• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2009년도 제37회 하계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.224-224
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• 2009

• 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국초전도학회 2007년도 High Temperature Superconductivity Vol.XVII
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• pp.81-81
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• 2007

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2009년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.278-281
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• 2009

KSTAR(Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research)는 고성능 플라즈마 연구를 위한 대형 연구실험 장치이다. 이러한 거대 장치에는 많은 시스템이 분산되어 연결되어 있으며 그 구조 역시 매우 복잡하여 시스템간의 인터페이스에 많은 제약과 어려움이 따른다. 이러한 복잡하고 다양한 시스템을 통합하고 여기서 발생하는 여러 종류의 데이터를 획득하기 위해서 KSTAR는 EPICS(Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System)라는 오픈소스 기반의 분산 제어용 미들웨어를 구축하였고 이를 기반으로 KSTAR 통합 제어 시스템을 개발 하였다. 2008년 KSTAR 최초 플라즈마 실험 기간 동안의 운전을 통해 EPICS 미들웨어와 EPICS channel archiver를 이용하여 다양한 24시간 연속 운전데이터를 안정적으로 저장하고 추출할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 논문에서는 시스템의 구축 방법 및 운전결과에 대해 기술하고자 한다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.451-458
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• 2008

After more than 10 years construction, KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) had finally completed its assembly in June 2007, and then achieved the goal of first-plasma in July 2008 through the four month's commissioning. KSTAR was constructed with fully superconducting magnets with material of $Nb_3Sn$ and NbTi, and their operation temperatures are maintained below 4.5K by the help of Helium Refrigerator System. During the first-plasma operation, plasmas of maximum current of 133kA and maximum pulse width of 865ms were obtained. The KSTAR Integrated Control System (KICS) has successfully fulfilled its missions of surveillance, device operation, machine protection interlock, and data acquisition and management. These and more were all KSTAR commissioning requirements. For reliable and safe operation of KSTAR, 17 local control systems were developed. Those systems must be integrated into the logically single control system, and operate regardless of their platforms and location installed. In order to meet these requirements, KICS was developed as a network-based distributed system and adopted a new framework, named as EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System). Also, KICS has some features in KSTAR operation. It performs not only 24 hour continuous plant operation, but the shot-based real-time feedback control by exchanging the initiatives of operation between a central controller and a plasma control system in accordance with the operation sequence. For the diagnosis and analysis of plasma, 11 types of diagnostic system were implemented in KSTAR, and the acquired data from them were archived using MDSpius (Model Driven System), which is widely used in data management of fusion control systems. This paper will cover the design and implementation of the KSTAR integrated control system and the data management and visualization systems. Commissioning results will be introduced in brief.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.616-619
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• 2009

Color tracking behavior of in the fringe-field switching (FFS) mode using a liquid crystal with positive dielectric anisotropy has been studied. In the in-plane switching and vertical alignment devices, color chromaticity at normal direction changes from bluish to yellowish white linearly with increasing grey levels from dark to white state. Interestingly, abnormal behavior in color tracking is observed in FFS devices using a liquid crystal with positive dielectric anisotropy, that is, it changes from bluish to yellowish up to a certain middle grey level but turns over to bluish white with further increasing from a grey level to a fully white state. In this paper, we analyze this abnormal effect from the calculated and experimental results.

• 한국고분자학회지:고분자과학과기술
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.549-553
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• 2007

• 폴리머
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.189-195
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• 2011

조직 형성을 위한 생리학적 환경을 제공하는 새로운 생활성 지지체의 디자인은 생체재료 연구에서 중요한 분야이다. 본 연구에서는 3차원적 실크/PLGA 지지체의 물성평가를 위해 압축강도, 수분친화도, SEM 분석을 하였으며, 세포친화성 평가를 위해 RAW 264.7과 NIH/3T3의 부착, 증식 및 표현형유지와 염증반응에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 지지체는 용매 캐스팅/염 추출법으로 제조하였고, 압축강도, 수분친화도 면에서 실크 함량이 20 wt%에서 우수함 확인했으며, 표면의 거침도활 높여 세포부착에 긍정적인 구조임을 확인하였다. 세포친화성 분석 결과 실크함량이 20 wt%인 실크/PLGA 지지체에서 높은 초기부작도 및 증식률을 보였으며, 실크함량이 20 wt%에서 염증반응이 눈에 띄게 감소함을 확인하였다. 조직공학적 응용에 실크/PLGA 지지체가 유용할 것이라 판단하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.326-330
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• 2013

