• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.6-16
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• 2024

The efficiency of silicon solar cells is approaching a theoretical limit referred to as 'the state of the art'. Consequently, maintaining efficiency is more productive than pursuing improvements the last room for limiting efficiency. One of the primary considerations in silicon module conservation is the occurrence of failures and degradation. Degradation can be mitigated during the cell manufacturing stage, unlike physical and spontaneous failure. It is mostly because the chemical reaction is triggered by the carrier generation of thermal and light injection, an inherent aspect of the solar cell environment. Therefore, numerous researchers and cell manufacturers are engaged in implementing mitigation strategies based on the physical degradation mechanism.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.378-381
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• 2000

The optimal conditions and properties for the immobilization of marine bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa BYK-2 have been determined. For the high productioon of biosurfactant, Na-alginate, PVA, modified PVA were used as a carrier. The optimal emulsifying activity on immobilized Pseudomonas aeruginosa BYK-2 showed 1036Unit (about 2.2g/L biosurfactant) in Basal salt medium(B.S.M.) at $25^{\circ}C$, 100rpm. Ca-alginate was selected the optimal bead among PVA, modified PVA and Ca-alginate. The optimal cell load in alginate bead was 10 gCWW/100g carrier. As the results of incubation of immobilized 5g Ca-alginate bead (conditions; 3% alginate, bead diameter: 2.3mm, 10% cell load) in 50m1 production medium, The emulsifying activity of 1407Unit, about 3.0g/L biosurfactant was obtained from immobilized cell after cultivation of 92hr at $25^{\circ}C$, 100rpm.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.43.2-43.2
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• 2011

Minority Carrier recombination should be suppressed for high efficiency solar cells. However, impurities in the silicon bulk region deteriorate the minority carrier lifetimes, causes conversion efficiency drop. In this study, we introduced phosphorus external gettering for silicon heterojunction solar cell substrates. Gettering was undergone at 750, 800, 850 and $900^{\circ}C$ in furnace for 30 minutes. Bulk lifetimes and calculated diffusion length were improved. We applied phosphorus gettering to silicon heterojunction solar cells. Gettered group and ungettered group were used as substrate of silicon heterojunction solar cells. After fabrication, characteristics of solar cells were analyzed. The results were observed to see the enhancement of substrate quality which directly connects with solar cell properties.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.47-54
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• 1997

New algorithms for frequency channel assignment in small cellular mobile radio system are proposed. The algorithms are for a channel assignment method which control the transmitter power level based on the distance between the cell site and the mobile unit. These algorithms are such that any channel can be used by any cell site and mobile unit, as long as a required threshold level of carrier to interference ratio is maintained. As the cochannel reuse distance decreases, the proposed algorithms have given an increase in capacity in comparison to a fixed channel assignment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2015.08a
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• pp.227.2-227.2
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• 2015

세포를 부착하는 기술은 세포를 배양하기 위한 가장 기초적이며 중요한 기술이다. 세포 부착기술은 대상물과 세포 간의 다양한 생물학적, 물리화학적 연관 관계가 있으나 세포와 부착 대상물 간의 복잡한 상호작용 때문에 완벽히 예측하기는 어렵다. 우리는 이 연구에서 siloxane 성분을 포함하고 있는 전구체인 tetrakis(trimethylsilyloxy)silane과 hydro-carbon을 포함하고 있는 전구체인 cyclohexane을 혼합하여 플라즈마 중합 박막을 만들고 그 박막에서의 mouse embryonic fibroblast cells과 bovine aortic endothelial cell 부착의 정도를 확인하였다. 플라즈마 중합 박막을 제작하기 위해 capacitively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition system을 사용하였고 carrier gas로는 Ar을 사용하였다. Plasma RF power는 13.56MHz 70W를 사용하였다. Bubbler에서 기화된 전구체를 포함하고 있는 Ar carrier gas가 process chamber에서 혼합되고 두 전구체의 비율을 조절하기 위해 carrier gas를 0 에서 150sccm으로 변화시켜 플라즈마 중합 박막을 제작하였다. 플라즈마 중합 박막의 화학적 조성은 Fourier transform infrared absorption spectroscopy와 X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy를 이용하여 측정하였고, 생물학적 세포 부착 정도는 현미경을 통해 관찰하였다. 또한, 물과 박막의 접촉각(Water contact angle)을 측정함으로써 본 박막과 세포 부착에서의 친, 소수성의 연관성을 확인하였다. Tetrakis(trimethylsilyloxy)silane를 전구체를 사용한 박막에서 세포 부착 억제 표면특성이 관찰되었고, 주입되는 cyclohexane 비율이 늘어날수록 세포부착 가능한 표면 특성을 보였다. 결과적으로, 전구체인 tetrakis(trimethylsilyloxy)silane와 cyclohexane의 비율을 조절함으로써 세포의 부착정도를 제어할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.526-534
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• 2022

