• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.107-113
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• 2003

This study was carried out to improve the performance of pre-developed heat recovery devices attached to exhaust-gas flue connected to combustion chamber of greenhouse heating system. Four different units were compared in the aspect of heat recovery performance; A-, B-, and C-types are exactly the same with the old ones reported in previous studies. D-type newly developed in this experiment is mainly different with the old ones in its heat exchange area and tube thickness. But airflow direction(U-turn) and pipe arrangement are similar with previous three types. The results are summarized as follows; 1. System performances in the aspect of heat recovery efficiency were estimated as 42.2% for A-type, 40.6% for B-type, 54.4% for C-type, and 69.2% for D-type. 2. There was not significant improvement of heat recovering efficiency between two different airflow directions inside the heat exchange system. But considering current technical conditions, straight air flow pattern has more advantage than hair-pin How pattern (U-turn f1ow). 3. The main factors influencing on heat recovery efficiency were presumably verified to be the total area of heat exchange surface, the thickness of ail-flow pipes, and the convective heat transfer coefficient influenced by airflow velocity under the conditions of allowable pipe durability and safety. 4. Desirable blower capacity for each type of heat recovery units were significantly different to each other. Therefore, the optimum airflow capacity should be determined by considering in economic aspect of electricity required together with the optimum heat recovery performance of given heat recovery systems.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.140-147
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• 2012

Climate changes caused by fossil fuel energy usages have led to serious environmental damages and resource scarcity. Ever-increasing demand for energy causes harsh competition in international energy markets. Nuclear power, which once was regarded as a desirable clean energy, began to face public oppositions after the Japanese nuclear disaster in 2011. In this context, wind power is now considered to be an ever-more important recyclable energy source. Thus, this study intended to identify critical success factors for wind power construction projects. After a thorough literature review, two focus group interview sessions were conducted. A questionnaire-based survey, coupled with the two previous methods, resulted in the extraction of important factors for the success of wind power projects. Experts, including those working as constructors, designers, and owners, were paid a direct visit for the interview and survey. The critical success factors were categorized into feasibility study, right policies, equipment selection, and project financing issues. The proposed critical success factors are expected to be an effective guideline for future investors in wind powers.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.259-264
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• 2020

In this study, the humidity control effect of a counter-flow ventilator was analyzed in a greenhouse with high relative humidity at night in the winter season. A case of the counter-flow ventilator was 0.96 × 0.65× 0.82(W × D × H, m) and there were heat transfer element and two fans for air supply and exhaust in the counter-flow ventilator. Two counter-flow ventilators were used in this study and the setting humidity of the ventilators was 80%. The temperature and relative humidity at night(18:00-8:00) in the greenhouse were measured. In a greenhouse without a counter-flow ventilator, the average temperature and humidity was 14.9℃, 82.8%, respectively. When the counter-flow ventilator was operated, the corresponding averages were 15.1℃, 79.9%. The independent sample t test of monthly temperature and relative humidity showed no difference in temperature, and a significant difference in relative humidity with 1% of the significance level. Therefore, using the counter-flow ventilator helps to control relative humidity in greenhouse and increase yield.. And further research considering the pros and cons of using the counter-flow ventilator is needed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.140-140
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• 2016

