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Multicomponent wide band gap oxide semiconductors for thin film transistors

  • Fortunato, E.;Barquinha, P.;Pereira, L.;Goncalves, G.;Martins, R.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.605-608
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    • 2006
  • The recent application of wide band gap oxide semiconductors to transparent thin film transistors (TTFTs) is making a fast and growing (r)evolution on the contemporary solid-state electronics. In this paper we present some of the recent results we have obtained using wide band gap oxide semiconductors, like indium zinc oxide, produced by rf sputtering at room temperature. The devices work in the enhancement mode and exhibit excellent saturation drain currents. On-off ratios above $10^6$ are achieved. The optical transmittance data in the visible range reveals average transmittance higher than 80 %, including the glass substrate. Channel mobilities are also quite respectable, with some devices presenting values around $25\;cm^2/Vs$, even without any annealing or other post deposition improvement processes. The high performances presented by these TTFTs associated to a high electron mobility, at least two orders of magnitude higher than that of conventional amorphous silicon TFTs and a low threshold voltage, opens new doors for applications in flexible, wearable, disposable portable electronics as well as battery-powered applications.

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Exergy Analysis of Regenerative Gas Turbine Systems with Afterfogging (압축기 출구 물분사가 있는 재생 가스터빈 시스템의 엑서지 해석)

  • Kim, Kyoung-Hoon;Ko, Hyung-Jong;Kim, Se-Woong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 2010
  • An exergy analysis is carried out for the regenerative gas turbine cycle which has a potential of enhanced thermal efficiency and specific power owing to the more possible water injection than that of inlet fogging under the ambient conditions. Using the analysis model in the view of the second law of thermodynamics, the effects of pressure ratio, water injection ratio and ambient temperature are investigated on the performance of the system such as exergetic efficiency, heat recovery ratio of recuperator, exergy destruction or loss ratios, and on the optimal conditions for maximum exergy efficiency. The results of computation for the typical cases show that the regenerative gas turbine system with afterfogging can make a notable enhancement of exergy efficiency.

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Feasibility of Proton Chemical Shift Imaging with a Stereotactic Headframe

  • 백현만;최보영;손병철;정성택;이형구;서태석
    • Proceedings of the KSMRM Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.86-86
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    • 2003
  • Purpose: To prove feasibility of proton chemical shift. imaging (1H CSI) during stereotactic procedure, authors peformed 1H CSI in combination with a stereotactic headframe and selected targets according to local metabolic information, evaluated the pathologic results Materials and methods: The 1H CSI directed stereotactic biopsy was performed in five patients. 1H CSI was performed before conventional stereotactic MRI with gadolinium enhancement for stereotactic coordinates. The metabolite images expressed as integral ratios, Cho/Cr and Lac/Cr, were displayed in different colors. The stereotactic target coordinates were correlated with the coordinates from the 1H CSI images.

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Preparation of Multi Skin Care Gauze by Blending of Silk Fiber and Separated Cellulose from Waste Milk Pack (견사와 폐 우유팩으로부터 분리한 셀룰로오스가 함유된 복합 위생포 제작)

  • 여주홍;이광길;이용우;김종호
    • Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.109-113
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    • 2000
  • The preparation of skin care gauze could be make to mixing separated cellulose from waste milk pack and degummed silk fibroin fiber. Also, its wound covering and anti-bacterial activity were investigated in order to find out the enhancement of their functionality. By the 30% silk fibroin fiber including skin care gauze, the anti-bacterial activity values of Staphylococcus strain are much 4 times higher than of 0∼10% silk fibroin fiber including skin care gauze. The average yield of cellulose from waste milk pack was obtained 50-60%, and their morphologies, physical properties, modulus and biodegradation ratios are studies, respectively.

