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Gas Sensing Characteristics and Doping Effect of $MoO_3$ Thin Films prepared by RF magnetron sputtering (RF magnetron sputtering법으로 제조한 $MoO_3$ 박막의 가스 감지 특성 및 첨가물의 영향)

  • Hwang, Jong-Taek;Jang, Gun-Eik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.460-463
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    • 2002
  • $MoO_3$ thin films were deposited on electrode and heater screen-printed alumina substrates in $O_2$ atmosphere by RF reactive sputtering using Molybdenum metal target. The deposition was performed at $300^{\circ}C$ with 350W of a forward power in an $Ar-O_2$ atmosphere. The working pressure was maintained at $3{\times}10^{-2}mtorr$ and all deposited films were annealed at $500^{\circ}C$ for 5hours. To investigate gas sensing characteristics of the addition doped $MoO_3$ thin film, Co, Ni and Pt were used as adding dopants. The sensing properties were investigated in tenn of gas concentration under exposure of reducing gases such as $H_2$, $NH_3$ and CO at optimum working temperature. Co-doped $MoO_3$ thin film shows the maximum 46.8% of sensitivity in $NH_3$ and Ni-doped $MoO_3$ thin film exhibits 49.7% of sensitivity in $H_2$.

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A Non-linear Variant of Improved Robust Fuzzy PCA (잡음 민감성이 향상된 주성분 분석 기법의 비선형 변형)

  • Heo, Gyeong-Yong;Seo, Jin-Seok;Lee, Im-Geun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.15-22
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    • 2011
  • Principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-known method for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction while maintaining most of the variation in data. Although PCA has been applied in many areas successfully, it is sensitive to outliers and only valid for Gaussian distributions. Several variants of PCA have been proposed to resolve noise sensitivity and, among the variants, improved robust fuzzy PCA (RF-PCA2) demonstrated promising results. RF-PCA, however, is still a linear algorithm that cannot accommodate non-Gaussian distributions. In this paper, a non-linear algorithm that combines RF-PCA2 and kernel PCA (K-PCA), called improved robust kernel fuzzy PCA (RKF-PCA2), is introduced. The kernel methods make it to accommodate non-Gaussian distributions. RKF-PCA2 inherits noise robustness from RF-PCA2 and non-linearity from K-PCA. RKF-PCA2 outperforms previous methods in handling non-Gaussian distributions in a noise robust way. Experimental results also support this.

A Non-coherent IR-UWB RF Transceiver for WBAN Applications in 0.18㎛ CMOS (0.18㎛ CMOS 공정을 이용한 WBAN용 비동기식 IR-UWB RF 송수신기)

  • Park, Myung Chul;Chang, Won Il;Ha, Jong Ok;Eo, Yun Seong
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.53 no.2
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    • pp.36-44
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, an Impulse Radio-Ultra Wide band RF Transceiver for WBAN applications is implemented in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The designed RF transceiver support 3-5GHz UWB low band and employs OOK(On-Off Keying) modulation. The receiver employs non-coherent energy detection architecture to reduce complexity and power consumption. For the rejection of the undesired interferers and improvement of the receiver sensitivity, RF active notch filter is integrated. The VCO based transmitter employs the switch mechanism. As adapt the switch mechanism, power consumption and VCO leakage can be reduced. Also, the spectrum mask is always same at each center frequency. The measured sensitivity of the receiver is -84.1 dBm at 3.5 GHz with 1.579 Mbps. The power consumption of the transmitter and receiver are 0.3nJ/bit and 41 mW respectively.

A Variant of Improved Robust Fuzzy PCA (잡음 민감성이 개선된 변형 퍼지 주성분 분석 기법)

  • Kim, Seong-Hoon;Heo, Gyeong-Yong;Woo, Young-Woon
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.25-31
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    • 2011
  • Principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-known method for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction. Although PCA has been applied in many areas successfully, it is sensitive to outliers due to the use of sum-square-error. Several variants of PCA have been proposed to resolve the noise sensitivity and, among the variants, improved robust fuzzy PCA (RF-PCA2) demonstrated promising results. RF-PCA2, however, still can fall into a local optimum due to equal initial membership values for all data points. Another reason comes from the fact that RF-PCA2 is based on sum-square-error although fuzzy memberships are incorporated. In this paper, a variant of RF-PCA2 called RF-PCA3 is proposed. The proposed algorithm is based on the objective function of RF-PCA2. RF-PCA3 augments RF-PCA2 with the objective function of PCA and initial membership calculation using data distribution, which make RF-PCA3 to have more chance to converge on a better solution than that of RF-PCA2. RF-PCA3 outperforms RF-PCA2, which is demonstrated by experimental results.

A Study on Receiver Sensitivity Measurement using Pilot $E_c/I_o$ Compensation Method at CDMA Communication Network (CDMA 기지국에서 Pilot $E_c/I_o$ 보상기법을 이용한 수신감도 측정에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Ki-Hyeok;Ra, Keuk-Hwan
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.44 no.8
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2007
  • Currently, the measurement of RF parameters for a base station in operation is typically limited to easily measured forward path items. In this paper, the forward monitoring ports of base stations are used to measure the reverse RF performance. The system has been implemented and effectiveness has been proven on an operating base station. The receiver sensitivity is measured using an internal CDMA modem which is used to monitor the output power based on closed loop power control when the modem is connected to the base station via a voice call. In order to improve accuracy, in addition to the modem Tx adjust(TxAdj) parameter, the detector's actual measurement is used. For accurate receiver sensitivity, the measurement should be made when there is no traffic which is not possible on an operating base station. Therefore, pilot channel chip energy to received signal power spectral density ratio$(E_c/I_o)$ compensation method is used to offset the receiver sensitivity degradation with voice traffic increase.

