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Advances in the understanding of molybdenum effect on iodine and caesium reactivity in condensed phase in the primary circuit in nuclear severe accident conditions

  • Gouello, Melany;Hokkinen, Jouni;Karkela, Teemu
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.8
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    • pp.1638-1649
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    • 2020
  • In the case of a severe accident in a Light Water Reactor, the issue of late release of fission products, from the primary circuit surfaces is of particular concern due to the direct impact on the source term. CsI is the main iodine compound present in the primary circuit and can be deposited as particles or condensed species. Its chemistry can be affected by the presence of molybdenum, and can lead to the formation of gaseous iodine. The present work studied chemical reactions on the surfaces involving gaseous iodine release. CsI and MoO3 were used to highlight the effects of carrier gas composition and oxygen partial pressure on the reactions. The results revealed a noticeable effect of the presence of molybdenum on the formation of gaseous iodine, mainly identified as molecular iodine. In addition, the oxygen partial pressure prevailing in the studied conditions was an influential parameter in the reaction.

Development a glucose-FIA system with a fiber optic oxygen sensor

  • Sohn, Ok-Jae;Lam, Tuan-Hung;Rhee, Jong-Il
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.730-734
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    • 2005
  • Flow injection analysis (FIA) system was developed to monitor glucose concentrations in biotechnological processes. A fiber optic oxygen sensor was used to determine consumption of oxygen concentration by reaction of immobilized glucose oxidase (GOD). The GOD was immobilized on VA-Epoxy carrier and integrated into FIA system. A calibration curve for glucose was obtained in the range of 0.5 $g/L{\sim}3.0$ g/L.

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Investigation on the Stability Enhancement of Oxide Thin Film Transistor (산화물반도체 트랜지스터 안정성 향상 연구)

  • Lee, Sang Yeol
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.351-354
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    • 2013
  • Thin-film transistors(TFTs) with silicon-zinc-tin-oxide(SiZnSnO, SZTO) channel layer are fabricated by rf sputtering method. Electrical properties were changed by different annealing treatment of dry annealing and wet annealing. This procedure improves electrical property especially, stability of oxide TFT. Improved electrical properties are ascribed to desorption of the negatively charged oxygen species from the surfaces by annealing treatment. The threshold voltage ($V_{th}$) shifted toward positive as increasing Si contents in SZTO system. Because the Si has a lower standard electrode potential (SEP) than that that of Sn, Zn, resulting in the degeneration of the oxygen vacancy ($V_O$). As a result, the Si acts as carrier suppressor and oxygen binder in the SZTO as well as a $V_{th}$ controller, resulting in the enhancement of stability of TFTs.

Polyvinyl butyral DMN-conjugates for the controlled release of singlet oxygen in medical and antimicrobial applications

  • Posavec, Damir;Muller, Rainer;Bogner, Udo;Bernhardt, Gunther;Knor, Gunther
    • Biomaterials and Biomechanics in Bioengineering
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.73-79
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    • 2014
  • Covalent attachment of 1, 4-dimethylnaphthalene (DMN) based endoperoxide forming subunits to a polyvinyl butyral (PVB) backbone has been achieved. The functionalized polymer materials prepared and characterized here can serve as biocompatible carrier systems for studying cellular uptake, intermediate storage and delayed release of singlet oxygen, which opens up new doors for optimizing a variety of medical applications of photogenerated DMN-endoperoxides such as antiviral, antibacterial, antiplasmodial and antitumor activity.

Surface Oxidation Effect During high Temperature Vacuum Annealing on the Electrical Conductivity of ZnO thin Films Deposited by ALD

  • Kim, Jin-Yong;Choi, Yong-June;Park, Hyung-Ho
    • Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.73-78
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    • 2012
  • The chemical, electrical, and optical properties of ZnO and Al-doped ZnO films after high temperature annealing were studied. The resistivity increased significantly after annealing at $600^{\circ}C$ under $10^{-10}$ Torr atmosphere. The mechanism of the resistivity change was explored using photoemission spectroscopy and photoluminescence spectrometer. The results indicated that the amount of oxygen deficient region O-Zn bonds decreased and oxygen vacancy was decreased after the high temperature vacuum annealing. The increase in the resistivity of ZnO and Al-doped ZnO films was resulted from the decrease in carrier concentration due to a decrease in the amount of oxygen deficiency.