The modular multilevel converter (MMC) has been widely applied to various industrial areas because of its various advantages and structural characteristics. Therefore, many methods for synthesizing the output voltage of MMC have been studied. Among these methods, phase-shifted pulse width modulation (PSPWM) is frequently used in MMC systems because it has diverse merits, such as excellent output qualities even with a small number of cells and uniform power distribution among cells. In this study, the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the output voltage is analyzed in accordance with the number of cells in one arm of a single-delta bridge cell MMC in order to compare PSPWM methods in terms of the THD of the output voltage. The physical characteristics of the triangle and sawtooth carrier waves used for the PSPWM and the mathematical modeling of output voltage are introduced. Then, the obtained results are verified through real-time simulation of a 1 MW single-delta bridge cell MMC system.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.111-115
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• 2015

To improve the efficiency of the Si solar cell, high minority carrier life time is required. Therefore, the passivation technology is important to eliminate point defects on the silicon surface, causing the loss of minority carrier recombination. PECVD or post-annealing of thermally-grown $SiO_2$ is commonly used to form the passivation layer, but a high-temperature process and low thermal stability is a critical factor of low minority carrier lifetime. In this study, atomic layer deposition was used to grow the $Al_2O_3$ passivation layer at low temperature process. $Al_2O_3$ was selected as a passivation layer which has a low surface recombination velocity because of the fixed charge density. For the high charge density, an improved minority carrier lifetime, and a low surface recombination, nitrogen was doped in the $Al_2O_3$ thin film and the improvement of passivation was studied.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.125-129
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• 2019

Recently, carrier-selective contact solar cells have attracted much interests because of its high efficiency with low recombination current density. In this study, we investigated the effect of phosphorus doped amorphous silicon layer's characteristics on the passivation properties of tunnel oxide passivated carrier-selective contact solar cells. We fabricated symmetric structure sample with poly-Si/SiOx/c-Si by deposition of phosphorus doped amorphous silicon layer on the silicon oxide with subsequent annealing and hydrogenation process. We varied deposition temperature, deposition thickness, and annealing conditions, and blistering, lifetime and passivation quality was evaluated. The result showed that blistering can be controlled by deposition temperature, and passivation quality can be improved by controlling annealing conditions. Finally, we achieved blistering-free electron carrier-selective contact with 730mV of i-Voc, and cell-like structure consisted of front boron emitter and rear passivated contact showed 682mV i-Voc.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.229-238
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• 2021

The selective permeate transport characteristics of iodine ion at follicle cell membrane model in thyroid which irradiated by high energy x-ray(linac 6 MV) was investigated. The follicle cell membrane model used in this experiment was a polysulfonated copolymerized membrane of poly(4-vinylpyridine-co-acrylonitrile:VP-AN). The difference of membrane thickness [2 mole AN%(w/w)], fixed carrier concentration[VP-AN%(w/w)], OH- concentration were occurred at difference of I- concentration and quantity of thyroid hormone, respectively. The tensile strength in fixed carrier concentration[VP-AN% (w/w): 0-62 %] of irradiated membrane was found to be decreased about 1.2-1.8 times than non-irradiated membrane. The I- selective permeate initial flux with increase of membrane thickness [2mole AN%(w/w)], fixed carrier concentration[VP-AN%(w/ w)], OH- concentration in irradiated membrane were found to be decreased about 2.1-4.5 times, about 2.2-2.5 times, about 2.1-2.67 times than non-irradiated membrane, respectively. As a result, the quantity of thyroid hormone was decreased at irradiated membrane than non-irradiated membrane. The decrease of thyroid hormone was occurred at hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, thyroid cancer, and so on. As the thyroid hormone in cell membrane model were abnormal, cell damages were appeared at cell.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.7A
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• pp.693-701
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• 2008

In OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) system that frequency reuse factor is 1, as the same channels in the neighborhood cells creates inter-cell co-channel interference which provides a resource underutilization problem, channel allocation schemes to minimize inter-cell interference have been studied. This paper proposes a new CNIR (Carrier to Noise and Interference Ratio)-based distributed Inter-cell DCA (Dynamic Channel Allocation) algorithm in the OFDMA environment with frequency reuse factor of 1. When a channel allocation is requested, if there is not a free channel in home cell or the available free channels in home cell do not satisfy a required threshold value, the proposed Inter-cell DCA algorithm finds CNIR values of available free channels in the neighborhood cells and then allocates a free channel with maximum CNIR value. Through the simulation results, we find that the proposed scheme decreases both new call block rate and forced termination rate due to new call generation at the same time because it increases channel allocation probability.