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A Transverse Load Sensor with Reconfigurable Measurement Accuracy Based on a Microwave Photonic Filter

  • Chen, Han;Li, Changqing;Min, Jing
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.2 no.6
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    • pp.519-524
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    • 2018
  • We propose a transverse load sensor with reconfigurable measurement accuracy based on a microwave photonic filter in the $K_u$ band, incorporating a polarization-maintaining fiber Bragg grating. A prototype sensor with a reconfigurable measurement accuracy tuning range from 6.09 to 9.56 GHz/(N/mm), and corresponding minimal detectable load range from 0.0167 to 0.0263 N/mm, is experimentally demonstrated. The results illustrate that up to 40% manufacturing error in the grating length can be dynamically calibrated to the same corresponding measurement accuracy for the proposed transverse load sensor, by controlling the semiconductor optical amplifier's injection current in the range of 154 to 419 mA.

Synthesis of Ce-doped In2O3 nanoparticles via a microwave-assisted hydrothermal pathway and their application as an ultrafast breath acetone sensor

  • Byeong-Hun Yu;Sung Do Yun;Chan Woong Na;Ji-Wook Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.56 no.6
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    • pp.393-400
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    • 2023
  • Acetone, a metabolite detected from the exhaled breath of people doing a diet, can be used for non-invasive monitoring of diet efficiency. Thus, gas sensors with rapid response and recovery characteristics to acetone need to be developed. Herein, we report ultrafast acetone sensors using Ce-doped In2O3 nanoparticles prepared by the one-pot microwave-assisted hydrothermal method. The pure In2O3 sensor shows a high response and fast response time (τres = 6 s) upon exposure to 2 ppm acetone at 300 ℃, while exhibiting a relatively sluggish recovery speed (τrecov = 1129 s). When 20 wt% Ce is doped, the τrecov of the sensor significantly decreased to 45 s withholding the fast-responding characteristic (τres = 6 s). In addition, the acetone response (resistance ratio, S) of the sensor is as high as 5.8, sufficiently high to detect breath acetone. Moreover, the sensor shows similar acetone sensing characteristics even under a highly humid condition (relative humidity of 60%) in terms of τres (6 s), τrecov (47 s), and S (4.7), demonstrating its high potential in real applications. The excellent acetone sensing characteristics of Ce-doped In2O3 nanoparticles are discussed in terms of their size, composition, phase, and oxygen adsorption on the sensing surface.

A Multicopter Detecting and Combating Wild Animals Using a Microwave Doppler sensor (마이크로 도플러 센서를 이용한 유해조수 퇴치드론)

  • Lee, Seul;Kim, Jun-tae;Cho, Soon-jae;Cho, Beom-yeon;Jeong, Seo-hoon;Kim, Hyung-Hoon;Shim, Hyeon-min
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2019.10a
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    • pp.34-37
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    • 2019
  • The drone uses a Microwave Doppler Radar Sensor which operates at 10.525GHz to recognize harmful animal which intruded into the arable land. Moreover provide user with notification services on risk factors. Subsequently, the user the drone's camera and a camera-only app to watch the farmland in real-time, steer the drone directly, and use the NeoPixel LED ring and the speaker to stimulate the harmful animal's sight and hearing to induce escape.

Compact LTCC LPF Chip for Microwave Radar Sensor Applications

  • Lee, Young Chul
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.386-390
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    • 2017
  • A $5^{th}$-order low-pass filter (LPF) chip implemented in a six-layer low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) dielectric substrate has been presented. Lumped elements constituting the LPF are designed three-dimensionally in multilayers. In order to improve the parasitic and mutual coupling effects between them, the LPF is designed by sequentially integrating the three-dimensional (3D) lumped elements, by comparing it to the results of the schematic circuit and 3D electromagnetic (EM) analysis. The designed 3D LPF chip was fabricated in a six-layer LTCC substrate as small as $4.0{\times}3.22{\times}0.68mm^3$. The measured return and insertion losses are less than -11 dB and -0.61 dB, respectively, below 1.5 GHz.

Microwave Radiometer for Space Science and DREAM Mission of STSAT-2

  • Kim, Y.H.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.31.4-32
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    • 2008
  • The microwave instruments are used many areas of the space remote sensing and space science applications. The imaging radar of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is well known microwave radar sensor for earth surface and ocean research. Unlike radar, microwave radiometer is passive instrument and it measures the emission energy of target, i.e. brightness temperature BT, from earth surface and atmosphere. From measured BT, the geophysical data like cloud liquid water, water vapor, sea surface temperature, surface permittivity can be retrieved. In this paper, the radiometer characteristics, system configuration and principle of BT measurement are described. Also the radiometer instruments TRMM, GPM, SMOS for earth climate, and ocean salinity research are introduce. As first korean microwave payload on STSAT-2, the DREAM (Dual-channels Radiometer for Earth and Atmosphere Monitoring) is described the mission, system configuration and operation plan for life time of two years. The main issues of DREAM unlike other spaceborne radiometers, will be addressed. The calibration is the one of main issues of DREAM mission and how it contribute on the space borne radiometer. In conclusion, the radiometer instrument to space science application will be considered.

