• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.32-38
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 토목공사에서 필요한 성토시공관리용 방사성 동위원소 이용계기의 전자회로를 개발하고자 하였다. 제작된 계기는 국내 원자력법에서 제한하는 세기 이하의 밀봉선원을 사용하며, 감마선과 열중성자 검출회로, 고전압 공급장치 그리고 마이크로프로세서 등으로 구성하였다. 성토의 밀도측정에 충분한 계측수를 얻기 위하여 감마선 검출은 5개의 회로로, 열중성자 검출은 2개의 회로로 구성하였으며, 또한, 모든 회로는 자연 방사선과 잡음에 의한 영향을 최소화하기 위하여 정전차폐하였으며, 계수관에 인가하는 고전압의 리플 진폭과 주파수를 고려하여 펄스 계수시에 리플 성분에 의한 펄스수는 제거하였다. 방사선의계수 및 연산처리에는 원칩 마이크로프로세서를 이용하였으며, 계측결과는 메모리장치에 저장되었다. 시제작한 RI계기의 검출성능을 평가한 결과 성토의 밀도측정에 충분한 계측수를 얻을 수 있음이 확인되었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.595-601
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• 2015

These days, research related to Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology is being widely considered. ITS is inevitable for future transportation systems to reduce accidents, congestion, and offer a smooth flow of traffic. The use of Visible Light Communication (VLC) in ITS systems has been considered widely because of its EMC/EMI free and LED infrastructure reusable properties. Among the VLC schemes, this study analyzed the performance of the Color Shift Keying (CSK) scheme under a Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) downlink scenario to verify the capability of CSK as a communication tool for ITS. By modeling daylight noise using the modified Blackbody radiation model, this study examined the performance of V2I VLC under daytime conditions. The relationship between BER, the communication distance, and the amount of ambient-light noises under the pre-described V2I scenario were determined by simulations.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.54-58
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• 2006

동작주파수를 쉽게 조절할 수 있는 신호생성용 안테나 (Antenna-Integrated Oscillator) 설계방법을 소개한다. 제안하는 회로는 광대역에서 부성저항을 갖는 능동회로 (Negative-Resistance Circuit)와 패치안테나로 구분되며, 오실레이터의 동작주파수는 안테나의 공진 주파수로 결정된다. 이러한 디자인 방법은 안테나와 오실레이터의 동작주파수 불일치로 인한 출력파워의 감소 가능성을 줄일 수 있다. 또, 제안하는 설계방법에서 안테나의 Feed 지점과 Feed 라인의 길이를 조절하여 최적의 출력파워를 낼 수 있음을 Load-Pull 시뮬레이션으로 확인하였다. C-band, X-band 회로를 각각 제작, 측정하였고 이를 통하여 설계방법의 타당성을 증명하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.807-811
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• 2001

파수 원형 섹터 마이크로스트립 안테나를 제안하였다 그리고 이것을 사용하여 5.6 GHz 에서 송신과 5.5 GHz 에서 수신 동작을 하는 트랜시버를 제작하였다. 트랜시버의 송수신 주파수 분리에 제안된 안테나의 좋은 격리도 특성을 이용하였다. 제안한 이중 주파수 안테나의 동작 주파수 및 편파 특성을 공진기 모델을 사용하여 계산하였으며, 안테나의 S 파라미터 및 복사패턴을 측정하였다. 전력증폭기 및 저잡음 증폭기를 설계하여 안테나와 집적하여, 송신 및 수신 이득이 각각 약 13dB 및 약 8dB가 되는 트랜시버를 제작하였다.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제65권3호
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• pp.158-164
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• 2016

In this paper, a high frequency flyback type zero voltage soft switching PWM DC-DC converter using IGBTs is proposed. Effective applications for this power converter can be found in auxiliary power supplies of rolling stock transportation and electric vehicles. This power converter is basically composed of active power switches and a flyback high frequency transformer. In addition to these, passive lossless snubbers with power regeneration loops for energy recovery, consisting of a three winding auxiliary high frequency transformer, auxiliary capacitors and diodes are introduced to achieve zero voltage soft switching from light to full load conditions. Furthermore, this power converter has some advantages such as low cost circuit configuration, simple control scheme and high efficiency. Its operating principle is described and to determine circuit parameters, some practical design considerations are discussed. The effectiveness of the proposed power converter is evaluated and compared with the hard switching PWM DC-DC converter from an experimental point of view and the comparative electromagnetic conduction and radiation noise characteristics of both DC-DC power converter circuits are also depicted.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.1266-1276
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• 2021

The mask parameters of a coded aperture are critical design features when optimizing the performance of a gamma-ray camera. In this paper, experiments and Monte Carlo simulations were performed to derive the minimum detectable activity (MDA) when one seeks a real-time imaging capability. First, the impact of the thickness of the modified uniformly redundant array (MURA) mask on the image quality is quantified, and the imaging of point, line, and surface radiation sources is demonstrated using both cross-correlation (CC) and maximum likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM) methods. Second, the minimum detectable activity is also derived for real-time imaging by altering the factors used in the image quality assessment, consisting of the peak-to-noise ratio (PSNR), the normalized mean square error (NMSE), the spatial resolution (full width at half maximum; FWHM), and the structural similarity (SSIM), all evaluated as a function of energy and mask thickness. Sufficiently sharp images were reconstructed when the mask thickness was approximately 2 cm for a source energy between 30 keV and 1.5 MeV and the minimum detectable activity for real-time imaging was 23.7 MBq at 1 m distance for a 1 s collection time.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 1th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.814-819
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• 2005

