• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.4891-4895
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• 2010

RF coil is an important component of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system and the performance of RF coil is one of major factors for high SNR images. Sensitivity and RF field uniformity are parameters for evaluating RF coil performance. Since the B1 field is induced by RF coil, MR signal is strongly affected by RF coil structure and arrangement. In receiving MR signal, the RF coil sensitivity to MR Signal is also determined by the induced B1 field of RF coil. Therefore, the spatial distribution of B1 field must be verified. In this work, we performed computer simulation of the basic RF coil structures using Matlab and verified their sensitivity and uniformity through their B1 field distribution. This work will be useful for the advanced multi-channel RF coil design.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.573-578
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• 2004

EED consists of bridgewire, explosive charge, lead pins and metal case. If a firing signal is injected to EED， the explosive charge in EED is initiated by heating of bridgewire. Electromagnetic waves radiated from high power transmitters or radars can also cause unexpected firing of EED. Therefore, EMC design and test requirements for EED in military specifications are established and applied. This report describes the characteristics of RF sensitivity fur a firing fuse which is used fur EMC test instead of a real EED installed in aircraft. RF firing level of the fuse was predicted using transmission line(TL) theory. n sensitivity and RF sensitivity specified in military specifications were measured.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.153-158
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to improve the technique so as to develop an advanced sensitive RF surface coil for investigating the sensitivities of the multi-spiral surface coils, and we eventually wanted to achieve high resolution of the microscopic MR images and MR spectra. The magnetic field inhomogeneity and shape of a surface coil were statistically estimated by simulation of the magnetic field distribution. On the basis of the experimental results with single, 3 and S-turned spiral RF surface coils, we found that the 3-turned coil had the highest sensitivity. The present study showed that the sensitivity of the RF surface coil was improved by increasing the number of spiral coil turns, and also the SNR of the RF surface coil was dependent upon the number of spiral coil turns. However, we found, rather strikingly, that the sensitivity of excessive turns of the coils was decreased due to the rise of the coil's Impedance. Thus, the present results demonstrated that the sensitivity was not proportional to the number of a spiral RF coil's turns, and the number of spiral coil turns should be optimized for obtaining the highest sensitivity and SNR.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.613-616
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• 2002

This paper has been studied an improvement of receive sensitivity for RF module of Industrial Scientific Medical(ISM) Band. In the paper, Also this paper handles receive sensitivity progress of RF module in ISM band. how to improve receive sensitivity adds to Surface Acoustic Wave(SAW) filter, Low Noise Filter(LNA), etc and insulates receiver and transmitter. And then the circuit is inspected by the effective range test of receiver and transmitter. And this Paper was designed that micro-controler controls the part of RF by software.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.145-154
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• 1997

The $H_2$ and $H_2S$ sensing characteristics of Pd and Pd-Rh gate MOS sensor and the effect of Pd deposition condition on the hydrogen sensing performance of Pd gate MOS sensor was investigated. The increase of rf power and deposition temperature led to the decrease in the sensitivity and the initial response rate. The deposition temperature gave more effects on the decrease of the sensitivity and the initial response rate than the rf power. The sensitivity of Pd-Rh sensor gave better performance than pure Pd sensor. As the concentration of Rh in the gate increased, the sensitivity decreased. For Pd-Rh sensor, the sensitivity to $H_2$ was higher than that to $H_2S$. It was demonstrated that rf power, deposition temperature had an important role in the sensor performance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.927-934
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• 1999

A measuring system was integrated for the testing of live EED with continuous wave RF stimulus at low frequency range(1~250 MHz) and pulsed RF stimulus at high frequency range(8~10 GHz). The test system, set-up method and test procedure for the RF sensitivity of EED are described in this paper. The Bruceton method is applied to obtain distribution statistics such as mean firing level, standard deviation of the distribution and confidence levels for various applied firing signals.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.1093-1102
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• 2010

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-known method for dimension reduction while maintaining most of the variation in data. Although PCA has been applied to many areas successfully, it is sensitive to outliers. Several variants of PCA have been proposed to resolve the problem and, among the variants, robust fuzzy PCA (RF-PCA) demonstrated promising results. RF-PCA uses fuzzy memberships to reduce the noise sensitivity. However, there are also problems in RF-PCA and the convergence property is one of them. RF-PCA uses two different objective functions to update memberships and principal components, which is the main reason of the lack of convergence property. The difference between two functions also slows the convergence and deteriorates the solutions of RF-PCA. In this paper, a variant of RF-PCA, called RF-PCA2, is proposed. RF-PCA2 uses an integrated objective function both for memberships and principal components. By using alternating optimization, RF-PCA2 is guaranteed to converge on a local optimum. Furthermore, RF-PCA2 converges faster than RF-PCA and the solutions found are more similar to the desired solutions than those of RF-PCA. Experimental results also support this.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.10
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• pp.979-986
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• 2013

In this paper, a TVS diode which is commonly used as a ESD protector in wireless communication devices could cause antenna wireless sensitivity to decrease has been analyzed. When a smartphone doesn't have enough space to place many components, there would be its speaker near antenna area. In order to protect ESD coming through the speaker there also could be a TVS within antenna GND area. Digital audio signal which was sent to speaker and CDMA RF communication signal coupled from antenna was mixed by TVS. And this leakage current running through TVS resulted in decrease of antenna wireless sensitivity. The results of various experiments can be explained using circuit simulation. Following works will give us some insights that can reduce unwanted summation of digital and RF signal due to nonlinearity of ESD protectors.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.08c
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• pp.776-779
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• 2004

A RF front-end module is designed for GIS(Gas Insulated Substation) which is employed for effective and efficient very high voltage transmission. Major advantage of the unit is improved PO detection sensitivity through minimizing the effect of surrounding interference signals, which is achieved by controlling the gain and the selection of the frequency band, for the precise detection of any UHF PO (Partial Discharge) disturbance occurred in the GIS due to some unwanted problems. For the development of the module, various switches for providing selected signal paths, wideband LNA, 3 BPF for selecting detection frequency band, and video detector are designed, fabricated and measured on 1 mm FR4 substrate with various RF components. The detection sensitivity of the unit was <-60 dBm that is sufficient to detect UHF PO signals as low as 1 pC. It is believed that the value is enough to detect the signal occurred in GIS.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.817-820
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• 1999

In this paper, we describes RF receiver module for IMT-2000 handset with 5MHz channel bandwidth. The fabricated RF receiver module consists of Low Noise Amplifier-, RF SAW filter, Down-converter, IF SAW filter, AGC and PLL Synthesizer. The NF and IIP3 of LNA is 0.8㏈, 3㏈m at 2.14㎓, conversion gain of downconverter is l0㏈, dynamic range of AGC is 80㏈, and phase noise of PLL is -100 ㏈m, at 100KHz. The receiver sensitivity is -110㏈m, adjacent channel selectivity is -48㏈m.