• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.966-976
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• 2022

Optical wireless communication, or free space optics, is a promising solution for backhauls in sixth-generation mobile systems. However, the susceptibility of optical links to weather conditions has led to FSO links being furnished with radio frequency (RF) backups. These Hybrid FSO/RF systems provide enhanced link availability but lead to RF resource wastage. Cognitive radio technology, in contrast, is well known for its optimal use of RF resources and may be combined with an FSO link to create a Cognitive Hybrid FSO/RF system. This work uses such a system to analyze a configuration for a mobile backhaul in sixth-generation mobile systems. This configuration can seamlessly coexist with established large scale RF cellular networks. The performance of this configuration is analyzed with respect to outage probability and average bit error by considering the impact of optical channel turbulence, misalignment loss, RF interference, and noise. Mathematical closed-form expressions are verified by simulations.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2011

Silicon carbide (SiC) has recently drawn an enormous industrial interest because of its useful mechanical properties such as thermal resistance, abrasion resistance and thermal conductivity at high temperature. RF Thermal plasma (PL-35 Induction Plasma, Tekna CO., Canada) has been utilized for synthesis of high purity SiC powder from cheap inorganic solution (Tetraethyl Orthosilicate, TEOS). It is found that the powders by thermal plasma consist of SiC with free carbon and amorphous silica ($SiO_2$) and, by thermal treatment and HF treatment, the impurities are driven off resulting high purity SiC nano-powder. The synthesized SiC powder lies below 30 nm and its properties such microstructure, phase composition, specific surface area and free carbon content have been characterized by X-ay diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), thermogravimetric (TG) and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET).

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.114-120
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• 2021

Free-space optical (FSO) communication is considered to be a potential solution to congestion in the radio-frequency spectrum and last-mile-access bottleneck issues in future cellular communication networks, such as 5G and beyond. However, FSO link performance may degrade significantly due to irradiance fluctuations and random temporal fluctuations from atmospheric turbulence. Therefore, in this work the main objective is to reduce the effect of the atmospheric turbulence by considering a multihop FSO communication system with amplify-and-forward relaying supported by a radio-frequency (RF) link, which form a hybrid FSO/RF communication system. The FSO link is assumed to follow the gamma-gamma fading model, which represents strong turbulence. Also, the RF link is modeled by a Rayleigh distribution. The performance of the considered system, in terms of the outage probability and average bit-error rate (BER), is investigated and analyzed under various weather conditions and pointing errors. Furthermore, the effect of the number of employed relay nodes on the performance of the system is investigated. The results indicate that the considered system reduces outage probability and average BER significantly, especially for low channel quality. Finally, the closed-form expressions derived in this work are compared to the results of Monte Carlo simulations, for verification.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.2836-2843
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• 2015

일반적인 선박 내 통신은 재질의 특성상 기존 RF기반 무선통신 기술을 적용하는 데 제약이 따른다. 가시광통신 기술은 가시광을 통신수단으로 하기 때문에 전파제약이나 간섭 같은 기존 무선통신 기술의 문제점을 해결할 수 있으며, LED조명을 활용한 통신과의 융합으로 추가적인 설비 요구가 상대적으로 낮고, 가시광을 이용함에 따라 인체에도 무해하다는 장점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 256Kbps급, 5m 전송 거리 급의 가시광통신 기술을 선박 내 통신에 적용함으로써 일반적인 RF통신기기 적용이 어려운 여건에서의 응급호출 시스템 솔루션을 제안하고, 제안 시스템의 실제구현과 시험을 통하여 그 타당성을 검증한 결과를 제시하였다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.341-344
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• 1999

