• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.08a
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• pp.298-298
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• 2013

Finding renewable and clean energy resources is essential research to solve global warming and depletion of fossil fuels in modern society. Recently, complex harvesting of energy from multiple sources is available in our living environments using a single device has become highly desirable, representing a new trend in energy technologies. We report that when simultaneously driving the fusion and composite cells of two or more types, it is possible to make an affect the other cells to obtain a greater synergistic effect. To understand the coupling effect of photovoltaic and piezoelectric device, we fabricate the serially integrated hybrid cell (s-HC) based on organic solar cell (OSC) and piezoelectric nanogenerator (PNG). The size of increased voltage peaks when OSC and PNG are working on is larger than the case when only PNG is working. This voltage difference is the Voc change of OSC, not the voltage change of PNG and current density difference between these two cases is manifested more clearly. When the OSC and PNG are working in s-HC at the same time, piezoelectric potential (VPNG) is generated in ZnO and theoretical total voltage is sum of voltage of an OSC (VOSC) and VPNG. However, electrons from OSC are influenced by piezoelectric potential in ZnO and current loss of OSC in whole circuit decreases. As a result, VOSC increases temporarily. Current shows the similar behavior. PNG acts a resistance in the whole circuit and current loss occurs when the electrons from OSC pass through the PNG. But piezoelectric potential recover current loss and decrease the resistance of PNG. Our PNG can maintain piezoelectric potential when the strain is held owing to the LDH layer while general PNG cannot maintain piezoelectric potential. During the section that strain is held, voltage enhancement effect is maintained and same effect appeared even turn off the light. Actually at this time, electrons in ZnO nanosheets move to LDH and trapped by the positive charges in this layer. After this strain is held, piezoelectric potential of ZnO nanosheets is disappeared but potential difference which is developed by negative charge dominant LDH layer is remained. This potential acts similar role like piezoelectric potential in ZnO. Electrons from the OSC also are influenced by this potential and the more current flows.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.10
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• pp.1790-1795
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• 2008

Energy scavenging is a technique that converts ambient energy, for example, vibration and light, to electrical energy in order to supply power to low power electronic devices such as ubiquitous sensors. In this paper, we propose an optimal operation condition of power delivery circuit and design strategy for energy scavenging system in which the generated power is order of microwatt and, consequently, efficient handling of power is critical. We also propose that high data transmission rate is more realistic optimal design objective rather than high energy efficiency. It is shown that disconnection of load from the storage capacitor right after data transmission reduces energy wasting and that optimal value of storage capacitor can be determined at this condition. The feasibility of our propose is proved by experiments and we believe that the proposed design strategy will promote the application of piezoelectric micropower generator to the ubiquitous sensor networks.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07c
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• pp.1594-1596
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• 1996

The NDT(nondestructive test) using pulse echo method with piezoelectric transducers and the system for NDT including image processing were studoed. The system consisted of pulse generator and receiver, two step motors for X-Y scanner, PC-Scope for data aquisition and PC-Lab for trigger and motor driving. We tested and estimated at one point under the following conditions : 1) just water, 2) Aluminum without any crack and 3) Aluminum with hole. The estimated NDT result of whole area (point : $35{\times}20$) is compared with real samples.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1079-1080
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 Piezoelectric effect를 이용하여 인체의 움직임에 의한 진동 에너지를 전기적 에너지로 변환, 저장하고 이를 사용하여 온도 정보를 RF신호로 약 20 m 거리의 수신기로 전송할 수 있는 ubiquitous 네트워크용 센서 모듈을 설계.제작하고, 그 동작을 확인하였다. 또한 가장 빈번하게 신호를 보내기 위한 저장커패시터의 용량과 충전전압의 조합을 수식적으로 유도하였고 이 결과를 실험적으로 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.30 no.8
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• pp.501-507
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• 2017

A unimorph piezoelectric cantilever generator with an interdigitated electrode (IDE) was developed for vibration energy harvester applications driven in the longitudinal mode. Hard lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramic with a high $Q_m$ of 1,280 was used as the piezoelectric active material. Ten PZT sheets produced by tape casting were laminated and co-fired with an Ag/Pd IDE at $1,050^{\circ}C$ for 2 h. The approximately $280{\mu}m$-thick co-fired PZT laminate with the IDE was attached to a stainless steel substrate with an adhesive epoxy for the fabrication of an IDE unimorph cantilever. Its energy harvesting characteristics were evaluated: an output power of $1.1{\mu}W$ at 120 Hz across the resistive load of $700k{\Omega}$ was obtained, corresponding to a normalized power factor of $4.1{\mu}W/(G^2{\cdot}cm^3)$.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.387-392
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• 2019

