• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제25권8호
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• pp.651-656
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• 2012

A study on capacitive characteristics of stylus pen for touch panel are progressed in this paper. Also the main factors for capacitive sensitivity are studied. Namely, highly sensitive stylus pen which can be applied to capacitive touch panel are studied based on the analysis of materials and process conditions regardless of pattern shapes. Stylus pen was made of PDMS(Poly-Di-Methyl-Siloxane) and conductive metal powders which does not damage the touch panel surface. We tried to get the advantages of both the properties of soft PDMS and conductive metal powders. We found that potential difference of capacitance change with conductivity of the composite materials(PDMS + metal powders) it implies that during touch process, large voltage difference can be caused by the high conductive materials of stylus pen. Stylus pen made by PDMS with mixed with Ag powders which has large conductivity shows more capacitance change of 1 pF than PDMS with other materials of Ni or C powders.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.319-324
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 개선된 charge pump 회로를 이용하여 구성한 2-dimensional 터치스크린 패널 드라이버를 소개한다. 개선된 전정 센싱 회로는 charge pump 회로의 중간노드 전하 축적을 제거하여 출력 전압 표류 현상을 효과적으로 없앤다. 터치 패널 드라이버는 터치를 감지하는 아날로그 센싱 부분과 감지된 신호를 처리하는 디지털 신호 처리 부분으로 이루어진다. 제안된 터치스크린 드라이버의 동작을 확인하기 위하여 혼성 모드로 회로를 구성하고 Cadence Spectre를 이용하여 그 동작을 검증하였다. 디지털 회로 부분은 Verilog-A로 모델링하여 아날로그 회로와 인터페이스가 가능하게 하여 전체 회로 동작을 검증함으로써 혼성모드 회로 동작의 신뢰성을 확보하였고 시뮬레이션 시간을 단축할 수 있었다. 시뮬레이션 결과 개선된 전정 센싱 회로를 이용한 제안된 구조의 터치 패널 드라이버의 안정적인 동작을 확인하였다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2015

In this paper, a new capacitive pressure sensor has been proposed for a displacement measurement. The new sensor is mainly composed of a gap of $5{\mu}m$ and a notch of $1{\mu}m$. And the sensor has the performance as the high sensitivity and capacitance compared with a commercial capacitive sensor. Therefore, the advantages of the new capacitive pressure sensor are good sensitivity in normal range, mechanically robust and large overload protection. The analytical model is induced for confirming the performance of the proposed sensor. In addition, FEM (finite elements method) simulation has been performed to verify the analytical model. Firstly, the displacement characteristics of diaphragm membrane were simulated by the analytical model and FEM in the case of different structure and materials. At last, through this analysis, these simulation results can be predicted the change of the performance when the device parameters are varied. And it is used as a design tool to achieve at a set of performance we desired.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.31-32
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• 2006

A signal conditioning circuit for capacitive sensors was developed using a commercial single chip solution. Since capacitive displacement sensors can achieve high resolution and linearity, they have been widely used as precision sensors within the range of several hundred micrometers. However, they inherently have a limitation in low frequency range and some nonlinearity characteristics and so a specially designed signal conditioning circuit is needed to handle these properties. Up to now, several companies already have succeeded in the development of the capacitive sensors system and they are commercially available in the market. In this research, to construct the signal processing circuits more easily and simply, we used a universal LVDT signal conditioner (AD698). Since the AD698 provides one chip solution for a basic signal processing including modulation and demodulation using various internal components, we can build the processing circuits successfully with minimal additional circuits: a compensation circuits for the drift caused by the bias current of OP amplifiers and a fine adjustment circuit for the elimination of nonlinearity. The signal processing circuits shows nonlinearity less than 0.05% in the comparison with a laser interferometer.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.144-148
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• 2001

