• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제40회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.48-48
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• 2011

We have developed a chemically-driven top-down approach using vapor phase HCl to form various GaN nanostructures and successfully demonstrated dislocation-free and strain-relaxed GaN nanostructures without etching damage formed by a selective dissociation method. Our approach overcomes many limitations encountered in previous approaches. There is no need to make a pattern, complicated process, and expensive equipment, but it produces a high-quality nanostructure over a large area at low cost. As far as we know, this is the first time that various types of high-quality GaN nanostructures, such as dot, cone, and rod, could be formed by a chemical method without the use of a mask or pattern, especially on the Ga-polar GaN. It is well known that the Ga-polar GaN is difficult to etch by the common chemical wet etching method because of the chemical stability of GaN. Our chemically driven GaN nanostructures show excellent structure and optical properties. The formed nanostructure had various facets depending on the etching conditions and showed a high crystal quality due to the removal of defects, such as dislocations. These structure properties derived excellent optical performance of the GaN nanostructure. The GaN nanostructure had increased internal and external quantum efficiency due to increased light extraction, reduced strain, and improved crystal quality. The chemically driven GaN nanostructure shows promise in applications such as efficient light-emitting diodes, field emitters, and sensors.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.273-280
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• 2003

해안에 주로 분포하는 Atriplex gmelini(가는갯능쟁이)의 염 내성이 항산화 효소의 활성증가에 의한 것인가를 조사하기 위해 다양한 농도의 염 처리에 의한 광계 Ⅱ 양자효율 및 항산화 효소의 활성 변화를 조사하였다. A. gmelini는 100 mM NaCl처리구에서 가장 높은 지상부 건물함량(대조구의 116%) 및 최적의 생장을 보였으며, 300 mM NaCl처리에 의해서도 체내 수분함량과 건물량의 감소를 보이지 않아 염에 대한 높은 내성을 보였다. 단기간(2, 4일)의 염 처리시 외부 염 농도 구배에 따른 Fv/Fm값(양자효율)의 증가, Fo/Fm값(스트레스지표)의 감소 및 SOD, APX, GR과 같은 항산화 효소의 활성 증가를 나타내어 광화학적 스트레스 혹은 항산화 방어시스템의 손상을 보이지 않았다. 그러나 400 mM NaCl을 처리한 식물의 경우, 비록 대조구(0 mM NaCl)에 비해 높은 항산화 효소 활성값(SOD 171%, APX 114%, GR 134%)을 보였지만 생장감소(잎, 줄기 각각 30%, 16%) 및 고농도 염에 의한 활성의 감소양상을 나타내었다. 흥미롭게도, H₂O₂제거에 중요한 역할을 하는 또 다른 효소인 CAT의 활성이 염에 의한 빠른 감소(200, 300, 400 mM NaCl 처리구의 경우 각각 대조구의 38%, 22%, 15%)를 보여, A. gmelini는 염에 의해 생성된 활성산소 제거와 염분 내성에 ascorbate-glutathione cycle의 APX, GR이 중요한 역할을 수행하는 것으로 생각된다. 그러나, 염 처리 6일 후, Fv/Fm값의 감소, Fo/Fm값의 증가 및 항산화 효소의 활성감소를 보여 광화학적 저해 및 항산화 방어시스템의 손상을 나타내었다. A. gmelini는 단기간의 염 처리(염 처리 2, 4일)시, 염에 의해 유도된 ROS증가에 대해 항산화 시스템의 활성 강화를 통해 균형을 이루지만, 6일 이상의 지속적인 염에 의해서는 항산화 효소의 활성감소와 광화학적 손상으로 인한 ROS증가로 산화적 스트레스가 유발되는 것으로 여겨진다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.386-386
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• 2012

For white light emitting diode (LED) applications, it has been reported that Y3Al5O12:Ce3+ (YAG:Ce) in nano-sized phosphor performs better than it does in micro-sized particles. This is because nano-sized YAG:Ce can reduce internal light scattering when coated onto a blue LED surface. Recently, there have been many reports on the synthesis of nano-sized YAG particles using bottom-up method, such as co-precipitation method, sol-gel process, hydrothermal method, solvothermal method, and glycothermal method. However, there has been no report using top-down method. Top-down method has advantages than bottom-up method, such as large scale production and easy control of doping concentration and particle size. Therefore, in this study, nano-sized YAG:Ce phosphors were synthesized by a high energy beads milling process with varying beads size, milling time and milling steps. The beads milling process was performed by Laboratory Mill MINICER with ZrO2 beads. The phase identity and morphology of nano-sized YAG:Ce were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), respectively. By controlling beads size, milling time and milling steps, we synthesized a size-tunable and uniform nano-sized YAG:Ce phosphors which average diameters were 100, 85 and 40 nm, respectively. After milling, there was no impurity and all of the peaks were in good agreement with YAG (JCPDS No. 33-0040). Luminescence and quantum efficiency (QE) of nano-sized YAG:Ce phosphors were measured by fluorescence spectrometer and QE measuring instrument, respectively. The synthesized YAG:Ce absorbed light efficiently in the visible region of 400-500 nm, and showed single broadband emission peaked at 550 nm with 50% of QE. As a result, by considering above results, high energy beads milling process could be a facile and reproducible synthesis method for nano-sized YAG:Ce phosphors.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2007년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.8
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• pp.328-328
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• 2007

Large area matrix-addressed image detectors are a recent technology for x-ray imaging with medical diagnostic and other applications. The imaging properties of x-ray pixel detectors depend on the quantum efficiency of x-rays, the generated signal of each x-ray photon and the distribution of the generated signal between pixels. In a phosphor coated detector the light signal is generated by electrons captured in the phosphor screen. In our study we simulated the lateral spread distributions for phosphor coupled detector by Monte Carlo simulations. Most simulations of such detectors simplify the setup by only taking the conversion layer into account neglecting behind. The Monte Carlo code MCNPX has been used to simulate the complete interaction and subsequent charge transport of x-ray radiation. This has allowed the analysis of charge sharing between pixel elements as an important limited factor of digital x-ray imaging system. The parameters are determined by lateral distribution of x-ray photons and x-ray induced electrons. The primary purpose of this study was to develop a design tool for the evaluation of geometry factor in the phosphor coupled optical imaging detector. In order to evaluate the spatial resolution for different phosphor material, phosphor geometry we have developed a simulation code. The developed code calculates the energy absorption and spatial distribution based on both the signal from the scintillating layer and the signal from direct detection of x-ray in the detector. We show that internal scattering contributes to the so-called spatial resolution drop of the image detector. Results from the simulation of spatial distribution in a phosphor pixel detector are presented. The spatial resolution can be increased by optimizing pixel size and phosphor thickness.