• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.274-280
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• 2000

This paper deals with an experimental study to apply commercial semiconductors to measure radiation dose rate for gamma ray. Since the low cost, small size, high efficiency and ruggedness of silicon photodiodes make them attractive photodetectors, they coulde be effectively used in measuring any radiation such as gamma ray. Most PN photodiodes show that the reverse current increases when the light is increased. Therefore the depletion region of them have influence on the reverse current, so we choose silicon PIN photodiodes with large depletion region. In order to detect radiation dose rate and then, to apply in developing any gamma ray dosimeter, some examinations and experiments were performed to PIN photodiodes in this work. Two kinds of PIN photodiodes, such as NEC's PH302 and SIEMENS's BPW34, were tested in a Co-60 gamma irradiation facility with a semiconductor parameter analyzer. As a result, we found that such PIN photodiodes present good linearity in diode current characteristics with dose rate. Therefore silicon PIN photodiodes could be suitably used in designing gamma ray dosimeters.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.156-162
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• 2016

This paper proposes a novel orthogonally-polarized dual-band switchable microstrip antenna. The proposed antenna consists of a perpendicular feeding network and an radiator with a PIN-installed H-shaped slot. When the states of one single PIN diode in H-slot are controlled by bias voltages, the controlled physical geometry of the H-slot determines the operation frequencies of switchable 1.80 GHz and 2.43 GHz for vertically polarized linear polarization and fixed 2.06 GHz for horizontally linear polarization. The implemented antenna experimentally demonstrates reconfigurable dual-band capability by means of controling the states of the PIN diode. The simulation and measurement results of the implemented antenna have been in good agreement with the reflection coefficients, realized antenna gains and far-field radiation patterns at each of the PIN diode states.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.18A no.2
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• pp.61-68
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• 2011

Memory error debugging is one of the most critical processes in improving software quality. However, due to the extensive time consumed to debug, the enhancement often leads to a huge bottle neck in the development process of mobile devices. Most of the existing memory error detection tools are based on static error detection; however, the tools cannot be used in mobile devices due to their use of large working memory. Therefore, it is challenging for mobile device vendors to deliver high quality mobile devices to the market in time. In this paper, we introduce "PinMemcheck", a pin-based memory error detection tool, which detects all potential memory errors within $1.5{\times}$ execution time overhead compared with that of a baseline configuration by applying the Pin's binary instrumentation process and a simple data structure.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.9
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• pp.834-843
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• 2016

In this paper, the design of a PIN diode S-band transfer-type SP4T including its driver circuit is presented. Each path of the SP4T is composed of the cascade connection of series-shunt PIN diodes to improve the isolation performance. The SP4T is implemented using chip type PIN diodes and a 20 mil AIN substrate fabricated using thin film technology. The driver circuit for the SP4T is designed using a multiplexer and four NMOS-PMOS push-pull pair. From on-wafer measurement, the fabriacted SP4T shows a maximum insertion loss of 1.1 dB and a minimum isolation of 41 dB. The time performance of the driver circuit is evaluated using the packaged PIN diodes with the identical PIN diode chip, and the transition time for on-off and off-on are below 100 nsec. For an input power level of 150 W, the measured insertion loss and isolation are close to those of the on-wafer measurement taking into consideration of the coaxial package mismatch and insertion loss.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.20-26
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• 2008

A numerical study is carried out to analyze the steady three-dimensional turbulent flow and convective heat transfer in a staggered pin-fin array with diamond shaped elements at various geometrical configurations. Steady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations and energy equation are solved using a finite volume based solver. Shear stress transport (SST) model is used as turbulence closure. The computational domain is composed of one pitch of pin-fin displacement with periodic boundary conditions on the surfaces normal to the streamwise direction and the cross-streamwise direction. The numerical results for Nusselt number and friction factor are validated with experimental results. The effects of pin angle, pin height and pitch on Nusselt number, friction factor and efficiency index are investigated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.736-741
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• 2012

Squeak noise is studied by using the pin-on-disk system with aluminum pin and steel disk. Noise induced by friction is measured with respect to the normal loads and sliding speeds. The negative slope of friction-velocity curve is seen when the squeak noise occurs. It is found that the normal load influences on the sound level of squeak noise. From the hammering test, the major frequency of the squeak noise is shown to correspond to one of system modes, which implies that squeak phenomenon arises from the unstable system modes. The result of FE analysis shows that the major squeak mode is the bending mode of the pin.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.706-709
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• 2005

Despite geometrical balanced runner system, filling imbalances between cavity to cavity have always been observed in multi-cavity injection mold. These filling imbalances are results from non-symmetrical shear rate distribution within melt as it flows through the runner system. It has been possible to decrease filling imbalance by optimizing processing conditions, but it has not completely eliminated this phenomenon during the injection molding processing. This paper presents a solution of these filling imbalances by using runner core pin which creates a symmetrical shear distribution within runner and the effects on filling imbalance when modifying a shape of runner core pin. As a result of using runner core pin, a remarkable improvement in reducing filling imbalance was confirmed. In addition we investigated how filling imbalances were affected by shape of runner core pin.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.807-810
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• 1995

The effects of weae particles on the friiction and wear behavior of metals in dry sliding conditions are presented. The tribological test were performed using pure metal specimens which were selected based on their degrees of compatibility and hardness ratio. Friction and wear experiments were conducted using both pin-on-disk and reciprocating pin-on-plate type tribotesters to investigate the effect of motion history. Experimental results show that in the case of dry sliding the frictional behavior observed during pin-on-disk test differed form that of pin-on-reciprocator test for the given set of material pairs. The friction coefficient and wear rate were found to be higher for the pin-on-disk tests. It is suspected that the sliding motion of the pin affects the wear particle dynamics, which in turn influences the frictional behavior. The effect of material pair properties seemed to be relatively smaller than that of wear particles. The results of this paper is expected to aid in the design of mechanical systems for best tribological performance.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.39-45
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• 2005

Investigation of the mass effect on the journal traces in the clearance of engine bearing has been performed for better design of mass distribution of crank system components such as crank pin, piston, con-rod, balance weight, crank throw weight, etc. as well as for better oil reaction behaviors to the applied forces from the cylinder pressures on the bearing. In this preliminary study, crank pin traces in the engine bearing clearance are computed by varying the equivalent magnitude of crank pin mass that includes the masses of crank pin, piston, con-rod. etc.. while most previous studies regarding journal traces in the bearing clearance neglect the inertia effects of crank pin mass. Although the inertia effect of pill mass is negligibly small compared to viscous force by ${\pi}bearing$ theory, it is found that it gives a great amount of influences on the journal traces in full bearing computation $(2\pi\;bearing\;theory)$ under the dynamic loading conditions.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.355-356
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• 2008

Effect of the pin radius on the radiation characteristics of a patch antenna with a pin array inserted between a patch and ground plane is investigated. As the pin radius increases, the resonant frequency increases and the radiation intensity in the horizontal plane decreases. However, the radiation intensity in the horizontal plane increases for the pin radius larger than a certain value.