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Characteristics of the Ionospheric Mid-Latitude Trough Measured by Topside Sounders in 1960-70s

  • Hong, Junseok;Kim, Yong Ha;Lee, Young-Sook
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.121-131
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    • 2019
  • The ionospheric mid-latitude trough (IMT) is the electron density depletion phenomenon in the F region during nighttime. It has been suggested that the IMT is the result of complex plasma processes coupled to the magnetosphere. In order to statistically investigate the characteristics of the IMT, we analyze topside sounding data from Alouette and ISIS satellites in 1960s and 1970s. The IMT position is almost constant for seasons and solar activities whereas the IMT depth ratio and the IMT feature are stronger and clearer in the winter hemisphere under solar minimum condition. We also calculated transition heights at which the densities of oxygen ions and hydrogen/helium ions are equal. Transition heights are generally higher in daytime and lower in nighttime, but the opposite aspects are seen in the IMT region. Utilizing the Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) electron temperature measurements, we find that the electron temperature in the IMT region is enhanced at night during winter. The increase of electron temperature may cause fast transport of the ionospheric plasma to the magnetosphere via ambipolar diffusion, resulting in the IMT depletion. This mechanism of the IMT may work in addition to the simply prolonged recombination of ions proposed by the traditional stagnation model.

Analysis and Measurement of Effective Refractive Indices with Ion-exchanged Slab Waveguide (이온교환 평판도파로의 실효굴절율 측정 및 해석)

  • 천석표;박정일;박태성;정홍배
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1995.05a
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    • pp.73-76
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    • 1995
  • In this study, the slab waveguide was fabricated using potassium-nitride(KNO$_3$) or silver-nitride (AgNO$_3$) molten sources by ion-exchange process. The effective refractive indices of waveguide were measured by Prism-Coupling method. and The characteristics of waveguide(mode dispersion, effective diffusion depth. surface refractive index, diffusion coefficient, and refractive index profile etc,) were investigated by WKB method, In the case of potassium ion-exchange, the computer calculation showed that the refractive index profile of waveguide followed Gaussian function, the surface refractive index increased with ion-exchange time and the effective diffusion depth increased a little as ion-exchange time increased, while the surface refractive index of silver ion-exchanged waveguide decreased with ion-exchange time because of the ion depletion on the surface of waveguide, and the effective diffusion depth seriously with ion-exchange tim. Double ion-exchanged waveguide was fabricated by performing silver ion-exchange after potassium ion-exchange. Double ion-exchanged waveguide had a tight mode binding force since the surface refractive index was larger than single step ion-exchanged waveguide.

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Evaluation and characteristics of commercial Portable ground-water in Korea

  • Cho, Byong-Wook;Sung, Ig-Hwan;Choo, Chang-O;Lee, Byeong-Dae;Kim, Tong-Kwon;Lee, In-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 1998.11a
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    • pp.119-122
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    • 1998
  • Chemical analysis, measurement of pumping rates of 60 production wells and depth to water tables of 57 monitoring wells were carried to protect depletion of water resources and deterioration of water quality for the commercial portable ground-water. Borehole depth of production well averages 149m(31 boreholes), casing depth is 28m(29 boreholes), production rate is 70 $m^3$/day and depth to water table of monitoring well is 23.26m, respectively. The geology of 60 wells can be divided into Daebo granite(20), Okchun metarmorphic complex(18), Precambrian granitic gneiss(15), Bulguksa granite(4), Cheju volcanics(2), Cretaceous sedimentary rock(1). Average electrical conductivity and pH are 152$\mu$S/cm, and 7.35, respectively. The contents of major cation and anion predominantly $Ca^{2+}$>N $a^{+}$>M $g^{2+}$> $K^{+}$ and HC $O_{3}$$^{-}$ >S $O_{4}$$^{2-}$>Cl ̄>F ̄. Water type is predominantly $Ca^{2+}$-HC $O_{3}$$^{-}$(81.7%). It's possible that water chemistry of some wells were affected not only by the geology of boreholes penetrated but by inflows of surface water or shallow ground-water. Therefore, it is strongly necessary to steadily monitor the water quality and hydrogeologic conditins of production wells.ells.ls.ells.

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A Study on the Ultraviolet(UV)-Cut Fiber (자외선 차단 직물에 환한 연구)

  • 최인려
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.967-971
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    • 2003
  • As the concerns over health increased in 1990's, research and development on the health material were also activated. The development of UV-cut textile became the hot issue, because the damage of W irradiation due to ozone depletion has become widely known. UV-cut effect is determined by the material, the color, the organization and the density of UV-cut fibers. UV-cut effect is very different according to the fibers. Polyester is known to have a better effect. Even in the same textile material, staple fiber has more effect than filament fiber. Different colors have different offsets. Although textiles have the same color, the effects can be different according to the depth of color. PET, PET/cotton blend, nylon and cotton fabrics were ultraviolet cutting finished with padding method using several absorbers. These UV-cut effect can be improved through the processing. Safety of UV-cut textile for the body must be considered future, Until now the figure of the UV-cut effects has been emphasized. There has been no experiment on the human body, although the textiles are directly on the human body. Futhermore there os no safety standard of UV-cut textiles. Therefore every effort will be made to set the standard UV-cut processing is established. The need of UV-cut products will be known to the consumers.

