• 천문학논총
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.359-361
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• 2017

We report our research on aluminum mirror optics for future infrared astronomical satellites. For space infrared missions, cooling the whole instrument is crucial to suppress the infrared background and detector noise. In this aspect, aluminum is appropriate for cryogenic optics, because the same material can be used for the whole structure of the instrument including optical components thanks to its excellent machinability, which helps to mitigate optical misalignment at low temperatures. We have fabricated aluminum mirrors with ultra-precision machining and measured the wave front errors (WFEs) of the mirrors with a Fizeau interferometer. Based on the power spectral densities of the WFEs, we confirmed that the surface accuracy of all the mirrors satisfied the requirements for the SPICA Coronagraph Instrument. We then integrated the mirrors into an optical system, and examined the image quality of the system with an optical laser. As a result, the total WFE is estimated to be 33 nm (rms) from the Strehl ratio. This is consistent with the WFEs estimated from the measurement of the individual mirrors.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.34-43
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• 1996

The present pesticide application technology widely used with a power sprayer in Korea is assessed as the problem awaiting solution in the point of view of its ineffectiveness, inefficiency, and environmental contamination. As one approach to get rid of these problems, the boom spraying with ultra-low volume and precision application technology has been recommended. The study was undertaken to investigate plants damages incurred by the self-propelled boom-sprayer vehicle, to develop the design criteria of vehicle wheel, and to compare plant damages caused by the front wheel steering vehicle, the 4-wheel drive vehicle and the articulated vehicle, by the computer simulation. The experiment showed that the amount of damaged plants incurred by the self-propelled boom sprayer were about 0.29% in average in the field size of 100m$\times$50m(0.5ha), about 60~80% of which recovering while growing. The recommandable wheel size was analyzed to be 70~100cm in diameter, 8~15cm in width from the vehicle-plant-soil relationship. The simulation on damaged plants anticipated to be incurred by various steering vehicles showed that the smaller the turning radius, the lesser the damaged plants within its range of 3~5m. Average plant damage rate by the front wheel steering vehicle, the 4-wheel drive vehicle and articulated vehicle was relatively assessed to be 2 : 1.8 : 1.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.179-193
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• 2017

Dynamic response analysis of offshore triceratops with stiffened buoyant legs under impact and non-impact waves is presented. Triceratops is relatively new-generation complaint platform being explored in the recent past for its suitability in ultra-deep waters. Buoyant legs support the deck through ball joints, which partially isolate the deck by not transferring rotation from legs to the deck. Buoyant legs are interconnected using equally spaced stiffeners, inducing more integral action in dispersing the encountered wave loads. Two typical nonlinear waves under very high sea state are used to simulate impact and non-impact waves. Parameters of JONSWAP spectrum are chosen to produce waves with high vertical and horizontal asymmetries. Impact waves are simulated by steep, front asymmetric waves while non-impact waves are simulated using Stokes nonlinear irregular waves. Based on the numerical analyses presented, it is seen that the platform experiences both steady state (springing) and transient response (ringing) of high amplitudes. Response of the deck shows significant reduction in rotational degrees-of-freedom due to isolation offered by ball joints. Weak-asymmetric waves, resulting in non-impact waves cause steady state response. Beat phenomenon is noticed in almost all degrees-of-freedom but values in sway, roll and yaw are considerably low as angle of incidence is zero degrees. Impact waves cause response in higher frequencies; bursting nature of pitch response is a clear manifestation of the effect of impact waves on buoyant legs. Non-impact waves cause response similar to that of a beating phenomenon in all active degrees-of-freedom, which otherwise would not be present under normal loading. Power spectral density plots show energy content of response for a wide bandwidth of frequencies, indicating an alarming behaviour apart from being highly nonlinear. Heave, being one of the stiff degrees-of-freedom is triggered under non-impact waves, which resulted in tether tension variation under non-impact waves as well. Reduced deck response aids functional requirements of triceratops even under impact and non-impact waves. Stiffened group of buoyant legs enable a monolithic behaviour, enhancing stiffness in vertical plane.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.2276-2291
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• 2017

