• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.414-418
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• 2012

The quantity of research on microbial fuel cells has been rapidly increasing. Microbial fuel cells are unique in their ability to utilize microorganisms and to generate electricity from sewage, pig excrement, and other wastewaters which include organic matter. This system can directly produce electrical energy without an inefficient energy conversion step. However, with MFCs maximum power production is limited by several factors such as activation losses, ohmic losses, and mass transfer losses in cathodes. Therefore, electron acceptors such as nitrate and ferric ion in the cathodes were utilized to improve the cathode reaction rate because the cathode reaction is very important for electricity production. When 100 mM nitrate as an electron acceptor was fed into cathodes, the current in single-cathode and dual-cathode MFCs was noted as $3.24{\pm}0.06$ mA and $4.41{\pm}0.08$ mA, respectively. These values were similar to when air-saturated water was fed into the cathodes. One hundred mM nitrate as an electron acceptor in the cathode compartments did not affect an increase in current generation. However, when ferric ion was used as an electron acceptor the current increased by $6.90{\pm}0.36$ mA and $6.67{\pm}0.33$ mA, in the single-cathode and dual-cathode microbial fuel cells, respectively. These values, in single-cathode and dual-cathode microbial fuel cells, represent an increase of 67.1% and 17.6%, respectively. Furthermore, when supplied with ferric ion without air, the current was higher than that of only air-saturated water. In this study, we attempted to reveal an inexpensive and readily available electron acceptor which can replace platinum in cathodes to improve current generation by increasing the cathode reaction rate.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.1305-1311
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• 2014

The nickel oxide, the most widely used cathode material for the molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC), has several disadvantages including NiO dissolution, poor mechanical strength, and corrosion phenomena during MCFC operation. The surface modification of NiO with lanthanum maintains the advantages, such as performance and stability, and suppresses the disadvantages of NiO cathode because the modification results in the formation of $LaNiO_3$ phase which has high conductivity, stability, and catalytic activity. As a result, La-modified NiO cathode shows low NiO dissolution, high degree of lithiation, and mechanical strength, and high cell performance and catalytic activity in comparison with the pristine NiO. These enhanced physico-chemical and electrochemical properties and the durability in marine environment allow MCFC to marine application as a auxiliary propulsion system.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.851-854
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• 2004

By approaching the counter electrode to the CNT emitter, remarkable reduction of the cathode operating voltage has been accomplished in the under-gate CNT cathode structure. The peak emission current density of 2.5 ms/$cm^2$, which is sufficient for high brightness CNT field emission display, was obtained at the cathode-to-gate voltage of 57 V when the CNT-to-counter electrode gap was 2.2 ${\mu}m$. The gate current was less than 10 % of the anode current. The CNT cathode with low driving voltage can help the cost-effective field emission display implemented.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.542-545
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• 2008

Experiments have been performed to investigate effects of pulsating cathode flow on a 10-cell proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) stack. For all the experiments, the flow rate, temperature and relative humidity of hydrogen at the anode inlet are fixed. The effects of the pulsating frequency, amplitude and flow rate at the cathode inlet on performance of 10-cell PEMFC are examined. The polarization and power curves show that the power output and limiting current is substantially increased when the pulsating component is added to cathode flow channel. The maximum power output increases by up to 38% and enhancement of the overall performance is more pronounced at lower flow rate region.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.1
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• pp.78-81
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• 2008

A hollow cathode which has extremely stable discharge characteristic has been developed. This is composed of the two separated lanthanum hexaboride(LaB6) of a disk type in the tube as the electron emitters. The way of design is of great advantage to extend the surface discharge area of the LaB6, which is also useful for optimal fixing of the LaB6. The hollow cathode is capable of producing 30 kW(100 V, 300 A) of power continuously. Because the generated plasma beam with the high temperature(above $3000^{\circ}C$) from the hollow cathode passes through the center hole of the two intermediate electrodes, it is designed with the high temperature material of the tungsten and the suitable structure of the water cooling. The combinations of the hollow cathode and the two intermediate electrodes are practically useful for the ion plating plasma beam source.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.15-20
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• 1997

This paper presents the experimental study of the non-contact temperature measurement for the shadow mask of cathode ray tube using InSb sensor. At present, High resolution of CRT(Cathode Ray Tube) is needed broadly; therefore, the measurement of temperature distribution of shadow mask in CRT during operation is important to analyze the thermal deformation of shadow mask. Most of the studies could not measure the temperature distribution of shadow mask precisely. We studied the temperature dis- tribution of shadow mask using InSb photo sensor for 17" cathode ray tube (CRT). Experiments using ther- mocouple are performed to validate the results of non-contact measurement. The results agree well with those results of non-contact method using InSb sensor.nsor.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.390-396
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• 2009

The flooding, especially in channel, is one of the critical issue to put proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) to practical use. In this paper, channel flooding was investigated the pressure difference at cathode channel outlet. A ratio of pressure difference changes to 25, 50% as its variation rate. The pressure variable rate is reflected in dimensionless number FN. As a result, modified dimensionless number $FN^*$ correctly predicted the channel flooding. This study analyzes that a variety of pressure difference is how to affect flooding at the cathode of the PEMFC.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.972-974
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• 2005

For display drivers employ typically a-Si n-channel field effect transistors, they require an inverted OLED structure with a cathode as the bottom contact. ITO is regarded as the bottom cathode and can be applied to large size AM-OLED and transparent inverted OLEDs. We report the effective structure to improve the efficiency of electron injection from ITO cathode to $Alq_3$. We report the effective structure to improve the efficiency of electron injection from ITO cathode to Alq3 and studied the current density-voltage characteristics of trilayer ($Alq_3-LiF-Al$), LiF and Mg inserted between ITO and $Alq_3$, respectively. We discovered that 1 nm Mg afforded the highest efficiency.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.1143-1147
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• 2005

In this study, we report an improved efficiency of Organic light emitting diodes(OLEDs), using $UV/O_3$ treated anode and different cathode. We investigated the efficiency of OLEDs by $UV/O_3$ treatment of ITO surface. We Performed $UV/O_3$ treatment and found that $UV/O_3$ treatment enhanced the performance of OLEDs. The fundamental structure of the OLEDs was ITO $anode/{\alpha}-NPD/Alq_3/Al$ or Li:Al cathode. The Li:Al can improve the OLEDs efficiency dramatically in cathode because it has lower work function than Al. Current-voltage, Luminance-voltage characteristics and luminance efficiency were measured at room temperature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.53-57
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• 1999

To investigate the discharge dynamics of alternating current plasma display panel (ACPDP), we measured the spatio-temporally resolved VUV and IR emission by an intensified charge coupled device (CCD). The breakdown beings around the anode inner edge and moves towards the cathode surface. As the ionization intensifies in front of the cathode surface, another emission region appears on the anode surface. While the anode side emission does not move but grows, the cathode side emission moves out and spreads over the entire cathode surface. The discharge dynamics emission by a 2 dimensional numerical simulation suggests that a cathode-directed streamer formation play an important role.