Junghwan Kook from CAMM has received an individual DFF postdoc grant for research on better performance of small Acoustic-Mechanical Devices.
The project entitled: "Systematic Design of Bandgap Microstructure for Miniaturized Acoustic-Mechanical Devices: Application to BTE Hearing Aid Design", is awarded to Junghwan as one of the five talented researchers from DTU.
With the steadily increasing demands of customers and authorities and the competitive nature of the market, researchers are faced with acoustical and vibrational challenges of small devices. However, an acoustic design is often a complex problem and there are often challanges in meeting the ever expanding and conflicting design criteria. Many design engineers and researchers have suffered from a lack of the methodology of the design and the optimization of this process. Junghwans research aims to develop computational methods and new design procedures that provide the necessary insight in the physical acoustic behavior of complex real-life systems.
The problems addressed by this project have been receiving significant attention worldwide due to the direct relation to the quality of human life (i.e. communication and hearing impairment). The technological solutions that will be investigated and developed in the project are unique, feasible, and effective in developing progressive miniaturization of AMD and at the same time avoiding the drawbacks caused by ‘miniaturization’. Thus, it is expected that the Danish research will gain further international recognition by the contribution of this work.
A total of 18 postdic grants have been awarded and you can read more about the grants here.