• Applied Microscopy
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• 제50권
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• pp.7.1-7.10
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• 2020

Tantalum nitride (TaN_x) thin films were grown utilizing an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) assisted direct current (DC) sputtering, and 20-100% improved microhardness values were obtained. The detailed microstructural changes of the TaN_x films were characterized utilizing transmission electron microscopy (TEM), as a function of nitrogen gas fraction and ICP power. As nitrogen gas fraction increases from 0.05 to 0.15, the TaN_x phase evolves from body-centered-cubic (b.c.c.) TaN_0.1, to face-centered-cubic (f.c.c.) δ-TaN, to hexagonal-close-packing (h.c.p.) ε-TaN phase. By increasing ICP power from 100 W to 400 W, the f.c.c. δ- TaN phase becomes the main phase in all nitrogen fractions investigated. The higher ICP power enhances the mobility of Ta and N ions, which stabilizes the δ-TaN phase like a high-temperature regime and removes the micro-voids between the columnar grains in the TaN_x film. The dense δ-TaN structure with reduced columnar grains and micro-voids increases the strength of the TaN_x film.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.53-60
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• 2023

A wide range of grain size was achieved in a Fe-Cr-Mn austenitic stainless steel (STS) by cold rolling and reversion annealing. The tensile characteristics of the STS were analyzed in terms of the dependence of strain induced martensitic (SIM) transformation on the grain size. In the ultrafine grain regime, the steel showed a high yield strength over 1 GPa, a discontinuous yielding, and a prolonged yield point elongation followed by considerable strain hardening. By increasing the grain size, the discontinuous yielding diminished and the yield point elongation decreased. The microstructural examination revealed that these tensile characteristics are closely related to the suppression of SIM transformation with decreasing the grain size. Especially, the prolonged yield point elongation of the ultrafine grained STS was found to be associated with development of unidirectional ε martensite bands. Based on the microstructural examination of the deformed microstructures, the rationalization of the grain size dependence of SIM transformation was suggested.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제12권
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• pp.587-613
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• 1999

Environmental problems such as global climate change, depletion, ocean and air pollution, and resource degradation-compounded by an expanding world population-respect no border and threaten the health, prosperity and jobs of all mankind. Our efforts to promote democracy, free trade, and stability in the world will fall short unless people have a livable environment. We have an enormous stake in the management of the world's resources. By increasing demand for timber, natural gas, coal and consumer's goods have destroyed the grounds for living. Greenhouse gas emissions anywhere in the world have threatened coastal communities, and then changed the Earth's climate system. The burning of coal, oil, and other fossil fuels is increasing substantially the concentration of heat-trapping gasses such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in our air. The earth's temperature and sea levels are rising as a result. Since 1972 there has been a marked growth in the number and scope of environmental treaties. In particular, after the 1992 Rio Conference, international legal instruments became more concentrated on addressing environment within the context of sustainable development and incorporated a number of new concepts and innovative approaches. A preliminary analysis of recent conventions and in particular those associated with the Rio Conference indicates various ideas, concepts and principles which have come to the fore including sustainable development, equity, common concern of humankind, common but differentiated responsibilities and global partnership. However, international trade also has an environmental impact which must be minimized or countered. Positive measures are to be preferred to achieve environmental goals, but where trade provisions are necessary, they should be appropriately used within environmental conventions to facilitate the reduction and limitation of the negative impacts of trade and to enhance the complementarity of the multilateral trade regime with the imperatives of environmental protection, in the interests of environmental protection and sustainable development generally. The international community has to recognize and endorse this need to achieve complementarity between trade and environment issues.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.858-864
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• 2014

Recently, many researches have shown that even photosynthetic light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes can have quantum coherence in their excitonic energy transfer at cryogenic and physiological temperatures. Because the protein supplies such noisy environment around pigments that conventional wisdom expects very short lived quantum coherence, elucidating the mechanism and searching for an applicability of the coherence have become an interesting topic in both experiment and theory. We have previously studied the quantum coherence of a phycocyanin 645 complex in a marine algae harvesting light system, using Poisson mapping bracket equation (PBME). PBME is one of the applicable methods for solving quantum-classical Liouville equation, for following the dynamics of such pigment-protein complexes. However, it may suffer from many defects mostly from mapping quantum degrees of freedom into classical ones. To make improvements against such defects, benchmarking targets with more accurately described dynamics is highly needed. Here, we fall back to reduced hierarchical equation of motion (HEOM), for such a purpose. Even though HEOM is known to applicable only to simplified system that is coupled to a set of harmonic oscillators, it can provide ultimate accuracy within the regime of quantum-classical description, thus providing perfect benchmark targets for certain systems. We compare the evolution of the density matrix of pigment excited states by HEOM against the PBME results at physiological temperature, and observe more sophisticated changes of density matrix elements from HEOM. In PBME, the population of states with intermediate energies display only monotonically increasing behaviors. Most importantly, PBME suffers a serious issue of wrong population in the long time limit, likely generated by the zero-point energy leaking problem. Future prospects for developments are briefly discussed as a concluding remark.

