• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.294-298
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• 2008

The ionic polymer-metal composite actuators with selectively grown multiple electrodes were developed to mimic the swimming locomotion of a fish. The developed method is based on combining electroplating with the electroless chemical reduction using the patterned mask. The advantages of this fabrication method are that the initial compositing between the polymer and platinum particles can be assured by the chemical reduction method, and the thickness of each electrode can be controlled easily and rapidly by electroplating. By using the fabricated actuator with a multiple degree of freedom, the oscillatory wave of the flexible membrane actuator was generated and a twisting motion was also realized to verify the possibility of mimicking the fish-like locomotion. The frequency response function was analyzed to investigate the natural frequency and the damping factor by a mechanical shaker and direct electrical excitation through the swept-sine method. Present results show that this novel method can be a promising technique to easily pattern each of multiple electrodes and to implement the biomimetic motion of the polymer actuators with good mechanical bending performance.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.37-46
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 압전 세라믹인 PZT를 이용하여 두께 진동모드의 다중모드 필터를 설계, 제작하였다. 다중모드 세라믹필터의 등가회로를 설계하였고, 이를 이용하여 설계변수 인 물성변수와 형상변수에 따른 필터전달특성의 경향을 분석하였다. 이를 바탕으로 10.7MHz의 중심주파수를 가지는 세라믹필터를 제작하였고, 설계변수 중에서 압전세라믹 기 판과 전극형상의 변화에 따른 필터의 전달특성의 변화를 실험적으로 검증하였다. 본 연구를 통한 경향분석결과는 다양한 진동모드와 다양한 주파수대를 가지는 다중모드 필터를 설계하 는데 있어서 유용한 도구로 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.718-721
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• 2007

The ionic-polymer-metal-composite actuators have the best merit for bio-mimetic locomotion because of their large bending performance. Especially, they have the advantage for mimicking a fish-like motion because IPMCs are useful to be actuated in water. So we have developed IPMC actuators with multiple electrodes for realization of biomimetic motion. This actuator is fabricated by combining electroless plating and electroplating techniques capable of patterning precisely and controlling a thickness of Pt electrode layer. The FRF analysis was conducted by a mechanical shaker and direct electrical excitation which is based on sweep sine wave function. From this result, the proper young‘s modulus of Platinum was investigated and applied on expecting the vibration characteristics of patterned IPMC actuator. The calculated maximum displacement of the patterned IPMC was 2.32mm under an applied 4mN/mm. The natural frequency was increased however displacement was decreased in according to increase a thickness of Pt.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.122-129
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• 1995

질소 기체의 온도변화에 따른 질소 레이저의 동작 특성을 조사하고 실험에 의해 얻은 E/P값을 이론치와 비교 연구하였다. 이를 위하여 레이저 관의 길이가 200mm이고, 다중 평행판 축전기형 전송 회로 및 질소 기체의 온도 조정 장치로 구성된 질소 레이저를 제작하였다. 반복률 20Hz에서 스파크 갭의 전극 거리 4mm일 때 최대출력을 얻었으며 최적동작 조건은 질소 기체 온도 $30^{\circ}C$, 기체 압력 70torr이었다. 이때의 E/P는 411V/cm.torr이었다. 한편 질소 기체의 온도가 증가함에 따라 최적 동작 조건은 높은 압력 쪽으로 이동하는 경향을 보였고 이때 E/P값은 감소하는 것으로 나타나 이론과 어느 정도 일치함을 알 수 있었다.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.90-94
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• 2006

An electrospinning process was used to fabricate poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) nanofibers embedding multi-walled carbon nanotubes(MWNTs). SEM images showed that the nanofiber surface and structural morphology depended on solvent types (dimethyl formamide, chlor-form and toluene) and carbon nanotube contents (0.5 and $3.0\;wt\%$). Nano-fiber alignments could be controlled by adjusting the electrodes configuration at collector sites. Relationship between carbon nanotube and PMMA nanofiber was studied with radius of gyration of polymer chain and carbon nanotube sizes. As the carbon nanotube content ratio increased, the number of bead increased.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1078-1086
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• 1996

The peroxo-polytungstic acid was formed by the direct reaction of tungsten powder with the hydrogen peroxide solution. Peroxo-polytungstic powder were prepared by rotary evaporator using the fabricated on to ITO coated glass as substrate by dip-coating method using $2g/10mL(W-IPA/H_2O)$ sol solution. A substrate was dipped into the sol solution and after a meniscus had settled, the substrate was withdrawn at a constant rate of the 3mm/sec. Thicker layer could be built up by repeated dipping/post-treatment 15 times cycles. The layers dried at the temperature of $65{\sim}70^{\circ}C$ during the withdrawn process, and then tungsten oxides thin film was formed by final heating treatment at the temperature of $230{\sim}240^{\circ}C$ for 30min. A linear rotation between the thickness of thin film and the number of dipping/post-treatment cycles for tungsten oxides thin films made by dip-coating was found. The thickness of thin film had $60{\AA}$ after one dipping. From the patterns of XRD, the structure of tungsten oxides thin film identified as amorphous one and from the photographs of SEM, the defects and the moderate cracks were observed on the tungsten oxides thin film, but the homogeneous surface of thin films were mostly appeared. The electrochemical characteristic of the $ITO/WO_3$ thin film electrode were confirmed by the cyclic voltammetry and the cathodic Tafel polaization method. The coloring bleaching processes were clearly repeated up to several hundreds cycles by multiple cyclic voltammetry, but the dissolved phenomenon of thin film revealed in $H_2SO_4$ solution was observed due to the decrease of the current densities. The diffusion coefficient was calculated from irreversible Randles-Sevick equation from the data obtained by the cyclic voltammetry with various scan rates.