• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.24-29
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• 1996

A composite piezoelectric ceramic transducer is fabricated with three piezoelectric ceramic disk vibrators and two sheets of thin insulator. Its equivalent circuit is derived from the Mason's model of a thickness-driven piezoelectric vibrator. When the electric input near its fundamental resonance frequency is applied to the center vibrator and the output voltages across the left and the right vibrators are connected in series to the resistor loads, the load characteristics at resonance frequencies under the various resistor loads and the frequency characteristics near the resonance frequency without load are investigated. Furthermore, symbolic expressions for input impedances, voltage ratios, resonance frequencies, and bandwidths are derived. The data calculated from those symbolic expressions are agreed well with the measurement data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.218-219
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• 2005

In this paper, in order to develop Pb-free piezoelectric ceramics, $[Li_{0.04}(Na_{0.44}K_{0.52})-(Nb_{0.86}Ta_{0.10}Sb_{0.04})]O_3$ ceramic was fabricated with the variation of ZnO addition. Piezoelectric properties of the ceramic were varied with the amount of ZnO addition and showed the maximum kp value at 0.2 wt% ZnO addition. Qm of ZnO added ceramics showed lower values than the non-added ceramics, however, the kp was increased by the addition of ZnO up to 0.2 wt%. At the sintering temperature of 1110$^{\circ}C$ and the calcination temperature of 850$^{\circ}C$, the optimal values of density=473g/$cm^3$, kp=0.473, $\varepsilon_r$=1403 were obtained.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.332-336
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• 2016

In this study, in order to develop the composition ceramics for ultrasonic sensor with high $d_{33}*g_{33}$, $Pb_{1-3x/2}Bix(Mg_{1/2}W_{1/2})_{0.03}(Ni_{1/3}Nb_{2/3})_{0.09}(Zr_{0.5}Ti_{0.5})_{0.88}O_3$(PMW-PNN-PZT) system ceramics were prepared using CuO as sintering aids. And then, their microstructure, piezoelectric and dielectric characteristics were systemetically investigated with bismuth substitution. The PMW-PNN-PZT ceramic specimens could be sintered at sintering temperature of $940^{\circ}C$ by adding sintering aids. At x=0.015 specimen, the density, electromechanical coupling factor($k_p$), dielectric constant, piezoelectric constant($d_{33}$) and piezoelectric figure of merit($d_{33}*g_{33}$) indicated the optimal properties of $7.90g/cm^3$, 0.67, 2,511, 628 pC/N, and $17.7pm^2/N$, respectively, for duplex ultrasonic sensor application.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.24 no.10
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• pp.803-806
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• 2011

1 mol% $Li_2O$ excess $0.9(Na_{0.52}K_{0.48})NbO_3-0.1LiTaO_3$ lead-free piezoelectric multilayer ceramic actuators were investigated to determine their aging properties. To reduce the thermal aging behavior, we applied a rectified unipolar electric field of 5 kV/mm to the specimen to accelerate the electric aging behavior. By employing a rectified unipolar electric field for the piezoelectric actuators, we could remove undesirable heating from the relaxation current in the motion of the ferroelectric domain. To accelerate the aging test, the applied electric fields had a frequency of 900 Hz. To have enough time for charging and discharging, we employed an accurate time constant to design the equivalent circuit model for the aging tester. To extract exact aging behavior, we measured the pseudo-piezoelectric coefficient before and after the aging process. We also measured the electro-mechanical coupling coefficient, the frequency-dependent dielectric permittivity, and the impedance to compare with fresh and aged specimen.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.29 no.11
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• pp.696-701
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• 2016

In this study, to increase output of road piezoelectric energy harvester, it was made into rack type in which many piezoelectric materials can be installed and load transfer device of the leverage type to transfer vehicle load was made. By paving it in the road, the output characteristics depending on vehicle load and speed were evaluated. Changing vehicle load, harvester output characteristics depending on speed changes were evaluated at the interval of 10 km/h from 10 km/h to 100 km/h. Also, by making a wireless switch and sending wireless signal with output of rack type harvester, whether to receive it was evaluated by distance. It was checked that all switches work up to front-to-back 100 m from harvester.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.312-312
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• 2010

