• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.481-483
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• 2008

본 논문은 다양한 종류의 전원을 구비해야 하는 다중출력 전원 시스템을 위한 영전류 스위칭 LLC 공진형 Post-regulator를 제안한다. 기존의 LLC 공진형 컨버터는 정밀한 다중 출력을 얻기 위해 추가의 DC/DC 컨버터가 구성되었고, 이는 전력 변환 효율 감소 및 제조 원가 상승의 단점을 갖고 있다. 제안된 컨버터는 각 소자의 내압 및 전류 스트레스가 작고, 요구되는 출력 당 1 개의 보조 스위치만으로 구현되므로 저가격화에 유리하다. 또한 전력이 전달되는 시점의 공진 전류의 초기값을 가변함으로서 정밀하게 제어되는 다중 출력 전압을 획득할 수 있고, 각 전압의 출력 순서 제어도 가능한 장점이 있다. 뿐만 아니라, 독립된 공진탱크를 이용하기 때문에 공진탱크 설계가 용이하며, 최근 전자 제품의 추세인 슬림화의 요구에 부응할 수 있다. 또한, 제안된 Post-regulator의 모든 전력 스위치는 ZCS가 가능하므로 스위칭 손실을 최소화 할 수 있다. 최종적으로 본 논문에서 제안한 영전류 스위칭 LLC 공진형 Post-regulator를 제작하고, 고찰된 실험결과를 제시하여 제안된 컨버터 및 전원시스템의 우수성과 이론적 분석의 타당성을 검증한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1609-1618
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• 2015

DC microgrids are considered as prospective systems because of their easy connection of distributed energy resources (DERs) and electric vehicles (EVs), reduction of conversion loss between dc output sources and loads, lack of reactive power issues, etc. These features make them very suitable for future industrial and commercial buildings' power systems. In addition, the bipolar-type dc system structure is more popular, because it provides two voltage levels for different power converters and loads. To keep voltage balanced in such a dc system, a bidirectional dual buck-boost voltage balancer with direct coupling is introduced based on P-cell and N-cell concepts. This results in greatly enhanced system reliability thanks to no shoot-through problems and lower switching losses with the help of power MOSFETs. In order to increase system efficiency and reliability, a novel burst-mode control strategy is proposed for the dual buck-boost voltage balancer. The basic operating principle, the current relations, and a small-signal model of the voltage balancer are analyzed under the burst-mode control scheme in detail. Finally, simulation experiments are performed and a laboratory unit with a 5kW unbalanced ability is constructed to verify the viability of the bidirectional dual buck-boost voltage balancer under the proposed burst-mode control scheme in low-voltage bipolar-type dc microgrids.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1673-1681
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• 2015

A low dropout (LDO) regulator with a wide-bandwidth is proposed in this paper. The regulator features a Human Body Model (HBM) 8kV-class high robustness ElectroStatic Discharge (ESD) protection circuit, and two error amplifiers (one with low gain and wide bandwidth, and the other with high gain and narrow bandwidth). The dual error amplifiers are located within the feedback loop of the LDO regulator, and they selectively amplify the signal according to its ripples. The proposed LDO regulator is more efficient in its regulation process because of its selective amplification according to frequency and bandwidth. Furthermore, the proposed regulator has the same gain as a conventional LDO at 62 dB with a 130 kHz-wide bandwidth, which is approximately 3.5 times that of a conventional LDO. The proposed device presents a fast response with improved load and line regulation characteristics. In addition, to prevent an increase in the area of the circuit, a body-driven fabrication technique was used for the error amplifier and the pass transistor. The proposed LDO regulator has an input voltage range of 2.5 V to 4.5 V, and it provides a load current of 100 mA in an output voltage range of 1.2 V to 4.1 V. In addition, to prevent damage in the Integrated Circuit (IC) as a result of static electricity, the reliability of IC was improved by embedding a self-produced 8 kV-class (Chip level) ESD protection circuit of a P-substrate-Triggered Silicon Controlled Rectifier (PTSCR) type with high robustness characteristics.

• Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.8-13
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• 2016

One of the activities that are almost used by instructors to assess the undergraduate learners (students) performances in the teaching and learning system is performing researches. It's most probably that learners prepare a presentation for the research, through which they conduct their ideas to the audiences (the instructor and their colleagues). Recently, a phenomenon was monitored regarding the research preparation process practiced by the learners, that the majority go directly to the websites, in which they could easily find tons of attractive and ready-made information that fill the gaps of their heavy homework gained from several courses. It's a convenient activity for learners to go through this easy path to fulfil their duties, but the issue is that the output of such path is so weak. The gained information in this case is so shallow, loose, and could easily been evaporated after a while. There is a need to examine the impact of a missing skill in the current learners' generation: the reading practice. It's noticed that library visits to read books were strongly decreased compared with what was happening in the older generations, where the piece of information was hard to collect, but in the same time, is hard to be forgotten. As a part of the teaching and learning process, and through a college of Engineering, this study will introduce results of the comparison between the outputs of the two methods of collecting information: through the web, and through the traditional book reading. This is to highlight the importance of reading through an experiment applied on one section of students who were asked to prepare a research from a certain chapter of their textbook, and compare that with a prior research they had prepared from the websites. The results were impressive and reflected the importance of the missed reading activity.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.438-447
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• 2007

