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Stochastic nature of magnetic processes studied by full-field soft X-ray microscopy

  • Im, Mi-Young
    • Current Applied Physics
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.1174-1181
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    • 2018
  • In nanomagnetism, one of the crucial scientific questions is whether magnetic behaviors are deterministic or stochastic on a nanoscale. Apart from the exciting physical issue, this question is also of paramount highest relevance for using magnetic materials in a wealth of technological applications such as magnetic storage and sensor devices. In the past, the research on the stochasticity of a magnetic process has been mainly done by macroscopic measurements, which only offer ensemble-averaged information. To give more accurate answer for the question and to fully understand related underlying physics, the direct observation of statistical behaviors in magnetic structures and magnetic phenomena utilizing advanced characterization techniques is highly required. One of the ideal tools for such study is a full-field soft X-ray microscope since it enables imaging of magnetic structures on the large field of view within a few seconds. Here we review the stochastic behaviors of various magnetic processes including magnetization reversal process in thin films, magnetic domain wall motions in nanowires, and magnetic vortex formations in nanodisks studied by full-field soft X-ray microscopy. The origin triggering the stochastic nature witnessed in each magnetic process and the way to control the intrinsic nature are also discussed.

Converter for Switched reluctance Motor Applied Soft Switching Mode by Partial Resonant Mothod (부분공진 소프트 수위칭기법을 적용한 스윗치드 리럭턴스 모터의 구공회로)

  • Kim, J.S.;Lee, B.D.;Kim, S.D.;Jung, G.H.;Kang, U.J.;Koh, H.S.;Lee, S.H.;Lee, H.W.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.07f
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    • pp.2103-2105
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    • 1998
  • Switched Reluctance Motor is simple structure which used Accel/Decel application field because of cheap cost and High efficiency. For driving this motor, it is essential to need position sensor and driving converter. so, many topology and sensor have been studied untill now. Asymmetric Bridge Converter which has been known for the best control and efficiency is used chopping to control current of motor coil according to changing of motor speed. But this is embossed as a fault because it come to bring switching loss due to rapid switching frequency. In this paper, I applied to Soft Switching Mode by Partial Resonant Method to compensate these fault and to show the usabilityness of low switching device.

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Fabrication of PDMS Lens Using Photolithography and Water Droplet Mold (사진식각공정과 물방울 형틀을 이용한 PDMS 렌즈 제작)

  • Kim, Jin Young;Sung, Jungwoo;Cho, Seong J.;Kim, Chulhong;Lim, Geunbae
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.352-356
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    • 2013
  • We developed a novel fabrication method of polydimethylsioxane (PDMS) lens, which can easily control the shapes of the lens using soft lithography with common photolithography and water droplet molding. A mold for PDMS lens was prepared by patterning of hydrophobic photoresist on the hydrophilic substrate and dispensing small water droplets onto the predefined hydrophilic patterns. The size of patterns determined the dimension of the lens and the dispensed volume of the water droplet decided the radius of curvature of the PDMS lens independently. The water droplet with photoresist pattern played a robustly fixed mold for lens due to difference in wettability. The radius of curvature could be calculated theoretically because the water droplets could approximate spherical cap on the substrate. Finally, concave and convex PDMS lenses which could reduce or magnify optically were fabricated by curing of PDMS on the prepared mold. The measured radii of the fabricated PDMS lenses were well matched with the estimated values. We believe that our simple and efficient fabrication method can be adopted to PDMS microlens and extended to micro optical device, lab on a chip, and sensor technology.

Smart Actuators Composed of Piezoelectric Ceramics and Highly Magnetostrictive films (압전세라믹 기판과 고자왜박막을 결합한 스마트액츄에이타)

  • Sin, Gwang-Ho;Arai, Ken-Ichi;Sa-Gong, Geon
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.49 no.5
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    • pp.289-293
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    • 2000
  • This paper presents a study on the linear compensation of nonlinear hysteric actuators using the highly magnetostrictive film pattern as a strain sensor. Elements had a hybrid structure, in which thin soft glass substrate with the highly magnetostrictive amorphous FeCoSiB film was bonded on the PZT piezoelectric substrate. The magnetostrictive film as a strain sensor detects the deflection of an actuator, and a voltage signal from the strain sensor related to the deflection of an actuator is used for the linear control of an actuator.

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A tunable inverse-hemisphere-shaped Bragg grating sensor (튜닝가능한 역반구형의 브래그 그레이팅 센서)

  • Ryu, Yunha;Kim, Kyoungsik
    • Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.48-50
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    • 2013
  • In this work, we investigated the diffraction of inverse-hemisphere shaped polymer grating. The grating was fabricated by using soft lithography of hexagonally close-packed PS nanospheres. The periodicity of the grating was tuned by swelling in acetone and the diffraction wavelength shift induced from lattice change was measured. This device can be used as a strain gauge or a chemical sensor.

