• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.35 no.8
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• pp.1048-1054
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• 2011

Laser surface hardening process is the method of hardening surface by inducing rapid self quenching of laser injected area through transfer of surface heat to inside after rapid heating of laser injected area only by high density energy heat source. This surface treatment method does not involve virtually any thermal deformation by heat treatment nor accompanies any other process after surface hardening treatment. In addition, allowing local machining, this method is a surface treatment method suitable for die with complicated shape. In this study, die material cast iron was surface-treated by using high power diode laser with beam profile suitable for heat treatment. Since the shapes of die differ by press die process, specimens were heat-treated separately on plane and corner depending on the applied parts. At this time, corner heat treatment was done with optic head inclined at $10^{\circ}$. As a result, corner heat treatment easily involves concentration of heat input due to limitation of heat transfer route by the shapes compared with plane part, so the treatment accomplished hardening at faster conveying speed than plane heat treatment.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.600-607
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• 2011

Recently, high carbon steel has become essential not only for shipbuilding parts, but also mass production. Its surface has been treated by carburizing, nitriding and induction hardening, but these existing treatments cause considerable deformation and increase the expense of postprocessing after treatment; furthermore, these treatments cannot be easily applied to parts that requiring the hardening of only a certain section. This is because the treatment cannot heat the material homogeneously, nor can it heat all of it. Laser surface treatment was developed to overcome these disadvantages, and when the laser beam is irradiated on the surface and laser speed is appropriate, the laser focal position is rapidly heated and the thermal energy of surface penetrates the material after irradiation, finally imbuing it with a new mechanical characteristic by the process of self-quenching. This research estimates the material characteristic after efficient and functional surface treatment using HPDL, which is more efficient than the existing CW Nd:YAG laser heat source. To estimate, microstructural changes and hardness characteristics of two parts (the surface treatment part, and parental material) are observed with the change of laser beam speed and surface temperature.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.339-344
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• 2009

Recently, Laser surface treatment technologies have been used to improve wear charactenitics and fatigue resistance of metal molding. When the laser beam is irradiated on the surface and laser speed is appropriate, the laser focal position is rapidly heated and the thermal energy of surface penetrates the material after irradiation, finally imbuing it with a new mechanical characteristic by the process of self-quenching. This research estimates the material characteristic after efficient and functional surface treatment using HPDL, which is more efficient than the existing CW Nd:YAG laser heat source. To estimate this, microstructural changes and hardness characteristics of three parts (the surface treatment part, heat affect zone, and parental material) are observed with the change of laser beam speed and surface temperature. Moreover, the depth of the hardened area is observed with the change of the laser beam speed and temperature. From the results of the experiments, it has been shown that the maximum hardness is approximately 788Hv when the heat treatment temperature and the travel speed are $1150^{\circ}$ and 2 mm/sec, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.203-208
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• 2007

고출력 다이오드레이저(High Power Diode Laser, HPDL)는 독일을 중심으로 한 유럽내의 여러 국가에서 적용분야를 점차 높여가고 있으며, 금속소재에 있어서의 높은 흡수율 및 발진장치의 높은 에너지 변환효율이 중요한 요인이라고 할 수 있다. 레이저소스로부터 출력되는 사각형 또는 라인형의 레이저-빔은 다이오드레이저를 이용한 금속의 열처리분야에 매우 적합하며, 이미 Body-in-White 차체(Car Body) 양산라인의 브레이징 공정에는 수 년 전부터 실제 적용되어왔다. 또한, 다양한 빔 형상, 균일한 에너지 밀도, 낮은 운전비용, 간단한 유지보수, 좁은 설치공간, 손쉽게 이동이 가능한 구조, 광케이블을 이용한 레이저-빔의 전송 등 여러 장점으로 인하여 보다 유연하고 효과적인 생산환경을 구축할 수 있다는 것 또한 다이오드레이저의 응용분야를 확대하는 요인이 되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.08a
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• pp.295-295
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• 2011

