• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.363-366
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• 2005

A micro flow sensor on silicon substrate allows the fabrication of small components where many different functions can be integrated so that the functionality of the sensors can be increased. Further more, due to the small size of the elements the sensors can be quite fast. A thermal mass flow sensor measures the asymmetry of temperature profile around the heater which is modulated by the fluid flow. In normal, a mass flow sensor is composed of a central heater and a pair of temperature sensing elements around the heater. A new 2-D wide range micro flow sensor structure with three pairs of temperature sensors and a central heater was proposed and numerically simulated by the Finite difference formulation to confirm the feasibility of the flow sensor structure.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.259-266
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• 2002

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.17 no.2 s.75
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• pp.173-181
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• 2005

This study deals with a method to identify damages of free vibrating thin plate structures using the combined finite element method (FEM) and the advanced uniform micro-genetic algorithm.To solve the inverse problem using the combined method, this study uses several natural frequencies instead of mode shapes in a structure as the measured data. The technique described in this paper allows us not only to detect the damaged elements but also to find their numbers, locations, and the extent of damage.To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method, the algorithm is applied to a free vibrating steel thin plate structures with arbitrary damages. From the standpoint of computation efficiency, the proposed method in this study has advantages when compared with the existing simple genetic algorithms. The numerical examples demonstrate that the method using micro-genetic algorithms can possibly detect correctly the damages of thin plates from only several natural frequencies instead of their natural modes.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.9B
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• pp.602-609
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• 2005

In this paper, the performance of HCS (hierarchical cell structure), which consists of macro-cell and micro-cell, has been analyzed by assuming that the cells in HAPS (high altitude plat(on station) are tessellated to provide wide coverage, control the co-channel interference and give the higher spectrum efficiency. Since the outside-cell interference factor is well blown to analyze the effects of interference between cells, the effects of interference from the micro-cells into the macro-cells has been estimated using the factor as a performance estimation of HCS in HAPS. HCS served by HAPS can be realized by permitting the suitable power control and the proper number of users in micro-cell because the interference from the micro-cell into the macro-cell is not a function of the distance between cells but a function of the power control and the number of users.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.6 s.336
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• pp.67-74
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• 2005

Crypto-systems have difficulties in designing hardware due to the various standards. We propose a programmable and configurable architecture for cryptography coprocessors to accommodate various crypto-systems. The proposed architecture has a 32 bit I/O interface and internal bus width, and consists of a programmable finite field arithmetic unit, an input/output unit, a register file, and a control unit. The crypto-system is determined by the micro-codes in memory of the control unit, and is configured by programming the micro-codes. The coprocessor has a modular structure so that the arithmetic unit can be replaced if a substitute has an appropriate 32 bit I/O interface. It can be used in many crypto-systems by re-programming the micro-codes for corresponding crypto-system or by replacing operation units. We implement an elliptic curve crypto-processor using the proposed architecture and compare it with other crypto-processors

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.325-325
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• 2008

스크린 프린팅에 의한 압전 후막은 MEMS 공정을 이용하여 마이크로 펌프, 마이크로 벨브, 마이크로 센서, 마이크로 로봇 등 여러 초소형 기계부품에 응용되고 있으며, Sol-Gel, PLD를 이용해 증착된 막 등에 비해 수십${\mu}m$의 비교적 두꺼운 막을 형성시킬 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 그러나 실리콘 기판을 사용하여 스크린 프린팅으로 형성된 압전 후막의 경우, 공정상 바인더를 연소시키는 과정을 거치게 되므로, 밀집된(Dense) 구조를 가지는 막을 만들기가 어렵다. 이로 인해 스크린 프린팅에 의한 후막은 전기적 특성 및 기계적 특성이 떨어지는 경향이 있다. 본 연구에서는 스크린 프린팅에 의한 압전 후막의 밀집된 구조 및 특성을 향상시키기 위해 0.01Pb$(Mg_{1/2}W_{1/2})$O3-0.41Pb$(Ni_{1/3}Nb_{2/3})O_3-0.35PbTiO_3-0.23PbZrO_3$의 powder와 Attrition 밀링 처리된 powder를 비율별로 혼합하여 입자의 크기를 변화시켜 막의 충진 밀도를 향상시켰으며, 열처리 효과를 극대화시키기 위해 RTA(Rapidly Thermal Annealing)를 통해 열처리 하였다. Attrition 밀링에 의한 파우더를 각각 비율별로 100%, 50%, 25%로 혼합하여 만든 압전 세라믹 페이스트는 P-type(100)Si Wafer sample 위에 $1{\mu}m$의 하부전극용($1100^{\circ}C$) Ag 전극을 screen print하여 소결했다. 그리고 다시 전극이 형성된 Si wafer 위에 스크린 프린팅하고, 건조 한 후 RTA로 300초 동안 열처리 한 결과 밀집된 구조를 가지는 압전 후막을 제작 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.744-750
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• 2009

