• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.33-46
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• 2012

To reduce the vibration of cable-stayed bridges, conventional magnetorheological (MR) damper control system (CMRDS), with separate power supply, sensors and controllers, is widely investigated. In this paper, to improve the reliability and performance of the control system, one adaptive MR damper control system (AMRDS) consisting of MR damper and piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) is proposed. According to piezoelectric effect, PEH can produce energy for powering MR damper. The energy is proportional to the product of the cable displacement and velocity. Due to the damping force changing with the energy, the new system can be adjustable to reduce the cable vibration. Compared with CMRDS, the new system is structurally simplified, replacing external sensor, power supply and controller with PEH. In the paper, taking the N26 cable of Shandong Binzhou Yellow River Bridge as example, the design method for the whole AMRDS is given, and simple formulas for PEH are derived. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive control system, the performance is compared with active control case and simple Bang-Bang semi-active control case. It is shown that AMRDS is better than simple Bang-Bang semi-active control case, and still needed to be improved in comparison with active control case.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.2627-2635
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 새로운 MPPT 제어기능을 갖는 빛에너지 하베스팅 회로를 제안한다. 기존의 빛 에너지 하베스팅 회로에서는 MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking) 기능을 구현하기 위해 전력 변환기(power converter)를 동작시키기 위한 클록의 주파수나 듀티 싸이클(duty cycle)을 지속적으로 변화시키는 방법을 사용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 전력변환기에 전력 공급을 위한 전력 스위치의 듀티 싸이클을 제어하여 MPPT 기능을 구현하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 회로는 $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정으로 설계 되었으며 칩 면적은 패드를 포함하여 $770{\mu}m{\times}800{\mu}m$이다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.473-480
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• 2018

2012년에 에너지 하베스팅을 위한 새로운 에너지 획득 방안인 TENG가 제시되었다. 동작에 따라 마찰 혹은 진동으로 전력을 생산하는 TENG는 새로운 에너지 하베스팅의 발전방안으로 소자 측면에서 많은 연구가 되고 있다. 하지만, TENG는 높은 전압(Voltage)과 낮은 전류(Current)의 문제를 지닌다. 이에 따라서 에너지의 저장과 변환을 위한 반도체 소자 혹은 회로적인 다양한 접근방안이 요구된다. 특히 5Hz 이하의 비규칙적인 발전에서의 변환 저장 기술은 이론적 연구보다 많은 경험이 요구된다. 본 연구는 발전 플랫폼을 저장 기술과 함께 대형동물의 움직임에 따른 발전소자의 실시간 발전 정보를 능동적 BLE 제어를 이용하여 송수신하고 이를 검증하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.827-830
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• 2006

With recent advanced in portable electric devices, wireless sensor, MEMS and bio-Mechanics device, the new typed power supply, not conventional battery but self-powered energy source is needed. Particularly, the system that harvests from their environments are interests for use in self powered devices. For very low powered devices, environmental energy may be enough to use power source. In the generality of cases, these energy harvesting systems are used in the piezoelectric materials as mechanisms to convert mechanical vibration energy into electric energy. Through the piezoelectric materials, the ambient vibration energy could be used to prolong the power supply or in the ideal case provide endless energy f9r the devices. Therefore, the piezoelectric power harvesting cantilever beam is developed. Also, the output voltage and power are predicted in this study. We also discuss the developing system of the piezoelectric energy scavenger. An experimental verification of the model is also performed to ensure its accuracy.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.72-79
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• 2022

Piezoelectric energy harvesting technologies, which can be used to convert the electricity from the mechanical energy, have been developed in order to assist or power the wearable electronics. To realize non-toxic and biocompatible electronics, the lead-free (Ba_0.85Ca_0.15)(Ti_0.90Zr_0.10)O₃ (BCTZ) nanoparticles (NPs) are being studied with a great attention as flexible energy harvesting device. Herein, piezoelectric hybrid nanocomposites were fabricated using BCTZ NPs-embedded poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE)] matrix to improve the performance of flexible energy harvester. Output performance of the fabricated energy device was investigated by the well-optimized measurement system during the periodically bending and releasing motions. The generated open-circuit voltage and the short-circuit current of the piezoelectric hybrid nanocomposite-based energy harvester reached up to ~15 V and ~1.1 ㎂, respectively; moreover, the instantaneous power of 3.5 ㎼ is determined from load voltage and current at the external load of 20 MΩ. This research is expected to cultivate a new approach to high-performance wearable self-powering electronics.

