• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.277-289
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• 2018

The exponential increase in the use of mobile communication has triggered public concerns about the potential adverse effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) emitted by mobile phones on the central nervous system (CNS). In this study, we explored the relationship between calcium channels and apoptosis or autophagy in the hippocampus of C57BL/6 mice after RF-EMF exposure with a specific absorption rate (SAR) of 4.0 W/kg for 4 weeks. Firstly, the expression level of voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs), a key regulator of the entry of calcium ions into the cell, was confirmed by immunoblots. We investigated and confirmed that pan-calcium channel expression in hippocampal neurons were significantly decreased after exposure to RF-EMF. With the observed accumulation of autolysosomes in hippocampal neurons via TEM, the expressions of autophagy-related genes and proteins (e.g., LC3B-II) had significantly increased. However, down-regulation of the apoptotic pathway may contribute to the decrease in calcium channel expression, and thus lower levels of calcium in hippocampal neurons. These results suggested that exposure of RF-EMF could alter intracellular calcium homeostasis by decreasing calcium channel expression in the hippocampus; presumably by activating the autophagy pathway, while inhibiting apoptotic regulation as an adaptation process for 835 MHz RF-EMF exposure.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.575-584
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• 2020

Electromagnetic (EM) waves used to send signals under seawater are normally restricted to low frequencies (f) because of sudden exponential increases of attenuation (𝛼) at higher f. The mathematics of EM wave propagation in seawater demonstrate dependence on relative permeability (𝜇_r), relative permittivity (𝜀_r), conductivity (𝜎), and f of transmission. Estimation of 𝜀_r and 𝜎 based on the W. Ellison interpolation model was performed for averaged real-time data of temperature (T) and salinity (S) from 1955 to 2012 for all oceans with 41 088 latitude/longitude points and 101 depth points up to 5500 m. Estimation of parameters such as real and imaginary parts of 𝜀_r, 𝜀_r', 𝜀_r", 𝜎, loss tangent (tan 𝛿), propagation velocity (V_p), phase constant (𝛽), and α contributes to absorption loss (L_a) for seawater channels carried out by using normal distribution fit in the 3 GHz-40 GHz f range. We also estimated total path loss (L_PL) in seawater for given transmission power P_t and antenna (dipole) gain. MATLAB is the simulation tool used for analysis.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.1040-1046
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• 2015

전자 및 전파통신기술의 급속한 발전에 따라 인류는 정보통신의 커다란 혜택을 누릴 수 있게 되었다. 그러나 전자파환경은 보다 복잡해지고, 그만큼 제어하가 어려워졌다. 이에 따라 ANSI, FCC, CISPR(국제무선장해규제기구) 등과 같은 국제기구에서는 다양한 전자파환경의 제어 및 대책을 수립해 오고 있다. 본 논문에서는 전파흡수체의 현황과 미래의 스마트 흡수체, 나아가서 방열 기능을 가지는 전파흡수체의 설계 방법을 제안한다. 설계한 전파흡수체는 2 GHz~2.45 GHz에서 20 dB 이상의 흡수능을 발휘하며, 개구의 크기, 간격 및 두께는 각각 6 mm, 9 mm, and 6.5 mm로 하였다. 이 스마트 전파흡수체는 다양한 전자, 통신, 제어, 전파 시스템의 회로 및 부품 보호용 소재로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 보인다.

• 한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국의학물리학회 2002년도 Proceedings
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• pp.471-473
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• 2002