Characteristics of ZnO Thin Films Prepared by Photo-CVD (광 CVD법으로 제작한 ZnO박막의 특성)

  • 박계춘;정해덕;정운조;류용택
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1992.05a
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    • pp.117-121
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    • 1992
  • Zinc oxide thin films were obtained from zinc acetate-2-water and oxygen by photo-CVD method. (1) The formation of ZnO films sarts from 100[$^{\circ}C$] and the deposition rate increases with increasing substrate temperature. (2) The rate of deposition was also affected by flow rates of O$_2$(reaction gas) and N$_2$(Carrier gas). (3) The deposition rate decreases with increasing O$_2$mole rate. (4) The transmission of the films was independent of oxygen mole rate and it was largely affected substrate temperature. (5) The electric resistivity of th films was largely varied at oxygen mole rate 10[%] and above 20[%], a plateau was encountered. Also, it increases with increasing substrate temperature. As the results, at substrate temperature: 200[$^{\circ}C$]; O$_2$gas mole rate:10[%]; reation time:10[min] pressure: 10$\^$-2/[atm], deposition rate; transmittance; resistivity were 780[A$\^$0/; 94[%]; 7${\times}$10$\^$-2/[$\Omega$$.$cm] respectively.

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Study of Magnetic Field Shielded Sputtering Process as a Room Temperature High Quality ITO Thin Film Deposition Process

  • Lee, Jun-Young;Jang, Yun-Sung;Lee, You-Jong;Hong, Mun-Pyo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.288-289
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    • 2011
  • Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) is a typical highly Transparent Conductive Oxide (TCO) currently used as a transparent electrode material. Most widely used deposition method is the sputtering process for ITO film deposition because it has a high deposition rate, allows accurate control of the film thickness and easy deposition process and high electrical/optical properties. However, to apply high quality ITO thin film in a flexible microelectronic device using a plastic substrate, conventional DC magnetron sputtering (DMS) processed ITO thin film is not suitable because it needs a high temperature thermal annealing process to obtain high optical transmittance and low resistivity, while the generally plastic substrates has low glass transition temperatures. In the room temperature sputtering process, the electrical property degradation of ITO thin film is caused by negative oxygen ions effect. This high energy negative oxygen ions(about over 100eV) can be critical physical bombardment damages against the formation of the ITO thin film, and this damage does not recover in the room temperature process that does not offer thermal annealing. Hence new ITO deposition process that can provide the high electrical/optical properties of the ITO film at room temperature is needed. To solve these limitations we develop the Magnetic Field Shielded Sputtering (MFSS) system. The MFSS is based on DMS and it has the plasma limiter, which compose the permanent magnet array (Fig.1). During the ITO thin film deposition in the MFSS process, the electrons in the plasma are trapped by the magnetic field at the plasma limiters. The plasma limiter, which has a negative potential in the MFSS process, prevents to the damage by negative oxygen ions bombardment, and increases the heat(-) up effect by the Ar ions in the bulk plasma. Fig. 2. shows the electrical properties of the MFSS ITO thin film and DMS ITO thin film at room temperature. With the increase of the sputtering pressure, the resistivity of DMS ITO increases. On the other hand, the resistivity of the MFSS ITO slightly increases and becomes lower than that of the DMS ITO at all sputtering pressures. The lowest resistivity of the DMS ITO is $1.0{\times}10-3{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ and that of the MFSS ITO is $4.5{\times}10-4{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$. This resistivity difference is caused by the carrier mobility. The carrier mobility of the MFSS ITO is 40 $cm^2/V{\cdot}s$, which is significantly higher than that of the DMS ITO (10 $cm^2/V{\cdot}s$). The low resistivity and high carrier mobility of the MFSS ITO are due to the magnetic field shielded effect. In addition, although not shown in this paper, the roughness of the MFSS ITO thin film is lower than that of the DMS ITO thin film, and TEM, XRD and XPS analysis of the MFSS ITO show the nano-crystalline structure. As a result, the MFSS process can effectively prevent to the high energy negative oxygen ions bombardment and supply activation energies by accelerating Ar ions in the plasma; therefore, high quality ITO can be deposited at room temperature.

