• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.39-46
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• 2012

Electrical impedance tomography(EIT) can produce functional images with conductivity distributions associated with physiological events such as cardiac and respiratory cycles. EIT has been proposed as a clinical imaging tool for the detection of stroke and breast cancer, pulmonary function monitoring, cardiac imaging and other clinical applications. However EIT still suffers from technical challenges such as the electrode interface, hardware limitations, lack of animal or human trials, and interpretation of conductivity variations in reconstructed images. We improved the KHU Mark2 EIT system by introducing an EIT electrode interface consisting of nano-web fabric electrodes and by adding a synchronized biosignal measurement system for gated conductivity imaging. ECG and respiration signals are collected to analyze the relationship between the changes in conductivity images and cardiac activity or respiration. The biosignal measurement system provides a trigger to the EIT system to commence imaging and the EIT system produces an output trigger. This EIT acquisition time trigger signal will also allow us to operate the EIT system synchronously with other clinical devices. This type of biosignal gated conductivity imaging enables capture of fast cardiac events and may also improve images and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by using signal averaging methods at the same point in cardiac or respiration cycles. As an example we monitored the beat by beat cardiac-related change of conductivity in the EIT images obtained at a common state over multiple respiration cycles. We showed that the gated conductivity imaging method reveals cardiac perfusion changes in the heart region of the EIT images on a canine animal model. These changes appear to have the expected timing relationship to the ECG and ventilator settings that were used to control respiration. As EIT is radiation free and displays high timing resolution its ability to reveal perfusion changes may be of use in intensive care units for continuous monitoring of cardiopulmonary function.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.17-24
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• 1972

A simply constructed and inexpensive amplifier that exhibits unusually low noise is studied. The high-performance differential amplifier combines high input impedence, adjustable gain, low in put noise and low output impedance. The amplifier is particularly useful in applications which call for large amplificaions of very low level signals.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.971-974
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• 1999

A offset compensated class A bipolar second-generation current conveyor (CCII) for high-accuracy current-mode signal processing was proposed. The CCII adopts two diode-connection transistor between voltage input and voltage output to reduce offset voltage. Experiments show that the proposed CCII has offset voltage of 0.05 ㎷, input impedance of 2 Ω and the 3-㏈ cutoff frequency of 30 MHz when used a voltage amplifier. The power dissipation is 6 ㎷.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.27 no.9
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• pp.1344-1350
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• 1990

A design method of ultra-broadband microwave amplifier is presented. A lossy network is represented as the combination of a serial impedance component and a parallel admittance component, and the realizable ranges of the gain and the reflection coefficients are derived with the components connected to the input, output or interstage network. The matching network has been designed by using the serial and parallel immittance loci which have the constant gain or reflection coefficients within the realizable ranges. Using the proposed method, deisgn examples of ultra-broadband amplifiers operating from dc to 12GHz frequency range are presented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.13-20
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• 1997

In this paper, the voltage step-up ratio, efficiency and input impedance of the PMN-PZT cert- mic transformer(PT) were investigated for the variation of resonant frequency according to lead resistance. The output voltage and voltage step-up ratio are increased with the the increase of load resistance. The efficiency of PT showed the maxinum value of 91% at R$_{L}$ of 500k$\Omega$X>

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.29 no.7
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• pp.615-618
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• 2005

A new structure of the Wilkinson power divider that can suppress multiple harmonics output is presented The power divider consists of T-type or $\pi$-type capacitive loads and shunt resistors. Experimental results show that this power divider suppresses the second and the third harmonic components to less than -38dB, while maintaining the characteristics of a conventional Wilkinson power divider, featuring an equal power split, a simultaneous impedance matching at all ports and a good isolation between output ports.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.113-119
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• 2012

This paper describes the design and control of a phase shift full bridge converter with a current doubler, which can be used for the on-board charger for the lead-acid battery of electric forklifts. Unlike the common resistance load, the battery has a large capacitance element and it absorbs the entire converter output ripple current, thereby shortening the battery life and degrading the system efficiency. In this paper a phase shift full bridge converter with a current doubler has been adopted to decrease the output ripple current and the transformer rating of the charger. The charge controller is designed by using the small signal model of the converter, taking into consideration the internal impedance of the battery. The stability and performance of the battery charger is then verified by constant current (CC) and constant voltage (CV) charge experiments using a lead-acid battery bank for an electric forklift.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.598-600
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• 2009

A highly efficient and compactly integrated balanced power amplifier (PA) for W-CDMA handset applications is presented. To overcome the size limit of a typical balanced PA, a bulky input divider is integrated into a PA MMIC, and a complex output network is replaced with simple lumped-element networks. For efficiency improvement at the low output power level, one of the two amplifiers in parallel is deactivated and the other is partially operated with corresponding load impedance optimization. The implemented PA shows excellent average current consumption of 34.5 mA in urban and 56.3 mA in suburban environments, while exhibiting very good load-insensitivity under condition of VSWR=4:1.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.20-25
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• 1982

A realization method of the microwave oscillator is proposed by the inherently stable transistor with a cavily resonator feedback loop. The real Part of the output impedance of the inherently stable bipolar transistor can be made to be negative at the resonance frequency by the high-Q cavity feedback loop, and the oscillation condition can be obtained with the matching section of the load. In this work the microwave transistor oscillator is realized with a silicon bipolar transistor HXTR 2101 and a reentrani cavity, and characteristic of the output power 10m Watts at 2.33 GHz osc. frequency can be verified experimentally.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.153-156
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• 2004

This paper presents a new circuit topology of the half-bridge resonant inverter. As the proposed half-bridge inverter can be operated in the load freewheeling modes, pulse width modulation (PWM) control method can be used for the output power control. The proposed half-bridge inverter should keep unity output displacement factor under the load-impedance varying conditions, if a new PWM control scheme based on the resonant frequency tracking algorithm is adopted. In this paper, electrical characteristics, and losses analysis of the proposed half-bridge resonant inverter are described. Simulation and experimental results of the prototype experimental setup to verify the validity of the proposed half-bridge resonant inverter are presented and discussed.