Public concerns associated with the electromagnetic field (EMF) exposures from mobile phones on human body are increased. Although studies on the effects of the EMF exposures on human have been carried out for a long time, it is not proved yet whether the EMF effect is harmful or not. Based on the scientific results by experts, EMF exposure limits have been regulated as a precautionary approach on the assumption that the EMF effect may be harmful. It is well known that absorbed EMF can be transformed into heat within biological tissues and that thermal effects are related with the specific absorption rate (SAR) distribution. However, the relative magnitude and distribution of the energies are not well defined. Although there is comprehensive information of the thermal effects, most of them come from animal and in vitro studies. Considerable efforts have been made to analyze the EMF absorption model while the actual temperature in the human body has been rarely measured. Temperature changes on the face of a healthy male volunteer were studied. A digital mobile phone of 1.8GHz was used. A digital infrared imaging system (IRIS-5000, Medicore, Seoul, Korea) was applied to take infrared pictures of the face every minute while the volunteer talked over the mobile phone for 20 minutes. The specification of the imaging system was as follows: Temperature resolution = 0.1$^{\circ}C$; Range of temperature measurement = 17～40$^{\circ}C$; Pixel size = 0.9mm ${\times}$ 0.9mm; Frame time = 2.6s; Active temperature of detector = 77$^{\circ}$K. The result showed that temperature of the ear region was increased during the phone call and the region of the temperature increase on the face was expanded as the phone call time increased. Further study is necessary to investigate the temperature rise analytically and quantitatively.

• Composites Research
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.98-103
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 반도체 섬유 강화 복합재료를 이용하여 전자파 흡수 구조를 제작하였다. 두 종류의 반도체 섬유를 사용하여 복합재료를 제작하고, 자유공간 측정 장비를 이용하여 각각의 전자기적 물성을 측정하였다. 두께 최적화 방법으로 두 종류의 단층형 흡수 구조와 한 종류의 이층형 흡수 구조를 설계하였다. 설계한 전자파 흡수 구조를 반도체 섬유 강화 복합재료로 제작하고 그 흡수 성능을 측정하였다. 사용된 두 재료의 유전율은 Cole-Cole plot에 나타내었을 때 무반사 곡선에 가깝지 못하여 높은 흡수 성능을 기대하기 어려웠다. 두 종류의 재료로 제작한 단층형 흡수 구조는 10 GHz 근처에서 각각 -14.2 dB와 -8.8 dB의 흡수 성능을 보였다. 이러한 한계점을 보완할 수 있는 이층형 전자파 흡수 구조는 10 GHz 근처에서 -43.9 dB의 좋은 흡수 성능을 보였다. 반도체 섬유 강화 복합재료로 제작한 이층형 전자파 흡수 구조는 기존의 전자파 흡수 구조에 비해 간단한 제작 과정을 거쳐 좋은 흡수 성능을 갖는 흡수 구조를 얻을 수 있었으며, 상대적으로 더 적은 오차 요인을 갖고 있다.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.115-119
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• 2008

Permalloy를 30시간 볼밀 한 후 주사전자현미경으로 형상 및 입경을 분석하였으며, 볼밀 가공한 Permalloy의 입자들이 편편한 상을 가짐을 확인하였다. Permalloy를 실리콘 고무와 혼합하여 박형 전파흡수체를 제조하고 Network Analyzer을 이용하여 permalloy-고무 전파흡수체의 재료정수 및 전파흡수특성을 측정하였으며, 그들의 상관 관계를 비교 조사하였다. 가공한 permalloy-고무 복합재료는 높은 복소유전율 및 복소투자율을 가지며 미가공한 permalloy-고무 복합재료 보다 전파흡수 특성이 우수하였다. 또한 전파흡수체 두께에 따라서 정합주파수가 낮은 주파수 대역으로 shift 됨을 알 수 있고, 1.3 mm의 두께로 제조한 전파흡수체에서는 이동통신주파수 대역인 $1.65\;GHz{\sim}1.86\;GHz$에서 가장 우수한 전파흡수특성을 나타내었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.500-506
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 자성 금속재료인 센더스트(Sendust)를 이용하여 2.4 GHz ISM 대역의 전자파 노이즈 억제를 목적으로 하는 EMI/EMC 대책용 전파흡수체를 설계 제작하였다. CPE (Chlorinated Ploy-ethylene)를 바인더로 하여 압착 Sendust와의 조성비 별로 전파흡수체 샘플을 제작하였고, 이를 분석하여 최적의 조성비를 탐색하였다. 그 결과 최적의 조성비는 Flaked Sendust : CPE = 72.5 : 27.5 wt.%로 밝혀졌다. 전파 흡수체 샘플로부터 도출된 재료정수를 이용하여 두께의 변화에 따른 전파흡수능의 변화를 시뮬레이션 하였으며, 그 결과를 토대로 제작한 전파흡수체의 전파흡수능과 시뮬레이션 결과치가 잘 일치하는 것을 확인하였다. 이 경우, 중심주파수 2.4 GHz에서 5.4 dB의 전파흡수능을 보였으며, 이때 전파흡수체의 정합두께는 0.6 mm로서 종래의 전파흡수체에 비해 초박형이어서 실용성이 높고 고성능화됨을 알았다. 본 논문에 제시한 초박형화 전파흡수체는 전자회로 및 회로부품으로부터 방사되는 전자파를 억제하거나 효율적으로 흡수하여 정보통신기술의 발전에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• Carbon letters
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• 제22권
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• pp.36-41
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• 2017

