• Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2016

Nanoplasmonics is a developing field that offers attractive optical, electrical, and thermal properties for a wide range of potential applications. Based on the compelling characteristics of this field, researchers have shed light on the possibilities of integrated photonics and biosensing platforms using nanoplasmonic principles. Single and unique nanostructures with plasmons can act as individual transducers that convert desired information into measurable and readable signals. In this review, we will discuss nanoplasmonic sensors, especially those in relation to photodetectors for future optical interconnects, and bioinformation sensing platforms based on nanoplasmonics, thus providing a viable approach by which to create sensors corresponding to target applications. In addition, we also discuss scalable fabrication processes for the creation of unconventional nanoplasmonic devices, which will enable next-generation plasmonic devices for wearable, flexible, and biocompatible systems.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 8th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.387-396
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• 2020

Wearable biosensors have the potential to non-invasively and continuously monitor seniors' stress in their daily interaction with the urban environment, thereby enabling to address the stress and ultimately advance their outdoor mobility. However, current wearable biosensor-based stress detection methods have several drawbacks in field application due to their dependence on batch-learning algorithms. First, these methods train a single classifier, which might not account for multiple subjects' different physiological reactivity to stress. Second, they require a great deal of computational power to store and reuse all previous data for updating the signle classifier. To address this issue, we tested the feasibility of online multi-task learning (OMTL) algorithms to identify multiple seniors' stress from electrodermal activity (EDA) collected by a wristband-type biosensor in a daily trip setting. As a result, OMTL algorithms showed the higher test accuracy (75.7%, 76.2%, and 71.2%) than a batch-learning algorithm (64.8%). This finding demonstrates that the OMTL algorithms can strengthen the field applicability of the wearable biosensor-based stress detection, thereby contributing to better understanding the seniors' stress in the urban environment and ultimately advancing their mobility.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.115-116
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• 2012

The demand for flexible electronic systems such as wearable computers, E-paper, and flexible displays has increased due to their advantages of excellent portability, conformal contact with curved surfaces, light weight, and human friendly interfaces over present rigid electronic systems. This seminar introduces three recent progresses that can extend the application of high performance flexible inorganic electronics. The first part of this seminar will introduce a RRAM with a one transistor-one memristor (1T-1M) arrays on flexible substrates. Flexible memory is an essential part of electronics for data processing, storage, and radio frequency (RF) communication and thus a key element to realize such flexible electronic systems. Although several emerging memory technologies, including resistive switching memory, have been proposed, the cell-to-cell interference issue has to be overcome for flexible and high performance nonvolatile memory applications. The cell-to-cell interference between neighbouring memory cells occurs due to leakage current paths through adjacent low resistance state cells and induces not only unnecessary power consumption but also a misreading problem, a fatal obstacle in memory operation. To fabricate a fully functional flexible memory and prevent these unwanted effects, we integrated high performance flexible single crystal silicon transistors with an amorphous titanium oxide (a-TiO2) based memristor to control the logic state of memory. The $8{\times}8$ NOR type 1T-1M RRAM demonstrated the first random access memory operation on flexible substrates by controlling each memory unit cell independently. The second part of the seminar will discuss the flexible GaN LED on LCP substrates for implantable biosensor. Inorganic III-V light emitting diodes (LEDs) have superior characteristics, such as long-term stability, high efficiency, and strong brightness compared to conventional incandescent lamps and OLED. However, due to the brittle property of bulk inorganic semiconductor materials, III-V LED limits its applications in the field of high performance flexible electronics. This seminar introduces the first flexible and implantable GaN LED on plastic substrates that is transferred from bulk GaN on Si substrates. The superb properties of the flexible GaN thin film in terms of its wide band gap and high efficiency enable the dramatic extension of not only consumer electronic applications but also the biosensing scale. The flexible white LEDs are demonstrated for the feasibility of using a white light source for future flexible BLU devices. Finally a water-resist and a biocompatible PTFE-coated flexible LED biosensor can detect PSA at a detection limit of 1 ng/mL. These results show that the nitride-based flexible LED can be used as the future flexible display technology and a type of implantable LED biosensor for a therapy tool. The final part of this seminar will introduce a highly efficient and printable BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator on plastic substrates. Energy harvesting technologies converting external biomechanical energy sources (such as heart beat, blood flow, muscle stretching and animal movements) into electrical energy is recently a highly demanding issue in the materials science community. Herein, we describe procedure suitable for generating and printing a lead-free microstructured BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator on plastic substrates to overcome limitations appeared in conventional flexible ferroelectric devices. Flexible BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator was fabricated and the piezoelectric properties and mechanically stability of ferroelectric devices were characterized. From the results, we demonstrate the highly efficient and stable performance of BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2018

생체정보 컴퓨팅은 생체신호 센서와 컴퓨터 정보처리를 융합한 정보시스템에 기초하여 컴퓨팅시스템 뿐만 아니라 빅데이터 시스템에 크게 영향을 미치고 있다. 이러한 생체정보는 지금까지의 텍스트, 이미지, 동영상 등의 전통적인 데이터 형식과는 달리 생체신호의 의미를 부여하는 값은 텍스트 기반으로 표현되고, 중요한 이벤트 순간은 이미지 형식으로 저장하며, 시계열 분석을 통한 데이터 변화 예측 및 분석을 위해서는 동영상 형식 등 비정형데이터를 포함하는 복합적인 데이터 형식을 구성한다. 이러한 복합적인 데이터 구성은 개별 생체정보 응용서비스에서 요구하는 데이터의 특징에 따라 텍스트, 이미지, 영상 형식 등으로 각각 분리되어 요청되거나, 상황에 따라 복잡 데이터 형식을 동시에 요구할 수 있다. 기존 생체정보 컴퓨팅 시스템들은 전통적인 컴퓨팅 구성요소, 컴퓨팅 구조, 데이터 처리 방법 등에 의존하므로 데이터 처리성능, 전송능력, 저장효율성, 시스템안전성 등의 측면에서 많은 비효율성을 내포하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 생체정보 처리 컴퓨팅을 효과적으로 지원하는 생체정보 빅데이터 플랫폼을 구축하기 위해 개선된 바이오센싱 융합 빅데이터 컴퓨팅 아키텍처를 제안한다. 제안 아키텍처는 생체신호관련 데이터의 저장 및 전송 효율성, 컴퓨팅 성능, 시스템 안정성 등을 효과적으로 지원하며, 향후 생체정보 컴퓨팅에 최적화된 시스템 구현 및 생체정보 서비스 구축을 위한 기반을 제공할 수 있다.