Data protection of removable storage devices is an important issue in information security. Unfortunately, most existing data protection mechanisms are aimed at protecting computer platform which is not suitable for ultra-low-power devices. To protect the flash disk appropriately and efficiently, we propose a trust based USB flash disk, named UTrustDisk. The data protection technologies in UTrustDisk include data authentication protocol, data confidentiality protection and data leakage prevention. Usually, the data integrity protection scheme is the bottleneck in the whole system and we accelerate it by WH universal hash function and speculative caching. The speculative caching will cache the potential hot chunks for reducing the memory bandwidth pollution. We adopt the symmetric encryption algorithm to protect data confidentiality. Before mounting the UTrustDisk, we will run a trusted virtual domain based lightweight virtual machine for preventing information leakage. Besides, we prove formally that UTrustDisk can prevent sensitive data from leaking out. Experimental results show that our scheme's average writing throughput is 44.8% higher than that of NH scheme, and 316% higher than that of SHA-1 scheme. And the success rate of speculative caching mechanism is up to 94.5% since the access pattern is usually sequential.

• 한국초전도저온공학회지:초전도와저온공학
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2018

The present article briefly overviews the plan for a new project on joint technology for HTS wires/cables and describes the development plan for the world's highest field NMR magnet, which is a major development item in the project. For full-fledged social implementation of superconducting devices, high temperature superconducting (HTS) wire is a key technology since they can be cooled by liquid nitrogen and they can generate a super-high magnetic field of >>24 T at liquid helium temperatures. However, one of the major drawbacks of the HTS wires is their availability only in short lengths of a single piece of wire. This necessitates a number of joints being installed in superconducting devices, resulting in a difficult manufacturing process and a large joint resistance. In Japan, a large-scale project has commenced, including two technical demonstration items: (i) Development of superconducting joints between HTS wires, which are used in the world's highest field 1.3 GHz (30.5 T) NMR magnet in persistent current mode; the joints performance is evaluated based on NMR spectra for proteins. (ii) Development of ultra-low resistive joints between DC superconducting feeder cables for railway systems. The project starts a new initiative of next generation super-high field NMR development as well as that of realization of better superconducting power cables.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.54-60
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• 2010

This paper shortly reviews our recent work on filled skutterudites, which are considered to be one of the most promising thermoelectric (TE) materials due to their excellent power factors and relatively low thermal conductivities. The filled skutterudite system also provides a platform for studying void filling physics/chemistry in compounds with intrinsic lattice voids. By using ab initio calculations and thermodynamic analysis, our group has made progresses in understanding the filling fraction limit (FFL) for single fillers in $CoSb_3$, and ultra-high FFLs in a few alkali-metal-filled $CoSb_3$ have been predicted and then been confirmed experimentally. FFLs in multiple-element-filled $CoSb_3$ are also investigated and anonymous filling behavior is found in a few specific systems. The calculated and measured FFLs, in both single and multiple-filled $CoSb_3$ systems, show good accordance so far. The thermal transport properties can be understood qualitatively by a phonon resonance scattering model, and it seems that a scaling rule may exist between the lattice thermal resistivity and the resonance frequency of filler atoms in filled system. Even though a few things become clear now, there are still many unsolved issues that call for further work.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.144-154
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 고속, 저전력 비디오 부호화에 적합한 변환영역 Wyner-Ziv 분산비디오부호화기를 더욱 고속화하기 위한 병렬처리 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 변환영역 Wyner-Ziv 분산비디오부호화 방법은 양자화 된 변환계수를 비트플레인 단위로 분해한 후 비트플레인별로 순차적으로 LDPCA 채널코드로 부호화함에 따라 전체 부호화 연산량에서 LDPCA 부호화가 평균적으로 60% 정도 차지하였고, 이러한 복잡도는 고비트율로 부호화 할수록 더욱 증가하였다. 본 논문에서는 이런 분산비디오부호화 방법의 복잡도 문제를 개선하기 위해 여러 개의 비트플레인들을 하나의 메시지묶음으로 묶어서 한 번의 연산으로 여러 개의 데이터를 동시에 고속 LDPCA 채널코드 부호화하는 병렬화 방법을 제안한다. 이를 통해 기존의 순차적 방법에 비해 저비트율에서는 8배, 고비트율에서는 55배까지 LDPCA 채널코드 부호화 속도를 향상시켰다. 결과적으로 전체 변환영역 Wyner-Ziv 분산비디오부호화에서 LDPCA 채널코드 부호화의 상대적인 복잡도 비율을 평균 9%까지 낮출 수 있었으며, Wyner-Ziv 영상의 부호화 속도도 QCIF 크기 영상을 2.5GHz 속도의 CPU를 가진 PC환경에서 GOP 길이가 64인 경우 초당 700 ~ 2,300장을 부호화 할 수 있음을 확인했다. 제안 방법은 LDPCA를 사용하는 화소영역 Wyner-Ziv 분산비디오부호화에도 적용 가능하여 고속의 부호화가 요구되는 다양한 응용에 활용이 기대된다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.56-65
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• 2006

