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[ $a-Si:H/{\mu}c-Si:H$ ] thin-film tandem solar cells (비정질/마이크로 탠덤 구조형 실리콘 박막 태양전지)

  • Lee, Jeong-Chul;Song, Jin-Soo;Yoon, Kyung-Hoon
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.228-231
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    • 2006
  • This paper briefly introduces silicon based thin film solar cells: amorphous (a-Si:H), microcrystalline ${\mu}c-Si:H$ single junction and $a-Si:H/{\mu}c-Si:H$ tandem solar cells. The major difference of a-Si:H and ${\mu}c-Si:H$ cells comes from electro-optical properties of intrinsic Si-films (active layer) that absorb incident photon and generate electron-hole pairs. The a-Si:H film has energy band-gap (Eg) of 1.7-1.8eV and solar cells incorporating this wide Eg a-Si:H material as active layer commonly give high voltage and low current, when illuminated, compared to ${\mu}c-Si:H$ solar cells that employ low Eg (1.1eV) material. This Eg difference of two materials make possible tandem configuration in order to effectively use incident photon energy. The $a-Si:H/{\mu}c-Si:H$ tandem solar cells, therefore, have a great potential for low cost photovoltaic device by its various advantages such as low material cost by thin-film structure on low cost substrate instead of expensive c-Si wafer and high conversion efficiency by tandem structure. In this paper, the structure, process and operation properties of Si-based thin-film solar cells are discussed.

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Critical earthquake loads for SDOF inelastic structures considering evolution of seismic waves

  • Moustafa, Abbas;Ueno, Kohei;Takewaki, Izuru
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.147-162
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    • 2010
  • The ground acceleration measured at a point on the earth's surface is composed of several waves that have different phase velocities, arrival times, amplitudes, and frequency contents. For instance, body waves contain primary and secondary waves that have high frequency content and reach the site first. Surface waves are composed of Rayleigh and Love waves that have lower phase velocity, lower frequency content and reach the site next. Some of these waves could be of more damage to the structure depending on their frequency content and associated amplitude. This paper models critical earthquake loads for single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) inelastic structures considering evolution of the seismic waves in time and frequency. The ground acceleration is represented as combination of seismic waves with different characteristics. Each seismic wave represents the energy of the ground motion in certain frequency band and time interval. The amplitudes and phase angles of these waves are optimized to produce the highest damage in the structure subject to explicit constraints on the energy and the peak ground acceleration and implicit constraints on the frequency content and the arrival time of the seismic waves. The material nonlinearity is modeled using bilinear inelastic law. The study explores also the influence of the properties of the seismic waves on the energy demand and damage state of the structure. Numerical illustrations on modeling critical earthquake excitations for one-storey inelastic frame structures are provided.

Directional Wigner-Ville Distribution and Its Application for Rotating- Machinery Condition Monitoring

  • Kim, Dong-Wan;Ha, Jae-Hong;Shin, Hae-Gon;Lee, Yoon-Hee;Kim, Young-Baik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1996.05a
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    • pp.587-593
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    • 1996
  • Vibration analysis is one of the most powerful tools available for the detection and isolation of incipient faults in mechanical systems. The methods of vibration analysis in use today and under continuous study are broad band vibration monitoring, time domain analysis, and frequency domain analysis. In recent years, great interest has been generated concerning the use of time-frequency representation and its application for a machinery diagnostics and condition monitoring system. The objective of the research described in this paper was to develop a new diagnostic tool for the rotating machinery. This paper introduces a new time-frequency representation, Directional Wigner-Ville Distribution, which analyses the time- frequency structure of the rotating machinery vibration.

