• Korean Membrane Journal
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.43-53
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• 2003

The selectivity of a gas in the carbon molecular sieve membrane (CMSM) can be expressed as the ratio of the product of the diffusivity and the solubility of two different gases. The diffusivity is also expressed as the product of the entropy and the total energy (kinetic and potential energy) in the nano-sized pore of the membrane. The present study calculates the entropic-energy and selectivity of penetrant gases such as H$_2$, O$_2$, N$_2$, and CO$_2$ from the gas-in-a box theory to physically analyze the diffusivity of penetrant gas in slit-shaped pore of CMSM focusing on the restriction of gas motion based on the size difference between penetrant gas pairs. The contribution of each energy term is converted to entropic term separately. By the conjugated calculation for each entropic-energy, the entropic effects on diffusivity-selectivity for gas pairs such as H$_2$/N$_2$, CO$_2$/N$_2$, and O$_2$/N$_2$ were analyzed within active pore of CMSM. In the activated diffusion domain, the calculated value of entropic-selectivity lies between 9.25 and 111.6 for H$_2$/N$_2$, between 3.36 and 6.0 for CO$_2$/N$_2$, and between 1.25 and 16.94 for O$_2$/N$_2$, respectively. The size decrement of active pore in CMSM had the direct effect on the reduction of translational entropic-energy and the contribution of vibrational entropic-energy for N$_2$, O$_2$, and H$_2$ was almost negligible. However, the vibrational entropic term of CO$_2$ might extravagantly affect on the entropic-selectivity.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.1040-1048
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• 2020

In this study, in order to improve the implantable bone conduction transducer of the prototype proposed by Shin et al., the effect of the element parameters of the transducer on the frequency characteristics was analyzed using electromagnetic and mechanical vibration analysis. Electromagnetic analysis was performed on the size of the permanent magnet and the distance between the metal plate and the coil to derive an optimal structure that generates the maximum Lorentz force. In addition, mechanical vibration analysis was performed on the cantilever structure of the vibrational membrane in order to minimize the distortion of the transducer and to have a frequency characteristic suitable for conductive hearing loss compensation. The frequency characteristics of the transducer of the optimal structure derived through finite element method were compared with the simulation results of the previous transducer. As a result, the output magnitude (displacement) of the transducer designed with the optimal structure generated an average 8.8 times higher than the previous transducer, and the resonance frequency was generated at 0.9 kHz.

• 멤브레인
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.53-60
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• 2023

기계적 에너지는 생물학 및 환경 시스템에서 트라이보 전기 나노제너레이터(TENG)로 얻을 수 있다. 웨어러블 전자제품에서 TENG는 진동 센서에 적용된 인간의 움직임에서 생체역학적 에너지를 수확할 수 있다는 점에서 많은 의미를 지닌다. 웨어러블 TENG은 습기에 취약하며, 폴리테트라플루오로에틸렌(PTFE)은 이러한 용도에 사용되는 우수한 소수성 물질이다. 높은 전기 음성 불소 원자의 존재는 매우 낮은 표면 에너지로 이어진다. 동시에 미세다공막 표면에 전자를 효율적으로 포획함으로써 소자의 성능이 증가한다. PTFE에 비해 상대적으로 적은 플루오라이드 원자의 존재로 인해 폴리비닐리덴 플루오라이드(PVDF)에서도 유사한 거동을 보인다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.923-929
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• 2019

In this paper, biomimetic based physical ear model proposed for measuring the characteristics of a hybrid-acoustic sensor for fully implantable middle-ear hearing aid. The proposed physical ear model consists of the external ear, middle-ear, and cochlea. The physical ear model was implemented based on the anatomical structure and CT images of the human ear. To confirm the characteristics of the ear model, the vibrational characteristics of the stapes was measured after applying sound pressure to the tympanic membrane. The measured results were compared with the vibrational characteristics of the human temporal bone specified by ASTM F2504-05. Through the comparison results, the feasibility of the proposed ear model was confirmed. Then, after attaching the hybrid-acoustic sensor to the ear model, the output characteristics of the ECM and acceleration sensor were measured according to the sound pressure. The measured results were compared with previous studies using human temporal bone, and the usefulness of the proposed physical ear model was verified through the analysis results.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.183-187
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• 2018

