• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.226-229
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• 2004

본 논문은 초고주파 영역에서 개방 단말 동축선을 대신해서 복소 유전율을 측정할 수 있는 MEMS 프로브와 그 응용예로 MEMS 프로브 어레이를 제안한다. MEMS 프로브는 기존의 동축선 프로브와 달리 커넥터와의 연결이 간단하여 일회용으로 프로브를 사용할 수 있다는 점에서 의료용으로 사용할 수 있는 가능성이 있다. 샘플의 유전율 분포를 구하기 위해서 기존의 센서는 반복 접촉을 요구하고 이로 인한 번거로움과 측정 오차를 줄일 목적으로 MEMS 프로브 어레이를 개발 하였다. MEMS 프로브 어레이는 RF 스위치를 사용하여 다수의 측정 포인트를 한번의 센서 접촉으로 측정할 수 있는 새로운 개념의 프로브이다. 1GHz부터 40GHz까지의 광대역에서 0.9% 식염수의 유전율을 측정하여 MEMS 프로브의 성능을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.197-201
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• 2007

The magnetron reactive ion etching (RIE) characteristics of polycrystalline (poly) 3C-SiC grown on $SiO_{2}$/Si substrate by APCVD were investigated. Poly 3C-SiC was etched by $CHF_{3}$ gas, which can form a polymer as a function of side wall protective layers, with additive $O_{2}$ and Ar gases. Especially, it was performed in magnetron RIE, which can etch SiC at a lower ion energy than a commercial RIE system. Stable etching was achieved at 70 W and the poly 3C-SiC was undamaged. The etch rate could be controlled from $20\;{\AA}/min$ to $400\;{\AA}/min$ by the manipulation of gas flow rates, chamber pressure, RF power, and electrode gap. The best vertical structure was improved by the addition of 40 % $O_{2}$ and 16 % Ar with the $CHF_{3}$ reactive gas. Therefore, poly 3C-SiC etched by magnetron RIE can expect to be applied to M/NEMS applications.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07c
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• pp.2000-2002
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• 2002

신장병의 조기진단을 위해서 체내의 요소 농도의 정확한 측정은 매우 중요하며, 이러한 이유에서 많은 연구자들은 보다 빠르고 정확한 체내의 요소농도 측정을 위한 바이오센서를 개발 중이다. 본 논문은 반도체 공정을 이용하여 산화막(4.000${\AA}$)이 성장된 p-형 실리콘 웨이퍼를 사용하였다. RF sputter를 사용하여 티타늄과 백금을 증착한 백금 박막전극을 제작하였다. 그 위에 전도성 고분자인 Polypyrrole(PPy)과 전도도를 증가시키기 위하여 구리를 도펀트로 사용 scan rate 40mV/S $0.8{\sim}-0.8V$ 전위영역에서 산화적 전기 중합법 (anodical electropolymerization)을 이용하여 전극을 형성하였다. 요소를 2개의 암모늄 이온과 1개의 탄산 이온으로의 가수분해반응을 촉매하는 효소로써 유레이즈(urease)를 전기적 흡착방법을 이용하여 고정화하고 이에 요소농도의 변화에 대하여 시간대 전류법 (chronoamperometry:CA)을 사용하여 감도를 측정하였다. 최적화된 조건하에서 요소농도에 비례하여 Cu-doped PPy electrode로부터 얻어진 확산한계전류는 $4.5{\mu}A$/decade의 기울기를 나타내었다. 전극의 표면은 SEM(Scanning Electron Microscopy)과 EDX(Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometer)를 이용하여 분석 하였다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.277-285
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• 2007

In this paper, we outline the research issues that we are pursuing towards building of location aware environments for mainly ubiquitous healthcare applications. Such location aware application can provide what is happening in this space. To locate an object, such as patient or elderly person, the active ceiling-mounted reference beacons were placed throughout the building. Reference beacons periodically publish location information on RF and ultrasonic signals to allow application running on mobile or static nodes to study and determine their physical location. Once object-carried passive listener receives the information, it subsequently determines it's location from reference beacons. The cost of the system was reduced while the accuracy in our experiments was fairly good and fine grained between 7 and 12 cm for location awareness in indoor environments by using only the sensor nodes and wireless sensor network technology. Passive architecture used here provides the security of the user privacy while at the server the privacy was secured by providing the authentication using Geopriv approach. This information from sensor nodes is further forwarded to base station where further computation is performed to determine the current position of object.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.176-184
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• 2003