• 진공이야기
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.14-20
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• 2014

Since recent electronics technologies have been developed and they tend to spend huge amount of electrical power, self-powered electronics have been paid attention worldwide. To realize self-powered electronics, energy harvesting technology, which generally converts ambient energy into electrical energy, has to be introduced. Among numerous energy sources, mechanical, thermal, and electrostatic event would be of broad interest in field of energy harvesting. Here, this article introduces the promising alternative energy concepts of nanogenerator including piezoelectric, triboelectric, and hybrid types. With these nanogenerators, we are able to apply onto not only self-powered system, but expect these open green energy market.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.373-377
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• 2016

열전 변환 에너지 하베스팅을 위한 저 전력 부스트 컨버터에 사용하는 새로운 Zero Current Sensor (ZCS)를 이 논문에서 제안한다.새로 제안하는 ZCS를 사용하는 Zero Current Switching은 기존 방식인 아날로그 비교기를 사용한 Zero Current Switching방식 보다 파워 측면에서 큰 장점을 보이고 기존의 다른 방식인 딜레이 라인을 이용하는 Zero Current Switching 방식보다 면적에서 큰 장점을 보인다. 새로운 ZCS는 기존의 아날로그 비교기에 고의적으로 offset을 발생시키고 offset의 양을 digital code로 calibration 하여 출력이 나오는 시간을 조절한다. 새로운 ZCS를 이용한 Zero Current Switching은 기존의 아날로그 비교기를 이용한 Zero Current Switching 보다 대략 10배정도 적은 파워를 사용하면서 같은 성능을 보인다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.21
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• pp.220-221
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• 2008

With recent advanced in portable electric devices, wireless sensor, MEMS and bio-Mechanics device, the new typed power supply, not conventional battery but self-powered energy source is needed. Particularly, the system that harvests from their environments are interests for use in self powered devices. For very low powered devices, environmental energy may be enough to use power source. Therefore, in other to made piezoelectric energy harvesting device. The made 31 type triple-morph cantilever was resulted from the conditions of 100k$\Omega$, 0.25g, 154Hz respectively. The thick film was prepared at the condition of $6.57V_{rms}$, and its power was $432.31{\mu}W$ and its thickness was $50{\mu}m$.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.902-912
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• 2016

Recent advances in energy harvesting (EH) technology have motivated the adoption of rechargeable mobile devices for communications. In this paper, we consider a point-to-point (P2P) wireless communication system in which an EH transmitter with a non-ideal rechargeable battery is required to send a given fixed number of bits to the receiver before they expire according to a preset delay constraint. Due to the possible energy loss in the storage process, the harvest-use-and-store (HUS) architecture is adopted. We characterize the properties of the optimal solutions, for additive white Gaussian channels (AWGNs) and then block-fading channels, that maximize the energy efficiency (i.e., battery residual) subject to a given rate requirement. Interestingly, it is shown that the optimal solution has a water-filling interpretation with double thresholds and that both thresholds are monotonic. Based on this, we investigate the optimal double-threshold based allocation policy and devise an algorithm to achieve the solution. Numerical results are provided to validate the theoretical analysis and to compare the optimal solutions with existing schemes.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2014년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.561-564
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 배터리 관리 기능을 갖는 빛 에너지 하베스팅 충전기 회로를 제안하였다. 제안된 회로는 MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking)를 통해 빛 에너지를 솔라 셀로부터 수확하고, 수확한 에너지를 외부 배터리 커패시터에 연결하여 충전한다. 배터리 관리회로(Battery Management)의 신호에 따라, 배터리 커패시터의 충전 상태를 조절한다. 제안된 회로는 0.35um CMOS 공정으로 설계하였으며, 모의실험을 통해 동작을 검증하였다. 설계된 회로의 최대효율은 84.8%이며, 칩 면적은 패드를 포함하여 $1350um{\times}1200um$이다.