• Composites Research
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.9-17
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• 2009

Nanoindentation behaviours on the films of softer Ag film/harder Cu substrate structure were studied by the molecular dynamics method. As a result, it was shown that the stiffness and hardness of films were strongly dependent on the thickness of films. The stiffness and hardness increased with the thickness of film within a critical range as an inverse Hall-Petch relation. The stiffness and hardness of Cu substrate with Ag film less than 5 nm were observed to be lower than those of bulk silver. In particular, the flower-like dislocation loop was created on the interface by the interaction between dislocation pile-up and misfit dislocation during the indentation of Ag film/Cu substrate with film thickness less than 4 nm, which seemed to be associated with the drop of load in the indentation load versus displacement curve.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.29-49
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• 2009

The purpose of the present research was to examine whether the parietal pathway and the temporal pathway were responsible for the phenomena of the inhibition of return and the facilitation of return respectively and at what stage of the information processing they occurred. The response time and the ERPs(event-related potentials) were examined in the two conditions(the valid condition and the invalid condition) while subjects were doing detection task, location discrimination task, color discrimination task and orientation discrimination task in separate sessions. No significant response time difference was found between the valid and the invalid conditions when subjects did the detection task as well as the location discrimination task. However, significant response time difference was found when they did the color discrimination as well as the orientation discrimination task. Futhermore, there was a significant difference of ERP difference between the two conditions in the Pz area when subjects were doing location discrimination task and significant difference was found in the T7 area when they were doing color discrimination task and marginal difference was found in T7/T8 area when they were doing orientation discrimination task just before they responded. These results imply the possibility that both the inhibition of return and the facilitation of return occur in the parietal and in the temporal pathway respectively in the late stage of information processing.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.12
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• pp.261-269
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• 2013

In this paper, the evoked potential(EP) was represented by additive delay model to comply with the variational noisy response of stimulus-event synchronization. The hybrid method of delay compensated-Wiener filtered-ensemble averaging(DWEA) was proposed to enhance the EP signal distortion occurred during averaging procedure due to synchronization timing mismatch. The performance of DWEA has been tested by surrogated simulation, which is composed of synthesized arbitrary delay and arbitrary level of added noise. The performance of DWEA is better than those of Wiener filtered-ensemble averaging and of conventional ensemble averaging. DWEA is endurable up to added noise gain of 7 for 10 % mean square error limit. Throughout the experimentation observation, it has been demonstrated that DWEA can be applied to enhance the evoked potential having the synchronization mismatch with added noise.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.111-151
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• 2023

It is reported that binge drinkers show cognitive impairment similar to alcohol use disorder patients. A previous studies using neuropsychological tests and brain imaging techniques to investigate the visual perception of alcohol use disorder patients reported that they had global-local visual perception defects. Although the neurological basis for the global-local visual perception deficit in the heavy drinking group has been presented, there are no studies to date that have investigated the global-local visual perception in the heavy drinking group. This study investigated local-biased visual perception in female college students with binge drinking (BD) using event-related potentials (ERPs). Based on the scores of the Korean version of Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test and the Alcohol Use Questionnaire, participants were assigned into BD (n=25) and non-BD (n=25) groups. Local-global visual processing was assessed using a local-global paradigm, in which large stimuli (global level) composed of small stimuli (local level) were presented. The stimuli presented at global and local levels were either congruent or incongruent. The behavioral results exhibited that the BD and non-BD groups did not differ in terms of accuracy and response time. In terms of ERPs, the BD and non-BD groups did not show difference in N100, P150 and N200 amplitude. However, the BD group showed significantly smaller P300 amplitude than non-BD group especially in the local condition. In addition, a negative correlation between P300 amplitude and binge drinking score was observed, i.e., severer binge drinking smaller P300 amplitude. The P300 is known to reflect cognitive inhibition and attentional allocation. In the global-local paradigm, the local condition required to attend to local target while ignoring global non-target. Therefore, the present results indicate that female college students with BD do not have local-biased visual processing, instead they seem to have difficulties in inhibition of irrelevant stimuli.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.207-211
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• 1999

$Si/Si_{1-x}Ge_x$ MODFET structures, incorporating linearly-graded buffer layers have been grown by GaS Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy. The growth temperature of the graded layers has not significantly changed the distribution of misfit dislocation. However, the surface undulation and surface defects were increased with increasing growth temperature. In $Si/Si_{1-x}Ge_x$ MODFET structures, the densities of misfit dislocations near the Si-active layers were considerably reduced in comparison with the region of graded layers. The electron mobility of $Si/Si_{1-x}Ge_x$ MODFET structure has increased with lowering the growth temperature.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.9
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• pp.179-185
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• 2013

In this paper, the RTA-ERP(Response Time Aligned-Evoked Relative Potential) was modelled to analyze the effect of motor activation pattern in response to visual sensory stimuli. Simon effect was analysed using the amplitude response of RTA-ERP and measured response time. The 'odd number' experiments, which identify an odd number mixed with same numbers, was performed with 15 healthy adult participants(9 males and 6 females, whose mean age of 31) for 7 minutes for each participant. Throughout experimentation, we observed that the proposed RTA-ERP can compensate the timing variation due to different neural processing procedures in the brain, and shows enhanced LRP(Lateralized Readiness Potential) and Pe(Error Related Positivity). Regarding to 'congruence' and 'incongruence' testing patterns, the amplitude of RTA-ERP and the response time for the 'congruence' are $0.03{\mu}V$ larger, and 43 ms faster than those for the 'incongruence', respectively. The amplitude characteristics of RTA-ERP, obtained by synchronizing the onset times with respect to response time, corresponds more likely to that of P300 in the ERP pattern (the characteristics of the Simon effect).

