• 제목/요약/키워드: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Spin Engineering in Organic Light Emitting Devices

  • Segal, Michael;Baldo, Marc
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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    • pp.571-576
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    • 2006
  • We review work performed by our group and collaborators in the area of exciton formation. There are three components: (i) measurement of singlet fractions, (ii) analysis of magnetic resonance measurements, and (iii) models of exciton formation. We find that the fraction of singlet excitons is a controllable quantity, pointing the way to a new generation of all-fluorescent organic light emitting devices.

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NMR/MRI Superconducting Magnet Technologies: Recent Activities at MIT Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory

  • Yukikazu Iwasa;Lee, Haigun
    • 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2003
  • In this paper we present a brief description and summary results of each of our recent activities in three areas, all devoted to NMR and MRI superconducting magnet technologies: 1) development of a high-field LTS / HTS NMR magnet; 2) development of a novel digital flux injector for slightly resistive NMR magnets; and 3) a proposal fer a low-cost MRI magnet system based on $MgB_2$ composite and an innovative cryogenic design / operation concept.

Analysis of the acoustic wavefields excited by the Logging­While-Drilling (LWD) tool

  • Byun, Joongmoo;Toksoz, M.-Nafi
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국지구물리탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the international symposium on the fusion technology
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    • pp.313-320
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    • 2003
  • Synthetic seismograms recorded with a logging-while-drilling (LWD) tool in the presence of slow formation are computed by the discrete wavenumber method. Monopole, dipole, and quadrupole logging tools are simulated with a source center frequency of 4 kHz. The modes in the responses are identified and characterized with time and frequency semblance plots. Numerical results show that, to obtain the formation shear velocity, we need to correct the peak velocities of the multipole modes in the semblance plots by using analytical dispersion curves.

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Cu/Ni/Cu 단결정 박막에서의 자기 탄성 계수 (The Magnetoelastic Coupling Coefficients in Cu/Ni/Cu thin Films)

  • 송오성
    • 한국자기학회지
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    • 제5권2호
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    • pp.109-111
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    • 1995
  • 단결정 Cu/ Ni/ Cu 박막의 자기탄성계수(magnetoelastic coupling coefficients)를 자성박막의 두께에 따른 효과이방성에너지(effective anisotropy energy)를 측정하여 현 상학적인 이론 모델로 구하는 방법을 제안하였다. 이러한 간접적인 방법으로 자기탄성 계수를 결정하는 방법은 다른 결정정계에서도 가능하다.

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Operational Availability Improvement through Online Monitoring and Advice For Emergency Diesel Generator

  • Lee, Jong-Beom;Kim, han-Gon;Kim, Byong-Sub;M. Golay;C.W. Kang;Y. Sui
    • 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국원자력학회 1998년도 춘계학술발표회논문집(1)
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    • pp.264-270
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    • 1998
  • This research broadens the prime concern of nuclear power plant operations from safe performance to both economic and safe performance. First emergency diesel generator is identified as one of main contributors for the lost plant availability through the review of plants forced outage records. The framework of an integrated architecture for performing modern on-line condition for operational availability improvement is configured in this work. For the development of the comprehensive sensor networks for complex target systems, an integrated methodology incorporating a structural hierarchy, a functional hierarchy, and a fault-system matrix is formulated. The second part of our research is development of intelligent diagnosis and maintenance advisory system, which employs Bayesian Belief networks (BBNs) as a high level reasoning tool incorporating inherent uncertainty use in probabilistic inference. Our prototype diagnosis algorithms are represented explicitly through topological symbols and links between them in a causal direction. As new evidence from sensor network development is entered into the model especially, our advisory of system provides operational advice concerning both availability and safety, so that the operator is able to determine the likely modes, diagnose the system state, locate root causes, and take the most advantageous action. Thereby, this advice improves operational availability

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THERMAL SHOCK FRACTURE OF SILICON CARBIDE AND ITS APPLICATION TO LWR FUEL CLADDING PERFORMANCE DURING REFLOOD

