• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.97-103
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• 2017

Thermal imaging is mainly used in military equipment required for night observation. In particular, technologies of uncooled thermal imaging detectors are being developed as applied to low-cost night observation system. Many system integrators require different specifications of the uncooled thermal imaging camera but their development time is short. In this approach, EOSYSTEM has developed a small size, TEC-less uncooled thermal imaging camera module with $32{\times}32mm$ size and low power consumption. Both domestic detector and import detector are applied to the EOSYSTEM's thermal imaging camera module. The camera module contains efficient infrared image processing algorithms including : Temperature compensation non-uniformity correction, Bad/Dead pixel replacement, Column noise removal, Contrast/Edge enhancement algorithms providing stable and low residual non-uniformity infrared image.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.11 no.3 s.32
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• pp.71-76
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• 2004

The power consumption of TEC for Laser diode cooling was predicted by 3-D FEM simulation and verified by experiment. The operating conditions such as power consumption of Laser diode, set temperature, ambient temperature, resistance of thermal path was considered to estimate the TEC power consumption. Using 3-D FEM simulation, the relation between TEC configuration defined by the pellet dimension and the number and power consumption was investigated for low power consumption scheme. As a result, as the thermal resistance of the pellet increased, the power consumption decreased.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07d
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• pp.1566-1569
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• 1997

In this paper, we developed newer cooling system which has better efficiency and make smaller pollution than older cooling system compressor type by using TEC Module. And then we investigated application of Peltier Effect cooling technology applied to the cold water dispenser.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.471-474
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 열전소자(TEC모듈)를 이용한 에어컨의 개발에 대하여 검토한다. 사용한 TEC모듈의 개수와 TEC모듈의 발열부를 냉각하는 FAN냉각방식과 분사냉각방식에 따른 냉각능력을 평가하였다. 분사냉각방식의 경우에는 기존의 에어컨과 동등한 수준의 냉각능력을 갖는다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 급속냉각은 어렵지만 약 1시간 후부터는 충분히 사용 가능하며, 열전소자 한 개당 약 1평을 냉각할 수 있으며, 기존에어컨의 가격에 비해 약 50∼70%정도로 충분한 가격 경쟁력이 있다. 빙축열 방식 등을 적용하면, peak 쳐t등의 효용성으로 상품화 가능성이 매우 크다고 판단된다.

• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.55-59
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• 2021

A thermoelectric cooler (TEC) is promising as an alternative refrigeration technology for the sake of its inherent advantages; no-moving parts and refrigerant-free in its operation. Due to the compactness, reliability and excellence in temperature stability, TECs have been widely used for small cooling devices. In recent years, thermoelectric devices have been attractive technologies that not only serve the needs of cooling and heating applications but also meet the demand for energy by recycling waste heat. In this research paper, multistage TEC is proposed as a concept of demonstrating the idea of transient cooling technology. The key idea of transient cooling is to harnesses the thermal mass installed at the interfacial level of the stages. By storing heat temporally at the thermal mass, the multistage TEC can readily reach lower temperatures than that by a steady-state operation. The multistage TEC consists of four different sizes of thermoelectric modules and they are operated with an optimized current. Once the cold-part of the uppermost stage is reached at the no-load temperature, the current is successively supplied to the lower stages with a certain time interval; 25, 50 and 75 seconds. The results show the temperatures that can be ultimately reached at the cold-side of the lowermost stage are 197, 182 and 237 K, respectively. It can be concluded that the timing or total amount of the current fed to each thermoelectric module is the key parameter to determine the no-load temperature.

• Proceedings of the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.38-38
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07d
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• pp.1552-1554
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• 1998

TEC(Thermoelectric conversion) is direct conversion method between thermal energy and electric energy. We studied on the mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of thermoelectric module, made experimental thermoelectric generator with BiTe material and manufactured module tester for electric-thermal energy conversion.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07d
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• pp.1446-1448
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• 1997

TEC(Thermoelectric conversion) is direct conversion method between thermal energy and electric energy. We studied on the mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of thermoelectric module and made experimental thermoelectric generator with BiTe material.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.53-66
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• 2000

We developed low light CCD imaging system using thermoelectric cooling method collaboration with a company to design a commercial model. It consists of Kodak KAF-0401E(768$\times$512 pixels) CCD chip, thermoelectric module manufactured by Thermotek. This TEC system can reach an operative temperature of $-25^{\circ}C$. We employed an Uniblitz VS25s shutter and it has capability a minimum exposure time 80ms. The system components are an interface card using a Korea Astronomy Observatory (hereafter KAO) ISA bus controller, image acquisition with AD9816 chip, that is 12bit video processor. The performance test with this imaging system showed good operation within the initial specification of our design. It shows a dark current less than 0.4e-/pixel/sec at a temperature of $-10^{\circ}C$, a linearity 99.9$\pm$0.1%, gain 4.24e-/adu, and system noise is 25.3e-(rms). For low temperature CCD operation, we designed a TEC, which uses a one-stage peltier module and forced air heat exchanger. This TEC imaging system enables accurate photometry($\pm$0.01mag) even though the CCD is not at 'conventional' cryogenic temperatures(140k). The system can be a useful instrument for any other imaging applications. Finally, with this system, we obtained several images of astronomical objects for system performance tests.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.215-218
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• 2005

This paper reports the current status of development of the Korean speech recognition platform (ECHOS). We implement new modules including ETSI feature extraction, backward search with trigram, and utterance verification. The ETSI feature extraction module is implemented by converting the public software to an object-oriented program. We show that trigram language modeling in the backward search pass reduces the word error rate from 23.5% to 22% on a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition task. We confirm the utterance verification module by examining word graphs with confidence score.