance, easy application and good adhesion. Ni is shown to be a suitable barrier to Cu diffusion as well as desirable contact metal to silicon. Nickel monosilicide(NiSi) has been suggested as a suitable silicide due to its lower resistivity, lower sintering temperature and lower layer stress than $TiSi_2$. Copper and Silver can be plated by electro & light-induced plating method. Light-induced plating makes use the photovoltaic effect of solar cell to deposit the metal on the front contact. The cell is immersed into the electrolytic plating bath and irradiated at the front side by light source, which leads to a current density in the front side grid. Electroless plated Ni/ Electro&light-induced plated Cu/ Light-induced plated Ag contact solar cells result in an energy conversion efficiency of 16.446 % on $0.2\sim0.6\;{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$, $20\;\times\;20\;mm^2$, CZ(Czochralski) wafer.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.293-298
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• 2014

An anaerobic photosynthetic treatment process utilizing purple non-sulfur photosynthetic bacteria (PNSB) was applied to the recovery of organic carbon from food processing wastewater. PNSB cells, by-product from the treatment, have high nutrition such as proteins and vitamins which are a good alternative for fish feed. Effects of light source on performance of anaerobic photosynthetic process were investigated in this study. Two bench-scale photo-bioreactors were lighted with infrared light emitting diodes (LEDs) and tungsten lamps covered with infrared transmitting filter, respectively, aiming to supply infrared light for photosynthetic bacteria growth. The photo-bioreactors were operated to treat noodle-processing wastewater for 323 days. Hydraulic retention time (HRT) was set as 6 days. Organic removals in the photo-bioreactor lighted with infrared LEDs (91%-95%) was found higher than those in photo-bioreactor with tungsten lamps with filter (79%-83%). Biomass production in a 150 L bench-scale photo-bioreactor was comparable to a 8 L small-scale photo-bioreactor in previous study, due to improvement of light supply efficiency. Application of infrared LEDs could achieve higher treatment performance with advantages in energy efficiency and wavelength specifity.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.233-238
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• 2014

In this paper, in order to achieve slim and light liquid crystal display, we examine the optical conditions that can obtain uniform light with higher optical efficiency over whole light guide plate (LGP) through simulation. Furthermore, to overcome the issues of hot spot in front of red, green, and blue light emitting diodes (RGB LEDs) source and non-uniform color mixing, we propose four shaped color mixing bars tied up with the LGP and check the optical characteristics of the LGP with them by simulation. Consequently, we could know the optical conditions of improving optical efficiency and optical uniformity in the LGP through the optical design. Also we confirmed that the issues of the hot spot and non-uniform color mixing in edge type LED could be solved by using the ${\bigwedge}$-shaped window color mixing bar.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.163-168
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• 2003

광의 세기에 따라 눈의 시감효율은 추상체와 간상체에 의해 파장에 따라 2개의 함수로 이루어진다. 광자에 대한 추상체-간상체의 반응확률을 이용하여 $P{\lambda}=A{\cdot}e^{-({\lambda}-{\lambda}_u)^2/2W^2}$의 분포함수 수식을 유도하였다. 이 식은 파장에 따른 CIE의 눈의 시감효율 곡선에 잘 적용되었다. 눈앞에 렌즈가 있는 경우 시감도는 보정 되어야 한다. 렌즈를 투과할 광은 흡수 파장에 의존하고, 최종 시감도는 추정방법은 시감도와 렌즈의 투과율 세기의 곱으로 표현된다. $$Pf({\lambda})=T({\lambda}){\cdot}P({\lambda})$$. 브라운 칼라 렌즈에 대해 시감도인 photopic과 scotopic 적용하였다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.269-274
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• 2013

The effect of diffusing substrate and pillow lenses on the outcoupling efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) was studied by optical simulation based on the point-dipole model. The diffusing substrate included Mie scatterers by which the condition of total internal reflection could be broken. The finite-difference time-domain method was used to obtain the intensity distribution on the transparent electrode of an OLED, which was used as a light source to carry out a ray-tracing simulation of the OLED and the diffusing substrate. It was found that the outcoupling efficiency of the OLED was sensitive to the thickness of organic layers and could be increased by 21.0% by adopting a diffusing substrate in which Mie scatterers whose radius was $2.0{\mu}m$ were included at the density of $10^7mm^{-3}$ and by 65.5% by forming one pillow lens with the radius of 2 mm on the front surface of the glass substrate. This study revealed that the outcoupling efficiency could be improved by adopting diffusing substrate and pillow lenses along with the optimization of the thickness of each layer in the OLED.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2011

The high-power LED (Light Emitting Diode) which is recently gaining popularity as a digital light source has such advantages as low power consumption, long life, fast switching speed, and high efficiency. Thus, many efforts are being made to use the high-power LEDs for general lighting. This paper proposes LED driving circuit uses a DC/DC converter that can recover energy to compensate for the current variations caused by changes in LED equivalent resistance following a temperature change instead of serial resistance. The maximum input voltage of this DC/DC converter has low voltage variations by temperature change when the rated current is formed. In order to return current to the input side, we need a high boosting at low power. Thus, to improve the low efficiency of power converter, the power converter can be configured in such a way to gather the powers of low-capacity DC/DC converters and return the total power. Experiments showed that the proposed system improved efficiency compared to the conventional LED drive using the existing DC/DC converter.