• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2435-2440
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• 2003

Manipulation of the nano/micro scale object has been a key technology in biology as the sizes of DNA, chromosome, nucleus, cell and embryo are within such order. For instance, for embryo cell manipulation, the cell injection is performed manually. The operator often spends over a year to carry out a cell manipulation project. Since the typical success rate of such operation is extremely low, automation of such biological cell manipulation has been asked. As the operator spends most of his time in finding the position of cell in the Petri dish and in injecting bio-material to the cell from the best orientation. In this paper, we propose a new strategy and a vision system, by which one can find, recognize and track nucleus, polar body, and zona pellucida of the embryo cell for automatic biomanipulation. The deformable template matching algorithm has been used in recognizing the nucleus and polar body of each cell. Result suggests that it outperforms the conventional methods.

• Composites Research
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.178-185
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 기능성 나노복합재를 제작하는 방법이 제시되었다. 미소 입자들을 포함하고 있는 점성을 가진 유체에 전기장을 가하여 유체속에 포함된 입자들을 전기장의 방향에 따라 규칙적으로 배열을 하였다. FAiMTa 기술이라고 불리는 이 방법은 마이크로 혹은 나노 사이즈의 입자들을 체인의 형태로 배열하여 직교이방성 폴리머 나노복합재의 제작을 가능하게 하였다. 알루미나($Al_2O_3$), 탄소나노튜브(CNT), 탄소(Graphite), 텅스텐(W) 등의 마이크로 혹은 나노 사이즈 입자 분말을 사용하여 FAiMTa기술의 유효성을 확인하는 시험을 수행하였다. 이러한 입자들을 전기장을 사용하여 일정한 방향으로 배열하여 직교이방성 폴리머 복합재를 만들었고, 시험시편의 물리적 특성 즉 기계적 열적 특성을 측정하여 방향성을 확인하였다. 이렇게 제작된 첨단 나노복합재는 각종 산업분야에서 큰 효과가 기대된다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 1999년도 제17회 학술발표회 논문개요집
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• pp.175-175
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• 1999

Circumventing problems lying in the conventional lithographic techniques, we devised a new method for the fabrication of nanometer scale metal wires inspired by the unique characteristics of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Since carbon nanotubes could act as masks when CNT-coated thin Au/Ti layer on a SiO2 surface was physically etched by low energy argon ion bombardment 9ion milling), Au/Ti nano-wires were successfully formed just below the CNTs exactly duplicating their lateral shapes. Cross-sectional analysis by transmission electron microscopy revealed that the edge of the metal wire was very sharply developed indicating the great difference in the milling rates between the CNTs and the metal layer as well as the good directionality of the ion milling. We could easily find a few nanometer-wide Au/Ti wires among the wires of various width. After the formation of nano-wires, the CNTs could be pushed away from the metal nano-wire by atomic force microscopy, The lateral force for the removal of the CNTs are dependent upon the width and shape of the wires. Resistance of the metal nano-wires without the CNTs was also measured through the micro-contacts definted by electron beam lithography. since this CNT-based lithographic technique is, in principle, applicable to any kinds of materials, it can be very useful in exploring the fields of nano-science and technology, especially when it is combines with the CNT manipulation techniques.