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Study on Timing Characteristics of High-Voltage Pulse Generation with Different Charging Voltages

  • Lee, Ki Wook;Kim, Jung Ho;Oh, Sungsup;Lee, Wangyong;Kim, Woo-Joong;Yoon, Young Joong
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.20-28
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    • 2018
  • The time synchronization of each sub-unit of a pulsed generator is important to generate an output high-power radio frequency (RF) signal. To obtain the time synchronization between an input RF signal fed by an external source and an electron beam produced by an electric pulse generator, the influence of different charging voltages on a delay and a rise time of the output pulse waveform in the electric pulse generator should be carefully considered. This paper aims to study the timing characteristics of the delay and the rise time as a function of different charging voltages with a peak value of less than -35 kV in the high-voltage pulse generator, including a trigger generator (TG) and a pulse-forming line (PFL). The simulation has been carried out to estimate characteristics in the time domain, in addition to their output high-voltage amplitude. Experimental results compared with those obtained by simulation indicate that the delay of the output pulses of the TG and PFL, which are made by controlling the external triggering signal with respect to different charging voltages, is getting longer as the charging voltage is increasing, and their rise times are inversely proportional to the amplitude of the charging voltage.

Percutaneous C2 Ganglionotomy in the Management of Occipital Neuralgia -A case report- (후두신경통 환자에서 시행한 경피적 제2경추신경절 절제술 -증례 보고-)

  • Lim, So-Young;Kim, Su-Gwan;Shin, Keun-Man;Hong, Soon-Yong;Choi, Young-Ryong
    • The Korean Journal of Pain
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.200-205
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    • 1996
  • Radiofrequency thermocoagulation(RF) techniques are safe and effective methods as compared to neurodestructive procedure. Other advantages are: ability to perform RF lesions under local or sedative anesthesia, rapid recovery period, low incidence of morbidity and mortality, ability to repeat RF lesions, and leaves no significant scarring. We performed C2 ganglionotomy by RF lesion generator on a patient, suffering post-traumatic occipital neuralgia, as the patient did not respond to conservative therapies such as: trigger point injection, TENS, cryotherapy and stretch, occipital nerve block, C2 ganglion block. Prognostic nerve block was performed usng local anesthetics. Excellent effect was conformed before C2 ganglionotomy. This procedure was performed under fluoroscopy. Type RCK-2A Rosomoff Cordotomy kit was used to stabilize the head and neck. Postoperatively, the patient was free of occipital pain and head motions no longer triggered pain. To date, the patient remains symptom free except for some cervical discomfort.

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RF Generator Design for High-quality Power at Light Load

  • Hee Sung Shin;Shin Ui Lee;Kyung Hyun Lim;Euihoon Chung
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.100-106
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    • 2024
  • To generate the plasma required in dry cleaning processes, the plasma chamber must be supplied with a high-quality AC voltage with a voltage of more than 1 kV and a frequency of 400 kHz. In the existing research, many methods to supply high power have been studied, but how to improve the quality of the power for high-quality plasma has been relatively little studied. In this paper, we propose a study to improve the quality of RF power circuit for high-quality plasma generation in dry cleaning method. Existing methods in the environment of full-bridge-based RF power circuits must perform PWM duty control in the light load region. This causes distortions in the waveform, resulting in poor power quality, which directly leads to poor plasma quality. To solve these problems, a half-bridge switching method is proposed and the improvement in waveform quality is verified. To verify the feasibility of the design and control algorithm proposed in this paper, an RF power circuit prototype is fabricated and the proposed design and control method is verified through simulation and actual experiments under dummy load.

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A 6.5 - 8.5 GHz CMOS UWB Transmitter Using Switched LC VCO

  • Eo, Yun Seong;Park, Myung Cheol;Ha, Min-Cheol
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.417-422
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    • 2015
  • A 6.5 - 8.5 GHz CMOS UWB transmitter is implemented using $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The transmitter is mainly composed of switched LC VCO and digital pulse generator (DPG). Using RF switch and DPG, the uniform power and sidelobe rejection are achieved irrespective of the carrier frequency. The measured UWB carrier frequency range is 7 ~ 8 GHz and the pulse width is tunable from 1 to 2 ns. The measured energy efficiency per pulse is 2.1 % and the power consumption is 0.6 mW at 10 Mbps without the buffer amplifier. The chip core size is $0.72mm^2$.

