• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 3th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.380-387
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• 2009

In the past, many state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) in the U.S. managed their highway assets on a "worst first" basis and planned their highway projects in a tactical rather than strategic fashion. Due to increasingly tight highway budgets and recognition of long term benefits of asset management systems, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has strongly pushed and encouraged state DOTs to implement asset management for managing their highway assets and highway projects. Currently, many DOTs have actively implemented and are in the process of applying this asset management concept for their highway infrastructure. However, different DOTs are developing different asset management systems because of their different organizational structures, data management structures, relationship with the legislature, and investment priorities. This study first identifies asset management indicators which are essential to successfully implementing asset management systems for State highway assets. The research team conducted a survey of asset management experts and reviewed the practices and policies of leading DOTs in asset management. Based on these indicators, this study develops an Asset Management Assessment Model (AM²) for different asset management systems. This model can be used by different DOTs to evaluate their current asset management systems and identify their strong areas and also their weak areas to improve in order to fully benefit from the advanced concept of asset management.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제50권8호
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• pp.557-562
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• 2012

Self-organized ruthenium (Ru) dots were fabricated by $400^{\circ}C$ RTA (rapid thermal annealing) and ALD (atomic layer deposition). The dots were produced under the $400^{\circ}C$ RTA conditions for 10, 30 and 60 seconds on all Si(100)/200 nm-SiO2, glass, and glass/fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrates. Electrical sheet resistance, and surface microstructure were examined using a 4-point probe and FE-SEM (field emission scanning electron microscopy). Ru dots were observed when a 30 nm-Ru layer on a Si(100)/200 nm-SiO2 substrate was annealed for 10, 30 and 60 seconds, whereas the dots were only observed on a glass substrate when a 50 nm-Ru layer was annealed on glass. For a glass/FTO substrate, RTA <30 seconds was needed for 30 nm Ru thick films. Those dots can increase the effective surface area for silicon and glass substrates by up to 5-44%, and by 300% for the FTO substrate with a < $20^{\circ}$ wetting angle.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.315-318
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• 2009

Some particular bound state energies of an electron, under Coulomb potential field, confined in a two-dimensional circle and a three-dimensional sphere are analytically derived. The derivation shows that the electron cannot be bound in a negative energy state when the circle (or sphere) is smaller than a certain critical size. The critical size dependency on the strength of Coulomb potential and the angular momentum of the electron is also analytically derived. This system mimics quantum dots. Therefore the derivation provides new information on a minimum critical size of quantum dots with hydrogenic impurity.

• 한국인쇄학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.15-24
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• 1997

In DTP systems, satisfactory matching the appearance of displayed image on CRT and that of a reproduced binary image is very important. Most halftoning techniques assume that the printed color dots are square. However, most printers produce roughly circular dots. Thus, there is overlap between adjacent dots, and dots accupy adjcent space that should be empty space. These results are because the significant image distortion on the reproduced images. In this paper, we proposed a new tone correction digital halftoning method based on equi-visual perception characteristic.

• 인지과학
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.9-19
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• 2003

Bonneh, Cooperman 과 sagi (2001)[1] 는 역치이상의 강도를 갖는 정지자극이 운동자극과 섞여서 제시될 때 정지자극이 의식에서 간헐적으로 소멸함을 보고하면서 이 현상을 MIB (motion-induced-blindness)라고 명명하였다. 본 연구에서는 흰색 점으로 구성된 회전하는 원통체와 함께 제시되는 녹색 정지 점들을 오른쪽 눈에 적색 필터를 착용하고 관찰할 경우에 녹색 정지 점들이 의식에서 간헐적으로 소멸함을 보여주었다. 본 연구에서 관찰되는 MIB 현상은 원통체가 회전할 때에 그리고 한 쪽 눈에 적색 필터를 착용할 때에만 나타난다. 또한 녹색 점의 명도대비와 원통체를 구성하는 흰색 점의 명도대비가 감소할수록 녹색 정지점이 의식에서 소멸하는 시간이 감소하였으며, 정지자극과 운동자극을 구성하는 점의 수가 감소할수록 정지자극이 의식에서 소멸하는 시간이 감소하였다. 흥미롭게도 정지자극과 운동자극의 상대적인 깊이가 정지자극이 소멸하는 시간에 영향을 미쳤다. 이러한 실험결과는 본 연구에서 보고하는 MIB 현상이 Bonneh 등이 보고한 MIB 현상과 구별되며, 양안경쟁으로는 이 현상이 설명할 수 없고, 시각 정보처리에서 후기단계의 정보처리가 이 현상에 관여함을 시사한다.