유기전계발광소자 (Organic Light Emitting Diode : OLED)는 보조광원이 필요 없고 천연색 표현이 가능하며, 낮은 소비 전력 및 저전압 구동 등의 장점으로 이상적인 디스플레이 구현이 가능하여 차세대 디스플레이로써 많은 이목을 끌고 있으나 제한된 수명과 안정성의 문제점을 안고 있다. 따라서 OLED의 열화 원인을 분석하고 수명을 연장하기 위한 체계적인 방법과 기술 개발이 중요하다. Impedance Spectroscopy는 이온, 반도체, 절연체 등의 벌크 또는 계면 영역의 전하 이동을 조사하는데 사용될 수 있어, OLED에서도 Impedance Spectroscopy를 이용하여 전하수송과 전자주입 메커니즘 등 폭넓은 전기적 정보를 얻을 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 Impedance Spectroscopy를 이용하여 경과시간에 따른 OLED의 임피던스 특성을 측정하여 열화 메커니즘을 분석하였다. 본 연구에서 OLED는 ITO / 2-TNATA (4,4,4-tris2-naphthylphenyl-aminotriphenylamine) / NPB (N,N'-bis-(1-naphyl)-N, N'-diphenyl-1,1'- biphenyl-4,4'-diamine) / Alq3 (tris(quinolin-8-olato) aluminum) / Liq / Al으로 구성된 녹색 형광 OLED를 제작하였다. OLED의 전계 발광 특성을 측정하기 위한 전원 인가장치로 Keithley 2400을 사용하여 전압과 전류를 인가하였고, 소자에서 발광된 휘도 및 발광 스펙트럼은 Photo Research사의 PR-650 Spectrascan을 사용하여 암실 환경에서 측정하였다. 임피던스 스펙트럼은 컴퓨터 제어 프로그래밍이 가능한 KEYSIGHT사의 E4990A를 사용하여 측정하였다. 임피던스 측정 전압은 0 V부터 2 V 간격으로 8 V까지, 주파수는 20 Hz에서 2 kHz의 범위로 설정하여 측정하였다. I-V-L과 임피던스 특성은 24 시간의 간격을 두고 실온에서 측정하였다. 그림은 경과시간에 따른 녹색 형광 OLED의 인가전압 2 V, 6 V의 Cole-Cole plot을 나타낸 것이다. 문턱전압 미만인 인가전압 2 V에서는 소자를 통하여 전류가 흐르지 않아 큰 반원 형태를 나타내었고, 시간이 경과함에 따라 소자 제작 직후엔 실수 임피던스의 최댓값이 $8982.6{\Omega}$에서 480 시간 경과 후엔 $9840{\Omega}$으로 약간 증가하였다. 문턱전압 이상인 인가전압 6 V에서는 소자 제작 직후 실수 임피던스의 최댓값이 $108.2{\Omega}$으로 작은 반원 형태를 나타내나 시간이 경과함에 따라 방사형으로 증가하는 것을 확인 할 수 있었고, 672 시간 경과 후엔 실수 임피던스의 최댓값이 $9126.9{\Omega}$으로 문턱 전압 미만 일 때와 유사한 결과를 나타내었다. 이러한 임피던스의 증가 현상은 시간이 경과함에 따라 OLED의 열화에 의한 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.19-23
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• 2002

This paper presents a micro fluxgate magnetic sensor in printed circuit board (PCB). In order to observe the effect of the closed magnetic path, the magnetic cores of rectangular-ring and two bars were each fabricated. Each fluxgate sensor consists of five PCB stack layers including one layer magnetic core and four layers of excitation and pick-up coils. The center layer as a magnetic core is made of a Co-based amorphous magnetic ribbon with extremely high DC permeability of ~100,000. Four outer layers as an excitation and pick-up coils have a planar solenoid and are made of copper foil. In case of the fluxgate sensor having the rectangular-ring shaped core, excellent linear response over the range of -100 $\mu$T to ＋ 100 $\mu$T is obtained with 540 V/Tsensitivity at excitation square wave of 3 $V_{p-p}$ and 360 KHz. The chip size of the fabricated sensing element is $7.3 \times 5.7\textrm{mm}^2$. The very low power consumption of ~8 mW was measured. This magnetic sensor is very useful for various applications such as: portable navigation systems, telematics, VR game and so on.n.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.6 s.348
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• pp.53-61
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• 2006

In high speed flash type or pipelining type A/D Converter, the faster sampling frequency is, the more the effect of DC reference fluctuation is increased by clock feed-through and kick-back. When we measure A/D Converter, further, external noise increases reference voltage fluctuation. Thus reference fluctuation reduction circuit must be needed in high speed A/D converter. Conventional circuit simply uses capacitor but layout area is large and it's not efficient. In this paper, a reference fluctuation reduction circuit using transmission gate is proposed. In order to verify the proposed technique, we designed and manufactured 6bit 2GSPS CMOS A/D converter. The A/D converter is based on 0.18um 1-poly 5-metal N-well CMOS technology, and it consumes 145mW at 1.8V power supply. It occupies chip area of $977um\times1040um$. Experimental result shows that SNDR is 36.25 dB and INL/DNL ${\pm}0.5LSB$ when sampling frequency is 2GHz.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.1
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• pp.59-67
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• 2016