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Rapid Preparation of Soybean Curd Using of Ultra Fine Soy Powder by Microwave Oven (전자렌지를 이용한 초미세 대두분말두부의 신속제조)

  • 김순동;김미경;김미향;이명숙
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 1994
  • The rapid preparaton method of soybean curd with ultra fine soy powder at home was investigated. The microwave oven of this study used common microwave attached sensor for the volume and temperature control, The temperature of the microwave oven was maintained at 98, not boiling over. It took 9 minutes to make 300g of soybean curd, 10 minutes to make 600g, 14 minutes to make 900g, and 17 minutes to make 1200g. Beany flavor and trypsin inhibitor could be removed by this conditon. It took only 5 min to make coaguation of the curd by glucono-$\delta$-lactone.

APPLICATION OF MERGED MICROWAVE GEOPHYSICAL OCEAN PRODUCTS TO CLIMATE RESEARCH AND NEAR-REAL-TIME ANALYSIS

  • Wentz, Frank J.;Kim, Seung-Bum;Smith, Deborah K.;Gentemann, Chelle
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.150-152
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    • 2006
  • The DISCOVER Project (${\underline{D}}istributed$ ${\underline{I}}nformation$ ${\underline{S}}ervices$ for ${\underline{C}}limate$ and ${\underline{O}}cean$ products and ${\underline{V}}isualizations$ for ${\underline{E}}arth$ ${\underline{R}}esearch$) is a NASA funded Earth Science REASoN project that strives to provide highly accurate, carefully calibrated, long-term climate data records and near-real-time ocean products suitable for the most demanding Earth research applications via easy-to-use display and data access tools. A key element of DISCOVER is the merging of data from the multiple sensors on multiple platforms into geophysical data sets consistent in both time and space. The project is a follow-on to the SSM/I Pathfinder and Passive Microwave ESIP projects which pioneered the simultaneous retrieval of sea surface temperature, surface wind speed, columnar water vapor, cloud liquid water content, and rain rate from SSM/I and TMI observations. The ocean products available through DISCOVER are derived from multi-sensor observations combined into daily products and a consistent multi-decadal climate time series. The DISCOVER team has a strong track record in identifying and removing unexpected sources of systematic error in radiometric measurements, including misspecification of SSM/I pointing geometry, the slightly emissive TMI antenna, and problems with the hot calibration source on AMSR-E. This in-depth experience with inter-calibration is absolutely essential for achieving our objective of merging multi-sensor observations into consistent data sets. Extreme care in satellite inter-calibration and commonality of geophysical algorithms is applied to all sensors. This presentation will introduce the DISCOVER products currently available from the web site, http://www.discover-earth.org and provide examples of the scientific application of both the diurnally corrected optimally interpolated global sea surface temperature product and the 4x-daily global microwave water vapor product.

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Conception and Modeling of a Novel Small Cubic Antenna Design for WSN

  • Gahgouh Salem;Ragad Hedi;Gharsallah Ali
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.53-58
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    • 2024
  • This paper presents a novel miniaturized 3-D cubic antenna for use in wireless sensor network (WSN) application. The geometry of this antenna is designed as a cube including a meander dipole antenna. A truly omnidirectional pattern is produced by this antenna in both E-plane and H-plane, which allows for non-intermittent communication that is orientation independent. The operating frequency lies in the ISM band (centered in 2.45 GHz). The dimensions of this ultra-compact cubic antenna are 1.25*1.12*1cm3 which features a length dimension λ/11. The coefficient which presents the overall antenna structure is Ka=0.44. The cubic shape of the antenna is allowing for smart packaging, as sensor equipment may be easily integrated into the cube hallow interior. The major constraint of WSN is the energy consumption. The power consumption of radio communication unit is relatively high. So it is necessary to design an antenna which improves the energy efficiency. The parameters considered in this work are the resonant frequency, return loss, efficiency, bandwidth, radiation pattern, gain and the electromagnetic field of the proposed antenna. The specificity of this geometry is that its size is relatively small with an excellent gain and efficiency compared to previously structures (reported in the literature). All results of the simulations were performed by CST Microwave Studio simulation software and validated with HFSS. We used Advanced Design System (ADS) to validate the equivalent scheme of our conception. Input here the part of summary.

An Object Recognition Performance Improvement of Automatic Door using Ultrasonic Sensor (초음파 센서를 이용한 자동문의 물체인식 성능개선)

  • Kim, Gi-Doo;Won, Seo-Yeon;Kim, Hie-Sik
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.54 no.3
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    • pp.97-107
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    • 2017
  • In the field of automatic door, the infrared rays and microwave sensor are much used as the important components in charge of the motor's operation control of open and close through the incoming signal of object recognition. In case of existing system that the sensor of the infrared rays and microwave are applied to the automatic door, there are many malfunctions by the infrared rays and visible rays of the sun. Because the automatic doors are usually installed outside of building in state of exposure. The environmental change by temperature difference occurs the noise of object recognition detection signal. With this problem, the hardware fault that the detection sensor is unable to follow the object moving rapidly within detection area makes the sensing blind spot. This fault should be improved as soon as possible. Because It influences safety of passengers who use the automatic doors. This paper conducted an experiment to improve the detection area by installing extra ultrasonic sensor besides existing detection sensor. So, this paper realize the computing circuit and detection algorithm which can correctly and rapidly process the access route of objects moving fast and the location area of fixed obstacles by applying detection and advantages of ultrasonic signal to the automatic doors. With this, It is proved that the automatic door applying ultrasonic sensor is improved detection area of blind spot sensing through field test and improvement plan is proposed.