The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device is an advanced superconducting tokamak to establish scientific and technological bases for attractive fusion reactor. This device requires 3.5 Tesla of toroidal field (TF) for plasma confinement, and requires a strong poloidal flux swing to generate an inductive voltage to produce and sustain the tokamak plasma. KSTAR was originally designed to have 16 serially connected TF magnets for which the nominal current rating is 35.2 kA. KSTAR also has 7 pairs of poloidal field (PF) coils that are driven to 1 MA/sec for generation of the tokamak plasma according to the operation scenarios. The KSTAR Magnet Power Supply (MPS) was dedicated to the superconducting (SC) coil commissioning and $2^{nd}$ plasma experiment as a part of the system commissioning. This paper will describe key features of KSTAR MPS for the $2^{nd}$ plasma experiment, and will also report the engineering and commissioning results of the magnet power supplies.

• BMB Reports
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.303-304
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• 2016

Myoblast fusion is important for skeletal muscle formation. Even though the knowledge of myoblast fusion mechanism has accumulated over the years, the initial signal of fusion is yet to be elucidated. Our study reveals the novel function of a phosphatidylserine (PS) receptor, stabilin-2 (Stab2), in the modulation of myoblast fusion, through the recognition of PS exposed on myoblasts. During differentiation of myoblasts, Stab2 expression is higher than other PS receptors and is controlled by calcineurin/NFAT signaling on myoblasts. The forced expression of Stab2 results in an increase in myoblast fusion; genetic ablation of Stab2 in mice causes a reduction in muscle size, as a result of impaired myoblast fusion. After muscle injury, muscle regeneration is impaired in Stab2-deficient mice, resulting in small myofibers with fewer nuclei, which is due to reduction of fusion rather than defection of myoblast differentiation. The fusion-promoting role of Stab2 is dependent on its PS-binding motif, and the blocking of PS-Stab2 binding impairs cell-cell fusion on myoblasts. Given our previous finding that Stab2 recognizes PS exposed on apoptotic cells for sensing as an "eat-me" signal, we propose that PS-Stab2 binding is required for sensing of a "fuse-me" signal as the initial signal of myoblast fusion.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.388-396
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• 2007

KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) 전류인입선(CL; Current Lead)은 4.5 K의 저온에서 운전되는 초전도 버스라인과 300 K의 실온에서 운전되는 MPS (Magnet Power Supply)를 전기적으로 연결하는 장치이다. 초기 플라즈마 발생시험을 위하여 TF (Toroidal Field) 및 PF (Poloidal Field) 리드박스에 전류인입선이 설치된다. TF 자석용 CL은 17.5 kA급 4 개의 CL에 최대 35 kA의 DC 전류가 인가되며, PF 자석용은 13 kA급 14 개의 CL에 350초간 $20\;{\sim}\;26\;kA$의 펄스 전류가 인가된다. 각각의 전류인입선은 TF 및 PF 자석에 전류를 인가하기 위한 버스라인이 연결되어 있으며, 전류인입선을 통해 초전도 버스라인으로 전달되는 전도열 및 전류인가시 발생되는 주울(Joule) 열을 차단하기 위한 헬륨냉매 제어시스템이 KSTAR 주장치와는 별도로 설치되어 있다. 리드박스 내 외부의 배관 및 제어시스템 설치완료 후 고진공 배기, 헬륨 누설검사, 전류인입선 유량 검사 및 액체질소 냉각시험을 실시하여 장치의 성능검증을 완료하였다.