• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.278-283
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• 2013

This paper presents a design and fabrication of 0.5 V two stage operational amplifier. The proposed operational amplifier utilizes body-driven differential input stage and self-cascode current mirror structure. Cadence Virtuoso is used for layout and the layout data is verified by LVS through Mentor Calibre. The proposed two stage operational amplifier is fabricated using $0.13{\mu}m$ CMOS process and operation at 0.5 V is confirmed. Measured low frequency small signal gain of operational amplifier is 50 dB, power consumption is $29{\mu}W$ and chip area is $75{\mu}m{\times}90{\mu}m$.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.365-378
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• 2011

Piezo-based active structural health monitoring (SHM) requires amplifiers specifically designed for capacitive loads. Moreover, with the increase in number of applications of wireless SHM systems, energy efficiency and cost reduction for this type of amplifiers is becoming a requirement. General lab grade amplifiers are big and costly, and not built for outdoor environments. Although some piezoceramic power amplifiers are available in the market, none of them are specifically targeting the wireless constraints and low power requirements. In this paper, a piezoceramic transducer amplifier for wireless active SHM systems has been designed. Power requirements are met by two digital On/Off switches that set the amplifier in a standby state when not in use. It provides a stable ${\pm}180$ Volts output with a bandwidth of 7k Hz using a single 12 V battery. Additionally, both voltage and current outputs are provided for feedback control, impedance check, or actuator damage verification. Vibration control tests of an aluminum beam were conducted in the University of Houston lab, while wireless active SHM tests of a wind turbine blade were performed in the Harbin Institute of Technology wind tunnel. The results showed that the developed amplifier provided equivalent results to commercial solutions in suppressing structural vibrations, and that it allows researchers to perform active wireless SHM on moving objects with no power wires from the grid.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.5-11
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• 2008

Recently developed radars use the solid-state power amplifier to amplify the RF signal. The stability of RF signal directly depends on that of the electric power. So the stable and reliable electric power should be needed. When the electric power switch is tuned on for the first time in order to operate the radar system, the in-rush current is generated because of the capacitive characteristic. The excess in-rush current breaks the element. Therefore, the analysis about the in-rush current to design the electric power system is necessary. In this paper, modeling and simulation on the whole power system is carried out and the necessity of limiting the in-rush current is verified. After the analysis, the circuit to limit the in-rush current is designed and examined to verify the analysis. The circuit is good enough to limit the in-rush current.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제47권12호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

본 논문은 멀티레벨을 갖는 PoRAM 셀의 데이터를 센싱하는 기법에 관하여 제안하였다. PoRAM은 유기물질을 사용한 단위 셀의 상,하단 전극에 전압을 가했을 때 나타나는 저항 상태의 변화로 셀 데이터를 구분하는 메모리 소자이다. 특히 한 셀당 최대 4 레벨의 안정된 저항 값을 가지므로 멀티레벨 셀로 활용이 가능하다. 따라서 멀티레벨의 센싱을 위해 어드레스 디코딩 방법, 센스 앰플리파이어, 이를 위한 제어 신호 등을 새롭게 제안하였다. 센스 앰플리파이어는 셀에 흐르는 전류를 입력 값으로 받아 설정된 기준 전류($I_{REF}$)와 비교하는 전류 비교기를 기본으로 구성되며 전류를 증폭하기 위해 낮은 입력 임피던스를 갖도록 설계되었다. 제안된 기법에 의해 설계된 회로는 $0.13{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정 라이브러리를 사용하여 설계되었고, 이를 사용함으로써 단위 셀에 흐르는 서로 다른 4 가지 전류 값이 각각 데이터 "00", "01", "10", "11"으로 정확히 센싱 되는 것을 검증하였다.

• 전기의세계
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1965

This paper provides the analysis of the differential amplifier using the insulated gate, metala-oxide-semiconductor type field-effect-transistor(MOS FET), for its active element and the power drift of the amplifer. From these analytical considerations some design standardsn were found for the MOS FET differential amplifier available for the measurement of the very small current (pico-ampare range). A differential amplifier was designed and built in the view of above considerations. Its equivalent input gate voltages of the thermal drift and the power drift were 0.57mV/.deg. C in the range 25.deg. C-60.deg. C and 8.8mV/V in the range of 20% drift of its orginal value, respectively.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1423-1426
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• 2005

Map building is the most important thing for the mobile robots navigation. It requires specific vision system such as CCD camera, range finding system, and many other things. Laser range finder has highly collimated beams can be obtained easily, thus achieving lateral resolution. Laser Diode is used for a continuous laser source. The Automatic Current Control Circuit and the Bias-T is used for mix AC signal with DC bias. This signal is used for driving Laser Diode. The main idea of the calculating distance is detecting phase shift between reference signal and detected signal by photo detector. For the signal processing, the Lock-in amplifier system is addressed in this paper. We used a diffused reflected beam to detect phase shift in this system. But this beam is minuteness signal so it can be easily buried in nose. Lock-in amplifier is used to measure the amplitude and phase of signals which are buried in noise.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1306-1308
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• 2000

A new ZVT PFC for using 3[KW] power amplifier is proposed. Generally, the single phase diode rectifier has been widely used in the SMPS of the conventional power amplifier. But this rectifier has occurred some problems which are the input power factor and current harmonics. To solve the above problems, in this paper, two topology is adopted. The one is the boost type PFC for improving the input power factor. The other is the ZVT resonant circuit for reducing the switching loss and stress. In this paper, the proposed topology is analyze designed to built the ZVT PFC for using 3[KW] power amplifier. In order to verify the circuit va finally, the PSPICE simulation and experiment results are presented.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2007년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.271-273
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 TV나 Audio등에 사용되는 2채널 30W급 Class-D amplifier를 동부하이텍의 0.35um BD350BA 공정을 사용하여 디지털 방식의 Class-D amplifier 출력단 구동에 적합하도록 설계하였다. 출력단은 Bootstrap 전원을 사용한 N-N type의 30V LDMOS 내장형이며 각각 $250m{\Omega}$의 턴 온 저항을 갖게 설계 되었다. THD+N 특성개선을 위한 Dead time 및 Delay 조정회로를 내장하였으며 보호회로로는 Over current, Over temperature, UVLO 가 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.853-856
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• 2021

In this paper, a low noise amplifier having high gain and low noise by using input and inter stage matching circuits has been designed. A current-reused two-stage common-source topology is adopted, which can obtain high gain and low power consumption. Deterioration of noise characteristics according to the source inductive degeneration matching is compensated by adopting additional matching circuits. Moreover trade-offs among noise, gain, linearity, impedance matching, and power dissipation have been considered. In this design, 0.18-mm CMOS process is employed for the simulation. The simulated results show that the designed low noise amplifier can provide high power gain and low noise characteristics.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.683-691
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• 2023

A typical terahertz time-domain spectroscopy system requires large, expensive, and heavy hardware such as a lock-in amplifier and a function generator. In this study, we replaced the lock-in amplifier and the function generator with a single sound card built into a typical desktop computer to significantly reduce the system size, weight, and cost. The sound card serves two purposes: 1 kHz chopping signal generation and raw data acquisition. A unique software lock-in (Python coding program to eliminate noise from raw data) method was developed and successfully extracted THz time-domain signals with a signal-to-noise ratio of ~40,000 (the intensity ratio between the peak and average noise levels). The built-in sound card with the software lock-in method exhibited sufficiently good performance compared with the hardware-based method.