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Development of Polarization-Controllable Active Phased Array Antenna for Receiving Satellite Broadcasting (편파가변 위성 방송 수신용 능동 위상 배열 안테나 개발)

  • Choi, Jin-Young;Lee, Ho-Seon;Kong, Tong-Ook;Chun, Jong-Hoon
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.325-335
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    • 2018
  • We herein present a study on the active phased array antenna for receiving satellite broadcasting that can electrically align its polarization to that of target transmitters in its moving condition or in the Skew angle arrangement of the broadcasting satellite receiver. Hence, we have developed an active phased array structure composed of the self-developed Vivaldi antenna and multifunction core (MFC) chip, receiving RF front end module, and control units. In particular, the new Vivaldi antenna designed in the Ku-band of 10.7 - 14.5 GHz to receive one desired polarization mode such as the horizontal or vertical by means of an MFC chip and other control units that can control the amplitude and phase of each antenna element. The test results verified that cross-polarization property is 20 dB or higher and the primary beam can be scanned clearly at approximately ${\pm}60^{\circ}$.

A Study on Tribological Characteristics of DLC Films Considering Hardness of Mating Materials (상대 재료의 경도를 고려한 DLC필름의 트라이볼로지 특성)

  • Na, Byeong-Cheol;Tanaka, Akihiro
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.260-266
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    • 2002
  • DLC films were deposited on Si wafer by RF plasma assisted CVD using CH4 gas. Tribological tests were conducted using rotating type ball on disk friction tester in dry air. Four kinds of mating balls were used. The mating balls were made with stainless steel but apply different annealing conditions to achieve different hardness conditions. Testing results in all load conditions showed that the harder the mating materials, the lower the friction coefficient among the three kind of martensite mating balls. In case of austenite balls, the friction coefficients were lower than fully annealed martensite ball. The high friction coefficient in soft martensite balls seems to be caused by the larger contact area between DLC film and ball. The wear tracks of DLC films and mating balls could have proven that effect. Measuring the wear track of both DLC films and mating balls have similar tendency comparing to the results of friction coefficients. Wear rate of austenite balls were also smaller than that of fully annealed martensite ball. The results of effect of applying load showed, the friction coefficients were become decrease when the applying loads exceed critical load conditions. The wear track of mating balls showed that some material transfer occurs from DLC film to mating ball during the high friction process. Raman spectra analysis showed that transferred material was a kind of graphite and contact surface of DLC film seems to undergo phase transition from carbon to graphite during the high friction process.

Effect of Deposition Temperature on Structural and Electrical Properties of Ga-Doped ZnO for Transparent Electrode of Thin Film Solar Cells (박막 태양전지용 투명 전극을 위한 Ga 도핑된 ZnO의 증착 온도에 따른 구조 및 전기 특성 변화)

  • Son, Chang-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.144-148
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    • 2011
  • We have investigated the structural and optical properties of Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) thin films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering at various deposition temperatures from 100 to $500^{\circ}C$. All the GZO thin films are grown as a hexagonal wurtzite phase with highly c-axis preferred parameter. The structural and electrical properties are strongly related to deposition temperature. The grain size increases with the increasing deposition temperature up to $400^{\circ}C$ and then decreases at $500^{\circ}C$. The dependence of grain size on the deposition temperature results from the variation of thermal activation energy. The resistivity of GZO thin film decreases with the increasing deposition temperature up to $300^{\circ}C$ and then decreases up to $500^{\circ}C$. GZO thin film shows the lowest resistivity of $4.3{\times}10^{-4}\;{\Omega}cm$ and highest electron concentration of $1.0{\times}10^{21}\;cm^{-3}$ at $300^{\circ}C$. The mobility of GZO thin films increases with the increasing deposition temperature up to $400^{\circ}C$ and then decreases at $500^{\circ}C$. GZO thin film shows the highest resistivity of 14.1 $cm^2/Vs$. The transmittance of GZO thin films in the visible range is above 87% at all the deposition temperatures. GZO is a feasible transparent electrode for the application to the transparent electrode of thin film solar cells.

Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOC) Emissions from Fruit Samples Based on Sorbent Tube Sampling and Thermal Desorption (ST-TD) Analysis (흡착튜브 - 열탈착 정량분석 기법에 기반한 과일시료로부터 자연적 휘발성유기화합물의 배출특성 연구)

  • Ahn, Jeong-Hyeon;Kim, Ki-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.757-772
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    • 2013
  • In this study, a combination of sorbent tube (ST)-thermal desorption (TD)-gas chromatography (GC)-mass spectrometry (MS) was used for quantitative analysis of liquid phase standards of 10 BVOC ((1) (+)-${\alpha}$-pinene, (2) (+)-${\beta}$-pinene, (3) ${\alpha}$-phellandrene, (4) (+)-3-carene, (5) ${\alpha}$-terpinene, (6) p-cymene, (7) (R)-(+)-limonene, (8) ${\gamma}$- terpinene, (9) myrcene, and (10) camphene). The results of BVOC calibration yielded comparatively stable pattern with response factor (RF) of 23,560~50,363 and coefficient of determination ($R^2$) of 0.9911~0.9973. The method detection limit (MDL) of BVOC was estimated at 0.03~0.06 ng with the reproducibility of 1.30~5.13% (in terms of relative standard error (RSE)). Emissions of BVOC were measured from four types of fruit samples ((1) tangerine (TO), (2) tangerine peel (TX), (3) strawberry (SO), and (4) sepals of strawberry (SX)). The sum of BVOC flux (${\sum}flux$ (BVOC) in ng/hr/g) for each sample was seen on the descending order of (1) TX=291,614, (2) TO=2,190, (3) SO=1,414, and (4) SX=2,093. If the results are compared between the individual components, the highest flux was seen from (R)-(+)-limonene (265,395 ng/hr/g) from TX sample.

Development of a Preliminary Formation-Flying Testbed for Satellite Relative Navigation and Control

  • Park, Jae-Ik;Park, Han-Earl;Shim, Sun-Hwa;Park, Sang-Young;Choi, Kyu-Hong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.26.3-26.3
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    • 2008
  • This research develops a GPS-based formation-flying testbed (FFTB) for formation navigation and control. The FFTB is a simulator in which spacecraft simulation and modeling software and loop test capabilities are integrated for test and evaluation of spacecraft navigation and formation control technologies. The FFTB is composed of a GPS measurement simulation computer, flight computer, environmental computer for providing true environment data and 3D visualization computer. The testbed can be simulated with one to two spacecraft, thus enabling a variety of navigation and control algorithms to be evaluated. In a formation flying simulation, GPS measurement are generated by a GPS measurement simulator to produce pseudorange, carrier phase measurements, which are collected and exchanged by the flight processors and subsequently processed in a navigation filter to generate relative and/or absolute state estimates. These state estimates are the fed into control algorithm, which are used to generate maneuvers required to maintain the formation. In this manner, the flight processor also serves as a test platform for candidate formation control algorithm. Such maneuvers are fed back through the controller and applied to the modeled truth trajectories to close simulation loop. Currently, The FFTB has a closed-loop capability of simulating a satellite navigation solution using software based GPS measurement, we move forward to improve using SPIRENT GPS RF signal simulator and space-based GPS receiver

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The Magnetic Properties of Fe-Hf-C Soft Magnetic Thin Films (Fe-Hf-C계 연자성 박막합금의 자기적 성질)

  • 최정옥;이정중;한석희;김희중;강일구
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.23-28
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    • 1993
  • Thin films of soft magnetic Fe-Hf-C alloys with nanoscale crystallites were investigated in this study. The films were fabricated by an RF diode magnetron sputtering apparatus and subsequently annealed in vacuum. The soft magnetic properties of the films were observed to differ depending on the different substrates such as Corning 7059, $CaTiO_3$ and $Al_2O_3-TiC$ with various underlayer(Cr, $SiO_2$) thickness. This results may be due to the interdiffusion between the substrate and the magnetic layer and/or between the underlayer and the magnetic layer, rather than the microstructural change such as grain size. The Fe-Hf-C films with high permeability up to 4000(at 1 MHz) and saturation magnetization up to 16 kG were obtained in the vicinity of phase boundary between the crystalline and amorphous state when the size of ${\alpha}-Fe$ grains is about 5 nm. And also the films were found to have thermal stability up to $600^{\circ}C$.

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Microstructures and Electrical Properties of $RuO_2$Bottom Electrode for Ferroelectric Thin Films

  • Shin, Woong-Chul;Yang, Cheol-Hoon;Jun-SiK Hwang;Yoon, Soon-Gil
    • The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.263-268
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    • 1997
  • RuO$_3$ thin films were deposited on Si(100) substrate at low temperatures by hot-wall metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. Bis(cyclopentadienyl) ruthenium, Ru$(C_5H_5)_2$, was used as the precursor RuO$_2$single phase was obtained at a low deposition temperature of 25$0^{\circ}C$ and the crystallinity of RuO$_2$thin films improved with increasing deposition temperature. RuO$_2$thin films grow perpendicularly to the substrate and show the columnar structure. The grain size of RuO$_2$films drastically increases with increasing the deposition temperature. The resistivity of the 180 nm-thick RuO$_2$thin films deposited at 27$0^{\circ}C$ was 136 $\mu$$\Omega$-cm and increased with decreasing film thickness. SrBi$_2Ta_2O_4$ thin films deposited by rf magnetron sputtering on the RuO$_2$bottom electrodes showed a fatigue-free characteristics up to ~10$^10$ cycles under 5 V bipolar square pulses and the remanent polarization, 2 P$_r$ and the coercive field, 2 E, were 5.2$\mu$C/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and 76.0 kV/cm, respectively, for an applied voltage of 5 V The leakage current density was about 7.0$\times$10$^{-6}$ A/$\textrm{cm}^2$ at 150 kV/cm.