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Infrared Spectroscopic Evidences for the Superconductivity of $La_2CuO_4$-related Compounds: A Superconductivity Probe

  • Park, Jeong Cheol;Jo, Seon Woog;Jeong, Jong Hak;Jeong, Gi Ho
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.21 no.10
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    • pp.1041-1043
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    • 2000
  • We present the effects of temperature (between 10 K and 298 K) and of hole concentration on the frequency and intensity of characteristic phonons in polycrystalline $La_2CuO_4-related$ compounds using FT-IR spectros-copy. The influences of the concentration of carrier doped on the phonon modes are prominent in the IR spectra of $La_2CuO_4-related$ compounds. For $La_2-xSrxCuO_4({\chi}=$ 0.00, 0.03, 0.07, 0.10, and 0.15) and electrochemically (or chemically) oxidized $La_2CuO_4$, the intensities of the transverse oxygen mode around 680cm $-^1$ which cor-responds mainly to Cu-O(1) stretching vibration in the basal plane of CuO6 octahedron, are decreased and dis-appeared depending on the Sr-substitution rate and the amount of excess oxygen, while the longitudinal oxygen mode around 510 cm $-^1$ corresponding to the Cu-O(2) stretching in the basal plane of CuO6 octahedron are near-ly invariable. In particular, after two cycles of cooling-heating between 10 K and 298 K for these sample, the phonons around 680 cm $-^1$ are blue shif 13-15 cm $-^1$, while the phonons around 510 cm $-^1$ are nearly constant. The introduction of the charge carrier by doping would give rise to the small contraction of CuO6 oc-tahedron as Cu $^3+$ requires a smaller site than Cu $^2+$, which results in the shortening of the Cu-O(1) bond length and Cu-O(2) bond length with the increased La-O(2) bond length. These results in the frequency shift of the characteristic phonons. The IR spectra of $La_2Li0.5Cu0.5O_4$ which exhibits an insulator behavior despite the $Cu^3+$ of nearly 100%, corroborate our IR interpretations. The mode around 710 cm $-^1$ corresponding to Cu-O(1) stretching vibration is still strongly remained even at low temperature (10 K). Thus, we conclude that the con-duction electrons formed within $CuO_2$ planes of $La_2CuO_4-related$ superconductors screen more effectively the transverse oxygen breathing mode around 680 $cm-^1$ depending on the concentration of the doped charge carrier in $La_2CuO_4-related$ compounds, which might use as a superconductivity probe.

Solid Circulation Characteristics of Two Oxygen Carriers for Chemical Looping Combustion System (케미컬루핑 연소시스템을 위한 두 가지 산소전달입자들의 고체순환 특성)

  • RYU, HO-JUNG;LEE, DOYEON;NAM, HYUNGSEOK;JO, SUNG-HO;BAEK, JEOM-IN
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.393-400
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    • 2018
  • To confirm the operating range of two oxygen carriers for chemical looping combustion system, the effects of operating variables on solid circulation rate were measured and discussed using a two-interconnected circulating fluidized bed system at ambient temperature and pressure. Moreover, suitable operating ranges to avoid choking of the fast fluidized bed (air reactor) were confirmed for two oxygen carriers. A continuous long-term operation of steady-state solid circulation more than 24 hours was also demonstrated within the operating windows. Finally we could confirm that those two oxygen carriers are suitable for chemical looping combustion system with high solid circulation rate and smooth solid circulation.

Investigation of Oxygen Incorporation in AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures

  • Jang, Ho-Won;Baik, Jeong-Min;Lee, Jong-Lam;Shin, Hyun-Joon;Lee, Jung-Hee
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.96-101
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    • 2003
  • Direct evidence on the incorporation of high concentration of oxygen into undoped AlGaN layers for the AlGaN/GaN heterostuctures is provided by scanning photoemission microscopy using synchrotron radiation. In-situ annealing at $1000^{\circ}C$ resulted in a significant increase in the oxygen concentration at the AlGaN surface due to the predominant formation of Al-O bonds. The oxygen incorporation into the AlGaN layers resulting from the high reactivity of Al to oxygen can enhance the tunneling-assisted transport of electrons at the metal/AlGaN interface, leading to the reduction of the Schottky barrier height and the increase of the sheet carrier concentration near the AlGaN/GaN interface.