For the purpose of developing capacitive humidity sensor having interdigit electrodes, interdigit electrode was modeled and simulated to obtain capacitance and sensitivity as a function of geometric parameters like the structural gap and thichness. For the development of ASIC, switched capacitor signal conditioning circuits for capacitive humidity sensor were designed and simulated by cadence using 0.25um CMOS process parameters. The signal conditioning circuits are composed of amplifier for voltage gain control, and clock generator for sensor driving and switch control The characteristics of the fabricated sensors are; 1) sensitivity is 9fF/%R.H., 2) temperature coefficient of offset(TCO) is 0.4%R.H./$^{\circ}C$, 3) nonlinearity is 1.2%FS, 4) hysteresis is 1.5%FS in humidity range of 3%R.H. ${\sim}$ 98%R.H.. The response time is 50 seconds in adsorption and 70 seconds in desorption. Fabricated process used in this capacitive humidity sensor having interdigit electrode are just as similar as conventional IC process technology. Therefore this can be easily mass produced with low cost, simple circuit and utilized in many applications for both industrial and environmental measurement and control system, such as monitoring system of environment, automobile, displayer, IC process room, and laboratory etc..

• 센서학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.271-277
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• 2010

Intravenous(IV) drip therapy is extensively used for all kinds of treatments. It works by delivering medicine directly into the vein. When the medicine has been fully dispensed, a dangerous situation occurs since air in the IV drip bag could enter the patient's vein, which is hazardous to the patient’s safety. In this paper, using capacitive sensors to detect the residual quantity of a plastic IV drip pack is proposed. A simulation model of this technology was shown by a finite elements analysis(FEA) program to find out its feasibility and analyze the proper geometrical dimension of a capacitive sensor. According to the FEA simulation, 3 kinds of capacitive sensors were attached to the bottom surface of the plastic IV drip bag to detect the residual quantity in the experiment. Experimental data showed an agreement with the FEA simulation model estimation and confirmed that the sensor works.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 용량성 지문센서의 회색조 이미지를 얻기 위한 새로운 회로를 제안하고 있다. 기존의 회로는 회색조 이미지를 얻기 위해 많은 칩 면적을 차지하는 DAC를 적용하거나 전력소모가 많고 전역 클럭을 적용하는 비휘발성 메모리에 적용되는 승압회로를 픽셀별로 적용하였다. 개선된 전하분할 방식의 용량성 지문센서 감지회로는 뉴런모스(vMOS) 기반의 DLC(down literal circuit) 회로와 단순화된 아날로그 MUX(multiplexor)를 적용하였다. 설계된 감지회로는 0.3V, $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS공정을 적용하여 동작을 검증하였다. 제안된 회로는 기존의 비교기와 주변회로를 필요로하지 않으므로 단위 픽셀의 레이아웃 면적을 줄이고 이미지의 해상도를 향상 시킬 수 있다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.133-138
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• 2019

The a-InGaZnO (a-IGZO) thin film transistor (TFT) has the advantages of larger mobility than that of amorphous silicon TFTs, acceptable reliability and uniformity over a large area, and low process cost. A capacitive-type touch sensor was studied with an a-IGZO TFT that can be used on the front side of a display due to its transparency. A capacitive sensor detects changes of capacitance between the surface of the finger and the sensor electrode. The capacitance varies according to the distance between the sensor plate and the touching or non-touching of the sensing electrode. A capacitive touch sensor using only one a-IGZO TFT was developed with the reduction of two bus lines, which made it easy to reduce the pixel pitch. The proposed sensor circuit maintained the amplification performance, which was investigated for various drive conditions.

• 센서학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.24-27
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• 2017

In this study, I developed a simple and low cost process-printing a silver, carbon, dielectric, adhesive layer on PET films using screen printing technology and bonding the two films face-to-face-to fabricate a low price capacitive pressure-mapping sensor. Both electrodes forming the pressure measuring capacitor are arranged between the two PET films similar to a sandwich. Therefore, the sensor has the advantage of minimizing the influence of external noise. In this study, a $10{\times}10$ capacitance-type pressure-mapping sensor was fabricated and its characteristics were analyzed.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1995년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.487-490
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• 1995

This paper discisses the effects geometric errors on the measurement of error motions of rotor with the cylindrical capacitive displacement sensor. Analytic model of the measuring process with this sensor is derived and this model shows that the effect of geometric errors of sensor is larger than that of rator on the measurement of error motions of rotor. The computer simulation shows effect of periodic errors in this sensor on the measuring orbit.