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Optical Properties of Zn4GeSe6:Co2+ Single Crystals (Zn4GeSe6:Co2+ 단결정의 광학적 특성)

  • 김형곤;김남오;최영일;김덕태;김창주
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.272-279
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    • 2003
  • In this work Zn$_4$GeSe$_{6}$ :CO$^{2+}$ single crystals were grown by the chemical transport reaction method in which the iodine was used as the transporting agent. The Zn$_4$GeSe$_{6}$ :CO$^{2+}$ single crystal was found to have a monoclinic structure. The optical absorption spectra of grown crystals were investigated using a temperature-controlled UV-VIS -NIR spectrophotometer. The temperature dependence of band-edge absorption was in a good agreement with the Varshni equation. The observed impurity absorption peaks could be explained as arising from the electron transition between energy levels of Co$^{2+}$ ion sited at the T$_{d}$ symmetry point.

Crystal Growth of $Cd_4SnSe_6:Co^{2+}$ Single Crystals ($Cd_4SnSe_6:Co^{2+}$ 단결정의 성장)

  • Kim, D.T.;Song, M.J.;Kim, H.G.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.607-608
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, author describe the undoped and $Co^{2+}$(0.5mole%) doped $Cd_4SnSe_6$ single crystals were grown by the chemical transport reaction(CTR) method. The grown single crystals crystallize in the monoclinic structure of space group Cc and have the direct band gap structure. The energy gaps of them are 1.68 eV for $Cd_4SnSe_6$ and 1.50 eV for $Cd_4SnSe_6:Co^{2+}$ at 300K respectively.

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Review on Electronic Correlations and the Metal-Insulator Transition in SrRuO3

  • Pang, Subeen
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.187-202
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    • 2017
  • The classical electron band theory is a powerful tool to describe the electronic structures of solids. However, the band theory and corresponding density functional theory become inappropriate if a system comprises localized electrons in a scenario wherein strong electron correlations cannot be neglected. $SrRuO_3$ is one such system, and the partially localized d-band electrons exhibit some interesting behaviors such as enhanced effective mass, spectral incoherency, and oppression of ferromagnetism and itinerancy. In particular, a Metal-Insulator transition occurs when the thickness of $SrRuO_3$ approaches approximately four unit cells. In the computational studies, irrespective of the inclusion of on-site Hubbard repulsion and Hund's coupling parameters, correctly depicting the correlation effects is difficult. Because the oxygen atoms and the symmetry of octahedra are known to play important roles in the system, scrutinizing both the electronic band structure and the lattice system of $SrRuO_3$ is required to find the origin of the correlated behaviors. Transmission electron microscopy is a promising solution to this problem because of its integrated functionalities, which include atomic-resolution imaging and electron energy loss spectroscopy.

Optical properties of undoped and $Co^{2+}$-doped $Zn_4$$ GeSe_6$ single crystals ($Zn_4$$ GeSe_6$$Co^{2+}$를 첨가한 $Zn_4$$ GeSe_6$:$Co^{2+}$단결정의 광학적 특성)

  • 김덕태
    • Electrical & Electronic Materials
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 1997
  • Undoped and Co$^{2+}$-doped Zn$_{4}$GeSe$_{6}$ single crystals were grown by the Chemical Transport Reaction method using iodine as a transporting agent. The crystal structure of these compounds determined by X-ray diffraction analysis was monoclinic structure. The direct energy gaps of these compounds were measured and the temperature dependence of the optical energy gap were closely investigated over the temperature range 10-290K. The temperature dependence of the optical energy gap is well presented by the Varshni equation. Also the optical absorption peaks of Zn$_{4}$GeSe$_{6}$ :Co$^{2+}$ single crystal observed, centered at 5437, 6079, 7142, 12950, 13462, 14786 and 15735 $cm^{-1}$ /, can be explained in terms of the electronic transitions of Co$^{2+}$ ions located at Td symmetry of the host materials. According to the crystal-field theory, the crystal-field, Racah and spin-orbit coupling parameters obtained from the absorption bands are given by Dq = 361$cm^{-1}$ /, B = 655$cm^{-1}$ / and .lambda. = 284$cm^{-1}$ / respectively.ively.

