• Advances in nano research
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.23-56
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• 2014

The significant growth of the Si photovoltaic industry has been so far limited due to the high cost of the Si photovoltaic system. In this regard, the most expensive factors are the intrinsic cost of silicon material and the Si solar cell fabrication processes. Conventional Si solar cells have p-n junctions inside for an efficient extraction of light-generated charge carriers. However, the p-n junction is normally formed through very expensive processes requiring very high temperature (${\sim}1000^{\circ}C$). Therefore, several systems are currently under study to form heterojunctions at low temperatures. Among them, carbon nanotube (CNT)/Si hybrid solar cells are very promising, with power conversion efficiency up to 15%. In these cells, the p-type Si layer is replaced by a semitransparent CNT film deposited at room temperature on the n-doped Si wafer, thus giving rise to an overall reduction of the total Si thickness and to the fabrication of a device with cheaper methods at low temperatures. In particular, the CNT film coating the Si wafer acts as a conductive electrode for charge carrier collection and establishes a built-in voltage for separating photocarriers. Moreover, due to the CNT film optical semitransparency, most of the incoming light is absorbed in Si; thus the efficiency of the CNT/Si device is in principle comparable to that of a conventional Si one. In this paper an overview of several factors at the basis of this device operation and of the suggested improvements to its architecture is given. In addition, still open physical/technological issues are also addressed.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.152-158
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• 1994

메탄가스를 반응가스로 하여 플라즈마 화학증착법으로 Diamondlike Carbon(DLC)박막 제작시 박막의 광학적 특성에 미치는 수소가스의 영향을 조사하였다. 수소가스를 보조가스로 사용하는 경우는 불활성가스인 아르곤이나 헬륭의 경우와는 달리 인가전력의 변화에 따라 수소가스의 역할이 다르게 나타났다. Optical band gap의 변화와 FT-IR 분석결과로부터 수소가스에 의한 C-H 결합의 화학적인 에칭과 스퍼터링 및 수소의 박막 내로의 주입 가능성을 예측하고 이를 아르곤과 헬륨을 보조가스로 사용한 경우와 비교하여 그 타당성을 확인하였다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권11호
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• pp.3123-3127
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• 2010

A highly sensitive electrochemical detection method for dopamine (DA) has been developed by relying on a multiwalled carbon nanotube (CNT)-sol-gel titania-Nafion composite film modified glassy carbon (GC) electrode. The CNT-titania-Nafion/GC electrode exhibited excellent electrocatalytic activity towards DA. Therefore, the CNT-titania-Nafion/GC electrode showed improved voltammetric and amperometric responses for DA compared to those obtained with both titania-Nafion/GC and Nafion/GC electrodes. The CNT-titania-Nafion/GC electrode gave a linear response ($R^2$ = 0.999) for DA from $0.5\;{\mu}M$ to 0.5 mM with a detection limit (S/N = 3) of $0.1\;{\mu}M$ and a good sensitivity of 150 mA/M while other electrodes such as CNT-Nafion/GC, titania-Nafion/GC, and a bare GC gave a sensitivity of 89, 39, and 36 mA/M, respectively. Besides, the CNT-titania-Nafion/GC electrode displayed very fast response time within 2 s. The modified electrode showed good selectivity against ascorbic acid. The modified electrode showed good stability and reproducibility. The CNT-titania-Nafion/GC electrode was applied to the determination of DA in urine and serum samples.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.133-141
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• 1995

The deposition characteristics of diamond films were investigated for three different substrates : Si, Inconel 600 and steel. Diamond films were prepared by microwave plasma CVD method using $CH_4$, $H_2$ and $O_2$ as reaction gases. The deposited films were analyzed with SEM, Raman spectroscopy and ellipsometer. For Si substrate, diamond films were successfully obtained for most of the deposition conditions used in this study. As the $CH_4$ flow rate decreased and the $O_2$ flow rate increased, the quality of the film was improved due to the reduced non-diamond phase in the film. For Inconel 600 substrate, the surface pretreatment with diamond powders was required to deposit a continuous diamond film. The films deposited at temperatures of $600^{\circ}C$ and $700^{\circ}C$ had mainly diamond phase, but they were peeled off locally due to the difference in the thermal expansion coefficient between the substrate and the deposited films. The films deposited at $500^{\circ}C$ and $850^{\circ}C$ had only the graphitic carbon phase. For steel substrate, all of the films deposited had only the graphitie carbon phase. We speculated that the formation of diamond nuclei on the steel substrate was inhibited due to the diffusion of carbon atoms into the steel substrate which has a large amount of carbon solubility.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제42회 동계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.530-530
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• 2012

