• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.109-114
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• 2015

A circularly polarized small UHF RFID reader antenna is presented. The antenna is composed of four elements and printed on the plastic substrate(${\varepsilon}_r=2.2$, t=5mm). Each element is fed by a probe which is sequentially connected to the feed line. The feed line is manufactured on the FR-4 substrate(t=1.0mm, ${\varepsilon}_r=4.7$). The simulation results shows that the antenna can be achieved a return loss of 12dB, gain of 3.46dBic over the UHF band of 902-928MHz. According to our simulation results, two prototype antennas are manufactured and measured. The obtained antennas operate in UHF RFID bands and can be adapted for various portable applications. In addition, a parametric study is conducted to facilitate the design and optimization processes.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.96-102
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• 2008

Manufacturing of printed electronics using printing technology has begun to get into the hot issue in many ways due to the low cost effectiveness to existing semi-conductor process. This technology, with low cost and high productivity, can make it possible to produce printed electronics such as TFT, solar cell, RFID Tag, printed battery, and so on. In this study, apparatus of gravure-offset printing are developed for fine line-width/gap printing and the results obtained from the apparatus shows that it is possible to make around 20 micro-meter line-width/gap printing patterns. The roll-to-roll printing system for fine line-width printing based on primary experiment is presented. The printing results obtained from the system shows around 30 micro-meter line-width/gap printing patterns.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.24 no.8
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• pp.7-13
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• 2007

유비쿼터스 사회 실현의 핵심 기술인 RFID/USN 기술은 우리 정부의 USN구축 기본계획과u-IT839기술개발 정책에 따라 국산화, 기술 고도화 및 핵심 원천기술 개발을 전략적으로 추진하여 그 성과가 나타나고 있다. RFID/USN 기술은 가장 기본적인 사물의 식별 단계로부터, 이력 추적, 상태정보의 모니터링, 실시간 감시 및 제어, 자율형 서비스로 진화함에 따라 전통적인 RFID 및 무선센서네트워크에서 출발하여 궁극적으로 다양한 응용서비스를 지원하는 USN기술로 발전될 것이다. 향후 RFID 기술 분야는 상태정보처리 및 위치 추적 등 복합 기능과 성능 고도화로 발전되고 Item단위까지 적용하기 위한 새로운 리더, 초저가의 Printed 태그 및 불법 복제 방지 등의 새로운 기술이 개발될 전망이다. 센서네트워크 분야에서는 기존의 IEEE802.15.4와 ZigBee를 뛰어넘어 저전력, 고신뢰성, 확장성, 이동성 등을 지원하기 위해 효율적인 무선전송, 초경량의 노드, 네트워킹, Cross-layer최적화, 데이터 융합 등의 핵심기술 이 요구되고 USN 미들웨어 기술은 다양한 USN응용 서비스를 위해 공통 S/W 플랫폼을 제공하고 다양한 센서네트워크로부터 수집한 정보를 가공하여 서비스간 연계 통합하는 플랫폼으로 발전될 전망이다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.50-59
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• 2018

Generally, disabled people have a lot of bad health status at low income levels, the need for health care is higher than for non-disabled people. Although the number of persons with disabilities is increasing with each passing year, their medical services and support are still limited and limited. This problem is not so different from approach to medical information. Conventional medical information is usually printed and transmitted to the patient, but visually impaired people have difficulty accessing such printed information. In the case of the visually impaired, there are many cases where it is not possible to read not only the printed letter but also the braille because the acquired incidence is high. Therefore, this paper tried to solve this problem by transmitting the information of medicine by voice using RFID. In addition, ontology was used to select more accurate drug information. Currently, there are drug information sites provided by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. However, since duplicate information is scattered on these sites, the ontology was used to build up the database.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.792-797
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• 2009

This paper presents the evaluation of PID and fuzzy control logic for the lateral position control of a moving web in roll-to-roll (R2R) printed electronics. In addition, we report the implementation of computer simulation software that enables us to develop the control logic in a graphic user interface and to test the controller performance in 3D dynamic environment. A mathematical model of the web dynamics is described first to explain the lateral motion of a moving web. Based on the model, PID and fuzzy controllers are designed, and embedded in the simulation software. Under the simulation conditions for fabricating RFID antenna by R2R printing, the results indicate that the fuzzy controller shows a better performance and can be more suitable for R2R multi-layer printed electronics.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.2C
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• pp.168-172
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• 2012