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ZnTe:O/CdS/ZnO intermediate band solar cells grown on ITO/glass substrate by pulsed laser deposition

  • Lee, Kyoung Su;Oh, Gyujin;Kim, Eun Kyu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2015.08a
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    • pp.197.2-197.2
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    • 2015
  • Low-cost, high efficiency solar cells are tremendous interests for the realization of a renewable and clean energy source. ZnTe based solar cells have a possibility of high efficiency with formation of an intermediated energy band structure by impurity doping. In this work, the ZnTe:O/CdS/ZnO structure was fabricated by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. A pulsed (10 Hz) Nd:YAG laser operating at a wavelength of 266 nm was used to produce a plasma plume from an ablated a ZnTe target, whose density of laser energy was 4.5 J/cm2. The base pressure of the chamber was kept at a pressure of approximately $4{\times}10-7Torr$. ZnO thin film with thickness of 100 nm was grown on to ITO/glass, and then CdS and ZnTe:O thin film were grown on ZnO thin film. Thickness of CdS and ZnTe:O were 50 nm and 500 nm, respectively. During deposition of ZnTe:O films, O2 gas was introduced from 1 to 20 mTorr. For fabricating ZnTe:O/CdS/ZnO solar cells, Au metal was deposited on the ITO film and ZnTe:O by thermal evaporation method. From the fabricated ZnTe:O/CdS/ZnO solar cell, current-voltage characteristics was measured by using HP 4156-a semiconductor parameter analyzer. Finally, solar cell performance was measured using an Air Mass 1.5 Global (AM 1.5 G) solar simulator with an irradiation intensity of 100 mW cm-2.

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Full-Frequency Band Acoustic Analysis of Sandwich Composite Structure Using FE-BEM and SEA Method (FE-BEM 및 SEA 해석 기법을 활용한 샌드위치 복합재 구조물의 전 주파수 대역 음향 해석)

  • Lee, Dae-Oen;Lee, Yoon-Kyu;Kim, Hong-Il;Kim, Jae-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.422-428
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    • 2018
  • Increase in use of lightweight structures, coupled with the increased acoustic loads resulting from larger and longer range guided missiles, has made missile more susceptible to failures caused by acoustic loads. Thus, accurate prediction of acoustic environment and the response is becoming ever more important for mission success. In this paper, the acoustic response of a sandwich composite skin structure to diffuse acoustic excitation is predicted over a broad frequency range. For the low frequency acoustic analysis, coupled FE-BEM method is used where the structure is modeled using FEM and the interior and exterior fluid is modeled using BEM. For the high frequency region, statistical energy analysis is applied. The predicted acoustic level inside the structure is compared with the result from acoustic test conducted in reverberation chamber, which shows very good agreement.

A Study on Feasibility of Surface Wave Application for the Assessment of Physical Properties of Dam (표면파 적용 댐체 물성 조사 타당성 연구)

  • Kim, Hyoung-Soo;Min, Dong-Ju;Kim, Jung-Yul;Ha, Ik-Soo;Oh, Suk-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2005.03a
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    • pp.384-391
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    • 2005
  • Three dimensional finite difference elastic wave model was developed to estimate the feasibility of surface wave applications in geotechnical problems. The wave motions calculated by the developed program in this study shows good agreement with well known analytic solutions. The surface wave motions calculated from layered dam type structure can be interpreted as a infinite layer structure using dispersion curve but it is need a special source of which high energy in frequency band lower than 10 Hz to get information of physical properties in few tens meter deep. The source which has high energy in the low frequency band, however, can give defect on dam and this will make some limitation in real field applications. The dispersion curves calculated from the surface wave motion of homogeneous and center core type dam models will give rise to fatal errors if the conventional infinite layer structure used in their interpretation because the surrounding materials and boundaries of dam make some distortion in dispersion curve of surface wave. So it is strongly recommended to use three dimensional inversion model for correct interpretation and estimation of physical properties of dam materials.

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