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Data Collection Management for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Drones with Wireless Power Transfer

  • Ikjune Yoon;Dong Kun Noh
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.28 no.9
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2023
  • To increase the lifetime of the network in wireless sensor networks, energy harvesting from the surrounding environment or wireless power transfer is being used. In addition, to reduce the energy imbalance and increase the amount of data gathered, a method using mobile sink nodes that visit sensor nodes to gather data has been used. In this paper, we propose a technique to reduce the load on the relay node and collect a lot of data evenly in this environment. In the proposed scheme, sensor nodes construct Minimum Depth Trees (MDTs) considering the network environment and energy, and allocate the data collection amount. Simulation results show that the proposed technique effectively suppresses energy depletion and collects more data compared to existing techniques.

Flow Analyses Inside Jet Pumps Used for Oil Wells

  • Samad, Abdus;Nizamuddin, Mohammad
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2013
  • Jet pump is one type of artificial lifts and is used when depth and deviation of producing wells increases and pressure depletion occurs. In the present study, numerical analysis has been carried out to analyze the flow behavior and find the performance of the jet pump. Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes equations were solved and k-${\varepsilon}$ turbulence model was used for simulations. Water and light oil as primary fluids were used to pump water, light oil and heavy oil. The ratios of area and length to diameter of the mixing tube were considered as design parameters. The pump efficiency was considered to maximize for the downhole conditions. It was found that the increase in viscosity and density of the secondary fluid reduced efficiency of the system. Water as primary fluid produced better efficiency than the light oil. It was also found that the longer throat length increased efficiency upto 40% if light oil was used as primary fluid and secondary fluid viscosity was 350 cSt.

An analytic model for planar devices with multiple floating rings (다수의 전계제한링을 갖는 planar소자의 해석적 모델)

  • 배동건;정상구
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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    • v.33A no.6
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    • pp.136-143
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    • 1996
  • A simple analytic model for the planar junctions with multiple foating field limiting rings(FLR) is presented which yields analytic expressions for the breakdown voltage and optimum ring spacings. the normalized potential of each ring is derived as a function of the normalized depletion width and the ring spacing. Based on the assumption that the breakdwon occurs simulataneously at cylindrical junctions of FLR structure where the peak sruface electric fields are equal, the optimum ring spacings are determined. The resutls are in good agreement with the simulations obtained from two dimensional device simulation program MEDICI and with the experimental data reported. The normalized experessions allow a calculation of breakdown voltage and optimum spacing over a broad range of junction depth and background doping levels.

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A Study on the Analytical Model for Grooved Gate MOSFET (Grooved Gate MOSFET의 해석적 모델에 관한 연구)

  • 김생환;이창진;홍신남
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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    • 1991.10a
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    • pp.205-209
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    • 1991
  • The conventional modeling equations for planar MOSFET can not be directly used for zero or minus junction depth concave MOSFET. In this paper, we suggest a new model which can simulate the electrical characteristics of concave MOSFET. The threshold voltage modeling was achieved using the charge sharing method considering the relative difference of source and drain depletion widths. To analyze the ID-VDS characteristics, the conventional expressions for planar MOSFET were employed with the electrical channel length as an effective channel length and the channel length modulation factor as ${\alpha}$ΔL. By comparing the proposed model with experimental results, we could get reasonably similar curves and we proposed a concave MOSFET conditiion which shows no short channel effect of threshold voltage(V${\gamma}$).

Nanostructured Polymer Electrolytes for Li-Batteries and Fuel Cells

  • Park, Mun-Jeong
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.71.2-71.2
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    • 2012
  • There are rising demands for developing more efficient energy materials to stem the depletion of fossil fuels, which have prompted significant research efforts on proton exchange fuel cells (PEFCs) and lithium ion batteries (LIBs). To date, both PEFCs and LIBs are being widely developed to power small electronics, however, their utilization to medium-large sized electric power resources such as vehicle and stationary energy storage systems still appears distant. These technologies increasingly rely upon polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) that transport ions from the anode to the cathode to balance the flow of electrons in an external circuit, and therefore play a central role in determining the efficiency of the devices; as ion transport is a kinetic bottleneck compared to electrical conductivity, enormous efforts have been devoted to improving the transport properties of PEMs. In present study, we carried out an in-depth analysis of the morphology effects on transport properties of PEMs. How parameters such as self-assembled nanostructures, domain sizes, and domain orientations affect conductivities of PEMs will be presented.

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Conversion-Alloying Anode Materials for Na-ion Batteries: Recent Progress, Challenges, and Perspective for the Future

  • Kim, Joo-Hyung;Kim, Do Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.55 no.4
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    • pp.307-324
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    • 2018
  • Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been rapidly expanding from IT based applications to uses in electric vehicles (EVs), smart grids, and energy storage systems (ESSs), all of which require low cost, high energy density and high power density. The increasing demand for LIBs has resulted in increasing price of the lithium source, which is a major obstacle to wider application. To date, the possible depletion of lithium resources has become relevant, giving rise to the interest in Na-ion batteries (NIBs) as promising alternatives to LIBs. A lot of transition metal compounds based on conversion-alloying reaction have been extensively investigated to meet the requirement for the anodes with high energy density and long life-time. In-depth understanding the electrochemical reaction mechanisms for the transition metal compounds makes it promising negative anode for NIBs and provides feasible strategy for low cost and large-scale energy storage system in the near future.