In this paper, we investigated the efficiency according to the output transmission method of the round window driving type AMEIs (active middle ear implants) through the cadaveric experiment. For the experiment, we fabricated DRT (direct rod transducer) and FMT (floating mass transducer) type vibrational transducers based on our previous studies and conducted their output characteristics were measured. TCBT (tri-coil bellows transducer) and DFMT (differential floating mass transducer) were implemented with the same driving force and electrical characteristics as one of DRT and FMT, respectively. In the experiment using three human temporal bone, normal stapes vibration was measured with 1 Pa in front of tympanic membrane, and then was compared with each output of transducers. From the comparison, the DRT type vibration transducer was superior in overall energy transfer efficiency, especially in the low frequency range. There was no difference in implantation difficulty between the two transducers. The results of this study suggest that the DRT type vibrational transducer is more efficient and needs further study to overcome the low frequency degradation in round window approaching with FMT.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.808-813
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• 2015

해수 중에 보론은 주로 붕산(boric acid, $B(OH)_3$)으로 존재하며 그 크기가 역삼투압(RO, reverse osmosis) 공정의 막의 공칭공경(nominal pore size)만큼 작아 이를 제거하기가 쉽지 않다. 이에 본 연구에서는 수용액 중 보론 화합물의 크기를 역삼투압 공정에서 제거가 용이하도록 키우기 위한 방법으로 $B(OH)_3$가 폴리올과 착화합물을 형성하는 원리를 이용하고자하며 착화합물의 형성 여부를 라만 분광학 연구를 통해 확인하고자 하였다. 먼저 $B(OH)_3$와 붕산염(borate ion, ${B(OH)_4}^-$) 이온의 대칭(symmetric) B-O 신축운동 모드(stretching vibrational mode)의 진동수를 확인하기 위하여 pH를 증가시키며 라만 스펙트럼을 측정한 결과 $877cm^{-1}$에서 $730cm^{-1}$으로 피크의 이동이 관찰되었다. 이는 수용액 중의 $B(OH)_3$가 pH가 증가하면서 ${B(OH)_4}^-$로 전환됨을 나타내고 이러한 피크의 이동은 진동수 계산(frequency calculation)에 의한 예측과 정확하게 일치하였다. 반면 $B(OH)_3$ 수용액에 폴리올을 첨가한 경우 pH가 증가하여도 ${B(OH)_4}^-$의 특성 진동수인 $730cm^{-1}$가 나타나지 않았으며 이는 $B(OH)_3$가 ${B(OH)_4}^-$로 전환되는 것이 아니라 폴리올과 착화합물을 형성함을 간접적으로 보여주고 있다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제30권8호
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• pp.790-796
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• 2013

Micro-speaker diaphragms play an important role in generating a desired audio response. The diaphragm is generally a circular membrane, and the cross section is a double dome, with an inner dome and an outer dome. To improve the sound quality of the speaker, a number of corrugations may be included in the outer dome region. In this study, the role of these corrugations is investigated using two kinds of finite element method (FEM) calculations. Structural FEM modeling was carried out to investigate the change in stiffness of the diaphragm when the corrugations were included. Modal FEM modeling was then carried out to compare the natural frequencies and the resulting vibrational modes of the plain and corrugated diaphragms. The effects of the corrugations on the vibration characteristics of the diaphragm are discussed.

• 센서학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.449-455
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• 2010

Implantable middle ear hearing devices(IMEHDs) have being actively studied to overcome the problems of conventional hearing aids. Vibration transducer, an output devices of IMEHDs, is attached on the ossicular chain and transmits mechanical vibration to cochlea. This approach allows us to hear more clear sound because mechanical vibration is effective to transfer high frequency acoustics, but occurs some problems such as fatigue accumulation to ossicular chian and reduction of vibration displacement caused by mass loading effect. Recently, many studies for the round window stimulation are announced, because it does not cause such problems. It have been studied by older transducers designed for attaching on ossicular chain. In this paper, we proposed a new electromagnetic transducer which consists of two magnets, three coils and a vibration membrane. The magnet assembly, magnet coupled in opposite direction, were placed in the center of three coils, and the optimum length of each coil generating maximum vibrational force was calculated by finite element analysis(FEA). The transducer was implemented as the calculated length of each coil, and measured vibration displacement. From the results, it is verified the vibration displacement can be improved by optimizing the length of coils.