• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automatic Control Conference, 11th (KACC); Pohang, Korea; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.409-412
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• 1996

Ultrasonic sensors are widely used in various applications due to advantages of low cost, simplicity in construction, mechanical robustness, and little environmental restriction in usage. But the main purposes of the noncontact sensing are rather narrowly confined within object detection and distance measurement. For the application of object recognition, ultrasonic sensors exhibit several shortcomings of poor directionality which results in low spatial resolution of objects, and specularity which gives frequent erroneous range readings. To resolve these problems in object recognition, an array of the sensor has been used. To improve the spatial resolution, more number of sensors are used in essence throughout the various devices of the sensor arrays. Under the disguise of a fixed number of the sensors, the array can be shifted mechanically in several steps. In this paper we propose a practical sensor resolution enhancement method using an electronic circuit accompanying the sensor array. The circuit changes the transmitter output voltage in several steps. Using the known sensor characteristics, a set of different return echo signals provide enhanced spatial resolution. The improvement is obtained with neither the cost of the increased number of the sensors nor extra mechanical devices.

• 센서학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.137-143
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• 2005

Research in the field of biosensor has enormously increased over the recent years. The metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) type protein sensor offers a lot of potential advantages such as small size and weight, the possibility of automatic packaging at wafer level, on-chip integration of biosensor arrays, and the label-free molecular detection. We fabricated MOSFET protein sensor and proposed the gold-black electrode as the gate metal to improve the response. The experimental results showed that the output voltage of MOSFET protein sensor was varied by concentration of albumin proteins and the gold-black gate increased the response up to maximum 13 % because it has the larger surface area than that of planar-gold gate. It means that the expanded gate allows a larger number of ligands on same area, and makes the more albumin proteins adsorbed on gate receptor.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제14권1E호
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• pp.65-72
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• 1995

어레이 계수나 센서 위치에 일어나는 불규칙 오류가 선형조건이 주어진 센서어레이의 성능에 미치는 영향을 계수 벡터 공간에서 분석한다. 불규칙 오류에 의하여 최적계수 벡터와 방해신호 방향의 벡터사이에 비직교성이 존재한다는 것이 발견되었다. 이비직교성을 보상함으로써 영저화 성능을 개선하는 방법이 제안되었다. 컴퓨터 실험결과를 제시하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.78-83
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• 1999

이 논문은 희소어레이의 최적패턴 형성을 위하여 원하는 패턴과 실제 희소어레이의 패턴간의 오차의 자승치를 최소화하는 방법을 제시한다. 센서의 간격이 어레이 중심에 관하여 대칭인 경우와 비대칭인 경우에 대하여 성능을 점검하며, 어레이 공간의 주어진 영역의 오차함수에 성능 향상을 위하여 계수를 적용한다. 주빔 부근의 측면롭의 효과적인 제어를 위하여 지수 함수적인 계수를 제안하였으며 그 결과 측면롭의 수준이 전체적으로 균등하게 분포되는 패턴을 얻을 수 있었다. 이 결과는 입력잡음신호가 어레이 공간상에 균등하게 입사될 때 효과적으로 사용될 수 있다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.184-188
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• 2014

There is a trade-off between read stability and writability under a full-/half-select condition in static random access memory (SRAM). Another trade-off in the minimum operating voltage between the read and write operation also exists. A new peripheral circuit for SRAM arrays, called a variation sensor, is demonstrated here to balance the read/write margins (i.e., to optimize the read/write trade-off) as well as to lower the minimum operation voltage for both read and write operations. A test chip is fabricated using an industrial 45-nm bulk complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process to demonstrate the operation of the variation sensor. With the variation sensor, the word-line voltage is optimized to minimize the trade-off between read stability and writability ($V_{WL,OPT}=1.055V$) as well as to lower the minimum operating voltage for the read and write operations simultaneously ($V_{MIN,READ}=0.58V$, $V_{MIN,WRITE}=0.82V$ for supply voltage $(V_{DD})=1.1V$).