An UHF RFID tag is designed and fabricated using the national code in a bar-code with conductive ink. The bar-code sample was taken from a general bar-code from a general box. The conductivity of the conductive ink was measured, and the measured conductivity was used for the simulation tool to design the printed bar-code shape tag antenna. The tag antenna was fabricated using T-matching to reduce the size of the tag, and the bar-code tag antenna is recognized by both a general bar-code reader and an UHF RFID reader. The input reflection coefficient characteristic, the reading range pattern and the reading rate of the tag antenna are measured.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.159-164
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• 2017

This article proposes a design of chipless RFID tag with dipole array structure that is fully printable using conductive ink. The proposed tags encode data based on spectral signature modulations. The reading range is considerably increased (2 m) while maintaining low transmission power (1 mW). Several prototype chipless RFID tags were fabricated and measured in the SHF and UHF bands. The proposed dipole array structure enhances the antenna gain of the passive tags and contributes to overcoming the low conductivity of conductive ink. In order to verify the utility of our proposal, the tags are manufactured on paper, using conductive ink, for the purpose of economic mass production.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.25-32
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• 2008

본고에서는 프린팅 공정을 통해서 chip당 1센트 이하의 초저가 RFID tag을 개발 하고자 하는 최근 연구 동향과 앞으로의 전망에 대해서 기술 하고자 한다. 개별 물품 단위 인식(Item level tagging) 을 위해서는 RFID의 제조단가를 획기적으로 낮추어야 하는데 기존의 태그를 제작하는 실리콘 공정으로는 이러한 낮은 가격의 칩을 제조 할 수 없다. 따라서 이를 위해서 용액상태를 기반으로 하는 기능성 잉크의 직접 프린팅 공정을 통해 칩과 안테나를 동시에 인쇄하여야 한다. 이러한 새로운 공정은 기존의 공정과는 차별화 되는 낮은 생산 단가를 보여주고 있으나 이를 제품으로 완성하기 위해서는 여러 가지 문제점들이 해결되어야 한다. 그 중에서도 인쇄공정을 통한 RFID tag를 실현하기 위해서 가장 중요한 사항은 프린팅이 가능한 고성능 기능성 잉크의 개발과 미세 인쇄 공정의 확립이라고 할 수 있다. 따라서 본 기고서 에서는 이러한 점에 초점을 맞추어 현재의 인쇄전자분야의 기술적인 문제점을 해결하고자 하는 여러 가지 방안들과 앞으로의 전망들에 대해서 기술하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.15.2-15.2
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• 2009

Manufacturing of printed electronics using printing technology has begun to get into the hot issue in many ways due to the low cost effectiveness to existing semi-conductor process. This technology with both low cost and high productivity, can be applied in the production of organic thin film transistor (OTFT), solar cell, radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, printed battery, E-paper, touch screen panel, black matrix for liquid crystal display (LCD), flexible display, and so forth. The emerging technology to manufacture the products in mass production is roll-to-roll printing technology which is a manufacturing method by printings of multi-layered patterns composed of semi-conductive, dielectric and conductive layers. In contrary to the conventional printing machines in which printing precision is about $50~100{\mu}m$, the printing machines for printed electronics should have a precision under $30{\mu}m$. In general, in order to implement printed electronics, narrow width and gap printing, register of multi-layer printing by several printing units, and printing accuracy of under $30{\mu}m$ are all required. We developed the roll-to-roll printing equipment used for printed electronics, which is composed of un-winder, re-winder, tension measurement system, feeding units, dancer systems, guide unit, printing unit, vision system, dryer units, and various auxiliary devices. The equipment is designed based on cantilever type in which all rollers except printing ones have cantilever types, which could give more accurate machine precision as well as convenience for changing rollers and observing the process.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.7-12
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• 2010

A semi-empirical organic schottky diode model is proposed for circuit simulation. We have set up a full custom design environment for organic schottky diode circuit using Spectre AHDL, which is widely used commercial EDA tool. We measured frequency response from fabricated rectifier, and it was compared to circuit simulation results using the AHDL model. The frequency response of the fabricated rectifier circuit is not sufficient for 13.56MHz RFID, however, it is enough for 135kHz-band RFID.