• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.401-406
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• 2010

Recently, many implantable medical devices have been developed and manufactured in many countries. In these devices, generally, energy is supplied by a transcutaneous method to avoid the skin penetration due to the power wires. As the most transcutaneous power transmission methods, the electromagnetic coupling between two coils and resonance at a specific frequency has been used widely. However, in case of a transcutaneous power transmitter with a fixed switching frequency to drive an electromagnetic coil, inefficient power transmission and thermal damage by the undesirable current variation may occur, because the electromagnetic coupling state between a primary coil and a secondary coil is very sensitive to skin thickness of each applied position and by person. In order to overcome these defects, a transcutaneous power transmitter of which operating frequency can be automatically tracked into the resonance frequency at each environment has been designed and implemented. Through the results of experiments for different coil surroundings, we have been demonstrated that the implemented transcutaneous power transmitter can track automatically into a varied resonance frequency according to arbitrary skin thickness change.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2007

Generally, an electric railroad feeding system has many problems due to the different characteristics in contrast with a load of general three-phase AC electric power system. One of them is harmonics problem caused by the switching device existing in the feeding system, and moreover, the time-varying dynamic loads of rail way is inherently another cause to increase this harmonics problem. In Korea power systems, the electric railroad feeding system is directly supplied from the substation of KEPCO. Therefore, if voltages fluctuation or unbalanced voltages are created by the voltage and current distortion or voltage drop during operation, it affects directly the source of supply. The trainloads of electric railway system have non-periodic but iterative harmonic characteristics as operating condition, because the electric characteristic of the electric railroad feeding system is changed by physical conditions of the each trainload. According to the traditional study, the estimation of harmonics has been performed by deterministic way using the steady state data at the specific time. This method is easy to analyze harmonics, but it has limits in some cases which needs an assessment of dynamic load and reliability. Therefore, this paper proposes the probabilistic estimation method, moments matching method(MW) in order to overcome the drawback of deterministic method. In this paper, distributions for each harmonics are convolved to obtain the moments and cumulants of TDD(Total Demand Distortion), and this can be generalized for any number of trains. For the case study, the electric railway system of LAT(Intra Airport Transit) in Incheon International Airport is modeled using PSCAD/EMTDC dynamic simulator. The raw data of harmonics for the moments matching method is acquired from simulation of the LAT model.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.98-104
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• 2010

고주파수성분을 포함하는 뇌격전류나 또는 고장전류에 대한 접지시스템의 성능을 평가하기 위해 접지저항보다는 접지임피던스에 대한 고려가 필요하다. 접지임피던스를 평가하기 위해서는 토양의 저항률과 비유전율의 주파수의존성이 규명되어야 한다. 본 논문은 3가지 다른 토양에 대하여 수분함유량에 따른 저항률과 비유전율의 주파수의존성을 나타낸다. 결론적으로 토양의 저항률은 수분함유량이 증가함에 따라서 작아지게 되고, 1[MHz]보다 낮은 주파수에서 거의 변화하지 않으며 1[MHz]이상의 주파수에서는 감소한다. 반면에 비유전율은 1[MHz]이하의 주파수에서 매우 급격하게 감소하며, 1[MHz]이상의 주파수에서는 거의 변화하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 본 실험 결과로 부터 낙뢰 또는 개폐서지에 대한 보호를 목적으로하는 접지시스템의 설계시 토양의 저항률과 비유전율을 고려하는 것이 바람직한 것으로 밝혀졌다.

