• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.317-322
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• 2013

This paper presents a new laser lock-in thermography (LLT) technique for nondestructive evaluation. LLT utilizes a modulated continuous wave laser beam as a heat source to obtain high fidelity thermal wave images even at the presence of background heat disturbances. The thermal waves propagating along the surface and through-the-thickness directions of a structure are visualized using newly developed laser lock-in amplitude and phase images, enhancing the detectability of surface and subsurface defects. The LLT technique is numerically investigated and experimentally validated using thermal images obtained from a steel specimen with low emissivity.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.534-542
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• 2017

This paper presents a fast locking technique for a fractional-N PLL frequency synthesizer. The technique directly measures $K_{VCO}$ on a chip, computes the VCO's target tuning voltage for a given target frequency, and directly sets the loop filter voltage to the target voltage before the PLL begins the normal closed-loop locking process. The closed-loop lock time is significantly minimized because the initial frequency of the VCO are put very close to the desired final target value. The proposed technique is realized and designed for a 4.3-5.3 GHz fractional-N synthesizer in 65 nm CMOS and successfully verified through extensive simulations. The lock time is less than $12.8{\mu}s$ over the entire tuning range. Simulation verifications demonstrate that the proposed method is very effective in reducing the synthesizer lock time.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2006

Anti-lock brake system(ABS) are designed to prevent wheel lock on all wheels of the vehicle by sensing wheel angular speed, processing the speed sensor signals in suitable digital electronic control circuits and comanding electrohydraulic actuators to control brake pressure. This study considers a control of ABS using wheel circumferential acceleration thresholds which avoids dangerous wheel locking due to excessive brake pressure during the vehicle braking and discusses the 3-channels, 3-sensors ABS system that employs "independent control" technique for the front wheels and "select low" technique for the rear wheels. The validities of the ABS such as vehicle stability, steerability and stopping distance during braking are assured through the vehicle tests on uniform asphalt straight roads.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.105-112
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• 2011

In phase-locked frequency synthesizers, a fast-lock technique is frequently employed to overcome the trade-off between a lock-time and a spurious response. The function of fast-lock in a conventional PLL (Phased Lock Loop) IC (Integrated Circuit) is limited by a factor of 16, which is usually implemented by a scaling of charge pumper, and consequently a lock time improvement of a factor of 4 is possible using the conventional PLL IC. In this paper, we propose a novel external active fast-lock loop filter. The proposed loop filter provides, conceptually, an unlimited scaling of charge pumper current, and can overcome conventional trade-off between lock-time and spur suppression. To demonstrate the validity of our proposed loop-filter, we fabricated an X-band frequency synthesizer using the proposed loop filter. The loop filter in the synthesizer is designed to have a loop bandwidth of 100 kHz in the fast-lock mode and a loop bandwidth of 5 kHz in the normal mode, which corresponds to a charge pumper current change ratio of 400. The X-band synthesizer shows successful performance of a lock-time of below 10 ${\mu}sec$ and reference spur suppression below -64 dBc.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.317-321
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• 2008

Piping in the Nuclear Power plants (NPP) are mostly consisted of carbon steel pipe. The wall thinning defect is mainly occurred by the affect of the flow accelerated corrosion (FAC) of fluid which flows in carbon steel pipes. This type of defect becomes the cause of damage or destruction of piping. Therefore, it is very important to measure defect which is existed not only on the welding partbut also on the whole field of pipe. Over the years, Infrared thermography (IRT) has been used as a non destructive testing methods of the various kinds of materials. This technique has many merits and applied to the industrial field but has limitation to the materials. Therefore, this method was combined with lock-in technique. So IRT detection resolution has been progressively improved using lock-in technique. In this paper, the quantitative analysis results of the location and the size of wall thinning defect that is artificially processed inside the carbon steel pipe by using IRT are obtained.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.373-379
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• 2009

Presented in this paper is a new experimental technique to measure material properties of lock plate of gas turbine plants by using ultrasonic guided wave. In comparison with the mechanical destructive testings, material characterization of the Inconel x-750 was nondestructively carried out in a more efficient manner to discriminate the change in elastic moduli and the poisson's ratio attributed to the variation of heat treatment condition. The proposed technique shows a satisfactory feasibility via the comparative experiments with the imported lock plate specimens. It is also expected that the guided wave technique can cover a longer and wider range as a new cost-&-time-saving inspection tool due to the interaction with a greater part of specimen, compared to a conventional local point-by-point scheme.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.105-112
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• 1999

확산대역통신은 CDMA 시스템에서의 핵심기술이지만 SS통신에서의 문제점은 동기 방법이다. 동기방법에는 DLL(Delay Lock Loop), Tau-dither Loop, SO(Synchronous Osillator) 등이 있다. 그러나 아날로그 동작시에는 회로의 크기가 커지고 조정이 어려운 문제가 있어 본논문에서는 Digital Delay Lock Loop (DDLL)을 제안하고 실험을 통해 그 성능을 평가하였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제11D권4호
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• pp.809-822
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 검색 위주의 공간 데이터베이스 시스템을 위한 R-tree 기반의 동시성 제어 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 제안된 기법들은 검색연산이 갱신연산과 동시에 수행되는 것을 막기 위해 노드에 공유 락이나 래치를 획득함으로써 갱신연산으로 인한 검색연산의 블록킹을 막을 수 없다는 문제를 가지고 있으며, 또한 R-tree같은 다차원 색인의 경우 갱신연산의 락 획득은 여러 노드에 걸쳐 일어날 수 있으며, 노드 분할과 같은 경우 오랜 시간동안 락을 획득하고 있을 수도 있기 때문에 검색연산은 장시간 블록킹이 되어야 하는 문제를 갖는다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 노드의 엔트리들을 링크드 리스트로 연결하는 방법을 사용하여 노드에 엔트리를 삽입하고 있는 중에도 락이나 래치를 획득하지 않고 검색연산을 할 수 있는 링크드 리스트 기반의 동시성 제어 기법과, 노드 분할이 진행 중에 있는 노드에도 검색연산이 락이나 래치를 획득하지 않고 노드를 탐색할 수 있는 버전 기반의 동시성 제어 기법을 제안한다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2007년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2007
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• pp.394-396
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• 2007

Radio occultation (RO) technique has been used in planetary science since 1960s. When signal goes through atmosphere, it is refracted due to the gradient of atmospheric refractivity. In 1995, the first low earth orbit (LEO) satellite, MicroLab-1, was launched to conduct RO mission. It receives the signal from global positioning system (GPS) satellites. After MicroLab-1, other RO missions, such as CHAMP, SAC-C, and GRACE, are executed in several years later. In 2006, Taiwan launched six LEO satellites for RO mission. The mission name is Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC). Under some abnormal situations, multipath and strong fluctuation in phase and amplitude of the signal appear in moist troposphere. Therefore, open loop (OL) technique has been applied to replace traditional phase lock loop (PLL) technique. In this paper, we will summarize the retrieval processing procedure and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of OL technique.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.377-378
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• 2008