• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.1164-1170
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• 2020

In this paper, we consider the wireless-powered backscatter communication which consists of a power beacon, a source, a relay, and a destination. For the proposed wireless-powered backscatter communication, the source transmits its signals to both the relay and the destination via a backscattering channel and the relay which has a rechargeable battery performs an energy harvesting as well as an information forwarding based on the time switching relay (TSR) protocol. Based on the decode-and-forward (DF) relay transmission, we investigate performances of the proposed system in terms of outage probability and transmission rate in which the exact performance analysis of outage probability is given. Finally, some numerical examples are given to verify our provided analytical results for different system conditions.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.10
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• pp.1540-1546
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• 2017

In piezoelectric device applications, it is important to improve a system efficiency because of the low generated power. In this paper, an optimal driving method is proposed to improve a system efficiency for a piezoelectric energy harvesting system. The proposed method considers disappear energy in input capacitors and the converter efficiency according to the input voltage magnitude to minimize energy losses. Experimental results based on various energy generation cases verify that the proposed method significantly improves the system efficiency; the efficiency is approximately 9.97% higher than that of the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2012.05b
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• pp.734-737
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• 2012

에너지하비스팅이란 도시와 자연 환경 속에 상시 존재하지만 진동, 열, 빛 등과 같이 버려지는 에너지 소스로부터 전기를 수확하는 것으로 대용량 발전소와는 다른 신개념의 전기 수확 기술이다. 본 연구에서는 다양한 에너지 하비스팅 기술들 중에서 압전 원리와 전자기 유도 방식을 조합한 하이브리드 에너지 하비스팅 블록에 대한 발전량을 평가하여 에너지 하비스팅 블록의 주택 도시 분야 적용 가능성을 검토하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 랩스케일 PZT 기반 다층 에너지 하베스터의 현 발전량을 평가하여 제시하였고, 증폭기술을 적용하여 개발된 에너지 블록의 발전성능을 다각적으로 평가하여 제시하였다. 또한 개발된 에너지 블록과 기존 상용 제품과의 발전성능 비교 실험을 수행하여 개발된 에너지 블록의 우수성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.525-530
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• 2012

We present the results of a study of the polarizing photovoltaic (PV) effects in an aligned polymer bulk heterojuction PV layer. The fairly uniform in-plane uniaxial alignment of the PV layer with a macroscopic axial orientational order parameter of 0.40 was achieved by means of a simple rubbing technique. Moreover, reflective polarizing PSCs having the aligned PV layers were applied to power-generating reflective type liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which exhibited a maximum contrast ratio of 1.7. These results form a promising foundation for various energy harvesting polarization dependent opto-electrical LCD device applications.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.424-428
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• 2010

This paper describes the design and analysis of AlN piezoelectric micro energy harvester. The harvester was designed to convert ambient vibration energy to electrical power as a AlN piezoelectric material compatible with CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) process. To cut off the leakage current, AlN was used as the insulating layer. Also, Mo was used for the excellent c-axis crystal growth as the bottom electrode. The AlN harvester which it has the low operating frequency was designed by using the ANSYS FEA (finite element analysis). From the simulation results, the resonance frequency of designed model is about 360 Hz and analyzed the bending mode, displacement and expectation output.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.45-49
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• 2003

According to the rising of national economic level, domestic consumption of vegetables having high additive values is increased continuously due to increased consumption of meat in last decade. These vegetables are produced almost in this country and are limited to import from neighbor countries in due of high transportation expenses for storing in refrigerated container. It is very important to mechanize the harvest work, forming more than 30% for their production cost, in order to cultivate variable vegetables at the same time according to their harvesting seasons. In this state its former harvest methods, with using of human power or semi-automatic harvest, caused to increase their production cost due to high labor cost and low working efficiency.

• Journal of Urban Science
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2020

The thermoelectric characteristics of alkali activated slag composites containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) was investigated in the present study. Three different MWCNT contents and exposed temperatures were considered, and their thermoelectric-related properties and internal structures were analyzed. It was found that the alkali activated slag composite with MWCNT 2.0 wt.% and the exposed temperature of 150℃ were the optimal condition to obtain the highest Seebeck coefficient and power factor. Based on the feasibility study, the extended size thermoelectric module with 130 elements was fabricated, and tested the electricity production capacity. Consequently, the present thermoelectric module produced 30.83 ㎼ of electricity at ∆T=178.4℃.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06d
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• pp.420-423
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• 2010

최근 RFID/USN 기술을 산업화 현장에 적용하기 위한 실용화 기술로 만들기 위해서는 기존 임베디드 시스템에 적용되고 있는 다양한 검증 기술 및 에너지 효율화 기술이 USN분야에서도 적용하기 시작하였다. 특히, USN 분야의 경우 에너지 효율성 문제가 가장 크게 작용하기 때문에 에너지 효율성을 평가하고 해결을 위한 솔루션 제공이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 효용성 검증에 필요한 첫 번째 단계로 USN 마이크로 에너지획득을 위해 에너지 획득 시스템을 제시하고져 한다. 특히, 파워 소스 제너레이션 기술에 대한 다양한 연구를 진행하고 이를 바탕으로 효율적인 에너지 획득 시스템 하드웨어를 설계하고, 설계된 에너지 획득 시스템을 이용하여 MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking) 알고리즘을 구현하고 이를 MPPT Controller 형태로 구현한 뒤 최종적인 에너지 획득 시스템을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.27 no.12
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• pp.857-862
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• 2014

In this paper, we designed and fabricated electromagnetic induction based scaffold type energy harvester. For energy harvesting, mechanical energy of vertical motion is transferred to rotational energy using rack gear and multiplying gear was used to maximize energy transfer. To optimize design parameters, physical structure of energy harvester was modeled using finite element method. The effect of multiplying gear ratio and frequency levels of applied mechanical energy on energy generation efficiency are analyzed by computer simulation and experimental test. Experimental results showed that maximum 25.36 W of electric power can be achieved at the frequency of 2 Hz and 1:77 of gear ratio with only 5 mm of vertical changes on scaffold structure.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1320-1330
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• 2017

Wireless sensor networks for forest monitoring are typically deployed in fields in which manual intervention cannot be easily accessed. An interesting approach to extending the lifetime of sensor nodes is the use of energy harvested from the environment. Design constraints are application-dependent and based on the monitored environment in which the energy harvesting takes place. To reduce energy consumption, we designed a power management scheme that combines dynamic duty cycle scheduling at the network layer to plan node duty time. The dynamic duty cycle scheduling is realized based on a tier structure in which the network is concentrically organized around the sink node. In addition, the multi-paths preserved in the tier structure can be used to deliver residual packets when a path failure occurs. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a better performance.