The Acid Sensitivity of Gulose and Mannose in Chemically-Reduced Alginates Obtained from Pseudomonas syringae

  • Ashby, Richard D.;Day, Donal F.;Kim, Du-Woon
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.555-558
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    • 2006
  • The chemical reduction of Pseudomonas syringae subsp. phaseolicola alginates produces neutral polymers of D-mannose and L-gulose in source specific ratios. L-Gulose was highly sensitive to degradation by 1N HCl at $100^{\circ}C$. As hydrolysis time increased, gulose recovery decreased to 22% after 4 hr, whereas 98% of the D-mannose was recovered under the same conditions. Thin layer chromatography showed the formation of a second product upon L-gulose acid hydrolysis. This new product had a rate of flow (Rf) value of 0.58, identical to that of 1,6 anhydro-${\beta}$-D-mannopyranose and very close to that of 1,6 anhydro-${\beta}$-D-glucopyranose (Rf=0.60). Because of the difference in acid sensitivity between L-gulose and D-mannose, normal acid hydrolytic techniques applied to reduced alginates produces erroneous mannuronic acid (M): guluronic acid (G) ratio's unless one accounts for the differential rates of destruction of each sugar.

The Design of a Ultra-Low Power RF Wakeup Sensor for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Lee, Sang Hoon;Bae, Yong Soo;Choi, Lynn
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.201-209
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    • 2016
  • In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) duty cycling has been an imperative choice to reduce idle listening but it introduces sleep delay. Thus, the conventional WSN medium access control protocols are bound by the energy-latency tradeoff. To break through the tradeoff, we propose a radio wave sensor called radio frequency (RF) wakeup sensor that is dedicated to sense the presence of a RF signal. The distinctive feature of our design is that the RF wakeup sensor can provide the same sensitivity but with two orders of magnitude less energy than the underlying RF module. With RF wakeup sensor a sensor node no longer requires duty cycling. Instead, it can maintain a sleep state until its RF wakeup sensor detects a communication signal. According to our analysis, the response time of the RF wakeup sensor is much shorter than the minimum transmission time of a typical communication module. Therefore, we apply duty cycling to the RF wakeup sensor to further reduce the energy consumption without performance degradation. We evaluate the circuital characteristics of our RF wakeup sensor design by using Advanced Design System 2009 simulator. The results show that RF wakeup sensor allows a sensor node to completely turn off their communication module by performing the around-the-clock carrier sensing while it consumes only 0.07% energy of an idle communication module.

RF Transceiver Implementation to Evaluate the Requirements of 3G W-CDMA User Equipment (3G W-CDMA UE 요구사항 평가를 위한 RF 트랜시버 구현)

  • Il-Kyoo Lee;Seung-Hyeub Oh
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.148-156
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    • 2003
  • This paper describes the RF performance issues of UE for W-CDMA system based on 3 GPP specifications. The parameters of transmitter and receiver are derived from the viewpoint of RF performance. In order for UE to achieve high performance, the transceiver performance requirements such as ACLR, EVM, Peak Code Domain Error, spectrum emission mask, frequency error stability and TX power control dynamic range for transmitter and reference sensitivity level, blocking characteristics, noise figure, ACS, AGC dynamic range for receiver are considered. On the basis of the required parameters, the UE RF transceiver is implemented and then the evaluation of RF performance is accomplished through practical test scenarios.

Implementation of a RF Transceiver for Sensor Nodes (센서노드용 RF송수신기의 구현)

  • Kang, Sang-Gee;Choi, Heung-Taek
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.1051-1057
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    • 2009
  • USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) is used to provide many services such as bridge monitoring, cultural properties monitoring, river monitoring, protection of an old and feeble person, management and control of a city and circumstance monitoring, etc. A RF transceiver is needed for implementing USN. In this paper the implementation and the design of a RF transceiver for sensor nodes operating in 2.4GHz frequency band are presented. The design procedure of AGC, a receiver and a transmitter is described. And the performance of the implemented RF transceiver is also tested. The test results of receiver sensitivity, receiver dynamic range, frequency stability, phase noise, output power of transmitter, flatness and spectrum mask are presented.

Review on Performance Requirements, Design and Implementation of RF Transceiver for Mobile Communications

  • Lee, Il-Kyoo;Ryu, Seong-Ryeol;Oh, Seung-Hyeub;Hong, Heon-Jin
    • Information and Communications Magazine
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.76-86
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    • 2007
  • This paper describes the RF performance issues of UE RF Transceiver for W-CDMA system based on 3GPP specifications. the parameters of transmitter and receiver are derived from the viewpoint of RF performance. In order for UE to achieve high performance, the transceiver performance requirements such as ACIR, EVM, Peak Code Domain Error, spectrum emission mask, frequency error stability and TX power control dynamic range for transmitter and reference sensitivity level, blocking characteristics, noise figure, ACS, linearity, AGC dynamic range for receiver are considered. On the basis of the required parameters, the UE RF transceiver is designed and then implemented. The evaluation of RF performance is accomplished through practical test scenarios.