• 한국재료학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.38-42
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• 2018

Continuous efforts are being made to improve the efficiency of Si solar cells, which is the prevailing technology at this time. As opposed to the standard front-lit solar cell design, the back-lit design suffers no shading loss because all the metal electrodes are placed on one side close to the pn junction, which is referred to as the front side, and the incoming light enters the denuded back side. In this study, a systematic comparison between the two designs was conducted by means of computer simulation. Medici, a two-dimensional semiconductor device simulation tool, was utilized for this purpose. The $0.6{\mu}m$ wavelength, the peak value for the AM-1.5 illumination, was chosen for the incident photons, and the minority-carrier recombination lifetime (${\tau}$), a key indicator of the Si substrate quality, was the main variable in the simulation on a p-type $150{\mu}m$ thick Si substrate. Qualitatively, minority-carrier recombination affected the short circuit current (Isc) but not the opencircuit voltage (Voc). The latter was most affected by series resistance associated with the electrode locations. Quantitatively, when ${\tau}{\leq}500{\mu}s$, the simulation yielded the solar cell power outputs of $20.7mW{\cdot}cm^{-2}$ and $18.6mW{\cdot}cm^{-2}$, respectively, for the front-lit and back-lit cells, a reasonable 10 % difference. However, when ${\tau}$ < $500{\mu}s$, the difference was 20 % or more, making the back-lit design less than competitive. We concluded that the back-lit design, despite its inherent benefits, is not suitable for a broad range of Si solar cells but may only be applicable in the high-end cells where float-zone (FZ) or magnetic Czochralski (MCZ) Si crystals of the highest quality are used as the substrate.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.555-559
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• 2004

We propose an efficient digital IF down converter architecture for dual-mode WCDMA/cdma2000 based on the concept of software defined radio. Multi-rate digital filters and fractional frequency conversion techniques are adopted to implement the front end of a dual-mode receiver for WCDMA and cdma2000. A sub-sampled digital IF stage was proposed to support both WCDMA and cdma2000 while lowering the sampling frequency. Use of a CIC filter and ISOP filter combined with proper arrangement of multi-rate filters and common filter blocks resulted in optimized hardware implementation of the front end block in 292k logic gates.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제13권4호통권35호
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• pp.75-81
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• 1999

Roll forming process is simulated with a commercial FEM code LS-DYNA. The rolls are treated as rigid bodies rotating with a constant angular velocity. The strip and the rolls are modeled with 4-node plate elements. It is assumed that the nodes along the front end of the strip move along paths given by sine functions. It is found that the analysis can be applied to the optimal design of forming rolls. With these analyses, it is expected that forming defects can be avoided and process development efforts can be reduced.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.44-49
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• 2016

The roll forming produces mass products using the continuous production process. Also we need the process that continuous long material or goods cutting into a desired length. Our study uses 3-D driving cutter and roll forming material as SPCC to investigate this. When we cut the material using the process of roll forming, the shear resistance is raised at the cutting punch's edge. The result is remained the trouble about burr and progressive deformation on the material. This study shows the method minimizing the above trouble. The material of punch was considering heat generated on the continuous production process. So we used the type of STD 61 for the material of punch and had the vacuum heat treatment for the surface hardness of HRC 53. The structure of the mold is designed with forming a double cam die at the upper punch and the both sides of central core. We conducted the experiment three times. In the result when had to make V-groove within the angle between 105 and 110 on the punch front end, we could get the minimum shear resistance on the punch front end. Also with the same condition we minimizes the material jams in the continuous production process.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.19-25
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 2.4GHz의 무선랜 대역에 사용하고 LTCC 다층 기술이 적용된 Front-end Module를 제작하였다. 제안된 FEM은 전력증폭기 IC, 스위치 IC와 LTCC 모듈로 구성하였다. LTCC 모듈은 송신단은 출력 매칭회로(matching circuit)와 저역통과필터, 수신단은 대역통과필터로 구성하였다. 출력 매칭회로를 LTCC에서 구현하기 위해 PCB에서 구현한 출력 매칭회로의 매칭 파라미터를 이용하였다. LTCC 기판의 특성은 유전율 9.0이다. 기판은 각 층의 두께가 30um인 그린시트를 총 26장을 사용하였다. 패턴용 도체는 Ag 페이스트를 사용하였다. 모듈의 크기는 $4.5mm{\times}3.2mm{\times}1.4mm$이다. 제작된 FEM은 21dB의 이득과 -31dBc(1st side lobe)와 -594Bc(2nd side lobe)의 ACPR, 그리고 23dBm의 P1dB 특성을 가짐을 확인하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.415-422
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• 1996