  • Lee, Youho;Mckrell, Thomas J.;Kazimi, Mujid S.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제45권6호
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    • pp.811-820
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    • 2013
  • SiC has been under investigation as a potential cladding for LWR fuel, due to its high melting point and drastically reduced chemical reactivity with liquid water, and steam at high temperatures. As SiC is a brittle material its behavior during the reflood phase of a Loss of Coolant Accident (LOCA) is another important aspect of SiC that must be examined as part of the feasibility assessment for its application to LWR fuel rods. In this study, an experimental assessment of thermal shock performance of a monolithic alpha phase SiC tube was conducted by quenching the material from high temperature (up to $1200^{\circ}C$) into room temperature water. Post-quenching assessment was carried out by a Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) image analysis to characterize fractures in the material. This paper assesses the effects of pre-existing pores on SiC cladding brittle fracture and crack development/propagation during the reflood phase. Proper extension of these guidelines to an SiC/SiC ceramic matrix composite (CMC) cladding design is discussed.

Initial estimates of the economical attractiveness of a nuclear closed Brayton combined cycle operating with firebrick resistance-heated energy storage

  • Chavagnat, Florian;Curtis, Daniel
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제50권3호
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    • pp.488-493
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    • 2018
  • The Firebrick Resistance-Heated Energy Storage (FIRES) concept developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology aims to enhance profitability of the nuclear power industry in the next decades. Studies carried out at Massachusetts Institute of Technology already provide estimates of the potential revenue from FIRES system when it is applied to industrial heat supply, the likely first application. Here, we investigate the possibility of operating a power plant (PP) with a fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactor and a closed Brayton cycle. This variant offers features such as enhanced nuclear safety as well as flexibility in design of the PP but also radically changes the way of operating the PP. This exploratory study provides estimates of the revenue generated by FIRES in addition to the nominal revenue of the stand-alone fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactor, which are useful for defining an initial design. The electricity price data is based on the day-ahead markets of Germany/Austria and the United States (Iowa). The proposed method derives from the equation of revenue introduced in this study and involves simple computations using MatLab to compute the estimates. Results show variable economic potential depending on the host grid but stress a high profitability in both regions.

Antioxidant Activity of Sulfated Polysaccharides Isolated from Sargassum fulvellum

  • Choi, Dae-Sung;Athukorala, Yasantha;Jeon, You-Jin;Senevirathne, Mahinda;Cho, Kyun-Rha;Kim, Soo-Hyun
    • Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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    • 제12권2호
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2007
  • Sargassum fulvellum, a marine brown alga, is a popular low priced edible plant in Korean markets. The polysaccharide fraction of the alga was separated and investigated for its radical scavenging activities and the results compared with those of commercial fucoidans (Fucus vesiculosus and Undaria pinnatifida), BHA and ${\alpha}$-tocopherol. The polysaccharide fraction of S. fulvellum showed a promising DPPH radical scavenging activity than did other fucoidans. Moreover, the sample exhibited a dose-dependent activity on hydrogen peroxide scavenging activity in the V79-4 cell line. Interestingly, all the tested polysaccharide counterparts were more potent NO. scavengers than were the commercial antioxidants, BHA and ${\alpha}$-tocopherol. The sulfated polysaccharide of S. fulvellum had an approximate molecular weight of 529 kDa and mainly consisted of fucose and galactose, and minor amounts of mannose, rhamnose and xylose.

Three-dimensional TEM Characterization of Highly Oriented Diamond Films on a (100) Silicon Substrate

  • Seung Joon Jeon;Arun Kymar Chawla;Young Joon Baik;Changmo Sung
    • The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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    • 제3권3호
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    • pp.155-158
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    • 1997
  • Highly oriented diamond films were deposited on a (100) silicon substrate by bias enhanced nucleation technique. Both plan-view and cross-section TEM were applied to study the nucleation and growth mechanism of diamond grains. Randomly oriented polycrystalline diamond grains with internal microtwins were observed at the nucleation stage while defect free regions were retained at the growth stage and were apparently related with the epitaxy of diamond films. From our experimental results, the nucleation and texture formation mechanism of diamond films is discussed.

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