• 에너지공학
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.120-127
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• 2007

본 연구의 목적은 디젤연소장의 분위기조건에 따라 다성분 혼합연료의 질량분률이 분무착화 및 연소특성에 미치는 영향을 실험적으로 고찰하는데 있다. 착화 및 연소특성은 화학발광계측법 및 직접촬영법을 이용하여 분석되었다. 실험은 광계측기를 사용하여 RCEM에서 이루어졌으며, 이소옥탄, 노말 도데칸, 노말 헥사데칸으로 혼합한 다성분연료는 커먼레일 인젝터의 전자제어에 의해 RCEM의 연소실 내로 분사된다. 실험조건은 분사압력 42, 72, 112 MPa과 분위기온도 700, 800, 900 K로 하였다. 그 결과로서 착화지연은 고세탄가성분에 의존하고, 분위기온도가 낮을 경우 저비점성분 혼합비율의 증가에 따라 휘도영역이 현저하게 낮아지며, 열발생률이 증가하면서 확산연소기간을 단축시킨다.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.131-135
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• 1995

겨울철 대부분의 시설재배 채소는 야간 온도가 떨어지기 매문에 많은 열 에너지를 공급함으로써 야온을 높여 생장시키기 때문에 에너지 손실이 많다. 본 실험은 수박의 경제적 출하를 목적으로 야온에 대한 생장 효과를 조사하였다. 낮의 온도를 $25^{\circ}C$와 3$0^{\circ}C$로 하고 야간의 온도는 2$0^{\circ}C$에서 3$0^{\circ}C$로 5$^{\circ}C$ 간격을 두고 처리하였다. 두 품종 수박(빛나, 감로) 모두 30/3$0^{\circ}C$ 처리에서 엽면적, 개화수 및 엽수가 가장 많았다. 30(14h)/25(10h) $^{\circ}C$과 30(12h)/25(12h) $^{\circ}C$ 처리구에서는 발아율 및 건중과 엽록소의 함량이 야온을 높인 30/3$0^{\circ}C$ 처리구 보다 높은 경향을 보였다. 25/$25^{\circ}C$와 30/2$0^{\circ}C$는 평균 온도가 같을지라도 수박의 생장에 있어서는 30/2$0^{\circ}C$ 처리구가 25/$25^{\circ}C$에 비하여 생장이 우수하였다. 빛나는 동일 조건에서 감로보다 생장이 우수하였다. 건중 엽면적율은 30/3$0^{\circ}C$와 30/2$0^{\circ}C$ 사이의 온도에서 DIF가 증가함에 따라 감소되었으나, 건중 엽중율은 증가되었다. 시설내 야온을 적절히 낮추어 재배하는 방법이 겨울철 에너지 소모 방지와 수박의 생장에 도움을 줄 것으로 기대된다.

• 폴리머
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.98-104
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• 2007

다양한 분자량의 폴리스티렌을 벤젠/n-헵탄, 1,4-다이옥산/이소프로판올, 1,4-다이옥산/n-헵탄과 같은 3종류의 혼합용매 계에 녹인 뒤 온도 상승에 따른 사슬의 팽창거동을 Flory $\Theta$온도 이상에서 점성도법으로 측정하였다. 온도 상승에 따라 두 종류의 영역, 즉 고분자 사슬이 팽창하는 영역과 수축하는 영역으로 구별되며, 분자량이 클수록 최대팽창온도가 높게 나타났다. 하나의 혼합용매 계 내에서는 $\tau/\tau_c$ 파라미터로 서로 다른 분자량의 사슬 팽창에 대하여 만능성이 나타나지만 서로 다른 혼합용매 계 사이에서는 각각의 기울기를 보임으로써 만능성이 관찰되지 않았다. 그러나 새로운 실험적 $b^{2/3}\tau/\tau_c$ 파라미터를 도입할 경우 모든 혼합용매 계의 사슬 팽창의 데이터들은 하나의 직선 위에 놓임으로써 만능성은 다시 회복되었다. 여기서 $\tau$는 $(T-\Theta)/\Theta$로 $\tau_c$는 $(\Theta-T_c)/T_c$로 각각 정의되며, $T_c$는 임계용액온도를 의미하며, b는 Schultz-Flory 식에서 $1/T_c$의 $1/M_w^{1/2}$에 대한 유효 기울기이다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.432-438
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• 2018