• 한국입자에어로졸학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2010

ZnO quantum dots embedded in a silica matrix without agglomeration were synthesized from $TEOS:Zn(NO_3)_2$ solutions in one-step process by aerosol-gel method. It was successfully demonstrated that the size of ZnO Q-dots could be controlled from 2 to 7 mm verified by a high resolution transmission electron microscope observation. The line scanning energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy(EDS) revealed that the Q-dots existed preferentially inside SiO2 sphere when Zn/Si < 0.5. However, the Q-dots distributed homogeneously all over the sphere when Zn/Si > 1.0. Blue-shifted UV/Vis absorption peak observation confirmed the quantum size effect on the optical properties. The photoluminescence(PL) emission peaks of the powders at room temperature were consistent with previous reports in the following aspects: 1) PL characteristics are dominated by two peaks of deep-level defect-related emissions at 2.4 - 2.8 eV, 2) the first defect-related peak at 2.4 eV was blue shifted due to the quantum size effect with decreasing the concentration of $Zn(NO_3)_2$(decreasing the size of ZnO q dots). More interestingly, the existence of surface-exposed ZnO q dots affects greatly the second defect PL peak at 2.8 eV.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.266-271
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• 2017

본 연구는 자기공명검사 시 재현성이 달라져 신호강도가 저하되는 문제점을 후처리 기법인 DOTS 기법을 적용함으로써 개선하고자 하였다. 연구방법은 재현성이 떨어져 신호강도 저하가 가장 빈번하게 발생하는 간 검사를 시행한 30명을 대상으로 하였으며, 조영제 주입 전 후 영상을 획득한 다음 DOTS 기법으로 영상을 후처리하여 적용 여부에 따른 영상의 신호강도를 비교 평가하였다. 연구결과 영상의 신호강도는 DOTS 기법을 적용한 경우가 적용하지 않은 경우보다 조영제 주입 전에는 183.3%(적용 전 $1038.0{\pm}70.7$, 적용 후 $2940.7{\pm}179.6$), 주입 후에는 1118.4%($444.1{\pm}92.4$, 적용 후 $5410.5{\pm}168.4$) 유의하게 증가하였다. 이는 후처리 기법인 DOTS 기법을 통해 영상척도의 기준을 재설정하여 개선한 것으로써 자기공명검사 시 재현성이 달라져 신호강도가 저하되는 문제를 근본적으로 해결하였다는 데 의의가 있다.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제33B권11호
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• pp.150-158
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• 1996

Physiological observations reported and the perceptual phenomena that some simple arrays of discrete dots are perceived as a continuous curve, and others are perceived as an angular contour or as consisting of separate goups of dots. The perception of continuous curves versus discondinuous angles is mainly determined by the relative orientations of the dots, i.e., by the angles between sucessive virtual lines, whereas the length of the virtual lines gives little influence. It is important that the perception of dot stimuli is presented by vitual lines between dots in visual information processing. In this paper, on the basis of these facts of physiological observations, some experimental results on the perception of visual lines form dot stimuli are shown. Triples of the dots used in the experiment are similar to those of smith & Vos' physiological experiments.

• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.250-253
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• 2008

New issues arise as to surface characterization, quantification and interface formation. Surface and interface control of CdSe nanocrystal systems, one of the most studied and useful nanostructures. Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have been the subject of much interest for both fundamental reseach and technical applications in recent years, due mainly to their strong size dependent properties and excellent chemical processibility. In this dissertation, the synthesis of CdSe quantum dots were synthesized by pyrolysis of high-temperature organometallic reagents. In order to modify the size and quality of quantum dots, we controlled the growth temperature and the relative amount of precursors to be injected into the coordinating solvent. Moreover, an effective surface passivation of monodisperse nanocrystals was achieved by overcoating them with a higher-band-gap material. Synthesized CdSe quantum dots were studied to evaluate the optical, electronic and structural properties using UV-absorption, and photoluminescence measurement.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제42회 동계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.535-535
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• 2012

We present a new synthetic route and characterization for ultra small sized PbS quantum dots in extreme quantum confinement with 1.5 to 2.9 nm in diameter. We obtained a series of nanocrystals with first absorption wavelength ranging from 580 to 820 nm (2.1-1.5 eV). To get this result, PbS quantum dots size is finely controlled by adjusting the growth temperature in the range of $70-95^{\circ}C$. We demonstrate that photoluminescence (PL) shows a red shift with respect to the first absorption peak that increases with decreasing PbS quantum dots size and ranges from about 500 to 125 meV as the mean PbS quantum dots diameter increases from 1.5 to 2.9 nm. We further created the assembled PbS quantum dot solids and investigated the transport properties for energy applications.