Tritium removal from tritiated heavy water in a PHWR is the most effective way in reducing workers' internal dose and radioactivity emissions from Wolsong NPP. The optimum design of the Wolsong TRF (Tritium Removal Facility) was carried out using an approximate short-cut method with an assumption that the TRF, designed to extract 8 MCi per year of elemental tritium from a heavy oater feedstream, uses Liquid Phase Catalytic Exchange (LPCE) front-end process and Cryogenic Distillation (CD) process.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.265-277
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• 2010

In this study, an offshore process FEED(Front End Engineering Design) method is systematically established to perform integrated process engineering for topsides systems of LNG FPSO(Floating, Production, Storage, and Off-loading unit) based on the concepts and procedures for the process FEED of general offshore production plants. First, various activities of the general process FEED engineering are summarized, and then the offshore process FEED method, which is suitable for application to all types of offshore oil and gas production plants, is proposed. Second, an integrated process engineering environment is built based on the proposed FEED method. Finally, the integrated process engineering environment is applied to topsides systems of an LNG FPSO in order to verify the validity and applicability of the proposed FEED method. As a result, it is shown that the proposed FEED method can be applied to the process FEED engineering of FPSOs and moreover will be able to contribute to perform successful offshore projects in the future.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.3103-3120
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• 2015

This paper presents a single-phase energy metering chip with built-in calibration function to measure electric power quantities. The entire chip consists of an analog front end, a filter block, a computation engine, a calibration engine, and an external interface block. The key design issues are how to reduce the implementation costs of the computation engine from repeatedly used arithmetic operations and how to simplify calibration procedure and reduce calibration time. The proposed energy metering chip simplifies the computation engine using time-division multiplexed arithmetic units. It also provides a simple and fast calibration scheme by using integrated digital calibration functionality. The chip is fabricated with 0.18-μm six-layer metal CMOS process and housed in a 32-pin quad-flat no-leads (QFN) package. It operates at a clock speed of 4096 kHz and consumes 9.84 mW in 3.3 V supply.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.66-72
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• 2009

이 논문에서 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템의 주파수 옵셋 동기화 블록의 효율적인 구조를 제안한다. 기존의 CORDIC(Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer)을 이용한 주파수 옵셋 동기화 블록들은 위상 추정을 위하여 CORDIC Vector 모드를 사용하고, 보상을 위하여 CORDIC Rotation 모드를 사용하고 있다. 이와 비교하여 제안구조는 Vector 모드만을 사용하고 Relation모드는 Divider로 대치하는 알고리즘이다. 제안된 방식을 사용함으로써 Rotation 모드를 사용해야 했던 기존의 방식보다 하드웨어 구현복잡도가 감소함을 구현을 통하여 검증하였다. 검증 Tool로 Design Compiler를 사용하였고 각 비교 구조마다 동일한 Constraint를 적용하여 검증을 진행하였다. 제안구조에 대한 Front-End 칩 구현을 통하여 기존 구조에 비하여 22.1%의 gate count 감소를 보임으로써 저전력 통신용 칩에서 사용할 수 있음을 보였다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2012

In this paper, collision analysis of the full rake for the Next Generation High-speed EMU is conducted using a 3D/1D hybrid model, which combines 3-dimensional (3D) front-end structure of finite element model and 1-dimensional (1D) multi-body dynamics model in order to analyze train collision with a standard 3D deformable obstacle. The crush forces, passengers' accelerations and energy absorptions of a full rake train can be easily obtained through a simulation of a 1D dynamics model composed of nonlinear springs, dampers and masses. Also the obtained simulation results are very similar to those of a 3D model if an overriding behavior does not occur during collision. The standard obstacle in TSI regulation has been changed from a rigid body to a deformable body, and therefore 3D collision simulations should be conducted because their simulation results depends on the front-end structure of a train. According to the obstacle collision analysis of this study, the obstacle collides with the driver's upper structure after overriding over the front-end module. The 3D/1D hybrid model is effective to evaluate a main energy-absorbing module that is frequently changed during design process and reduce the need time of the modeling and analysis when compared to a 3D full car body.