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Star formation history of infrared luminous galaxies in the SDSS

  • Lee, Jong-Chul;Lee, Myung-Gyoon;Hwang, Ho-Seong
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.60.1-60.1
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    • 2011
  • We present preliminary results of a statistical study on star formation history of infrared luminous galaxies selected from a IRAS-SDSS matched sample. We derive their star formation histories by comparing observed optical spectra and stellar population synthetic model templates. We find that young population fraction (<500 Myr) increases with infrared luminosity, while AGN-host (based on optical line ratios) galaxies show an enhancement of star formation at intermediate age (around 1 Gyr) compared with starburst galaxies. These results support that infrared luminosity is dominated by starburst activity and that there is an evolutionary connection from starburst to AGN.

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Phamaceutical Studies on the Drug (III) -Enhancement of Dissolution and Stability of Sulfamethoxazole by ${\beta}-Cyclodextrin$ Complexation- (약물의 약제학적 연구(제 3보) -${\beta}-$시클로덱스트린과의 복합체 형성에 의한 설파메톡사졸의 용출 및 안정성 향상-)

  • Lee, Hyeon-Jong;Kim, Soo-Uck;Seo, Seong-Hoon
    • Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.181-186
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    • 1988
  • Inclusion complex of sulfamethoxazole with ${\beta}-cyclodextrin$ was prepared by freeze-drying method in molar ratios of 1:1, 1:1.25, 1:1.5 and 1:1.75, and the complex formation was identified by ultraviolet and infrared spectroscopies, powder X-ray diffractometry and differential scanning calorimetry. Dissolution rate and solid state stability of the complex were investigated in comparison with those of sulfamethoxazole powder and the physical mixture of sulfamethoxazole with ${\beta}-cyclodextrin$. As a result, the dissolution rate and the stability of solid complexes in various relative humidity conditions increased more remarkably than those of sulfamethoxazole powder and physical mixture. But the difference according to molar ratio of the complex was not recognized.

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Speech Enhancement Based on Modified IMCRA Using Spectral Minima Tracking with Weighted Subband Selection (서브밴드 가중치를 적용한 스펙트럼 최소값 추적을 이용하는 수정된 IMCRA 기반의 음성 향상 기법)

  • Park, Yun-Sik;Park, Gyu-Seok;Lee, Sang-Min
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we propose a novel approach to noise power estimation for speech enhancement in noisy environments. The method based on IMCRA (improved minima controlled recursive averaging) which is widely used in speech enhancement utilizes a rough VAD (voice activity detection) algorithm which excludes speech components during speech periods in order to improves the performance of the noise power estimation by reducing the speech distortion caused by the conventional algorithm based on the minimum power spectrum derived from the noisy speech. However, since the VAD algorithm is not sufficient to distinguish speech from noise at non-stationary noise and low SNRs (signal-to-noise ratios), the speech distortion resulted from the minimum tracking during speech periods still remained. In the proposed method, minimum power estimate obtained by IMCRA is modified by SMT (spectral minima tracking) to reduce the speech distortion derived from the bias of the estimated minimum power. In addition, in order to effectively estimate minimum power by considering the distribution characteristic of the speech and noise spectrum, the presented method combines the minimum estimates provided by IMCRA and SMT depending on the weighting factor based on the subband. Performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by subjective and objective quality tests under various environments and better results compared with the conventional method are obtained.

A Study on Enhancement of Nitrate Removal Efficiency using Surface-Modified Zero-Valent Iron Nanoparticles (표면개질된 영가철 나노입자를 이용한 질산성 질소 제거율 향상에 대한 연구)