• 기술사
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.106-112
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• 1991

Electronics has different meanings to different people and in different countries. Hence, let me difine the term in the sense that it is used here. Electronics in the science and the technology of the passage of charged particles in a gas, in a vacumn, or in a semiconductor. The beginning of electronics came in 1895 when H. A. Lorentz postulated the existence of discrete charges called electrons. Two years later J.J. Thompson found these electrons experimentally. In the same year (1897) Braun built what was probaly the first electron tube, essentially a primitive cathode-ray tube. It was not until the start of the 20th century that electronics began to take technological shape. In 1904 Fleming invented the diode which he called a valve. This era begins with the invention of the transistor about 30 years ago. The history of this invention is interesting. M.J. Kelly, director of research(and later president of Bell Laboratories), had the foresight to realize that the telephone system needed electronic switching and better amplifiers. Vacuum tubes were not very reliable, principally because they generated a great deal of heat even when they were not being used, and, particularly, because filaments burned out and the tubes had to be replaced. In 1945 a solid-state physics group wa formed. The foregoing completes the history of electronics and electronic industries up to 1978. There is already a start toward a merging of the computer and the communication industries which might be called information manipulation. This includes storage of information, sorting, computation, information retrieval, and transmission of data. This combination of the computer and the communication fields will penetrate many disciplines. Applications will be made in the fields of law, medicine, biological sciences, engineering, library services publishing banking, reservation systems, management control, education, and defense.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1609-1618
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• 2015

DC microgrids are considered as prospective systems because of their easy connection of distributed energy resources (DERs) and electric vehicles (EVs), reduction of conversion loss between dc output sources and loads, lack of reactive power issues, etc. These features make them very suitable for future industrial and commercial buildings' power systems. In addition, the bipolar-type dc system structure is more popular, because it provides two voltage levels for different power converters and loads. To keep voltage balanced in such a dc system, a bidirectional dual buck-boost voltage balancer with direct coupling is introduced based on P-cell and N-cell concepts. This results in greatly enhanced system reliability thanks to no shoot-through problems and lower switching losses with the help of power MOSFETs. In order to increase system efficiency and reliability, a novel burst-mode control strategy is proposed for the dual buck-boost voltage balancer. The basic operating principle, the current relations, and a small-signal model of the voltage balancer are analyzed under the burst-mode control scheme in detail. Finally, simulation experiments are performed and a laboratory unit with a 5kW unbalanced ability is constructed to verify the viability of the bidirectional dual buck-boost voltage balancer under the proposed burst-mode control scheme in low-voltage bipolar-type dc microgrids.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2008

We studied both the wavelength and intensity dependent photo-responses (photofield-effect) in amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O (a-IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs). During the a-IGZO TFT illumination with the wavelength range from $460\sim660$ nm (visible range), the off-state drain current $(I_{DS_off})$ only slightly increased while a large increase was observed for the wavelength below 400 nm. The observed results are consistent with the optical gap of $\sim$3.05eV extracted from the absorption measurement. The a-IGZO TFT properties under monochromatic illumination ($\lambda$=420nm) with different intensity was also investigated and $I_{DS_off}$ was found to increase with the light intensity. Throughout the study, the field-effect mobility $(\mu_{eff})$ is almost unchanged. But due to photo-generated charge trapping, a negative threshold voltage $(V_{th})$ shift is observed. The mathematical analysis of the photofield-effect suggests that a highly efficient UV photocurrent conversion process in TFT off-region takes place. Finally, a-IGZO mid-gap density-of-states (DOS) was extracted and is more than an order of magnitude lower than reported value for hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H), which can explain a good switching properties observed for a-IGZO TFTs.

• 한국실천공학교육학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.93-98
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• 2012

우리나라의 청년실업률은 일반 실업률에 비해 매우 높은 수준이다. 청년실업의 경우, 경제성장의 동력이 되는 인적자본 축적을 저해한다는 점, 빠르게 비경제활동 인구화로 전환된다는 점 등 때문에 매우 심각한 문제이다. 정부는 청년실업해소를 위하여 다양한 정책을 추진하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 청년실업 대책 중에서 기업 맞춤형 직업교육의 유형에 포함되는 직장체험 프로그램, 인력채용패키지 사업, 청년취업인턴제, 그리고 정부지원 사업은 아니지만 대표적인 기업 맞춤형 교육인 계약학과 등에 대해 그 특징과 현황을 살펴보았다. 또한 기존의 기업 맞춤형 직업교육의 문제점들을 분석하고 이를 해결할 수 있는 개선모델(M-to-M)을 제시하였다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.24-29
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• 2003

