• 한국초전도저온공학회지:초전도와저온공학
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2018

The present article briefly overviews the plan for a new project on joint technology for HTS wires/cables and describes the development plan for the world's highest field NMR magnet, which is a major development item in the project. For full-fledged social implementation of superconducting devices, high temperature superconducting (HTS) wire is a key technology since they can be cooled by liquid nitrogen and they can generate a super-high magnetic field of >>24 T at liquid helium temperatures. However, one of the major drawbacks of the HTS wires is their availability only in short lengths of a single piece of wire. This necessitates a number of joints being installed in superconducting devices, resulting in a difficult manufacturing process and a large joint resistance. In Japan, a large-scale project has commenced, including two technical demonstration items: (i) Development of superconducting joints between HTS wires, which are used in the world's highest field 1.3 GHz (30.5 T) NMR magnet in persistent current mode; the joints performance is evaluated based on NMR spectra for proteins. (ii) Development of ultra-low resistive joints between DC superconducting feeder cables for railway systems. The project starts a new initiative of next generation super-high field NMR development as well as that of realization of better superconducting power cables.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.159-165
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• 2003

뇌자도 측정을 위해 고감도 superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) 자력계 및 37채널 뇌자도 측정장치를 제작하고 동작특성을 조사하였다. 자속-전압 변환계수 및 변조전압 진폭이 큰 double relaxation oscillation SQUID (DROS)를 사용함으로서 구동회로를 간단히 하였고 안정한 SQUID 동작을 실현할 수 있었다. DROS 자력계를 설계 및 제작한 결과 자력계의 평균 백색잡음은 약 3 fT/√Hz으로서 우수한 자장감도를 가짐을 확인하였다 머리의 평균곡률을 기반으로 37개의 자력계를 반구형으로 배치시켰으며, 외부잡음을 줄이기 위해 신호채널 외에 11개의 기준채널을 설치하여 소프트웨어 방법으로 합성미분계 및 적응필터링을 형성할 수 있도록 하였다 저잡음 듀아를 제작하여 동작특성을 측정한 결과 듀아 열자기 잡음이 자력계 잡음에 비해 무시할 수 있는 수준이었으며, 듀아의 용량은 30 L, 액체헬륨 증발율은 4 L/d이다. 제작된 시스템을 이용하여 청각유발 신호를 측정하고, 디지털 신호처리 및 전류원 국지화 프로그램을 구성하여 전류원의 위치를 추정함으로서 개발된 시스템을 뇌자도 측정에 활용하였다.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.276-285
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• 2003

In the undercooled melt of $Pd_{40}Cu_{30}Ni_{10}P_{20}$ alloy, the solidification behavior including nucleation and growth of crystals at the micrometer level has been observed in-situ by use of a confocal scanning laser microscope combined with an infrared image furnace. The $Pd_{40}Cu_{30}Ni_{10}P_{20}$ alloy specimens were cooled from the liquid state to glass transition temperature. 575 K, at various cooling late under a helium gas flow. According to the cooling rate, the morphologies of the solidification front are changed among various types, irregular jog like front, columnar dendritic front, cellular grain, star like shape jog and fine grain, etc. The velocities of the solid-liquid interface are measured to be $10^{-5}{\sim}10^{-8}$ m/s which are at least two orders higher than the theoretical crystal growth rates. Combining the morphologies observed in terms of cooling rates and their solidification behaviors, we conclude that phase separation takes place in the undercooled molten $Pd_{40}Cu_{30}Ni_{10}P_{20}$ alloy. The continuous cooling transformation (CCT) diagram was constructed from solidification onset time at various linear cooling conditions with different rate. The CCT diagram suggests that the critical cooling rate for glassy solidification is about 1.5 K/s, which is in agreement with the previous calorimetric findings.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.21-24
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• 2015

New results of dependence of magnetic field, trapped by a stack of HTS tapes, on amount of tapes in a stack are reported. Commercial GdBCO tape 12 mm width and without Cu layer was used for the research. Tape was divided in square pieces $12{\times}12mm^2$ from which stacks were formed. Filling factor of the tape was about 1.4%. Measurements were carried out for stacks with height from 5 to 250 pieces and at wide temperature range from liquid helium to liquid nitrogen. Both FC (field cooling) and ZFC (zero field cooling) cooling methods were used in the research. These two methods show matching results with good accuracy. As a result dependences of trapped magnetic flux on amount of tapes for different temperatures were received. Research shows, that with increasing height of the stack trapped magnetic field value reach saturation at about 60 tapes in a stack for low temperatures. From 60 to 100 tapes increase of magnet flux is only 5%. Thus increase amount of tapes in a stack is not profitable. Also investigation of trapped magnet field relaxation was carried out. Relaxation speed decreases with increasing amount of elements. It means that the higher the stack is, the longer trapped flux will be held in cause of the same temperature.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1099-1107
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• 1992

