• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.979-983
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• 2008

평면 안테나는 막대형 모노폴 안테나에 비하여 돌출부위가 없으므로 옥외 계측자동화시설의 데이터 전송에 효과적으로 사용될 수 있다. 그러나 UHF 대역에서는 크기로 인하여 평면 안테나의 사용이 상당히 제한되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 400MHz UHF 대역의 ISM 밴드를 사용하는 AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) 시스템에 적용할 수 있는 평면 안테나의 소형화 설계를 연구하였다. 평면 안테나는 FR-4 기판의 마이크로스트립 패치 구조이며, 소형화는 패치에 슬롯을 장하하여 설계되었다. 먼저 직사각형 슬롯을 사용하여 슬롯이 안테나 소형화에 미치는 영향을 파악한 후 보다 복잡한 형태의 슬롯을 적용하여 UHF 대역에서 37.9% 크기가 감소된 안테나를 제작하였다. 제작된 안테나는 야외 설치를 위한 안테나 보호용으로 표면에 에폭시 코팅 처리가 이루어졌으며, 공진 주파수 변화에 대한 에폭시 코팅의 영향도 분석되었다.

• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.54-60
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• 2018

Objective: Persons with chronic stroke fall more often than healthy elderly individuals. The Timed Up and Go test (TUG) is used as a fall prediction tool, but only provides a result for the total measurement time. This study aimed to determine the optimal cut-off values for each of the 6 components of the TUG. Design: Retrospective study. Methods: Thirty persons with chronic stroke participated in the study. TUG evaluation was performed using a wearable miniaturized inertial sensor. Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values were calculated using the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve analysis for the measured values in each section. Optimal values for fall risk classification were determined. Logistic regression analysis was used to investigate the risk of future falls based on TUG. Results: The cut-off values of the 6 sections of the TUG were determined, as follows: sit-to-stand >2.00 seconds (p<0.05), forward gait >4.68 seconds (p<0.05), mid-turn >3.82 seconds (p<0.05), return gait >4.81 seconds (p<0.05), end-turn >2.95 seconds (p<0.05), and stand-to-sit >2.13 seconds (p<0.05). The risk of falling increased by 2.278 times when the mid-turn value was >3.82 seconds (p<0.05). Conclusions: The risk of falls increased by 2.28 times when the value of the mid-turn interval exceeded 3.82 seconds. Therefore, when interpreting TUG results, the predictive accuracy for falls will be higher when the measurement time for each section is analyzed, together with the total time for TUG.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.331-335
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• 2012

A miniaturized laser beam transmitter, in which a visible laser module at ${\lambda}$=650 nm is precisely stacked upon an infrared (IR) module at ${\lambda}$=905 nm, has been proposed and constructed to provide an IR collimated beam in conjunction with a collinear monitoring visible beam. In particular, the IR beam is selectively dispersed through a perforated sheet diffuser, so as to create a rapidly diverging close-range beam in addition to a highly defined long-range beam simultaneously. The complementary close-range beam plays a role in mitigating the blind region in the vicinity of the transmitter, which is inevitably missed by the main long-range beam, thereby uniformly extending the transmitter's effective trajectory that is sensed by a receiver. The proposed transmitter was designed through numerical simulations and then fabricated by incorporating a diffuser sheet, perforated with an aperture of 2 mm. For the manufactured transmitter, the IR long-range beam was observed to have divergences of ~2.3 and 1.6 mrad in the fast and slow axes, respectively, while the short-range beam yielded a divergence of ~24 mrad. The angular alignment between the long-range IR and visible beams was as accurate as ~0.5 mrad. According to an outdoor feasibility test involving a receiver, the combination of the IR long- and short-range beams was proven to achieve a nearly uniform trajectory over a distance ranging up to ~600 m, with an average detectable cross-section of ${\sim}60{\times}80cm^2$.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.369-381
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• 2019

As tactical networks are gradually shifting toward IP-based flexible operation for diversified battlefield services, QoS(Quality-of-Service) coordination for service differentiation becomes essential to overcome the heterogeneous and scarce networking resources limitations. QoS coordination for tactical network traffic should be able to monitor and react the dynamic changes in underlying network topology and service priorities. In this paper, by adopting the emerging cloud-native service mesh concept into tactical network context, we study the feasibility of intelligent QoS coordination by employing tactical service mesh(TSM) as an additional layer to support enhanced traffic quality monitoring and control. The additional TSM layer can leverage distributed service-mesh proxies at tactical mesh WAN(Wide Area Network) nodes so that service-aware differentiated QoS coordination can be effectively designed and integrated with TSM-assisted traffic monitoring and control. Also, by validating the feasibility of TSM layer for QoS coordination with miniaturized experimental setup, we show the potential of the proposed approach with several approximated battlefield traffics over a simulated TSM-enabled tactical network.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.52-58
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• 2019

