• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.524-528
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• 2019

Although different types of discharge cells exist, in common it is the primary goal for all discharge cells to have lower drive voltages and higher efficiency characteristics. To improve these factors, many studies are conducted that prolong the discharge path inside the discharge cell or change the composition of the working gas. In this paper, the two-dimensional fluid simulation was used to calculate the discharge voltage (firing voltage and sustain voltage) and the change in luminance and luminous efficacy according to the change in gap distance between discharge electrodes. In addition, we looked at changes in various charged particles, exciting particles and VUV particles, and studied the causes of the resulting values.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.1102-1114
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• 2002

An electret filter is composed of permanently charged electret fibers and is widely used in applications requiring high collection efficiency and low-pressure drop. In this work, the collection efficiency of the filter media used in manufacturing cabin air filters was investigated by using poly-disperse particles when submicron particles were loaded. Long-term experiments were conducted by applying two different charging states, which were spray electrification and charge equilibrium by bipolar ionization. In order to investigate the effect of particle loading in filter media, NaCl particles were generated from 0.1% and 1% solutions by an atomizer. Liquid DOS particles were used to evaluate the effect of liquid particles on the collection efficiency of an electret filter. The results show significant effect of charge amount and size distribution of loading particles on the collection performance of a filter media in submicron region. Smaller particles loaded in electret fibers cause a more rapid degradation in collection efficiency and have lower minimum efficiency with time. The pressure drop of a filter media do rarely increase when the collection efficiency decreases to the minimum value. For the larger particles charged by spray electrification, which have charge amounts more than that of Boltzmann equilibrium charge distribution, the pressure drop of a filter media slowly increases in comparison with that of equilibrium charged particles. For DOS particles it is shown that the charging level of an electret filter severely decreases and the collection efficiency is below 10% in some particle size range.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.129-139
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• 1991

The method of etching tracks in PN-3 dosimeter has been applied to tracks of recoil protons from a neutron source. Both the etch and the detection response of PN-3 has been studied as a function of etched-track diameters against various parameters. We could obtain very useful informations about charge, energy, and mass of particles and the relationship between the track etching rate and the track forming procedure in order to analyze the particle recorded in the solid state track detector. The best etching condition could be found by means of changing the etching circumstances for various energies and particles in order to detect the charged particle accurately. It could be influenced widely that the polymer plastic detector could develep the detecting technique for the low energy level neutron and could be used as a neutron dosimeter in the radiation field such as the nuclear power station, the medical institute and the nondtructive testing institute.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.30 no.2 s.245
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• pp.186-192
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• 2006

We applied a new charging system using the condensation and evaporation method to charge the submicron particles with a uniform charging performance. The monodispersed NaCl submicron particles were condensed by n-butanol vapor and grew up to micron droplets with a same size, regardless of their initial size. Those condensed droplets were charged in an indirect corona charger. The indirect corona charger consisted of the ion generation zone and the particle charging zone. In the ion generation zone, Ions were generated by corona discharge and some of them moved into the particle charging zone by a carrier gas and mixed with the condensed droplet. And finally, the charged and condensed droplets dried through an evaporator to shrink to their original size. The average charge and penetration rate of the particles before and after evaporation were measured by CPC and aerosol electrometer and compared with those of a conventional corona charger. The results showed that the average charge was $5\~7$ charges and the penetration rate was over $90\%$, regardless of the initial particle size.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.501-509
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• 2004

Unipolar diffusion charging of non-spherical particles was investigated for various particle shapes. We researched with TiO$_2$agglomerates produced by the thermal decomposition of titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) vapor. TTIP was converted into TiO$_2$, in the furnace reactor and was subsequently introduced into the sintering furnace. Increasing the temperature in the sintering furnace, aggregates were restructured into higher fractal dimensions. The aggregates were classified according to their mobility using a differential mobility analyzer. The projection area and the mass fractal dimension of particles were measured with an image processing technique performed by using transmission electron microscope (TEM) photograph. The selected aggregates were charged by the indirect photoelectric-charger and the average number of charges per particle was measured by an aerosol electrometer and a condensation particle counter. For the particles of same mobility diameter, our results showed that the particle charge quantity decreases as the sintering temperature increases. This result is understandable because particles with lower fractal dimension have larger capacitance and geometric surface area.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1713-1717
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• 2008

