• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

We have achieved a high aspect ratio track-following microactuator (TFMA) which is capable of driving 0.3 ${\mu}m$ magnetic head for hard disk drive (HDD). it was fabricated on silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer with 20 ${\mu}m$ trick active silicon and 2 ${\mu}m$ thick thermally grown oxide and piggyback electrostatic principle was used for driving TFMA. The first vibration mode frequency of TFMA was 18.5 kHz which is enough for a recording density of higher than 10 Gb/in$^2$. Its displacement was 1.4 ${\mu}m$ when 15 V dc bias plus 15 V ac sinusoidal driving input was applied and its electrostatic force was 50 N. The fabricated actuator shows 7.51 dB of gain margin and 50.98$^{\circ}$ of phase margin for 2.21 kHz servo-bandwidth.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.62.1-62.1
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• 2005

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.451-462
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• 2009

Recently, there are many active studies to enhance low I/O performance of hard disk device. The studies on the hardware make good progress whereas those of the system software to enhance I/O performance may not support the hardware performance due to its poor progress. In this paper, we propose a new method of prefetching n-blocks into the flash memory. The proposed method consists of three steps: (1)analyzing the pattern of read requests in block units; (2)determining the number of blocks prefetched to flash memory; (3)replacing blocks according to block replacement policy. The proposed method can reduce the latency time of hard disk and optimize the power consumption of the computer system. Experimental results show that the proposed dynamic n-block method provides better average response time than that of the existing AMP(Adaptive multi stream prefetching) method by 9.05% and reduces the average power consumption than that of the existing AMP method by 11.11%.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.43-45
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• 2008

박막 제작공정은 반도체 제작 공정, 고정밀도의 하드디스크 및 레이저 디스크 기술, LCD/P에 DML평판 디스크 플레이어 제작 공정에 있어 중요한 기술이다. 더욱이, 이 공정은 이동 전화 커버의 증착 및 전자 차폐의 일반기술, 램프의 반사판, 화장품 용기, 몇몇 상품에 있어 카메라 렌즈의 광학 표면 코팅과 코팅 필름 제작에 사용된다. 본 연구의 주요목적은 반도체 제작 공정과 많은 산업 분야에서 기본 재료로 사용되는 전영저항의 개발에 있다. 개발 공정은 다음과 같다. 전자빔이 최상의 진공 분위기에서 텅스텐 필라멘트의 열에 의해 방출된다. 그때 전자는 높은 전압에서 가속화된다. 전자들은 반대 재료에 충돌되고, 반대편 재료는 발생 열에 의해 코팅된다. 1차년도 연구목적은 고성능 전열 저항체 개발을 위한 지름 당 필라멘트 선의 기계적 특성을 조사하고 CAE 해석을 수행하며, 2차 년도에는 대량 생산 라인 구축을 위한 자동검사 라인 개발에 초점이 맞추어져 있다. 만일, 본 연구를 통해 전열 저항체가 개발된다면, 그 제품은 고효율, 외국제품 대비 가격 경쟁력을 가지므로 제품 경쟁력을 가질 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.308-314
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• 2010

As the price of flash memory continues to drop and the technology of flash SSD controller innovates, high performance flash SSDs with affordable prices flourish in the storage market. Nevertheless, it is hard to expect that flash SSDs will replace harddisks completely as database storage. Instead, the approach to use flash SSD as a cache for harddisks would be more practical, and, in fact, several hybrid storage architectures for flash memory and harddisk have been suggested in the literature. In this paper, we propose a new approach to use flash SSD as an extended buffer for main buffer in database systems, which stores the pages replaced out from main buffer and returns the pages which are re-referenced in the upper buffer layer, improving the system performance drastically. In contrast to the existing approaches to use flash SSD as a cache in the lower storage layer, our approach, which uses flash SSD as an extended buffer in the upper host, can provide fast random read speed for the warm pages which are being replaced out from the limited main buffer. In fact, for all the pages which are missing from the main buffer in a real TPC-C trace, the hit ratio in the extended buffer could be more than 60%, and this supports our conjecture that our simple extended buffer approach could be very effective as a cache. In terms of performance/price, our extended buffer architecture outperforms two other alternative approaches with the same cost, 1) large main buffer and 2) more harddisks.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.196-202
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• 2002

In this work, we propose a new type of HDD suspension featuring shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator in order to prevent the contact between the slider and disk. The principal design parameters are obtained from the modal analysis using finite element analysis, and then the dynamic model is established to formulate the control scheme for Non-Contact Start/stop mode drive. Subsequently, a robust H$\_$$\infty$/ control algorithm is designed by integrating experimentally-Obtained SMA actuator dynamics to the proposed HDD suspension system. The controller is empirically realized and control results for the load/unload profiles are presented in time domain. In addition, the contact signal between the slider and disk is measured by the electrical resistance method.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.16 no.1 s.106
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• pp.75-80
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• 2006

