• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.349-365
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• 2017

Graphene has attracted a lot of attentions due to the unique electrical and optical properties. Compared with the noble metal plasmons in the visible and near-infrared frequencies, graphene can support surface plasmons in the lower frequencies of terahertz and mid-infrared and it demonstrates an extremely large confinement at the surface because of the particular electronic band structures. Especially, the surface conductivity of graphene can be tuned by either chemical doping or electrostatic gating. These features make graphene a promising candidate for plasmonics, biosensing and transformation optics. Furthermore, the combination of graphene and metasurfaces presents a powerful tunability for exotic electromagnetic properties, where the metasurfaces with the highly-localized fields offer a platform to enhance the interaction between the incident light and graphene and facilitate a deep modulation. In this paper, we provide an overview of the key properties of graphene, such as the surface conductivity, the propagating surface plasmon polaritons, and the localized surface plasmons, and the hybrid graphene/metasurfaces, either metallic and dielectric metasurfaces, from terahertz to near-infrared frequencies. Finally, there is a discussion for the current challenges and future goals.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.119-126
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• 2023

The vibratory and rotational levels of many biological macromolecules lie in the terahertz (THz) band, which means that THz techniques can be used to identify and detect them. Moreover, since the biological activity of most biomolecules only becomes apparent in aqueous solution, we use microfluidic technology to study the biological properties of these biomolecules. THz time-domain spectroscopy was used to study the THz absorption characteristics of graphene oxide (GO) aqueous solution at different concentrations and different exposure times in fixed electric or magnetic fields. The results show that the spectral characteristics of the GO solution varied with the concentration: as the concentration increased, the THz absorption decreased. The results also show that after placing the solution in an external electric field, the absorption of THz first increased and then decreased. When the solution was placed in a magnetic field, the THz absorption increased with the increase in standing time. In this paper, these results are explained based on considerations of what is occurring at the molecular scale. The results of this study provide technical support for the further study of GO and will assist with its improved application in various fields.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.517-522
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• 2023

기존의 레이다는 RF Sub-Array 방식의 레이다 알고리즘을 적용하여 개발되어 왔고, 최근 차량용 레이다용으로 Full 디지털 방식의 Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) 레이다 알고리즘을 적용하여 구현되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 미확보 기술인 RF Sub-Array 방식의 하드웨어에 Phased MIMO 방식을 적용한 레이다 알고리즘을 실시간 가능하도록 구현 및 검증하였다. RF Sub-Array 방식의 Phased MIMO 알고리즘 기술 확보 차원에서 FPGA 기반의 실시간 신호처리를 위한 하드웨어 구조를 제시하고 이에 대한 설계 및 시뮬레이션을 통하여 성능을 먼저 예측하였으며, 이를 통하여 FPGA 기반의 광대역 MIMO FMCW 레이더의 디지털 송수신 신호처리 하드웨어를 개발하였고 최종적으로 RF Sub-Array 방식의 Phased MIMO 레이다 알고리즘을 실시간 구현 및 검증하였다. 이를 바탕으로 향후 테라헤르츠 대역 레이다 등에 필요한 핵심 기술 확보 및 응용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.59-61
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• 2015

A wideband H-band detector operating near 300 GHz has been developed based on SiGe HBT technology. The detector consists of an on-chip antenna and a HBT differential pair for square-law detection. It showed responsivity of more than 1,700 V/W and noise equivalent power (NEP) smaller than $180pW/Hz^{0.5}$ for the measured frequency range of 250-350 GHz. The maximum responsivity and the minimum NEP were 5,155 V/W and $57pW/Hz^{0.5}$, respectively; both were obtained at 330 GHz with DC power dissipation at 9.1 W.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2010년도 제39회 하계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.243-243
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• 2010

Low-temperature grown (LTG) InGaAs epilayers were grown by MBE technique for studying a correlation between terahertz (THz) emission and the intrinsic defects. The 1.2-um-thick Be-compensated LTG-InGaAs epilayers were prepared on SI-InP:Fe substrate at $200-250^{\circ}C$, and subsequently in-situ annealed under As environment at $550^{\circ}C$ for 5-30 minutes. The carrier concentration/mobility and the crystalline structure were analyzed by the Hall effect and the x-ray diffraction (XRD), respectively, and the carrier lifetime were determined by the fs time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy. THz generation from LTG-InGaAs was carried out by a Ti-sapphire laser (800 nm) of a pulse width of 190 fs at a repetition of 76 MHz. Figure shows the spectral amplitude of generated waves in the THz region. As the growth temperature of epilayer increases, the amplitude is enhanced. However, two samples grown at $200^{\circ}C$, as-grown and annealed, show almost no difference in the spectral amplitude. This suggests that the growth temperature is critical in the formation of defect states involved in THz emission. We are now investigating the correlations between the XRD band attributed to defects, the Hall parameter, and the spectral amplitude of generated THz wave.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.1042-1058
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• 2024