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.200-209
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• 2015

수중 음향 감시 체계는 하이드로폰 배열을 이용하여 적함을 실시간으로 탐지하고 그 위치를 추적하는데, 해저 고정형 센서 배열은 이러한 감시 체계에 있어 중추적 역할을 수행한다. 본 연구에서는 천해 환경을 고려한 해저 고정형 원통형 하이드로폰 배열의 개념 설계를 유한요소해석을 통하여 수행하였다. 해양 배경 소음 하에서의 수신 특성 안정화를 위하여 금속 차단막을 이용한 배경 소음 스펙트럼 준위의 백색화 기법을 제안하였고, 배열 형상 최적화를 통하여 고각 및 방위각 방향의 지향성을 확보하였다. 나아가 소나돔의 형상과 재질에 따른 구조 진동 및 음향 산란 특성을 고찰하였다. 배경 소음 준위의 백색화, 배열 형상 최적화 및 소나돔의 음향적 투명화를 통하여, 해당 주파수 범위에 걸쳐 4 dB 이내의 감도 편차를 갖는 강건한 수신 특성의 하이드로폰 배열을 도출할 수 있음을 보였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.191-199
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• 2020

현재 압축센싱 기반 도래각 추정 알고리듬의 연구는 활발히 진행 중이나 비균일 센서 배열 기반 공분산 fitting 알고리듬의 성능에 대한 연구는 진행되지 않았다. 본 논문에서는 주파수 영역으로 확장된 압축센싱 기반 공분산 fitting 알고리듬의 유도과정을 다루며 센서배열이 비균일하게 배치된 경우와 센서배열의 일부 소자에 고장이 발생한 경우에 대한 해당 알고리듬의 도래각 추정 성능을 비교하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제31권8호
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• pp.683-688
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• 2014

This paper presents a high-performance flexible tactile sensor based on inorganic silicon flexible electronics. We created 100 nm-thick semiconducting silicon ribbons equally distributed with 1 mm spacing and $8{\times}8$ arrays to sense the pressure distribution with high-sensitivity and repeatability. The organic silicon rubber substrate was used as a spring material to achieve both of mechanical flexibility and robustness. A thin copper layer was deposited and patterned on top of the pressure sensing layer to create a flexible temperature sensing layer. The fabricated tactile sensor was tested through a series of experiments. The results showed that the tactile sensor is capable of measuring pressure and temperature simultaneously and independently with high precision.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.473-481
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• 2007

Energy efficiency is one of the most critical concerns for wireless sensor networks. By allowing sensor nodes in close proximity to cooperate in transmission to form a virtual multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) system, recent progress in wireless MIMO communications can be exploited to boost the system throughput, or equivalently reduce the energy consumption for the same throughput and BER target. However, these cooperative transmission strategies may incur additional energy cost and system overhead. In this paper, assuming that data collectors are equipped with antenna arrays and superior processing capability, energy efficiency of relevant traditional and cooperative transmission strategies: Single-input-multiple-output(SIMO), space-time block coding(STBC), and spatial multiplexing(SM) are studied. Analysis in the wideband regime reveals that, while receive diversity introduces significant improvement in both energy efficiency and spectral efficiency, further improvement due to the transmit diversity of STBC is limited, as opposed to the superiority of the SM scheme especially for non-trivial spectral efficiency. These observations are further confirmed in our analysis of more realistic systems with limited bandwidth, finite constellation sizes, and a target error rate. Based on this analysis, general guidelines are presented for optimal transmission strategy selection in system level and link level, aiming at minimum energy consumption while meeting different requirements. The proposed selection rules, especially those based on system-level metrics, are easy to implement for sensor applications. The framework provided here may also be readily extended to other scenarios or applications.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.12-16
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• 2017

Color sensor systems based on M13 bacteriophage are being considerably researched. Although many studies on M13 bacteriophage-based chemical sensing of TNT, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and antibiotics have been undertaken, the fundamental physical and chemical properties of M13 bacteriophage-based nanostructures require further research. A simple M13 bacteriophage-based colorimetric sensor was fabricated by a simple pulling technique, and M13 bacteriophage was genetically engineered using a phage display technique to exhibit a negatively charged surface. Arrays of structurally and genetically modified M13 bacteriophage that can determine the polarity indexes of various alcohols were found. In this research, an M13 bacteriophage-based color sensor was used to detect various types of alcohols, including methanol, ethanol, and methanol/butanol mixtures, in order to investigate the polarity-related property of the sensor. Studies of the fundamental chemical sensing properties of M13 bacteriophage-based nanostructures should result in wider applications of M13 bacteriophage-based colorimetric sensors.