In the case of high-voltage connectors applied to automobiles, waterproofing has become an important issue for the safety of automobiles. In this study, structural analysis is performed on silicone rubber-type waterproof seals used in the voltage connector. For the structural analysis, the tensile properties of the actual rubber seal are evaluated using a miniaturized tensile testing machine. The Mooney-Rivlin material constants of the rubber seal are determined as follows; $D_1=0$, $C_{01}=0.241$, $C_{10}=0.0142$. The analysis shows that the contact pressure at the top of the seal where the seal and male connector are in contact is approximately three times higher than that at the bottom of the seal where the seal and female connector are in contact. It is confirmed that the waterproofing performance of the rubber seal depends on the contact pressure of the seal bottom where the seal and female connector are in contact. The contact pressure for waterproofing is found to be 4.7 bar. The strain concentration of the curved part is attributed to excessive initial tension. Therefore, a redesign is recommended for uniform stress or strain distribution in the curved section of the seal in response to the stress relaxation problem due to permanent deformation.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.61-62
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 ultra wide band(UWB) 대역(3.1-10.6 GHz)에서 동작하는 소형 계단형 개방 슬롯 안테나의 설계 방법에 대하여 연구하였다. 계단형 개방 슬롯 안테나의 접지면에 L형 슬롯을 추가하여 낮은 주파수에서 공진이 발생하도록 하여 소형화하고, 중간주파수 및 고주파수 대역에서 이득을 높이기 위해 스트립 도파기를 추가하였다. L형 슬롯의 길이, 도파기와 슬롯 안테나 사이의 간격 및 도파기의 길이에 따른 입력 반사계수와 이득 특성을 분석하였다. $30mm{\times}30mm$ 크기로 최적화된 안테나를 FR4 기판 상에 제작하고 특성을 실험한 결과 전압 정재파비(voltage standing wave ratio; VSWR)가 2 이하인 대역은 3.02-11.04 GHz으로 UWB 대역에서 동작함을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2014년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.157-158
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 분할 링 공진기(SRR; split-ring resonator)를 이용한 소형 코플래너 도파관(CPW; coplanar waveguide)급전 슬롯 안테나에 대한 설계 방법을 연구하였다. 제안된 슬롯 안테나는 슬롯의 길이를 줄이기 위해 사각형 모양의 SRR 도체가 슬롯 내에 장하되었다. SRR 도체와 슬롯 사이의 간격, SRR 도체의 폭의 변화에 따른 입력 반사계수 특성을 분석하여 최적의 설계 변수를 도출하였다. 2.45 GHz 대역에서 최적화된 소형 슬롯 안테나를 FR4 기판 상에 $36mm{\times}30mm$ 크기로 제작하였다. 제안된 소형 안테나는 기존의 사각형 슬롯 안테나에 비해 안테나의 길이를 14.3%로 줄여 소형화하였다. 실험 결과, 전압 정재파비(VSWR; voltage standing wave) < 2인 대역이 2.4-2.49 GHz으로 2.45 GHz 대역에서 동작하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2021

심벌 트랜스듀서는 Class V flextensional 트랜스듀서의 소형화된 버전으로서 크기에 비해 낮은 공진 주파수와 고출력 특성을 가진다. 하지만, 높은 품질계수와 낮은 에너지 변환 효율성 때문에 단일보다는 배열형으로 많이 사용된다. 배열형으로 사용하면 구성 트랜스듀서들 간의 상호작용으로 인해 단일 트랜스듀서에 비해 주파수 특성에 많은 변화가 나타난다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 성질을 이용하여 심벌 어레이가 광대역 특성을 가지게 하는 패턴을 설계하였다. 특정 중심 주파수를 가지는 세 개의 심벌 트랜스듀서를 먼저 설계하였고, 설계된 심벌 트랜스듀서들로 3 × 3 평면 배열을 구성할 수 있는 모든 패턴을 찾았다. 그 후, 이들 패턴들의 주파수 특성을 분석하고, 그 결과를 바탕으로 높은 비대역폭을 구현하기 위해 가장 효과적인 배열 패턴을 도출하였다. 도출된 배열 패턴은 기준 모델에 비해 비대역폭이 최대 24.9 % 개선되었다.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제46권11호
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• pp.747-754
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• 2008

Recently, the requirement for the ultra thin copper foil increases with smaller and miniaturized electronic components. Therefore, it is important to examine the surface state of substrate depending on the processing parameter during the anodic oxidation. This study investigated the effect of the various electrolyte concentrations on anodizing of titanium anode prior to copper electrodeposition. Different surface morphology of anodized titanium was obtained at different electrolytic concentration 0.5 M to 3.0 M. In addition, the effect that the surfaces and the electrical characteristics on the electrodeposited copper layer was observed. In this study, surface anodized in the group containing 0.5M $H_2SO_4$ shows more uniform copper crystals with low surface roughness. the surface roughness and sheet resistance for 0.5M $H_2SO_4$ group were $1.353{\mu}m$ and $0.104m{\Omega}/sq$, respectively.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.107-115
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• 2021

Purpose: This study aimed to demonstrate the presence of dental caries through a photoacoustic imaging system with visible and near-infrared wavelengths, highlighting the differences between the 2 spectral regions. The depth at which carious tissue could be detected was also verified. Materials and Methods: Fifteen permanent molars were selected and classified as being sound or having incipient or advanced caries by visual inspection, radiography, and optical coherence tomography analysis prior to photoacoustic scanning. A photoacoustic imaging system operating with a nanosecond pulsed laser as the light excitation source at either 532 nm or 1064 nm and an acoustic transducer at 5 MHz was developed, characterized, and used. En-face and lateral(depth) photoacoustic signals were detected. Results: The results confirmed the potential of the photoacoustic method to detect caries. At both wavelengths, photoacoustic imaging effectively detected incipient and advanced caries. The reconstructed photoacoustic images confirmed that a higher intensity of the photoacoustic signal could be observed in regions with lesions, while sound surfaces showed much less photoacoustic signal. Photoacoustic signals at depths up to 4 mm at both 532 nm and 1064 nm were measured. Conclusion: The results presented here are promising and corroborate that photoacoustic imaging can be applied as a diagnostic tool in caries research. New studies should focus on developing a clinical model of photoacoustic imaging applications in dentistry, including soft tissues. The use of inexpensive light-emitting diodes together with a miniaturized detector will make photoacoustic imaging systems more flexible, user-friendly, and technologically viable.