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2015.08a
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• pp.193.1-193.1
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• 2015

실리콘 (Si) 기판 위에 고품질의 갈륨질화물 (GaN) 박막을 성장시키기 위한 노력이 계속되고 있다. 실리콘 기판은 사파이어 기판 보다 경제적인 측면에서 유리하고, 실리콘 직접화 공정에 GaN 소자를 쉽게 접목 가능하다는 장점이 있다. GaN 박막은 2차원 전자 가스형성을 통한 고속소자, 직접 천이형 밴드갭을 이용한 발광소자 및 고전압 소자로써 활용 가능한 물질이다. 종래에는 Si(100) 및 Si(111) 기판 위에 GaN 박막 성장에 대한 연구가 주로 진행되었다. 하지만 대칭성과 격자 불일치도 등 결정학적 특성을 고려할 때 Si(100) 기판 위에 고품질의 GaN 박막을 성장시키는 것은 쉽지 않다. Si(111) 기판은 실리콘 소자 직접화 공정에 적합하지 못한 단점을 가지고 있다. 반면, 최근 Si(110) 기판 위에서 비등방적 변형 제어를 통한 고품질 GaN 박막 성장이 보고 되어 실리콘 집적 소자와 결합한 고전압 소자 및 고속소자 구현에 관한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 투과전자현미경 연구를 바탕으로 Si(110) 기판 위에 성장된 GaN의 미세구조에 관한 연구를 소개한다. 열팽창계수의 차이에 의한 GaN 박막 내 결함 생성을 줄이기 위하여 AlN 완충층이 사용되었다. GaN 박막을 암모니아 ($NH_3$) 유량이 다른 조건에서 성장시킴으로써 GaN 박막 미세구조의 암모니아 유량 의존성에 관한 연구를 진행하였다. GaN 박막에서 투과전자현미경 연구와 X-ray 회절 연구를 통하여 결함 거동 및 결정성을 확인하였다. $NH_3$ 유랑이 증가함에 따라 GaN의 성장 거동이 3차원에서 2차원으로 변화됨을 관찰하였다. 또한, 전위밀도의 증가도 확인되었다. $NH_3$ 유량이 낮은 경우 GaN 전위는 AlN와 GaN 경계에 주로 위치하고 GaN 표면 근처에는 전위밀도가 감소하였으나, $NH_3$ 유량이 높을 경우 GaN 박막 표면까지 전위가 관통됨을 확인하였다.

• Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.194-201
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• 2020

Latency and amplitude are the measurement parameters of mismatch negativity (MMN). The values of the parameters vary sensitively with the stimulus paradigm. A paradigm using the frequency difference of sounds for the MMN study is well known. This study obtained the reference values of the parameters in healthy young adults by performing the MMN study using the frequency paradigm. The authors recruited ten healthy adults. Their average age was 25.5 years; three were female, and seven were male. On the auditory paradigm for the MMN study, the frequency of sound was 1000 Hz for the standard stimulus, and 1032 Hz for the deviant stimulus. The mean values of latency and amplitude of MMN were 202 ms and 1.88 ㎶ at Fz, 207 ms, and 1.46 ㎶ at Cz, 212 ms, and 1.10 ㎶ at C3, and 214 ms and 1.45 ㎶ at C4. There was no correlation between the latency and amplitude of MMN. This study presented the reference values of the latency and amplitude of the MMN using a standard paradigm that is easy to apply. This information may make the MMN useful for clinical applications and basic research.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.242-250
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• 2016

This study was conducted to investigate whether Stroop-related cognitive task will be affected according to the preceding affective valence factored by matchedness in response time(RT) and whether facial recognition will be indexed by specific event-related potentials(ERPs) signature in normal person as in patients suffering from affective disorder. ERPs primed by subliminal(30ms) facial stimuli were recorded when presented with four pairs of affect(positive or negative) and cognitive task(matched or mismatched) to get ERP effects(N2 and P300) in terms of its amplitude and peak latency variations. Behavioral response analysis based on RTs confirmed that subliminal affective stimuli primed the target processing in all affective condition except for the neutral stimulus. Additional results for the ERPs performed in the negative affect with mismatched condition reached significance of emotional-face specificity named N2 showing more amplitude and delayed peak latency compared to the positive counterpart. Furthermore the condition shows more positive amplitude and earlier peak latency of P300 effect denoting cognitive closure than the corresponding positive affect condition. These results are suggested to reflect that negative affect stimulus in subliminal level is automatically inhibited such that this effect had influence on accelerating detection of the affect and facilitating response allowing adequate reallocation of attentional resources. The functional and cognitive significance with these findings was implied in terms of subliminal effect and affect-related recognition modulating the cognitive tasks.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.914-918
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• 1997

MBS에 의해(001)GaAs기판 위에 성장된 Zn$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$Se(x=1.0, 7.4, 9.5 %)반도체 박막과 (ZnSe/FeSe)반도체 초격자 박막의 미세구조를 투과전자현미경을 이용하여 연구하였다. Zn$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$Se 박막 시편의 경우, 박막과 기판 사이의 격자 불일치때문에 a/2<110>형태의 버거즈 벡터를 가지는 부정합 전위를 관찰하였다. 모든 Zn$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$Se 박막과 기판의 계면은 뚜렷이 구별되었고, 계면에서 산화물이나 이물질이 존재하지 않았다. 또한, (ZnSe/FeSe)초격자를 성장시키기 전에 GaAs기판 위에 ZnSe바닥층을 넣음으로써 고품질의 (ZnSe/FeSe)초격자를 얻었다. (ZnSe/FeSe)초격자에 있는 FeSe는 섬아연광 결정구조로 존재하였다.