Many practical applications of carbon nanotubes(CNTs) have been proposed and there have been attempts to utilize CNT films as transparent electrodes for solar cells and displays. Our group has considered the use of the CNT film as a thin film heater (TFH) and proposed it for the first time and reported the thermal behavior of the TFH made of single walled CNTs. However, due to the relatively high electrical resistance of the CNT film, using the TFH in application areas requiring high heat flux has been a difficult problem. To overcome this obstacle, we adopted a 'branch electrodes' concept to increase the film conductance dramatically. If two branch electrodes are inserted into a TFH whose original electrical resistance is R, the total resistance will be reduced to R/9. Because of the increased aspect ratio, the resistance of each segmented TFH will be reduced to R/3. Furthermore, since they are connected in parallel, the total resistance reduces to R/9. This could be extended to n branch electrodes, and the total resistance of the film will be reduced to R/(n+1)2, if the resistance of electrodes are negligibly small. We fabricated the heaters with different number of branch electrodes. The number of branch electrodes of the fabricated heaters are 0, 2, 4, 8 and their electrical resistance are 101.4, 39.5, 20.0, $15.4{\Omega}$, respectively. We applied 20V to each heater and monitored the temperature variations. We could achieve high heating temperature even with low voltage supply. This technique could be applied to relevant industrial applications which need high power film heater.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권7호
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• pp.2345-2351
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• 2012

Conductive honeycomb-patterned polystyrene (PS) thin films were prepared by the formation of a polyaniline (PANI) thin layer on the surface of the patterned PS thin films using simple one-step chemical oxidative polymerization of aniline. The in situ chemical oxidation polymerization of aniline hydrochloride solution on the patterned structure of the PS films was conducted in the presence of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) to prepare the PANI-MWCNT/PS composite film. The concentration (wt %) of MWCNT was varied in the range of 1%-3% by weight. The dependence of surface morphology of the PANI/PS and PANI-MWCNT/PS composite film to the polymerization time was observed by scanning electron microscopy. The room temperature DC conductivity was obtained by the four-probe technique. The conductivity of the PANI-MWCNT/PS composite film was affected both by the MWCNT concentration and polymerization time. In addition, DC electrical field was loaded during the oxidative polymerization to affect the distribution of the MWCNT included in the composite film, varying the loading voltage in the range of 0.1-3.0 V. The conductivity of the PANI-MWCNT/PS composite film was increased as loading voltage rose. However, this increase stops at a voltage higher than the critical value.