In this study, the pumping performance of a piezoelectric valveless micropump is simulated. The micropump, which was developed in the previous work, is composed of a four-layer lightweight piezocomposite actuator, a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) pump chamber, and two diffusers. The piezoelectric domain, the fluid domain and the structural domain are coupled in the three-dimensional simulation. We used ANSYS for the piezoelectric and structural domains and ANSYS CFX for the fluid domain. The effects of driven frequency on the flow rate have been investigated by simulating the flow characteristics for 10 Hz and 40 Hz driven frequencies. The flow rates with respect to driven frequencies up to 300 Hz have been calculated.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.549-558
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• 2012

This study identifies the damage detection of truss structures by using genetic algorithm(GA) from changed elements properties. To model the damaged truss structures, the modulus of elasticity of some specific elements is reduced. The analysis of truss structures is performed with static analysis by applying uniform load, and the location and extent of structural damage is detected by comparing the stain of each element of healthy truss structures with damaged truss structures using genetic algorithm. In this study, some numerical examples are presented to detect the location and extent of damage using genetic algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.116.1-116.1
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• 2016

반도체 가스센서에서는 가연성 및 탄화수소계 가스를 감지 하기 위해서 $100{\sim}500^{\circ}C$ 이상의 동작온도를 필요로 한며, 이에 따라 반도체식 가스센서의 마이크로 히터 소재는 고온에서 열적 안정성이 있는 소재가 요구된다. 현재 상용화되고 있는 반도체식 가스센서는 실리콘(Silicon) 기반의 MEMS 기술을 이용한 가스센서이며, 구조적으로나 성능적 한계가 드러남에 따라 실리콘 이외의 다양한 재료의 MEMS 응용기술 개발이 필요한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 실리콘의 재료적 한계를 극복하기 위해 다공성 알루미늄 산화물(AAO)을 기판으로 사용하여 마이크로 히터를 제작하였다. AAO의 제작에 앞서 CMP, 화학연마, 전해연마를 이용하여 적합한 전처리 공정을 선정하였고, AAO 제작 시 온도, 시간, 전압의 변수를 주어 마이크로 히터 기판에 적합한 공정을 탐색하였다. 마이크로 플랫폼은 MEMS 공정으로 제작되었으며, PR(Photo Resist)을 LPR(Liquid Photo Resist)과 DFR(Dry Film Resist)로 각각 2종 씩 선택하여 AAO에 적합한 제품을 선정하였다. 제작된 마이크로 히터는 $1.8mm{\times}1,8mm$로 소형화 하였고, 열손실의 제어를 위해 열확산 방지층을 추가하였다. 구동 온도, 소비전력, 장시간 구동시 안정성의 측정 및 평가는 적외선 열화상 카메라와 kiethly 2420 source meter를 이용하여 측정하였으며, 열확산 방지층의 유 무에 따른 온도 분포 및 소비전력을 비교평가 하였다. 최종적으로는 현재 사용화 되어있는 가스센서들의 소비전력과 비교 평가 하여 논의 하였다.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.1-42
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• 2017

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are nanoporous materials that consist of organic and inorganic moieties, with well-defined crystalline lattices and pore structures. With a judicious choice of organic linkers present in the MOFs with different sizes and chemical groups, MOFs exhibit a wide variety of pore sizes and chemical/physical properties. This makes MOFs extremely attractive as novel membrane materials for gas separation applications. However, the synthesis of high-quality MOF thin films and membranes is quite challenging due to difficulties in controlling the heterogeneous nucleation/growth and achieving strong attachment of films on porous supports. Microwave-based synthesis technology has made tremendous progress in the last two decades and has been utilized to overcome some of these challenges associated with MOF membrane fabrication. The advantages of microwaves as opposed to conventional synthesis techniques for MOFs include shorter synthesis times, ability to achieve unique and complex structures and crystal size reductions. Here, we review the recent progress on the synthesis of MOF thin films and membranes with an emphasis on how microwaves have been utilized in the synthesis, improved properties achieved and gas separation performance of these films and membranes.