Terahertz (THz) communication is becoming a key technology for future 6G wireless networks because of its ultra-wide band. However, the implementation of THz communication systems confronts formidable challenges, notably beam splitting effects and high computational complexity associated with them. Our primary objective is to design a hybrid precoder that minimizes the Euclidean distance from the fully digital precoder. The analog precoding part adopts the delay-phase alternating minimization (DP-AltMin) algorithm, which divides the analog precoder into phase shifters and time delayers. This effectively addresses the beam splitting effects within THz communication by incorporating time delays. The traditional digital precoding solution, however, needs matrix inversion in THz massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, resulting in significant computational complexity and complicating the design of the analog precoder. To address this issue, we exploit the characteristics of THz massive MIMO communication systems and construct the digital precoder as a product of scale factors and semi-unitary matrices. We utilize Schatten norm and Hölder's inequality to create semi-unitary matrices after initializing the scale factors depending on the power allocation. Finally, the analog precoder and digital precoder are alternately optimized to obtain the ultimate hybrid precoding scheme. Extensive numerical simulations have demonstrated that our proposed algorithm outperforms existing methods in mitigating the beam splitting issue, improving system performance, and exhibiting lower complexity. Furthermore, our approach exhibits a more favorable alignment with practical application requirements, underlying its practicality and efficiency.

• 한국분말야금학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국분말야금학회 2006년도 Extended Abstracts of 2006 POWDER METALLURGY World Congress Part2
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• pp.910-911
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• 2006

We newly designed and manufactured a new arranging system for a three-dimensional artificial crystal of monosized micro particles. In this system, a robotic micro-manipulator accurately locates the spherical particle onto the lattice point, and subsequently fiber lasers micro-weld the contact points between the neighboring particles. Actually, one- and two-dimensional arrays were constructed using monosized tin particles with the diameter of 400 m. Moreover, due to optimization of the process parameters, we successfully constructed the artificial crystals of simple cubic and diamond structures. In particular, the diamond structure which can represent a large photonic band gap is expected to progress toward a practical photonic crystal device.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.28-41
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• 2019

Future mobile services will require data transmission rates of 100 Gbps or higher due to the universalization of virtual and augmented reality devices. Therefore, THz technology, which uses an ultrahigh frequency band of 200 GHz or higher, is expected to be a candidate for such high-quality services. This article describes the current status of THz radio propagation characteristics, device and system developments, and network requirements to identify the overall trends in THz wireless communication technology.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.49-53
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• 2017

THz 대역 전파흡수체를 구현하기 위해 split cut wire(SCW)와 배면 도체로 구성되는 단위 셀 구조를 제안하였다. 배면이 금속으로 단락된 유전체 기판 상에 SCW가 배열된 메타소재에서 SCW의 길이와 폭을 조절하여 THz 대역에서 완전 전파흡수체(5.5~6.0 THz에서 반사손실 -20 dB 이하)의 구현이 가능하였고, 인덕턴스-커패시턴스 (L-C) 공진기 회로이론으로 이를 설명하였다. 길이가 서로 다른 두 개의 SCW를 하나의 단위 셀 안에 같이 배치함으로써 두 개의 흡수 피크를 얻을 수 있었다. SCW 간의 간격이 넓어짐에 따라 두 번째 공진주파수는 거의 변화가 없지만 첫 번째 공진주파수는 저주파로 이동하면서 반사손실 값이 현저히 감소하는 경향이 나타났다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.407-410
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• 2018

일반적으로 전자파의 동작 주파수가 높아짐에 따라 최대 출력이 작아지고, 파동의 파장도 작아지기 때문에, 회로의 크기도 작아질 수밖에 없다. 특히, kW급 이상의 고출력 테라헤르츠파 주파수 대역의 회로를 제작하려면, ${\mu}m{\sim}mm$ 규모의 회로 크기 문제 때문에 제작에 한계점이 있다. 이러한 한계점을 극복하기 위해 본 논문에서는 회로의 지름이 2.4 cm 정도의 원통형으로, 0.1 THz~0.3 GW급의 발생원 설계 기술을 제안한다. 판드로모티브 힘이 생기는 플라즈마 항적장 가속원리와 인위적인 유전체 활용한 체렌코프방사 발생 기술 기반의 고출력 전자파 발생원의 최적화된 설계를 위해 모델링 및 전산모사를 수행하였다. 객관적인 검증 과정을 통해 회로의 크기에 제한을 덜 받도록 하는 대구경 형태의 고출력 테라헤르츠파 진공소자 제작이 용이하도록 효과적인 설계의 가이드라인을 제시하였다.