  • Lim, Taesook;Cho, Yunchul;Cho, Changhwan;Choi, Sangil
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.517-524
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    • 2016
  • In order to treat groundwater containing high levels of nitrate, nitrate reduction by nano sized zero-valent iron (nZVI) was studied using batch experiments. Compared to nitrate removal efficiencies at different mass ratios of $nitrate/Fe^0$, the removal efficiency at the mass ratio of 0.02% was the highest(54.59%). To enhance nitrate removal efficiency, surface modification of nZVI was performed using metallic catalysis such as Pd, Ni and Cu. Nitrate removal efficiency by Cu-nZVI (at $catalyst/Fe^0$ mass ratio of 0.1%) was 66.34%. It showed that the removal efficiency of Cu-nZVI was greater than that of the other catalysts. The observed rate constant ($k_{obs}$) of nitrate reduction by Cu-nZVI was estimated to $0.7501min^{-1}$ at the Cu/Fe mass ratio of 0.1%. On the other hand, TEM images showed that the average particle sizes of synthetic nZVI and Cu-nZVI were 40~60 and 80~100 nm, respectively. The results imply that catalyst effects may be more important than particle size effects in the enhancement of nitrate reduction by nZVI.

Thin Film Transistor Characteristics with ZnO Channel Grown by RF Magnetron Sputtering (RF Magnetron Sputtering으로 증착된 ZnO의 증착 특성과 이를 이용한 Thin Film Transistor특성)

  • Kim, Young-Woong;Choi, Duck-Kyun
    • Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2007
  • Low temperature processed ZnO-TFTs on glass below $270^{\circ}C$ for plastic substrate applications were fabricated and their electrical properties were investigated. Films in ZnO-TFTs with bottom gate configuration were made by RF magnetron sputtering system except for $SiO_2$ gate oxide deposited by ICP-CVD. ZnO channel films were grown on glass with various Ar and $O_2$ flow ratios. All of the fabricated ZnO-TFTs showed perfectly the enhancement mode operation, a high optical transmittance of above 80% in visible ranges of the spectrum. In the ZnO-TFTs with pure Ar process, the field effect mobility, threshold voltage, and on/off ratio were measured to be $1.2\;cm^2/Vs$, 8.5 V, and $5{\times}10^5$, respectively. These characteristic values are much higher than those of the ZnO-TFTs of which ZnO channel layers were processed with additional $O_2$ gas. In addition, ZnO-TFT with pure Af process showed smaller swing voltage of 1.86v/decade compared to those with $Ar+O_2$ process.

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Effects of Contrast Agent Concentration on the Signal Intensity and Turbo Factor of TSE and Slice-selective IR in T1-weighted Contrast Imaging

  • Han, Yong Soo;Lee, Soo Chul;Lee, Dong Yong;Choi, Jiwon;Lee, Jong Woong;Kweon, Dae Cheol
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.115-124
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    • 2016
  • The present study analyzes T1 TSE and T1 slice sel. IR (dark_fluid) signal strength according to the degree of gadolinium contrast agent dilution and analyzes the turbo factors with regard to changes in the maximum and overall signal strength to study correlations between changes and signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and compare peak-to-peak SNR (PSNR) enhancement in order to improve the quality of T1-weighted images. Enhancement TR (600 msec) evaluated to determine the T1 TSE turbo factor and obtain the maximum signal strength, T1WI were used sequentially to experiment with turbo factors_1-4. T1 slice sel. IR (dark-fluid) was used to sequentially test turbo factors_2-5 but not turbo factor_1 at a TR (1500 msec) and compare data at an increase in T1 of 900 msec. The T1 TSE was reduced according to the contrast agent concentration. Phantom signal strength increased, whereas turbo factors_1-4 exhibited maximum signal strength at a concentration of 3 mmol, followed by a gradual decrease. In the turbo factors_2-5, the signal strength increased sharply to maximum signal strength at 0.7 mmol, followed by a reduction. T1 TSE had a greater maximum signal strength than did T1 slice sel. IR (dark_fluid). A comparison of SNR found that T1 TSE imaging was superior (33.3 dB) in turbo factor_1 and T1 slice sel. IR (dark_fluid) was highest (33.9 dB) at turbo factor_5. A PSNR comparison analysis was not sufficient to distinguish between the images obtained with both techniques at 30 dB or higher under all experimental conditions.