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Change in the Energy Band Gap and Transmittance IGZO, ZnO, AZO OMO Structure According to Ag Thickness (IGZO, ZnO, AZO OMO 구조의 Ag두께 변화에 따른 투과율과 에너지 밴드 갭의 변화)

  • Lee, Seung-Min;Kim, Hong-Bae;Lee, Sang-Yeol
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.185-190
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    • 2015
  • In this study, we fabricated the indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO), zinc oxide (ZnO), aluminum zinc oxide (AZO). oxide and silver are deposited by magnetron sputtering and thermal evaporator, respectively transparency and energy bandgap were changed by the thickness of silver layer. To fabricate metal oxide metal (OMO) structure, IGZO sputtered on a corning 1,737 glass substrate was used as bottom oxide material and then silver was evaporated on the IGZO layer, finally IGZO was sputtered on the silver layer we get the final OMO structure. The radio-frequency power of the target was fixed at 30 W. The chamber pressure was set to $6.0{\times}10^{-3}$ Torr, and the gas ratio of Ar was fixed at 25 sccm. The silver thickness are varied from 3 to 15 nm. The OMO thin films was analyzed using XRD. XRD shows broad peak which clearly indicates amorphous phase. ZnO, AZO, OMO show the peak [002] direction at $34^{\circ}$. This indicate that ZnO, AZO OMO structure show the crystalline peak. Average transmittance of visible region was over 75%, while that of infrared region was under 20%. Energy band gap of OMO layer was increased with increasing thickness of Ag layer. As a result total transmittance was decreased.

Doppler Radar System for Noncontact Bio-signal measurement (비접촉 방식의 생체 신호 측정을 위한 도플러 레이더 시스템)

  • Shin, Jae-Yeon;Cho, Sung-Pil;Jang, Byung-Jun;Park, Ho-Dong;Lee, Yun-Soo;Lee, Kyoung-Joung
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.357-359
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, the 2.4GHz doppler radar system consisting of the doppler radar module and a baseband module were designed to detect heartbeat and respiration signal without direct skin contact. A bio-radar system emits continuous RF signal of 2.4GHz toward human chest, and then detects the reflected signal so as to investigate cardiopulmonary activities. The heartbeat and respiration signals acquired from quadrature signal of the doppler radar system are applied to the pre-processing circuit, amplification circuit, and the offset circuit of the baseband module. ECG(electrocardiogram) and reference respiration signals are measured simultaneously to evaluate the doppler radar system. As a result, the respiration signal of doppler radar signal is detected to 1m without complex digital signal processing. The sensitivity and calculated from I/Q respiration signal were $98.29{\pm}1.79%$, $97.11{\pm}2.75%$, respectively, and positive predictivity were $98.11{\pm}1.45%$, $92.21{\pm}10.92%$, respectively. The sensitivity and positive predictivity calculated from phase and magnitude of the doppler radar were $95.17{\pm}5.33%$, $94.99{\pm}5.43%$, respectively. In this paper, we confirmed that noncontact real-time heartbeat and respiration detection using the doppler radar system has the possibility and limitation.

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A Study on a Meander line employing Periodic Patterned Ground Structure on GaAs MMIC (GaAs MMIC 상에서 주기적 접지구조를 가지는 미앤더 선로에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Bo-Ra;Yun, Young
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.325-331
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    • 2010
  • In this study, highly miniaturized short-wavelength meander line employing eriodically patterned ground structure (PPGS) was developed for application to miniaturized on-chip passive component on GaAs MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuit). The meander line employing PPGS showed shorter wavelength and slow-wave characteristic compared with conventional meander line. The wavelength of the meander line employing PPGS structure was 17 % of the conventional meander line on GaAs MMIC. Due to its slow-wave structure, the meander line employing PPGS exhibited large propagation constant than conventional meander line, which resulted in larger phase shift and shunt inductance value. Above results indicate that the meander line employing PPGS is a promising candidate for application to a development of miniaturized on-chip RF components as well as inductor with a high inductance value on GaAs MMIC.