• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.1024-1029
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• 2022

Composite scintillation screens on a base of Gd_1.2Y_1.8Ga_2.5Al_2.5O₁₂:Ce (GYAGG) scintillator have been evaluated for neutron detection. Besides the powdered scintillator, the composite includes ⁶LiF particles; both are merged with a binder and deposited onto the light-reflecting aluminum substrate. Results obtained demonstrates that screens are suitable for use with a silicon photomultiplier readout to create a prospective solution for a compact and low-cost thermal neutron sensor. Composite GYAGG/⁶LiF scintillation screen shows a pretty matched sensitivity and γ-background rejection with a widely used ZnS/⁶LiF screens however, possesses forty times faster response.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.83-94
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• 2024

There have been continuous requirements for developing more reliable energy storage systems that could address unsolved problems in conventional lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and thus be a proper option for large-scale applications like energy storage system (ESS). As a promising solution, aqueous metal-ion batteries (AMIBs) where water is used as a primary electrolyte solvent, have been emerging owing to excellent safety, cost-effectiveness, and eco-friendly feature. Particularly, AMIBs adopting mutivalence metal ions (Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺, Zn²⁺, and Al³⁺) as mobile charge carriers has been paid much attention because of their abundance on globe and high volumetric capacity. In this research trend review, one of the most popular AMIBs, zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs), will be discussed. Since it is well-known that ZIBs suffer from various (electro) chemical/physical side reactions, we introduce the challenges and recent advances in the study of ZIBs mainly focusing on widening the electrochemical window of aqueous electrolytes as well as improving electrochemical properties of cathode, and anode materials.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.676-680
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• 2010

Most TCOs such as ITO, AZO(Al-doped ZnO), FTO(F-doped $SnO_2$) etc., which have been widely used in LCD, touch panel, solar cell, and organic LEDs etc. as transparent electrode material reveal n-type conductivity. But in order to realize transparent circuit, transparent p-n junction, and introduction of transparent p-type materials are prerequisite. Additional prerequisite condition is optical transparency in visible spectral region. Oxide based materials usually have a wide optical bandgap more than ~3.0 eV. In this study, single-phase transparent semiconductor of $SrCu_2O_2$, which shows p-type conductivity, have been synthesized by 2-step solid state reaction at $950^{\circ}C$ under $N_2$ atmosphere, and single-phase $SrCu_2O_2$ thin films of p-type TCOs have been deposited by RF magnetron sputtering on alkali-free glass substrate from single-phase target at $500^{\circ}C$, 1% $H_2$/(Ar + $H_2$) atmosphere. 3% $H_2$/(Ar + $H_2$) resulted in formation of second phases. Hall measurements confirmed the p-type nature of the fabricated $SrCu_2O_2$ thin films. The electrical conductivity, mobility of carrier and carrier density $5.27{\times}10^{-2}S/cm$, $2.2cm^2$/Vs, $1.53{\times}10^{17}/cm^3$ a room temperature, respectively. Transmittance and optical band-gap of the $SrCu_2O_2$ thin films revealed 62% at 550 nm and 3.28 eV. The electrical and optical properties of the obtained $SrCu_2O_2$ thin films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering were compared with those deposited by PLD and e-beam.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제41회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.71-71
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• 2011