We have developed a nanoparticle focusing mask which can generate particle arrays directly on the large area with high resolution. Using this mask, nanomaterials are precisely deposited onto desired positions on a substrate surface. We obtained various sizes of arrays ranging from 80 nm to 6 ${\mu}m$ with silver and copper nanoparticles that are generated by a spark discharge and an evaporation-condensation method. The feather size is much smaller than that of mask openings due to the focusing effects, like electrostatic lens, caused by charge or electric potential on insulator mask surface, which also prevent a mask clogging. The particle array size depends on the size of mask open patterns and focusing effects near the mask relate to ion flow rate and electric potential. We have demonstrated that diverse size of arrays with high resolution could be obtained repeatedly using the same sized mask in atmosphere.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.413-414
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• 2001

실내공간에 존재하는 먼지입자를 제거하는데 적용되는 대표적인 방법들로는 섬유상 필터를 이용한 먼지입자 여과 기술과 전기집진기를 이용한 여과 기술이 있다. 섬유상 필터를 이용한 여과 기술은 입자의 관성충돌(inertial impaction), 차단(interception) 및 확산(diffusion) 메카니즘을 이용한 기술로써, 입자포집 효율이 아주 우수한 반면 압력손실이 큰 단점이 있다. 이러한 단점을 개선하기 위하여 개발된 필터로써 정전부착(electrostatic deposition) 메카니즘을 이용한 정전여과필터(electret filter)라고 것이 있는데, 이것은 섬유 자체에 정전 하전을 주입시킨 특수한 필터이다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06d
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• pp.605-611
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• 2001

A numerical technique for simulating the aggregation of charged particles was presented with a Brownian dynamic simulation in the free molecular regime. The Langevin equation was used for tracking each particle making up an aggregate. A periodic boundary condition was used for calculation of the aggregation process in each cell with 500 primary particles of 16 nm in diameter. We considered the thermal force and the electrostatic force for the calculation of the particle motion. The morphological shape of aggregates was described in terms of the fractal dimension. The fractal dimension for the uncharged aggregate was $D_{f}=1.761$. The fractal dimension changed slightly for the various amounts of bipolar charge. However, in case of unipolar charge, the fractal dimension decreased from 1.641 to 1.537 with the increase of the average number of charges on the particles from 0.2 to 0.3 in initial states.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.210-216
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• 1995

최근에 연구되고 있는 저온, 저압 플라즈마를 이용한 식각기술 중 차세대 반도체 metallization 공정에 응용될 수 있는 가장 적합한 기술이라 사료되는 유도 결합형 플라즈마(Inductively Coupled Plasma : ICP)를 이용한 RF 스퍼터 식각 반응로를 제작하고 이에 대한 특성을 조사하였다. 유도용 주파수로서 13.56 MHz를 사용하였으며 유도결합을 일으키기 위해 3.5회의 나선형 평판형 코일을 사용함으로써 비교적 대면적에 균일한 고밀도 플라즈마를 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 기판에 독립적인 13.56MHz RF power를 가해 DC 바이어스를 인가함으로써 기판으로 입사하는 하전입자들의 에너지를 조절하여 기판에의 손상을 최소화하며 SiO2의 스퍼터 식각 속도를 극대화할 수 있었다. 따라서 이러한 특성을 갖는 유도 결합형 플라즈마 식각장치를 차세대 반도체의 RF스퍼터 식각 공정에 응용할 수 있으리라 사료된다.

• The Optical Journal
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• s.140
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• pp.47-53
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• 2012

초고출력 레이저와 비선형광학에 대한 고찰이다. 초단펄스를 발생하는 광 스위치의 역사, 비선형광학결정에 의한 파라메트릭증폭, 하전입자를 가속하는 상대론광학, 레이저확대법칙의 역사적 전환, 초고출력 레이저에 의한 고에너지물리학 등에 대해서 기술하고 있다. 이것들을 통해 보면 광 강도가 강하게 됨에 따라 최초는 선형응답에서 시작하는 상호작용에서 비선형효과가 발생하고, 그리고 비선형광학이 발전하면 오히려 비선형광학에서 만들어지는 선형상호작용, 예를 들면 상대론광학과 초상대론광학 등에 의해 종래, 비선형에서 소프트한 상태 중에 질서 된 관계가 만들어지듯이 선형${\rightarrow}$비선형${\rightarrow}$선형${\rightarrow}$비선형${\rightarrow}$선형을 반복하는 것을 알 수 있다. 본고는 전기통신대학 레이저신세대연구센터 우에다 켄이치 연구원이 월간 광기술 컨텍트 2012년 5월에 기고한 내용으로서 그린광학의 유정훈 팀장이 번역에 도움을 주었다.