We reported compositional separation(CS) into Co-enriched and Cri-enriched components inside the grains of Co-Cr based thin films prepared by rf sputtering. CS strongly depends on the sputtering conditions of substrate temperature and target composition. Tuning the microstructure of the Co-Cr films is important in order to employ the CS for high-density magnetic recording. We investigated the origin of CS from thermodynamic viewpoint. We employ a spinodal decomposition-like model to describe the origin of the CS in Co-Cr films. We consider the total free energy of the Co-Cr films as the sum of several free energies of; 1) thermodynamic mixing entropy of a binary solid solution, 2) magnetic ordering interaction(MOI) energy below the Curie temperature, and 3) excess interaction energy(XS) caused by the sputtering process as a function of temperature and composition. Those energies distorted the total free energy like the spinodal decomposition and caused the compositionally separated fine microstructure inside the grains. If the second derivative of the total free energy with respect to Cr composition becomes negative at a given substrate temperature, we may observe a metastable compositional separation inside the Co-Cr alloy films. We expect to exploit the microstructure of CS for ultra-high density magnetic recording.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제50권6호
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• pp.296-302
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• 2001

In this paper, the vector finite elements are adopted to calculate eigenvalues of RF and microwave components. Simulation results show that spurious are completely avoided because of the divergence free nature of the vector elements. This paper seeks to extend these low-order elements to higher orders to improve the accuracy of numerical solution. Investigation of numerical results for a rectangular waveguide was provided. A vector finite element program was implemented to allow propagation constants and electric field distributions to be directly computed in the rectangular and circular waveguides which are partially filled with the dielectric.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.121-126
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• 2011

자유층과 고정 기준층으로 이루어진 자기 터널 접합의 스핀 동역학을 강자성 공명 시늉내기로 연구 하였다. 먼저 교환 바이어스 인위적 준강자성 기준층을 포함한 자기 터널 접합에서 DC 자기장에 대한 각 층의 자화 방향을 확인하고 터널 자기저항을 계산하였다. 자기 터널 접합에서 스핀의 들뜸 모드들을 확인하기 위해 DC와 RF 자기장을 함께 인가하여 강자성 공명 주파수 스펙트라를 관찰 하였다. 각 층 별로 들뜸 모드들을 확인하여 자유층과 기준층의 자화 방향의 차이로 계산된 터널 자기저항의 들뜸 모드들을 분석 하였다. 전체적으로 스핀의 들뜸 모드는 자유층이나 기준층의 자화 방향에 관련해서 DC 자기장의 음, 양의 방향에 따라 상이하게 나타났다. 음의 방향 자기장에 대해서 자유층과 기준층의 강자성 공명 주파수 스펙트라는 수정된 Kittel 방정식으로 잘 설명되지만 양의 방향 자기장에 대해서는 예측하기 어려운 들뜸 모드들로 인해 분석적 해답을 찾기 어려웠다. 자기터널 접합의 강자성 층들은 서로 상호 작용을 하기 때문에 이에 대한 스핀 동역학 연구는 자유층 뿐만 아니라 기준층, 고정층과도 밀접하게 연관되어 있다.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.65-65
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• 2012