This technical report is to introduce the research on SRM (Synthetic Rock Mass) which was presented in 2007 ISRM Congress at Lisbon by Prof, Fairhurst who speak with emphasis on its importance and potential in rock engineering. The Synthetic Rock Mass approach to jointed rock mass characterization (Pierce et al. 2007) is reviewed relative to existing empirical approaches and current understanding of jointed rock mass behaviour. The review illustrates how the key factors affecting the mechanical behaviour of jointed rock masses may be considered and demonstrates that the SRM approach constitutes a significant step forward in this field. This technique, based on two well-established methods, Bonded Particle Modelling in PFC-3D (Potyondy and Cundall, 2004) and Discrete Fracture Network simulation, employs a new sliding joint model that allows for large rock volumes containing thousands of pre-existing joints to be subjected to any non-trivial stress path. Output from SRM testing includes rock mass brittleness and strength, evolution of the full compliance matrix and primary fragmentation.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.90-95
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• 2018

Stimulated polariton scattering from the $B_1$-symmetry modes of a $KNbO_3$ crystal to generate a terahertz wave (THz-wave) with a noncollinear phase-matching scheme is investigated. The frequency-tuning characteristics of the THz-wave by varying the phase-matching angle and pump wavelength are analyzed. The expression for the effective parametric gain length under the noncollinear phase-matching condition is deduced. Parametric gain and absorption characteristics of the THz-wave in $KNbO_3$ are theoretically simulated. The characteristics of $KNbO_3$ for a terahertz parametric oscillator (TPO) are compared to those of $MgO:LiNbO_3$. The analysis indicates that $KNbO_3$ is an excellent optical crystal for a TPO, to enhance the THz-wave output.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.241-253
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• 2014

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine multi-modal interaction effects of input-mode switching on the use of smart phones. Background: Multi-modal is considered as an efficient alternative for input and output of information in mobile environments. However, there are various limitations in current mobile UI (User Interface) system that overlooks the transition between different modes or the usability of a combination of multi modal uses. Method: A pre-survey determined five representative tasks from smart phone tasks by their functions. The first experiment involved the use of a uni-mode for five single tasks; the second experiment involved the use of a multi-mode for three dual tasks. The dependent variables were user preference and task completion time. The independent variable in the first experiment was the type of modes (i.e., Touch, Pen, or Voice) while the variable in the second experiment was the type of tasks (i.e., internet searching, subway map, memo, gallery, and application store). Results: In the first experiment, there was no difference between the uses of pen and touch devices. However, a specific mode type was preferred depending on the functional characteristics of the tasks. In the second experiment, analysis of results showed that user preference depended on the order and combination of modes. Even with the transition of modes, users preferred the use of multi-modes including voice. Conclusion: The order of combination of modes may affect the usability of multi-modes. Therefore, when designing a multi-modal system, the fact that there are frequent transitions between various mobile contents in different modes should be properly considered. Application: It may be utilized as a user-centered design guideline for mobile multi modal UI system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.7 s.337
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• pp.21-26
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• 2005

An area efficient, low power switch-matrix semidigital FIR reconstruction filter for delta-sigma D/A converter is proposed. Filter coefficients are quantified to 7-bit and 7 current sources that correspond to each coefficient bit are used. The proposed semidigital FIR reconstruction filter is designed in a 0.25 um CMOS process and incorporates 1.5 mm$^{2}$ of active area and a power consumption is 3.8 mW at 2.5 V supply. The number of switching transistors is 1419 at 205 filter order. Simulation results show that the filter output has a dynamic range of 104 dB and 84 dB attenuation of out-of-band quantization noise.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.107-114
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• 2017

In general, credibility for some analysis results is very important to most decision makers. Especially, it is even more critical for military commander to choose the best course of action by using the simulation results when he want to decide to allocate his available weapon system assets. Therefore, improving the credibility of simulation output is one of the key issues in military research fields. In this paper, we proposed a new simulation framework to improve the credibility of weapon's effectiveness analysis results. Multi-agent based simulation tool is applied and compare current process to the proposed framework. We also showed an example case when a communication repeaters are installed to expand the commanding area scope. The example clearly tells why this new simulation framework is more efficient and improve the credibility of simulation results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2010

This paper analyzed the problems of the Korean output regulation in the relevant band through an analytic comparison of the current trend of each country and their standard values concerning electric field strength (technical standard) of weak wireless stations with less than 135kHz. In connection with the standard value of electric field strength of each country, which has been proposed in the registration of the appropriate electric wave, the paper aims to propose the standard value of electric field strength that could actually be introduced for suitable unauthorized wireless devices (weak wireless devices) in Korea. Provided that the Korean standard may be upgraded based on the tolerances of electric field strength proposed m this paper, this is expected to be committed to the distribution and advancement of weak wireless devices; and further it is anticipated to be prepared with competitiveness not only in the Korean communications market, but also in the international communications market.