CIGS박막을 동시 증발법(co-evaporation)으로 몰리브덴이 증착된 소다라임 유리 위에 성장시켰다. CdS 박막은 화학적 용액 성장법 (chemical bath deposition: CBD)을 이용하여 약 60 nm를 증착하였다. 열처리는 가열판 (hot-plate)을 사용하여 공기중에서 하였다. 열처리 온도는 0~350$^{\circ}C$까지 변화하였으며, 열처리 시간은 각각 5분이었다. 시료의 표면 및 계면의 변화를 SEM측정을 통하여 관측하였다. CdS/CIGS 박막의 열처리 온도 변화에 따른 photoluminescence 특성을 조사하였다. 여기 레이저는 488 nm ($Ar^+$ laser)와 632.8 nm (He-Ne laser)를 사용하여 결함의 근원을 조사하였다. 온도 의존성 실험을 통하여 CIGS 박막의 띠 간격 에너지를 확인할 수 있었으며, 결함 준위의 활성화 에너지 및 특성을 알 수 있었다. $Ar^+$ laser에서만 관측되는 신호의 근원은 CdS에 기인한 것이었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.23 no.7 s.184
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• pp.39-50
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• 2006

Laser heat treatment technologies have been used to improve characteristics of wear and to enhance the fatigue resistance for automotive parts. The bjective of this research work is to investigate the influence of the process parameters, such as power of laser and defocused spot position, on the characteristics of laser heat treatment for the case of SM45C medium carbon steel. CW Nd:YAG laser is selected as the heat source. The optical lens with the elliptical profile is designed to obtain a wide heat treatment area with a uniform hardness. From the results of the experiments, it has been shown that the maximum hardness is approximatly 780 Hv when the power and the travel of laser are 1,095 W and 0.6 m/min, respectively. In addition, the hardening width using the elliptical lens was three time larger than that using the defocusing of laser beam.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.228-231
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• 2004

We have studied local magnetization reversal and magnetic properties induced by Laser annealing method in the strip-patterned Ta/NiFe/FeMn/Ta and Ta/NiFe/FeMn/NiFe/Ta multilayers fabricated by ion-beam deposition. The films were exposed to the emission of the DPSS (Diode Pumped Solid State, Nd:YAG) laser under 600 G. The laser beam intensity increased up to 440 mW. When the laser illuminated the patterned film with the power of above 200 m W, the intensity of MR peak located in +87 Oe shrunk. A new MR peak was generated at -63 Oe. When the laser power is 400 mW, the location of positive MR peak(H$\sub$ex/) was changed slightly from +87 Oe to +76 Oe, and the MR ratio was decreased from 0.9% to 0.1 %. On the other hand, the new (negative) MR peak shifted from -63 Oe to -80 Oe, with the MR ratio increased up to 0.3%. As the illuminated area expanded, the intensity of opposite MR peak increased and it of negative MR peak decreased. This proved that the local reversal of exchange biasing should be realized by laser annealing.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.5460-5466
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• 2014

In this study, mainly for kitchen knives and small swords, cutlery, etc. STS420J2 used material used for the experiments. In order to cure the surface of the test piece after the rough grinding and fine grinding was performed in order polishing. Perform the surface hardening of STS420J2 local area by using a diode laser. The output of the laser diode and the feed rate to the process variable. Micro-hardness testing, microstructure testing, scanning electron microscope testing(SEM), the heat input to the analysis. After analyzing the experiment to compare the mechanical properties of the material. When using a diode laser to assess the soundness of the surface hardening. Accordingly, the process for deriving the optimum demonstrate the feasibility.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.165-171
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• 1997

Laser hardening for the piston ring groove of ductile cast iron was tried. Mechanical and microstructural investigation for the hardened area indicated that the laser heating technique could replace conventional induction hardening process completely and further showed that post grinding process would be eliminated by minimizing bulging of heat treated area. In laser hardening, the volume increase caused by martensitic phase transformation proved to be less than $10{\mu}m$, which insures no post machining on the hardened surface. As expected, the depth of hardening was inversely proportional to the beam scanning velocity and the highest surface hardness was obtained at the beam velocity of 0.75m/min. Heat treatment using phosphate coating demonstrated quite comparable result to the case of graphite suscepter.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.224-227
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• 2004

We have studied local magnetization reversal by laser annealing in exchange biased NiFe/FeMn bilayer. Local magnetization reversal was performed by using the DPSS laser under external magnetic field of 600G. When the laser illuminated the patterned film with the power of above 300 mW during 15 min, a magnetoresistance (MR) curve with symmetric peaks at the opposite field was obtained due to the local reversal of exchange biasing. The direction of exchange anisotropy in the locally reversed region can be restored by local laser annealing under alternating magnetic field, even if its MR peak was reduced by the damage and interdiffusion. The magnetic domain structure of the locally reversed region was measured by MFM. The new domains were generated by laser annealing near the exposed area.