모터나 기계류와 같이 주변에서 발생하는 미활용 진동에너지를 전기에너지로 수확하기 위한 Piezoelectric Energy Harvester를 개발하고자 하였다. PZT-5H의 조성으로 후막세라믹 적층 구조 캔틸레버 타입의 압전시트를 통해 압전 에너지 하베스터를 제작하였다. 일반적으로 진동에너지를 수확하여 전기에너지로 변환시키는 압전 에너지 하베스팅 기술은 에너지 효율이 낮은 문제점을 가지고 있으므로 에너지 효율을 높이기 위한 방법으로 본 연구에서는 Unimorph 와 Bimorph 타입의 캔틸레버의 가로, 세로, 두께, 재료변수에 따라 발생하는 최적의 효율을 가지는 구조를 찾고자 하였다. 캔틸레버 각 변수에 따른 공진주파수 대역에서 발생하는 전압을 분석하여 50Hz의 공진주파수를 가지는 60*35*0.2mm의 캔틸레버를 설계하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 얻어진 결과를 실험적으로 검증하기 위해 전력량을 측정한 결과, Bimorph는 Unimorph 타입에 비해 2배가량의 향상된 발전특성을 가지며 에너지 하베스터에서 초당 $76.2\;{\mu}W$의 전력량을 가지는 것을 확인하였고 시뮬레이션 결과와의 타당성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.258-258
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• 2007

KNN계 세라믹스는 $400^{\circ}C$ 이상의 높은 큐리온도와 압전특성을 가져 Pb대체용 소재로 각광을 받고 있고 많은 연구들이 진행중이다. 하지만 potassium의 수분과의 반응성이 강하고 녹는점이 낮아 소결시 K2O의 휘발로 인해 화학양론적인 정확도를 맞추기가 어려운 단점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 단점을 보완하기 위하여 Hot pressing, Hot forging, SPS등 여러 가지 방법을 이용한 연구가 보고되었다. 본 연구에서는 낮은 소결밀도를 향상시키기 위하여 성형압과 성형방법을 달리하여 성형밀도에 따른 소결 밀도와 압전 특성 변화에 대하여 관찰하였다. 넓은 범위의 성형밀도를 얻기 위하여 낮은 성형압을 가할 수 있는 기계적으로 작동하는 press와 높은 성형밀도를 가할 수 있는 유압식 press를 사용하였고, 양산성을 고려하여 일반적인 세라믹 제조공정을 이용하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.198-202
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• 2001

In this study, contour vibration mode piezoelectric transformer with size of 27.5${\times}$27.5${\times}$2.6mm$^3$ using PNW-PMN-PZT ceramic was fabricated. And the piezoelectric transformer was adopted to fluorescent lamp ballast circuit. Electrical characteristics of the piezoelectric transformer were investigated for fluorescent lamp ballast application. The electrical properties and characteristic temperature rise were measured using oscilloscope and infrared temperature sensor. A 28W fluorescent lamp was successfully driven by the fabricated ballast circuit. After driving the lamp using ballast circuit for 24 min, the output power, efficiency and characteristic temperature rise of piezoelectric transformer showed the appropriate values of 28.85[W], 86.3[%] and 15[$^{\circ}C$], respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.13-22
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• 1999

Both the resonance and ultrasonic techniques are standard methods far characterizing the physical properties of piezoelectric materials. However, we found that each technique can only offer a few reliable measurements while the rest often have errors or impossible to implement because of the sample requirements. This paper show that one can use the combination of both techniques to achieve much better accuracy and be able to get the complete set of elastic, dielectric and piezoelectric coefficients using fewer samples. Using an ultrasonic spectroscopy we have also measure the dispersion of the ultrasonic velocity and the attenuation up to 65 MHz. Pb(Zr,Ti)O$_3$[PZT] ceramics were used as examples fur both studies.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.332-336
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• 2007

In this study, multilayer piezoelectric transformer was manufactured using the PMN-PNN-PZT ceramic and then the electrical characteristics were investigated according to the variations of frequency and load resistance. The voltage step-up ratio of multilayer piezoelectric transformer showed the maximum value at the vicinity of 75 kHz and increased according to the increase of load resistance. When the output impedance coincided with the load resistance, the multilayer piezoelectric transformer showed the temperature rise of less than $20^{\circ}C$ at the output power of 20 W. As the results, the multilayer piezoelectric transformer manufactured at low co-firing temperature of $940^{\circ}C$ using PMN-PNN-PZT ceramics could be stably driven as the step-down transformers.