현재 120kV/70A 고압 스위치가 KSTAR의 NBI 시스템에 사용되기 위하여 대전의 원자력 연구소에 설치되어 있다. NBI 시스템은 아크 발생시 이온 소스를 보호하기 위하여 전압의 빠른 차단 및 빔 전류의 유시를 위하여 전압의 빠른 턴온이 요구된다. 따라서 고압 스위치와 아크 검출회로는 NBI 시스템에서 중요한 부분을 차지하고 있다. 고압의 반도체 스위치는 NBI 시스템 뿐만 아니라 산업전반에서 요구되고 있다. NBI 시스템에 적용된 120kV/70A 고압 스위치는 100개의 MOSFET 소자를 직렬연결하였으며 본 논문에서 제안한 바이어스 전원이 없는 간단한 구동회고를 사용하였다. 실험식에서의 시험 및 현장에서 100kW의 모의 저항부하와 NBI 이온 소스에 적용한 실험결과를 제시하였다. 본 논문은 120kV/70A 고압 MOSFET 스위치와 간단한 게이트 구동회로의 설계를 제시하였으며, 제작 및 시험기간 동안의 문제점 및 해결방안에 대해서도 제시하였다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2003년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.504-508
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• 2003

New banana-shaped achiral compounds, 4-chloro-1,3-phenylene bis [4-4(3-fluoro-9-alkenyloxy) phenyl-iminomethylbenzoate]s and 4-chloro-1,3-phenylene bis [4-4-(3-fluoro-10-alkanyloxy) phenyliminomethyl benzoate]s were synthesized by varying the substituent (X=H, F, or Cl); their electrooptical properties are described. The smectic phases, including a switchable chiral smectic C ($SmC^{\ast}$) phase, were characterized by differential scanning calorimetry, polarizing optical microscopy, and triangular method. The presence of vinyl end group at the terminals of linear side wings in the banana-shaped molecules induced a decrease in melting temperature. The smectic phase having the undecenyloxy group such $as-(CH_2)_9CH=CH_2$ showed ferroelectric switching, and its value of spontaneous polarization on reversal of an applied electric field was 2250 $nC/cm^2$, while the value of spontaneous polarization of the smectic phase having the decanyloxy group such as $-(CH2)_9CH_3$ was 3700 $nC/cm^2$. We could obtain the ferroelectric phase with low isotropic temperature by varying the end group at the terminals of linear side wings in the banana-shaped achiral molecules.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.3205-3214
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• 1996

In this paper, the microstrip phased array antennas with coupling-slots for the base station of mobile communication is proposed and anlyzed with accurate analysis method which is based on both reciprocity principle and full-wave analysis. The basis functions used for the numerical analysis are determined depending upon the accuracy, convergence properties of the solution, and the computation time. The patch uses 3 EB mode and the slot uses IPWS mode. The designed phased array antenna has 8 slot-coupled microstrip patch array elements and the beam scanning capability is obtained by using the 4-bit PIN-diode phase shifters as switching devices which are consisted of the loaded line phase shifters for 30.deg. and 60.deg. and the reflection type phase shifters for 90.deg. and 180.deg. repectively. The 4-bits phase shifters which aremade by connecting each phase shifter have about 2.deg.-3.deg. phase errors and their insertion loss are about 3dB for each phase state. The fabricated 8-element phased array antenna with 4-bits phase shifters provides 12.deg.-14.deg. beamwidths depending on the scanning angle and is capable of scanning its beam to .+-.45.deg. with 9.deg. intervals, and the gain 12dBi. The overall results show that the slot-coupled phased array antenna has great advantages of wideband, high gain and reduced spurious radiation. Also, the antenna can be made small and thin. Furthermore, the scanning property of this antenna allows for its application in several areas, such as mobile communication system and PCS.