Fabrication and Properties of MI Sensor using CoZrNb films (CoZrNb 막을 이용한 MI센서 제작 및 특성)

  • Hur, J.;Kim, Y.H.;Shin, K.H.;SaGong, G.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.132-135
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    • 2002
  • MI(Magneto-Impedance) sensor which is made by thin films has significantly high detecting sensitivity in weak magnetic field. It also has a merit to be able to build in the low power system. Its structure is simple, which makes it easier to prepare a miniature. In this study, its magnetic permeability and anisotropy field($H_{k}$) as a function of a thickness of sputtered amorphous CoZrNb films with zero-magnetostriction and soft magnetic property are investigated. In order to make a uniaxial anisotropy, film was subjected to the post annealing in a static magnetic field with 1KOe intensity at 250, 300, and $320^{\circ}C$ respectively for 2 hours. Magnetic properties of film are measured by using a MH loop tracer. Its magnetic permeability of a film is measured over the frequency range 1 MHz to 750MHz. And, it was examined on the permeability and impedance to design the MI sensor which acts at 50MHz by thickening a CoZrNb film relatively, and fabricated the MI sensor which acts at the 50MHz.

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Linearity Analysis and Calibration of a Cable-Conduit Bend Sensor (케이블 컨듀잇 굽힘 센서의 선형 특성 분석 및 켈리브레이션)

  • Jeong, Useok;Cho, Kyu-Jin
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.26-32
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    • 2017
  • Previous shape sensors including bend sensors and optic fiber based sensors are widely used in various applications including goniometer and surgical robots. But theses sensors have large nonlinearity, limited in the range of sensing curvature, and sometimes are expensive. This study suggests a new concept of bend sensor using cable-conduit which consists of the outer sheath and the inner wire. The outer sheath is made of helical coil whose length of the central line changes as the sheath bends. This length change of the central line can be measured with the length change of the inner cable. The modeling and the experimental results show that the output signal of the proposed sensor is linearly related with the bend angle of the sheath with root mean square error of 5.3% of $450^{\circ}$ sensing range. Also the polynomial calibration of the sensor can decrease the root mean square error to 2.1% of the full sensing range.

Inter-Process Correlation Model based Hybrid Framework for Fault Diagnosis in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Zafar, Amna;Akbar, Ali Hammad;Akram, Beenish Ayesha
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.536-564
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    • 2019
  • Soft faults are inherent in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) due to external and internal errors. The failure of processes in a protocol stack are caused by errors on various layers. In this work, impact of errors and channel misbehavior on process execution is investigated to provide an error classification mechanism. Considering implementation of WSN protocol stack, inter-process correlations of stacked and peer layer processes are modeled. The proposed model is realized through local and global decision trees for fault diagnosis. A hybrid framework is proposed to implement local decision tree on sensor nodes and global decision tree on diagnostic cluster head. Local decision tree is employed to diagnose critical failures due to errors in stacked processes at node level. Global decision tree, diagnoses critical failures due to errors in peer layer processes at network level. The proposed model has been analyzed using fault tree analysis. The framework implementation has been done in Castalia. Simulation results validate the inter-process correlation model-based fault diagnosis. The hybrid framework distributes processing load on sensor nodes and diagnostic cluster head in a decentralized way, reducing communication overhead.

Binomial Distribution Based Reputation for WSNs: A Comprehensive Survey

  • Wei, Zhe;Yu, Shuyan
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.15 no.10
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    • pp.3793-3814
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    • 2021
  • Most secure solutions like cryptography are software based and they are designed to mainly deal with the outside attacks for traditional networks, but such soft security is hard to be implemented in wireless sensor networks to counter the inside attacks from internal malicious nodes. To address this issue, reputation has been introduced to tackle the inside malicious nodes. Reputation is essentially a stimulating mechanism for nodes' cooperation and is employed to detect node misbehaviors and improve the trust-worthiness between individual nodes. Among the reputation models, binomial distribution based reputation has many advantages such as light weight and ease of implementation in resource-constraint sensor nodes, and accordingly researchers have proposed many insightful related methods. However, some of them either directly use the modelling results, apply the models through simple modifications, or only use the required components while ignoring the others as an integral part of the whole model, this topic still lacks a comprehensive and systematical review. Thus the motivation of this study is to provide a thorough survey concerning each detailed functional components of binomial distribution based reputation for wireless sensor networks. In addition, based on the survey results, we also argue some open research problems and suggest the directions that are worth future efforts. We believe that this study is helpful to better understanding the reputation modeling mechanism and its components for wireless sensor networks, and can further attract more related future studies.

A Judgment System for Intelligent Movement Using Soft Computing (소프트 컴퓨팅에 의한 지능형 주행 판단 시스템)

  • Choi, Woo-Kyung;Seo, Jae-Yong;Kim, Seong-Hyun;Yu, Sung-Wook;Jeon, Hong-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.544-549
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    • 2006
  • This research is to introduce about Judgment System for Intelligent Movement(JSIM) that can perform assistance work of human brain. JSIM can order autonomous command and also it can be directly controlled by user. This research assumes that control object is limited to Mobile Robot(MR) Mobile robot offers image and ultrasonic sensor information to user carrying JSIM and it performs guide to user. JSIM having PDA and Sensor-box controls velocity and direction of the mobile robot by soft-computing method that inputs user's command and information that is obtained to mobile robot. Also it controls mobile robot to achieve various movement. This paper introduces wearable JSIM that communicates with around devices and that can do intelligent judgment. To verify the possibility of the proposed system, in real environment, the simulation of control and application problem lot mobile robot will be introduced. Intelligent algorithm in the proposed system is generated by mixed hierarchical fuzzy and neural network.