Biodegradable epoxy (B-epoxy) was prepared from diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A and epoxidized linseed oil. The mechanical properties of B-epoxy composites reinforced with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs/B-epoxy) were examined by employing dynamic mechanical analysis, critical stress intensity factor ($K_{IC}$) tests, and impact strength tests. The electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness (EMI-SE) of the composites was evaluated using reflection and absorption methods. Mechanical properties of MWCNTs/B-epoxy were enhanced with an increase in the MWCNT content, whereas they deteriorated when the MWCNT content was >5 parts per hundred resin (phr). This can likely be attributed to the entanglement of MWCNTs with each other in the B-epoxy due to the presence of an excess amount of MWCNTs. The highest EMI-SE obtained was ~16 dB for the MWCNTs/B-epoxy composites with a MWCNT content of 13 phr at 1.4 GHz. The composites (13 phr) exhibited the minimum EMI-SE (90%) when used as shielding materials at 1.4 GHz. The EMI-SE of the MWCNTs/B-epoxy also increased with an increase in the MWCNT content, which is a key factor affecting the EMI-SE.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.134-140
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• 2020

A significant enhancement of the magneto-optical Faraday rotation and extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) in the cascaded double-fishnet (CDF) structure with periodic rectangular apertures is theoretically predicted by using the extended finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The results demonstrate that the transmittance spectrum of the CDF structure has two EOT resonant peaks in a broad spectrum spanning visible to near-infrared wavebands, one of them coinciding with the enhanced Faraday rotation and large figure of merit (FOM) at the same wavelength. It is most important that the resonant position and intensity of the transmittance, Faraday rotation and FOM can be simply tailored by adjusting the incident wavelength, the thickness of the magnetic layer, and the offset between two metallic rectangular apertures, etc. Furthermore, the intrinsic physical mechanism of the resonance characteristics of the transmittance and Faraday rotation is thoroughly studied by investigating the electromagnetic field distributions at the location of resonance. It is shown that the transmittance resonance is mainly determined by different hybrid modes of surface plasmons (SPs) and plasmonic electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) behavior, and the enhancement of Faraday rotation is mostly governed by the plasmonic electromagnetically induced absorption (EIA) behavior and the conversion of the transverse magnetic (TM) mode and transverse electric (TE) mode in the magnetic dielectric layer.

• Advanced Composite Materials
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2007

Composite materials consisting of crushed carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) pieces and acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) resin were prepared by an injection mold method to solve the problem of recycling of CFRP. The electrical properties, such as electrical resistivity, alternating current impedance and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding effect, were measured for the composites. The electrical resistivity of the composites showed a percolation type of conduction behavior and no difference between parallel and perpendicular to the injection direction was observed for CFRP content higher than the critical value. Measurement of alternating current impedance revealed that the conduction mechanism is attributed to the direct conductive paths generated by distributed carbon fibers; however, strong frequency dependence of the impedance was observed for the CFRP content near the critical one. The frequency dependence of the impedance is caused by the inter-fiber connection and can be expressed as a simple equivalent circuit. The absorption component of shielding effect (SE) was smaller than the expected value estimated from its resistivity. The decline of SE is thought to be caused by the decrease in effective thickness due to fiber orientation.