A Study on the High Performance Active Clamp ZVS Flyback Converter for RF Generator (RF 발생기용 고성능 능동 클램프 ZVS 플라이백 컨버터에 관한 연구)

  • Lee W.S.;Kim J.H.;Won C.Y.;Choi D.K.;Choi S.D.;KIM S.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2001.07a
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    • pp.534-537
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    • 2001
  • This paper deals with the active clamp ZVS flyback converter for RF generator. The proposed converter has the characteristics of the low switching noise and high efficient regarding conventional flyback converter. To verify validity of the proposed converter, the 100kHz, 48V, 300W converter are simulation and experimental result. This converter will be apply to the discharge drive circuit for PDP(Plasma Display Panel) TV.

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Design of a Software-Based GPS RF Simulator

  • Noh, Jae Hee;Jo, Gwang Hee;Bu, Sung Chun;Ko, Yo Han;Park, Chansik;Lee, Sang Jeong
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, a low-cost, flexible GPS simulator based on USRP is designed as a general-purpose software wireless front-end. The simulator consists of a software GPS signal generator and a USRP-based RF transmitter. The simulator supports various scenarios including specified reception time, quantization bit level, I/Q data types, IF frequency, sampling frequency, SNR, ionospheric delay and user dynamics. The generated GPS RF signal is verified using the spectrum analyzer and off-the-shelf GNSS receivers such as U-blox M8T. The experimental results shows that the difference between generated and real live signal is ignorable. It is expected that designed GPS simulator can be used to GNSS signal design, receiver design and signal processing algorithms such as anti-jamming.

A Study on the Implementation of Digital Radio Frequency Memory (디지털 고주파 메모리 구현에 관한 연구)

  • You, Byung-Sek;Kim, Young-Kil
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.14 no.9
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    • pp.2164-2170
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    • 2010
  • Digital Radio Frequency Memory, ( as DRFM ), is a device with the ability to restore output to the input RF signal in the required time after storing the incoming RF signals. Therefore DRFM is widely used in Jammer, EW Simulator, Target Echo Generator, and so on. This paper proposes its hardware implementation composed with the high frequency part and the digital processing part consisting of RF input/output module and local oscillator module. It is also proposed the replicated signal generation method which is consisted of the Analog-Digital conversion in the form of pulsed RF signal quantization, and FPGA to save and produce the playback signal, and RF signals to produce a Digital-Analog Conversion in the digital processing unit. This proposed scheme applied to test board and confirmed the validity of the proposed scheme through the test results obtained by the simulated input signals.

Development of Frequency Discriminated Simulative Target Generator Based on DRFM for Radar System Performance Evaluation

  • Chung, Myung-Soo;Kim, Woo-Sung;Bae, Chang-Ok;Kang, Seung-Min;Park, Dong-Chul
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.213-219
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    • 2011
  • Simulative target generators are needed for testing and calibrating various radar systems. The generator in this study discriminates the transmitting frequency from a radar and simulates parameters like target range, range rate, and atmospheric attenuation using the digital RF memory technique. The simulative target echo is then sent to the radar for testing and evaluation. This paper proposes a novel architecture for controlling the digital RF memory so it continually writes ADC data to the memory and reads it for the DAC with increasing one step address in order to control the delay of target range in a simple way. The target echo is programmed according to various preprogrammed scenarios and is generated in real time using a wireless local area network (LAN). To analyze the detected and generated target information easily, the system times for the radar and simulative target generator are synchronized using a global positioning system (GPS).

Implementation of Chaotic UWB Systems for Low Rate WPAN

  • Lee, Cheol-Hyo;Kim, Jae-Young;Kim, Young-Kkwan;Choi, Sun-Kyu;Jang, Ui-Gi
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.339-342
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    • 2005
  • In order to support ultrawide-band signal generation for low rate WPAN, several types of signal generation mechanisms are suggested such as Chaos, Impluse, and Chirp signals by the activity of IEEE 802.15.4a. The communication system applied chaos theory may have ultrawide-band characteristics with spread spectrum and immunity from multipath effect. In order to use the advantage of chaotic signal generation, we introduce the system implementation of communication and networking systems with the chaos UWB signal. This system may be composed of mainly three parts in hardware architecture : RF transmission with chaotic signal generation, signal receiver using amplifiers and filters, and 8051 & FPGA unit. The most difficult part is to implement the chaotic signal generator and build transceiver with it. The implementation of the system is devidced into two parts i.e. RF blocks and digital blocks with amplifiers, filters, ADC, 8051 processor, and FPGA. In this paper, we introduce the system block diagram for chaotic communications. Mainly the RF block is important for the system to have good performance based on the chaotic signal generator. And the main control board functions for controlling RF blocks, processing Tx and Rx data, and networking in MAC layer.

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