A technique was researched to detect bolt looseness using a transfer impedance technique (the dual piezoelectric material technique) for monitoring the structural health of a bolt joint. In order to use the single piezoelectric material technique, an expensive impedance analyzer should be used. However, in the transfer impedance technique, low-cost fault detection can be performed using a general function generator and a digital multimeter. A steel plate frame test specimen composed of bolt joints was fabricated, and the tightening torques of the bolts were loosened step by step. By using the transfer impedance method, the damage index was obtained. It was found that the presence of faults could be reasonably estimated using the damage index, which increased with the degree of bolt looseness. An experiment was performed on the same specimen using the single piezoelectric material technique, and the results showed a similar tendency. It could be possible to estimate the damage of a bolt joint at low cost by eliminating the expensive impedance analyzer. This method could be used effectively for structural health monitoring after carrying out a study to estimate the fault location and severity.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.9
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• pp.869-874
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• 2010

Recently, a piezo actuator based linear motor has been actively studied because of its higher power density, compactness and quick response. However, the characteristic of small displacement makes the application of a piezo actuator limitative. In order to overcome this limitation, some actuation mechanisms using a piezo actuator are designed by bi-metal composite or more than two piezo actuators. Therefore, it enables to generate large displacement and have high resolution. In the proposed piezo motor, we have designed a bi-directional linear motor that can be operated by only one piezo actuator. In addition, it is activated with low frequency of the applied voltage, since, we utilize first mode shape of structure of motion generator to vibrate. Finally, moving direction can be simply controlled by changing the ratio of input frequency to natural frequency of structure of motion generator.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.201-206
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• 2005

Fretting, which is a special type of wear, is defined as small amplitude relative motion along the contacting interface between two materials. The structural integrity of steam generators in nuclear power plants is very much dependent upon the fretting wear characteristics of Inconel 690 U-tubes. In this study, a finite element model that can simulate fretting wear on the secondary side of the steam generator was developed and used for a quantitative investigation of the fretting wear phenomenon. Finite element modeling of elastic contact wear problems was performed to demonstrate the feasibility of applying the finite element method to fretting wear problems. The elastic beam problem, with existing solutions, is treated as a numerical example. By introducing a control parameter s, which scaled up the wear constant and scaled down the cycle numbers, the algorithm was shown to greatly reduce the time required for the analysis. The work rate model was adopted in the wear model. In the three-dimensional finite element analysis, a quarterly symmetric model was used to simulate cross tubes contacting at right angles. The wear constant of Inconel 690 in the work rate model was taken as $K=26.7{\times}10^{-15}\;Pa^{-1}$ from experimental data obtained using a fretting wear test rig with a piezoelectric actuator. The analyses revealed donut-shaped wear along the contacting boundary, which is a typical feature of fretting wear.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.166-166
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• 2009

에너지 하베스팅 소자용 압전 적층체를 제작하고 이에 대한 성능을 조사하였다. 최근 대부분 소형 소자들을 구동하는데 있어서 이에 필요한 소비 전력은 최소한 10~20 mW 이다. 이에 적합한 mm 크기의 압전 소자를 제작하고 외부 금속 기구물을 연결한 하베스팅 소자를 제작하였다. 이러한 소자의 공진 주파수를 120 Hz로 정하고 이에 적합한 무게추를 설정하였다. 120 Hz에서 1 g 가속도로 외부에서 진동을 가했을 때, 소자는 5 V, 20 mW의 전력을 발생하였다. 또한 이러한 소자에서 발생된 전력을 저장하기 위하여 간단한 정류 및 저장 장치를 제작하였다. 회로 제작시 압전 소자의 임피던스가 매우 적으므로 이에 적합하게 임피던스 매칭을 고려한 저 임피던스 회로를 제작하였으며, 이 회로는 약 80%의 효율을 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.51-53
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 압전 트랜스듀서의 임피던스 해석을 유한 요소법을 통해 실험적으로 검증하였고 이러한 유한 요소법을 이용하여 압전 변압기의 동작 주파수 및 등가회로 정수를 도출하였다. 또한, 등가 회로법을 이용하여 부하 변동에 따른 압전 변압기의 공진 주파수와 효율 변화를 분석하고 이를 실험적으로 검증하였다. 한편, 유한 요소법과 자동 요소 분할 프로그램(Auto-Mesh Generator), 최적화 알고리즘을 이용하여 일정 부하에서 최대 효율과 승압비를 갖는 압전 변압기의 형상 최적화를 수행하였는데, 최적화 기법으로는 sinc함수의 수렴 결과를 통해 타당성이 입증된 진화 알고리즘(Evolution Strategy)을 적용하였다.