The occurrence of saturation in the CR-39 detector reduces and limits its detection dynamic range; nevertheless, this range could be extended using spectroscopic techniques and by measuring the net bulk rate of the saturated CR-39 detector surface. CR-39 detectors were irradiated by 1.5 MeV high alpha-particle fluence varying from $0.06{\times}10^8$ to $7.36{\times}10^8\;alphas/cm^2$ from Am-241 source; thereafter, they were etched in a 6.25N NaOH solution at a temperature of $70^{\circ}C$ for different durations. Net bulk etch rate measurement of the 1.5 MeV alpha-irradiated CR-39 detector surface revealed that rate increases with increasing etching time and reaches its maximum value at the end of the alpha-particle range. It is also correlated with the alpha-particle fluence. The measurements of UV-Visible (UV-Vis) absorbance at 500 and 600 nm reveal that the absorbance is linearly correlated with the fluence of alpha particles at the etching times of 2 and 4 hour. For extended etching times of 6, 10, and 14.5 hour, the absorbance is saturated for fluence values of $4.05{\times}10^8$, $5.30{\times}10^8$, and $7.36{\times}10^8\;alphas/cm^2$. These new methods pave the way to extend the dynamic range of polymer-based solid state nuclear track detectors (SSNTDs) in measurement of high fluence of heavy ions as well as in radiation dosimetry.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.50-56
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• 2013

대향류 비예혼합 연료-공기 유동장에서 고온연료의 점화특성과 형성된 화염의 소화특성에 미치는 복사효과에 대해 수치계산을 통해 검토하였다. 화학반응의 계산을 위해 GRI-v3.0의 상세화학반응기구를 사용하였으며, 단열계산과 광학적으로 얇은 복사모델을 적용하여 계산을 수행하였다. 대향류 유동장의 점화와 소화점을 정확히 찾기 위하여 화염제어 연속계산법을 적용하였다. 결과를 통해 스트레인율 변화에 대해 최고 온도보다는 최고 H 라디칼 농도가 점화와 소화거동을 이해하는데 더 적합하다는 것을 확인하였다. 최고 H 라디칼 농도변화 거동을 통해 기존에 알려진 S-곡선, C-곡선 및 O-곡선 등을 확인하였다. 복사열손실 분율($f_r$)과 공간에 대해 적분된 열발생률(IHRR)을 통해 $f_r$이 가장 큰 점에서 복사효과에 의한 소화가 발생하였으며, 화염신장 소화점에서는 IHRR이 가장 높지만 화염에서의 전도에 의한 열손실로 인해 소화가 되는 것을 확인하였다. 복사는 화염신장 소화점에는 거의 영향이 없지만 복사 소화점과 점화점에는 큰 영향을 주는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 연료의 온도가 높아질수록 복사에 의한 소화점의 스트레인율과 화염신장에 의한 스트레인율 사이의 영역이 넓어지게 되어 화염 안정성이 향상되고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제42회 동계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.265-265
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• 2012

The adsorption of molecular $NH_3$ on rutile $TiO_2(110)-1{\times}1$ surfaces was investigated using a temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) technique combined with a molecular beam apparatus. A quantitative investigation into the TPD spectra of $NH_3$ was made for $NH_3$ adsorbed on two kinds of rutile $TiO_2(110)-1{\times}1$ surfaces with the oxygen vacancy ($V_O$) concentration of ~0% (p-$TiO_2(110)$) and ~5% (r-$TiO_2(110)$), respectively. On both surfaces, non-dissociative adsorption of $NH_3$ was inferred from a quantitative analysis on the amount of adsorbed $NH_3$ and those desorbed. With increasing coverage, the monolayer desorption feature shifted from 400 K toward lower temperatures until it saturates at 160 K, suggesting a repulsive nature in the interaction between $NH_3$ molecules. At the very low coverage regime, the desorption features were found to extend up to 430 K and 400 K on p-$TiO_2(110)$ and p-TiO(110), respectively. As a result, the saturation coverage of monolayer of $NH_3$ was higher on the p-$TiO_2(110)$ surface than on the p-TiO(110) by about 10%. The desorption energy ($E_d$) of $NH_3$ obtained by inversion of the Polanyi-Wigner equation indicated that the difference between the $E_d$'s of $NH_3$ (that is, $E_d(on\;p-TiO_2(110)$) - $E_d$(on p-TiO(110)) was 14 kJ/mol at ${\theta}(NH_3)=0$ and decreased to 0 as the coverage approached to a monolayer. The observed adsorption behavior of $NH_3$ was interpreted using an interaction model between $NH_3$ and surface defects on $TiO_2$ such as VO's and $Ti^{3+}$ interstitials.