There is growing consciousness of the environmental performance of buildings in Hong Kong. The Buildings Department, the Lands Department and the Planning Department of the Hong Kong Government issued the first of a series of joint practice notes [1] to promote the construction of green and innovative buildings. Green features are architectural features used to mitigate migration of noise and various air-borne pollutants and to moderate the transport of heat, air and transmission of daylight from outside to indoor environment in an advantageous way. This joint practice note sets out the incentives to encourage the industry in Hong Kong to incorporate the use of green features in building development. The use of green features in building design not only improves the environmental quality, but also reduces the consumption of non-renewable energy used in active control of indoor environment. Larger window openings in the walls of a building may provide better natural ventilation. However, it also increases the penetration of direct solar radiation into indoor environment. The use of wing wall, one of the green features, is an alternative to create effective natural ventilation. This paper therefore presents a preliminary numerical study of its ventilation performance using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The numerical results will be compared with the results of the wind tunnel experiments of Givoni.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.1330-1338
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• 2024

Information on isotopic composition and geometric structure is necessary for identifying a true warhead. Nevertheless, such classified information should be protected physically or electronically. With a novel Hash encryption algorithm, this paper presents a Monte Carlo-based design of a neutron activation analysis verification module. The verification module employs a thermal neutron source, a non-uniform mask (physically encrypting information about isotopic composition and geometric structure), a gamma detector array, and a Hash encryption algorithm (for electronic encryption). In the physical field, a non-uniform mask is designed to distort the characteristic gamma rays emitted by the inspected item. Furthermore, as part of the Hash algorithm, a key is introduced to encrypt the data and improve the system resolution through electronic design. In order to quantify the difference between items, Hamming distance is used, which allows data encryption and analysis simultaneously. Simulated inspections of simple objects are used to quantify system performance. It is demonstrated that the method retains superior resolution even with 1% noise level. And the performances of anti-statistical attack and anti-brute force cracking are evaluated and found to be very excellent. The verification method lays a solid foundation for nuclear disarmament verification in the upcoming era.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권9호
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• pp.3904-3913
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• 2024

Radiation detection at high count rate suffers from pulse pile-up, where the counting data and energy information of the system are affected by the overlapping of the system output pulses. There exist various pile-up correction strategies to recover the true information of the pulses, among which pulse-tail extrapolation is a well-known method focused on in this study. Present work aims to use a mono-exponential model for extrapolating the pileup-distorted trailing edge of a pulse, to provide a reference line for calculating the true amplitude of its subsequent overlapping pulse. To this goal, the auto-regression on linear operations (ARLO) method is examined and compared with two integration-based methods (the Foss and the Matheson methods), as well as the non-linear least squares (NLS) method. Despite a higher sensitivity to noise, the ARLO method was able to provide a simple, non-iterative solution with a performance over 400 times faster than the NLS algorithm, according to the analysis of a high count rate set of experimental pulses from a NaI(Tl) detection system. Foss and Matheson methods also provided solutions reasonably faster than NLS (but not surpassing ARLO), performing exactly the same as each other with results very close to NLS, benefiting from their non-iterative nature.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권7호
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• pp.138-143
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• 2016

본 논문에서 설계 및 제작된 보안 검색 시스템은 물체 및 사람으로부터 방사된 에너지를 수신하여 이미지화 하는 시스템이다. 제안한 보안 검색 시스템은 다채널 수신을 위한 집적화된 어레이 안테나를 적용하였으며, 16개의 4단 저잡음 증폭기와 디텍터, CCD/IR 카메라와 반사판 그리고 밀리미터파 렌즈로 구성된다. 본 시스템은 공기 중의 열잡음 신호를 감지해야 하므로, 높은 수신감도와 넓은 대역폭이 요구된다. 시스템에 사용된 저잡음 증폭기 모듈의 이득특성은 82GHz~102GHz의 대역에서 65.8dB의 평균 이득특성을 가진다. 또한 증폭기 모듈로부터 입력된 열잡음 신호를 DC 전압 값으로 나타낼 수 있는 검출기를 제작하였다. 제작된 검출기는 제로-바이어스 쇼트키 다이오드를 사용하여 물체에서 방사된 밀리미터파 신호를 DC 출력 전압으로 변환하는 방사 분석 센서이다. 제작된 검출기의 특성은 0dBm 입력전력에서 350~400mV/mW, 검출 가능 입력 전력 범위는 -10~13dBm으로 우수한 성능을 보였다. 제작된 보안 검색 시스템은 은닉된 금속 재질의 물체뿐만 아니라, 플라스틱 등으로 이루어진 물체들도 검색이 가능하다.