This paper introduces the mechanism of the ESD(electrostatic discharge) in the HDD spindle system using FDBs(fluid dynamic bearings). When a HDD(hard disk drive) spindle system is rotating, triboelectric charging occurs in the FDBs through the friction between the lubricant and the rotating shaft or between the lubricant and stationary sleeve. And this electrostatic charge is accumulated in the rotating parts of the HDD spindle system because they are insulated from the ground by the lubricant. This research shows experimentally that the behavior of electric charge and discharge in the FDB spindle system is the same as that of a capacitor. It also measures the electrostatic voltage difference between the rotating and stationary parts in the FDB spindle system due to the change of humidity, supporting load and motor speed. This research shows that the control of ESD is required in the HDD spindle system using FDBs, because the electrostatic charge accumulated in the FDB spindle system may cause the breakdown damage of the GMR head and data loss consequently.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.16 no.1 s.106
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• pp.50-56
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• 2006

Since most of small form-factor drives have a load/unload mechanism and the flying height of the head is getting lower as the capacity of disk drives increases, the load/unload velocity becomes one of the important factors to ensure the reliability of the load/unload mechanism. To control the load/unload velocity accurately, velocity sensing is essential. In this paper, we introduce a very practical method that acquires the load/unload velocity from the back electromotive force (BEMF) of a voice coil motor (VCM) and propose a calibration method for measuring the BEMF from a given circuit. Moreover, the effect of calibration error and temperature variation on the measurement of BEMF is shown by simulation. Then, this present method is applied to the load/unload velocity controller and is verified from the experimental result.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.51-54
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• 1991

금성사는 뉴미디어 서비스, 컴퓨터와 종합정보 통신망의 결합 등 2000년대 신시장에 대한 적극적인 도전과 국내시장 개방에 대한 대처는 물론 주요 고기능 시스템을 운영할 수 있는 첨단 소프트웨어의 자체개발력 구축을 통한 국제 경쟁력을 강화하기 위하여 국산 워크스테이션을 개발하게 되었다. 썬사의 스팍스테이션 1과 100% 호환성을 갖는 MIRACLEstation 20은 스팍 RISC칩을 장착했고 운영체제는 썬 OS4.1, 또한 스팍스테이션에서 운용되는 모든 소프트웨어를 수정없이 사용할 수 있어 CAD/CAM/CAE, 금융, Software Engineering, Simulation, 국방, GIS 등의 분야에 3,300여종의 소프트웨어가 지원되는 워크스테이션이다. 이 제품은 207MB 하드디스크 1개와 1.44MB 플로피디스크 1개를 내장했고, 이더넷, TCP/IP, ONC/NFS를 기본 사양으로 LAN 및 WAN 환경에서 동기종 뿐만 아니라 타기종과 인터페이스를 용이하게 함으로써 워크스테이션의 필수요건인 네트워킹을 완벽하게 구현한다. 특히 국내 최초의 양산에 성공한 썬 클론 제품으로서 가격대비 성능면에서 뛰어난 제품이다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07g
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• pp.3123-3125
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• 1999

광기록 저장매체의 기록밀도가 더욱 올라가면서 현재 콤팩트디스크나 DVD(Digital Versatile Disc)에 사용되고 있는 d=2인 코드보다는 검출성능이 좋은 d=1인 코드에 대한 관심이 점점 높아지고 있다. 광기록 저장매체에 사용할 수 있는 코드가 갖추어야할 중요한 제한조건으로는 코드열의 전력밀도가 저주파에서 충분히 억압될 수 있어야 한다는 것이다. 광자기디스크나 하드디스크에서 사용된 적이 있는 (1.7)코드는 코드자체로서 DC억압능력을 갖고있지 않다. DC를 억압시키기 위해 보통 부가비트를 일정간격으로 삽입하거나 싱크를 이용하게 되는데 이와 같은 방법으로는 충분한 DC억압이 어렵거나 기록밀도를 올리는데 불리한 원인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 코드열 자체로서 DC억압능력을 갖고 있는 코드워드의 생성방식과 변조 알고리즘을 RLL(1,8)인 경우를 예로 제시하였다. 또한 본 논문에서 제시한 코드의 성능에 대한 검증으로 기존의 RLL(1,8)코드(1)와 본 논문에서 제시한 코드에 4%이하의 부가비트를 삽입하여 DC억압을 수행한 뒤 동일한 기록밀도에서 DC억압성능을 비교하였을 때 저주파 대역에서 $1^{\sim}5dB$이상의 개선효과가 있었음을 확인하였다.