A novel instrumentation amplifier (IA) using fully-differential linear operational transconductance amplifier (FLOTA) for electronic measurement systems with low cost, wideband, and gain control with wide range is designed. The IA consists of a FLOTA, two resistor, and an operational amplifier(op-amp). The principal of the operating is that the difference of two input voltages applied into FLOTA converts into two same difference currents, and then these current drive resistor of (+) terminal and feedback resistor of op-amp to obtain output voltage. To verify operating principal of the IA, we designed the FLOTA and realized the IA used commercial op-amp LF356. Simulation results show that the FLOTA has linearity error of 0.1% and offset current of 2.1uA at input dynamic range ${\pm}3.0V$. The IA had wide gain range from -20dB to 60dB by variation of only one resistor and -3dB frequency for the 60dB was 10MHz. The proposed IA also has merits without matching of external resistor and controllable offset voltage using the other resistor. The power dissipation of the IA is 105mW at supply voltage of ${\pm}5V$.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.4 s.310
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• pp.9-18
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• 2006

In the digital camera system, CMOS image sensor (CIS) is widely used because its size and weight become smaller and power consumption becomes lower. However, there are common problems that colors of the recorded image do not match those of the photographed object and that spectral sensitivity of the CIS used in different cameras varies largely in each case. Therefore, color correction is needed because the spectral sensitivity of the CIS in each color is neither the same color component for most standard colors nor the appropriate color representation for any output devices. In the conventional method, a color correction is empirically obtained by a large number of iterative experiments, but the result is not so satisfied. In this paper, a new method to obtain the efficient color correction matrix for digital camera using CIS is proposed. We obtain camera transfer matrix under the certain white-balance point, and color correction matrix that makes the transfer characteristic of digital camera close to the transfer characteristic of ideal camera is obtained. The experimental results show that the transfer characteristic of digital camera by the proposed method is close to that of the ideal camera. In addition, the image quality of pictures of digital camera using the proposed method is dramatically improved.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.816-822
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• 2011

Pervaporation is known to be a low energy consumption process since it needs only an electric power to maintain the permeate side in vacuum. Also, the pervaporation is an environmentally clean technology because it does not use the third material such as an entrainer for either an azeotropic distillation or an extractive distillation. In this study, Silicalite-1 particles are hydrothermally synthesized and polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS)-zeolite composite membranes are prepared with a mixture of synthesized Silicalite-1 particles and PDMS-polymer. They are used to separate n-butanol from its aqueous solution. Pervaporation characteristics such as a permeation flux and a separation factor are investigated as a function of the feed concentration and the weight % of Silicalite-1 particles in the membrane. A 1,000 $cm^3$ aqueous solution containing butanol of low mole fraction such as order of 0.001 was used as a feed to the membrane cell while the pressure of the permeation side was kept about 0.2~0.3 torr. When the butanol concentration in the feed solution was 0.015 mole fraction, the flux of n-butanol significantly increased from 14.5 g/ $m^2$/hr to 186.3 g/$m^2$/hr as the Silicalite-1 content increased from 0 wt% to 10 wt%, indicating that the Silicalite-1 molecular sieve improved the membrane permselectivity from 4.8 to 11.8 due to its unique crystalline microporous structure and its strong hydrophobicity. Consequently, the concentration of n-butanol in the permeate substantially increased from 0.07 to 0.15 mole fraction. This composite membrane could be potentially appliable for separation of n-butanol from insitu fermentation broth where n-butanol is produced at a fairly low concentration of 0.015 mole fraction.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.10A
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• pp.1223-1229
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• 2004

A variable-gain low-voltage low noise amplifier MMIC operating at 5GHz frequency band is designed and implemented using the ETRI 0.5$\mu\textrm{m}$ GaAs MESFET library process. This low noise amplifier is designed to have the variable gain for adaptive antenna array combined in HIPERLAN/2. The feedback circuit of a resistor and channel resistance controlled by the gate voltage of enhancement MESFET is proposed for the variable-gain low noise amplifier consisted of cascaded two stages. The fabricated variable gain amplifier exhibits 5.5GHz center frequency, 14.7dB small signal gain, 10.6dB input return loss, 10.7dB output return loss, 14.4dB variable gain, and 2.98dB noise figure at V$\_$DD/=1.5V, V$\_$GGl/=0.4V, and V$\_$GG2/=0.5V. This low noise amplifier also shows-19.7dBm input PldB, -10dBm IIP3, 52.6dB SFDR, and 9.5mW power consumption.