Copper zinc tin sulfide ($Cu_2ZnSnS_4$, CZTS) is a very promising material as a low cost absorber alternative to other chalcopyrite-type semiconductors based on Ga or In because of the abundant and economical elements. In addition, CZTS has a band-gap energy of 1.4~1.5eV and large absorption coefficient over ${\sim}10^4cm^{-1}$, which is similar to those of $Cu(In,Ga)Se_2$(CIGS) regarded as one of the most successful absorber materials for high efficient solar cell. Most previous works on the fabrication of CZTS thin films were based on the vacuum deposition such as thermal evaporation and RF magnetron sputtering. Although the vacuum deposition has been widely adopted, it is quite expensive and complicated. In this regard, the solution processes such as sol-gel method, nanocrystal dispersion and hybrid slurry method have been developed for easy and cost-effective fabrication of CZTS film. Among these methods, the hybrid slurry method is favorable to make high crystalline and dense absorber layer. However, this method has the demerit using the toxic and explosive hydrazine solvent, which has severe limitation for common use. With these considerations, it is highly desirable to develop a robust, easily scalable and relatively safe solution-based process for the fabrication of a high quality CZTS absorber layer. Here, we demonstrate the fabrication of a high quality CZTS absorber layer with a thickness of 1.5~2.0 ${\mu}m$ and micrometer-scaled grains using two different non-vacuum approaches. The first solution-processing approach includes air-stable non-toxic solvent-based inks in which the commercially available precursor nanoparticles are dispersed in ethanol. Our readily achievable air-stable precursor ink, without the involvement of complex particle synthesis, high toxic solvents, or organic additives, facilitates a convenient method to fabricate a high quality CZTS absorber layer with uniform surface composition and across the film depth when annealed at $530^{\circ}C$. The conversion efficiency and fill factor for the non-toxic ink based solar cells are 5.14% and 52.8%, respectively. The other method is based on the nanocrystal dispersions that are a key ingredient in the deposition of thermally annealed absorber layers. We report a facile synthetic method to produce phase-pure CZTS nanocrystals capped with less toxic and more easily removable ligands. The resulting CZTS nanoparticle dispersion enables us to fabricate uniform, crack-free absorber layer onto Mo-coated soda-lime glass at $500^{\circ}C$, which exhibits a robust and reproducible photovoltaic response. Our simple and less-toxic approach for the fabrication of CZTS layer, reported here, will be the first step in realizing the low-cost solution-processed CZTS solar cell with high efficiency.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2022년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.113-114
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• 2022

본 연구는 선박의 내부의 비금속 재질 등으로 인하여 표면파 공진기의 설치가 어려운 환경에서 이를 극복하는 방법으로 플렉서블 기판을 이용한 표면파 공진기의 적용 가능성에 대하여 제작 및 실험을 통해 확인하였다. 설계 제작된 플렉서블 공진기의 곡면구조에서 실험한 결과 평면구조에서 평면형 공진기보다 성능은 열화되지만, 곡면구조에서 평면형 공진기 대비 높은 전송속도를 확인하여 그 적용 가능성을 확인하였다. 본 실험을 통해 평면형 표면파 공진기가 부착되기 어려운 구조물에서도 금속체 표면파 통신이 가능할 것으로 생각되며, 선실 선교 등 내부가 비금속 포장재로 되어 있는 공간에서도 내부의 연결된 금속 파이프를 통해 선박 전 구간에서 최적의 금속체 표면파 통신 구성이 가능할 것으로 생각한다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.203-209
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• 2006

The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility of ex vivo MR diffusion tensor imaging technique in order to observe the diffusion-contrast characteristics of human gastric tissues. On normal and pathologic gastric tissues, which have been fixed in a polycarbonate plastic tube filled with 10% formalin solution, laboratory made 3D diffusion tensor Turbo FLASH pulse sequence was used to obtain high resolution MR images with voxel size of $0.5{\times}0.5{\times}0.5mm^3\;using\;64{\times}32{\times}32mm^3$ field of view in conjunction with an acquisition matrix of $128{\times}64{\times}64$. Diffusion weighted- gradient pulses were employed with b values of 0 and $600s/mm^2$ in 6 orientations. The sequence was implemented on a clinical 3.0-T MRI scanner(Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) with a home-made quadrature-typed birdcage Tx/Rx rf coil for small specimen. Diffusion tensor values in each pixel were calculated using linear algebra and singular value decomposition(SVD) algorithm. Apparent diffusion coefficient(ADC) and fractional anisotropy(FA) map were also obtained from diffusion tensor data to compare pixel intensities between normal and abnormal gastric tissues. The processing software was developed by authors using Visual C++(Microsoft, WA, U.S.A.) and mathematical/statistical library of GNUwin32(Free Software Foundation). This study shows that 3D diffusion tensor Turbo FLASH sequence is useful to resolve fine micro-structures of gastric tissue and both ADC and FA values in normal gastric tissue are higher than those in abnormal tissue. Authors expect that this study also represents another possibility of gastric carcinoma detection by visualizing diffusion characteristics of proton spins in the gastric tissues.