• 분석과학
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.347-352
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 유리질 탄소 전극 표면에 혼성원자가를 가지는 무기 금속 고분자 막을 도포한 변형전극을 제조하고, 이들 변형전극의 전기화학적인 특성을 순환 전압 전류법으로 조사하였다. 그리고 이들 변형전극들을 작업전극으로 하여 메탄올과 L-ascorbic acid의 양극산화 거동을 조사하였다. Mixed valence rethenium oxo/cyanoruthenate(mv Ru-O/CN-Ru) 막, mv ruthenium oxo/cyanoferrate(mv Ru-O/$Fe(CN)_6$) 막, 및 mv ruthenium oxo/cyanoruthenate/Rhodium(mv Ru-O/CN-Ru/Rh) 막을 각각 도포하는 과정은 지정된 전위범위를 50 mV/sec의 주사속도로 전위를 걸어줌으로써 쉽게 도포할 수 있었으며, 동일한 과정을 반복 주사함으로써 막의 두께를 조절 하였다. 메탄올의 양극 산화거동을 조사한 결과는 다음과 같았다. mv Ru-O/CN-Ru 변형전극에서 메탄올의 검정곡선은 농도 기울기가 $-7.552{\mu}A/mM$로서 10 mM에서 80 mM 까지의 농도범위에서 비교적 좋은 감도를 보였다. mv Ru-O/$Fe(CN)_6$ 변형 전극의 경우에 농도 기울기는 $-5.13{\mu}A/mM$ 이었지만, 농도에 대한 전류관계의 직선 범위는 10 mM에서 100 mM까지로서 Ru 고분자 막 변형전극보다 더 넓은 범위에서 좋은 직선관계를 보였다. mv Ru-O/CN-Ru 막을 두 종류의 바탕전극에 각각 도포한 변형전극에 대하여 L-ascorbic acid의 양극 산화거동을 조사한 결과, 유리질 탄소 전극에 Ru 고분자 막을 입힌 변형전극이 Rh 막을 도포한 유리질 탄소전극에 Ru 고분자 막을 입힌 변형전극(mv Ru-O/CN-Ru/Rh)에서 보다 감도가 예민하였다. Ru 고분자 막 변형전극을 사용했을 경우에 검정곡선은 0.1 mM에서 5 mM 까지의 L-ascorbic acid 농도 범위에서 직선관계를 보였고, 기울기와 상관계수는 각각 $-84.78{\mu}A/mM$, 0.998이었다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.417-417
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• 2009

Although a transparent conductive film (TCF) belongs to essential supporting materials for many device applications such as touch screens, flat panel displays, and sensors, a conventional transparent conductive material, indium-tin oxide (ITO), suffers from considerable drawback because the price of indium has soared since 2001. Despite a recent falloff, a demand of ITO is expected to increase sharply in the future due to the trend of flat panel display technologies toward flexible, paper-like features. There have been recently extensive studies to replace ITO with new materials, in particular, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) since CNTs possess excellent properties such as flexibility, electrical conductivity, optical transparency, mechanical strength, etc., which are prerequisite to TCFs. This study fabricated TCFs with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) produced by arc discharge. The SWCNTs were dispersed in water with a surfactant of sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (NaDDBS) under sonication. Carbon black and fullerene nanoparticles were added to the SWCNT-dispersed solution to enhance contact resistance between CNTs. TCFs were manufactured by a filtration and transfer method. TCFs added with carbon black and fullerene nanoparticles were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), UV-vis spectroscopy (optical transmittance), and four-point probe measurement (sheet resistance).

• 한국식품저장유통학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식품저장유통학회 1999년도 임시총회 및 제14차 학술발표회 진행표 및 발표논문 초록집
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• pp.11-22
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• 1999

The functional packaging film, that keeps the freshness of the fresh produce, has composed of the ferro fluid particles, chitin and chitosan. The film exhibited selectivity in permeability for carbon dioxide and ethylene gases. Antagonistic effect of the film for Fusarium, Botrysphania, Altanaria and E. coli was excellent. The film kept the favorable taste of Kimchi and Korean strawberry well.

• 태양에너지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2000

Global wanning induced by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is a serious problem for mankind. Carbon dioxide ocean disposal is one of the promising options to reduce carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere because the ocean has vast capacity for carbon dioxide sequestration. However, the dissolution rate of liquid carbon dioxide in seawater must be known in advance in order to estimate the amount of carbon dioxide sequestration in the ocean. Therefore, the solubility, the surface concentration, the droplet size and other factors of liquid carbon dioxide at various depths are calculated. The results show that liquid carbon dioxide changes to carbon dioxide bubble around 500 m in depth, and the droplet is completely dissolved below 500 m in depth if carbon dioxide droplet is released both at 1000 m in depth with the initial droplet diameter of 0.011 m or less and at 1500 m in depth with the diameter of 0.015 m or less. In addition, the hydrate film acts as a resistant layer for the dissolution of liquid carbon dioxide. The surface concentration of carbon dioxide droplet with the hydrate film is about 50% at 1500 m in depth and about 60% at 1000 m in depth of the carbon dioxide solubility. Also, the ambient carbon dioxide concentration in the plume is an another crucial parameter for complete dissolution at the intermediate ocean depth, and the injection of liquid carbon dioxide from a moving ship is more effective than that from a fixed pipeline.