본 연구에서는 극저온에서의 스트레인 게이지의 특성을 결정하기 위하여 이태 리의 표준기관인 IMGC (Istituto Di Metrologia "G.Colonnett")를 중심으로 세계의 측 정표준 기관과 대학이 참여하는 라운드 로빈(round robin) 시험이 진행되고 있다. 국내에서도 이 계획에 참여하여 본 연구를 수행하였다. 라운드 로빈 시험계획의 궁 극적인 목적은 세계의 주요 스트레인 게이지에 대해 여러가지 험조건에 의한 시험결과 를 가지고 극저온 환경에서의 변형측정에 이용될 수 있는 최적의 스트레인 게이지, 시 험재료, 전선연결, 시험장치 등의 시험조건을 선택하는 것이다. 이 목적을 위하여 본 연구에서는 가장 널리 쓰이는 3종류의 스트레인 게이지-미국Micro-Measurement, 일본 Kyowa, 독일 Hottinger Baldwin Mestechnik-에 대한 겉보기 변형률 대 온도의 곡선을 시험을 통하여 4.2K로 부터 293K까지의 온도 범위에서 구한다. 사용된 시편 은 스테인레스 강(AISI 316LN), 구리(Cu), 알루미늄(Al)이고 온도는 액체헬륨과 액체 질소를 이용하여 변화시켰으며, 그외의 모든 시험조건은 국제 법정계량기구(OIML) 규 정에 따라 모든 기관이 통일되도록 하였다.통일되도록 하였다.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2003

We designed and constructed a multichannel superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer system to measure magnetic fields from the human brain. We used a new type of SQUID, the double relaxation oscillation SQUID (DROS). With high flux-to-voltage transfers of the DROS, about 10 times larger than the dc SQUIDs, simple flux-locked loop circuits could be used for SQUID operation. Also the large modulation voltage of the DROS, typically being 100 $mutextrm{V}$, enabled stable flux-locked loop operation against the thermal offset voltage drift of the preamplifier. The magnetometers were fabricated using the Nb/AlOx/Nb junction technology. The SQUID system consists of 37 signal magnetometers, distributed on a semispherical surface, and 11 reference channels were installed to pickup background noises. External feedback was used to eliminate the magnetic coupling with the adjacent channels. The liquid helium dewar has a capacity of 29 L and boil-off rate of about 4 L/d with the total 48 channel insert. The magnetometer system has an average noise level of 3 fT/√Hz at 100 Hz, inside a shielded loon, and was applied to measure auditory-evoked fields.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.78-82
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• 2009

We have fabricated a helmet type magnetoencephalogrphy(MEG) with a $1^{st}$ order gradiometer in vacuum to improve the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) and the boil-off rate of liquid helium(LHe). The axial type first-order gradiometer was fabricated with a double relaxation oscillation SQUID(DROS) sensor which was directly connected with a pickup coil. The neck space of LHe dewar was made to be smaller than that of a conventional dewar, but the LHe boil-off ratio appeared to increase. To reduce the temperature of low Tc SQUID sensor and pickup coil to 9 K, a metal shield made of, such as copper, brass or aluminum, have been usually used for thermal transmission. But the metal shield exhibited high thermal noise and eddy current fluctuation. We quantified the thermal noise and the eddy current fluctuation of metal. In this experiment, we used the bobbin which was made of an alumina to wind Nb superconductive wire for pickup coil and the average noise of coil-in-vacuum type MEG system was $3.5fT/Hz^{1/2}$. Finally, we measured the auditory evoked signal to prove the reliability of coil-in-vacuum type MEG system.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.127-131
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• 2003

We have designed and measured an SFQ(Single Flux Quantum) OR gate for a superconducting ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit). To optimize the circuit, we used WRspice, XIC and Lmeter for simulations and layouts. The OR gate was consisted of a Confluence Buffer and a D Flip-Flop. When a pulse enters into the OR gate, the pulse does not propagate to the other input port because of the Confluence Buffer. A role of D Flip-Flip is expelling the data when the clock is entered into D Flip-Flop. For the measurement of the OR gate operation, we attached three DC/SFQs, three SFQ/DCs and one RS Flip -Flop to the OR gate. DC/SFQ circuits were used to generate the data pulses and clock pulses. Input frequency of 10kHz and 1MHzwere used to generate the SFQ pulses from DC/SFQ circuits. Output data from OR gate moved to RS flip -Flop to display the output on the oscilloscope. We obtained bias margins of the D Flip -Flop and the Confluence Buffer from the measurements. The measured bias margins $\pm$38.6% and $\pm$23.2% for D Flip-Flop and Confluence Buffer, respectively The circuit was measured at the liquid helium temperature.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.17-20
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• 2003

We have designed and measured a SFQ(Single Flux Quantum) DFFC and an Inverter(NOT) for superconducting ALU(Arithmetic Logic Unit) development. To optimize the circuit, we used Julia, XIC, and L meter for circuit simulations and circuit layouts. The Inverter was consisted of a D Flip-Flop, a data input, a clock input and a data output. If a data pulse arrives at the inverter, then the output reads ‘0’ (no output pulse is produced) at the next clock period. If there is no input data pulse, it reads out ‘1’(output pulse is produced). The DFFC was consisted of a D flip-Flop, an Inverter, a Data in, a Clock in and two outputs. If a data pulse arrives at the DFFC circuit, then the output2 reads ‘1’ at the next clock period, otherwise it reads out ‘1’ to output1. Operation of the fabricated chip was performed at the liquid helium temperature and at the frequencies of 1KHz.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 C
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• pp.835-837
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• 1998

Current lead plays the part of connector between ambient temperature and liquid helium superconducting magnet. Having zero resistance characteristic, it is expected that HTS has very low thermal conductivity and generate no joule heat when fabricated to current lead. In particular, among the HTS meterials, HTS tape has high Jc and Ag-sheath of tape plays the part of stabilizer, but it has too poor mechanical strength to be applied and when fabricated as long length tape, it has tendency to decline Jc seriously. In this study, we fabricated Bi-2223 multifilamentary tapes and then made current lead with stacking type using them. Through this work, we conclude that the defect of HTS long length tape is decreased by addition the number of stacking tape and that current lead is able to operate more stably by minimizing the gap of tapes.