In this paper, a swallowable miniaturized capsule, which applicable for electrical stimulation of digestive organ to improve the motion of intestine in research purpose, is proposed and implemented. The developed capsule can be controlled for the behavior of the power on/off, amplitude and pulse rate for the patient stimulus, by internally equipped with miniaturized RF receiver that linked by the command of external transmitter. The experimental result of the implemented miniaturized capsule in the animal intestine show the ability of effective control for the stimulus parameters.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.386-390
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• 2006

This paper describes the ohmic contact formation of polycrystalline 3C-SiC films deposited on thermally grown Si wafers. In this work, a TiW (titanium tungsten) film as a contact material was deposited by RF magnetron sputter and annealed with the vacuum process. The specific contact resistance (${\rho}_{c}$) of the TiW contact was measured by using the C-TLM (circular transmission line method). The contact phase and interfacial reaction between TiW and 3C-SiC at high-temperature as also analyzed by XRD (X-ray diffraction) and SEM (scanning electron microscope). All of the samples didn't show cracks of the TiW film and any interfacial reaction after annealing. Especially, when the sample was annealed at $800^{\circ}$ for 30 min., the lowest contact resistivity of $2.90{\times}10{\Omega}cm^{2}$ was obtained due to the improved interfacial adhesion. Therefore, the good ohmic contact of polycrystalline 3C-SiC films using the TiW film is very suitable for high-temperature MEMS applications.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.483-490
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• 1997

Thin film Si has been used in sensors, radiation detectors, and solar cells. The carrier mobility of thin film Si influences the device behavior through its frequency response or time response. Since poly-Si shows the higher mobility value, a-Si:H films on Mo substrate were subjected to various crystallization treatments. Consequently, we need to find an appropriate method in mobility measurement before and after the anneal treatment. This paper investigates the carrier mobility improvement with anneal treatments and summarizes the mobility measurement methods of the a-Si:H and poly-Si film. Various techniques were investigated for the mobility determination such as Hall mobility, HS, TOF, SCLC, TFT, and TCO method. We learned that TFT and TCO method are suitable for the mobility determination of a-Si:H and poly-Si film. The measured mobility was improved by $2{\sim}3$ orders after high temperature anneal above $700^{\circ}C$ and grain boundary passivation using an RF plasma rehydrogenation.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.105-110
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• 2013

We fabricated an a-IGZO thin film transistor (TFT) with AZO/Ag/AZO transparent multilayer source/drain contacts by rf magnetron sputtering. a-IGZO TFT with AZO/Ag/AZO multilayer S/D electrodes (W/L = 400/50 ${\mu}m$) showed a subs-threshold swing of 3.78 V/dec, a minimum off-current of $10^{-12}$ A, a threshold voltage of 0.41 V, a field effect mobility of $10.86cm^2/Vs$, and an on/off ratio of $9{\times}10^9$. From the ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy, it was revealed that the enhanced electrical performance resulted from the lowering of the Schottky barrier between a-IGZO and Ag due to the insertion of an AZO layer and thus the AZO/Ag/AZO multilayer would be very appropriate for a promising S/D contact material for the fabrication of high performance TFTs.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.6-12
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• 2018

In this paper, a 32-variable pulse position modulation (32-VPPM) scheme is proposed to support a red-green-blue light-emitting-diode (RGB-LED)-based optical camera communication (OCC) system. Our proposed modulation scheme is designed to enhance the OCC data transmission rate, which is targeted for the wearable biomedical data monitoring system. The OCC technology has been utilized as an alternative solution to the radio frequency (RF) wireless system for long-term self-healthcare monitoring. Different biomedical signals, such as electrocardiograms, photoplethysmograms, and respiration signals are being monitored and transmitted wirelessly from the wearable biomedical device to the smartphone receiver. A common 30 frames per second (fps) smartphone camera with a CMOS image sensor is used to record a transmitted optical signal. Moreover, the overall proposed system architecture, modulation scheme, and data demodulation are discussed in this paper. The experimental result shows that the proposed system is able to achieve > 9 kbps using only a common smartphone camera receiver.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.2805-2810
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• 2010

The Passive Device called SAW Device of the ID Tag or a small sensor that can replace all of MEMS technology Micro Device. When using SAW Device will be able to replace that sensor control the power needed or separate space. Enlarge the scope of this advantage to use as a platform for various SAW Device is required. However, the current SAW Sensor development has many, but SAW Sensor that can leverage the platform's development is sketchy. Therefore, this paper implements SAW Reader can be measured in SAW Device Using an FPGA more simple and efficient Reader platform.