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA)는 분자 혹은 원자 수준의 작은 크기의 소자이며 극도로 낮은 소모 전력 특성을 가지기 때문에 디지털 논리 구현에 있어 차세대 기술로 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 현재까지 다양한 QCA 설계가 발표되었지만 대부분 시뮬레이션에 의해 동작하지 않음이 확인되었으며 설계를 위한 일반적인 규범이나 지침도 제시되지 알았다. 동작하는 기본적인 구조를 간단히 확장하는 경우에도 시뮬레이션이 실패하였으며 대규모 회로 설계에는 엄청난 시간 소요가 예상되었다. 본 논문에서는 게이트 입력 경로의 불균형 및 배선구조의 숨은 잡음 경로등 기본적인 QCA 구조에서 나타난 치명적인 취약성에 대해 설명하고 이를 해결하기 위한 강건한 QCA 설계를 위해 규범 및 지침을 제시한다. 또한, 이 강건 설계 기법에 따라 설계되고 시뮬레이션에 의해 그 동작이 검증된 고속 가산기를 제시한다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.820-825
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 TV set-top tuner용으로 사용할 수 있는 옥타브 밴드를 갖는 전압제어 발진기를 설계하였다. 측정 결과, 주파수 튜닝 범위는 0.9 GHz～2.2 GHz로써 1.3 GHz의 발진 대역을 갖는다. 광대역 튜닝과 선형성, 그리고 일정한 위상 잡음 성능을 유지하기 위해 트랜지스터의 베이스와 에미터부에 모두 4개의 배랙터 다이오드를 사용한 것이 특징이다. 개발된 전압제어발진기는 0 V～20 V의 제어 전압과 10 V, 15 mA의 공급 전력을 필요로 한다. 출력 전력은 5.3 dBm을 중심으로 약 $\pm$1.1 dB의 편차를 갖고, 위상 잡음은 전 발진 대역에서 -94.8 dBc/Hz ＠ 10 kHz offset 이하의 값을 보인다. 선형성은 평균적으로 65 MHz/V이고 $\pm$10 MHz의 편차를 보인다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권1A호
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• pp.74-84
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• 2008

UWB(ultra wideband)는 기존의 무선통신망 시스템에게 간섭을 주지 않고 공존할 수 있는 매력적인 기술로 유비쿼터스 홈 실현을 위한 핵심기술로 인식되고 있다. 하지만 UWB 신호는 펄스 당 매우 낮은 에너지를 갖기 때문에 동일한 주파수 대역을 사용하는 협대역 통신시스템들에 의해서 강한 간섭을 받게 된다. 특별히 5GHz에서 작동하는 IEEE 802.11a 시스템은 FCC에서 규정한 UWB 신호의 대역폭과 겹쳐지게 되고 UWB 시스템에게 심각한 간섭효과를 준다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.15.4a 채널환경에서 대역제한된 AWGN으로 모델링한 IEEE 802.11a 간섭신호가 DS-UWB 시스템에 미치는 간섭효과를 살펴보고 특이값 분해 알고리즘을 이용하여 수신된 신호로부터 IEEE 802.11a 신호를 추출하여 간섭을 억압하는 기법을 제안한다. 특이값 분해 알고리즘이 적용된 간섭억압기법을 통하여 단일 사용자 DS-UWB 시스템과 다중 사용자 DS-UWB 시스템에서 BER 성능이 향상된 것을 확인하였다.