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have drawn great academic attention due to their potential as low-cost renewable energy sources. DSCs contain a nanostructured TiO2 photoanode, which is a key-component for high conversion efficiency. Particularly, one-dimensional (1-D) nanostructured photoanodes can enhance the electron transport for the efficient collection to the conducting substrate in competition with the recombination processes. This is because photoelectron colletion is determined by trapping/detrapping events along the site of the electron traps (defects, surface states, grain boundaries, and self-trapping). Therefore, 1-D nanostructured photoanodes are advantageous for the fast electron transport due to their desirable features of greatly reduced intercrystalline contacts with specified directionality. In particular, anodic TiO2 nanotube (NT) electrodes recently have been intensively explored owing to their ideal structure for application in DSCs. Besides the enhanced electron transport properties resulted from the 1-D structure, highly ordered and vertically oriented nanostructure of anodic TiO2 NT can contribute additional merits, such as enhanced electrolyte diffusion, better interfacial contact with viscous electrolytes. First, to confirm the advantages of 1-D nanostructured material for the photoelectron collection, we compared the electron transport and charge recombination characteristics between nanoparticle (NP)- and nanorod (NR)-based photoanodes in DSCs by the stepped light-induced transient measurements of photocurrent and voltage (SLIM-PCV). We confirmed that the electron lifetime of the NR-based photoanode was much longer than that of the NP-based photoanode. In addition, highly ordered and vertically oriented TiO2 NT photoanodes were prepared by electrochemical anodization method. We compared the photovoltaic properties of DSCs utilizing TiO2 NT photoanodes prepared by one-step anodization and two-step anodization. And, to reduce the charge recombination rate, energy barrier layer (ZnO, Al2O3)-coated TiO2 NTs also applied in DSC. Furthermore, we applied the TiO2 NT photoanode in DSCs using a viscous electrolyte, i.e., cobalt bipyridyl redox electrolyte, and confirmed that the pore structure of NT array can enhance the performances of this viscous electrolyte.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.9-18
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• 1986

For identification and apportionment of sources emitting particulate matters in environment, the multi-elemental characterization of size-density fractionated particulate matters was carried out. Eight types of samples were tested; soil, flyash released from burning of bunker-Coil, diesel oil, coal, and soft coal, urban road-way dust, urban dust fall, and airborne particulate matter. The fractions of particulate matters obtained by heavy liquid separation methos with a series of dichloromethane-bromoform were then analyzed using atomic absorption spectrophotometry for Ni, Cr, Cu, An, Fe, Al, and Mg. Each sample showed a different concentration profile as a function of density, and a number of useful conclusions concerning characterization of elemental distribution were obtained. From the density distributions of elements in soil, the maximum value was found for all elements in the density range of 2.2 $\sim 2.9g.cm^{-3}$, including the density of $SiO_2$. However, the distribution of metallic compounds with the density lower than $2.2g.cm^{-3}$ was prevalent in urban roadway dust, urban dust fall, and airborne particulate matter. And the density distribution curves of these urban dusts also have the higher distribution at the density of 2.2 - 2.9g.cm^{-3}$, including the density of wind-blown silica. This tendency generally was prevalent in the natural source elements, such as Al, Fe, Mn, and Mg. The maximum values were found in the density ranges of 1.3 $\sim 2.2g.cm^{-3}$ from the density distribution of elements in oil fired flyash. These distributions of anthropogenic source elements, such as Zn, Ni, Cu, and Cr were higher predominately than those of natural source elements. And the higher distribution was found in the density range of $2.2 \sim 2.9g.cm^{-3}$ from the density distribution of elements in coal and soft-coal fired flyash. These distributions showed similar patterns to soil. But anthropogenic source elements somewhat predominated at the density ranges of $1.3 \sim 2.2g.cm{-3} and 2.9g.cm^{-3}$ to soil. Therefore the higher distribution of anthropogenic source elements in the density ranges of $1.3 \sim 2.2g.cm^{-3} and 2.9g.cm^{-3}$ was considered as anthropogenic origin.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제30권10호
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• pp.558-565
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• 2020

AZO thin films are grown on a p-Si(111) substrate by RF magnetron sputtering. The characteristics of various thicknesses and heat treatment conditions are investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Hall effect and room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) measurements. The substrate temperature and the RF power during growth are kept constant at 400 ℃ and 200 W, respectively. AZO films are grown with a preferred orientation along the c-axis. As the thickness and the heat treatment temperature increases, the length of the c-axis decreases as Al³⁺ ions of relatively small ion radius are substituted for Zn²⁺ ions. At room temperature, the PL spectrum is separated into an NBE emission peak around 3.2 eV and a violet regions peak around 2.95 eV with increasing thickness, and the PL emission peak of 300 nm is red-shifted with increasing annealing temperature. In the XPS measurement, the peak intensity of Al_2p and O_ll increases with increasing annealing temperature. The AZO thin film of 100 nm thickness shows values of 6.5 × 10¹⁹ cm^-3 of carrier concentration, 8.4 cm^-2/V·s of mobility and 1.2 × 10^-2 Ω·cm electrical resistivity. As the thickness of the thin film increases, the carrier concentration and the mobility increase, resulting in the decrease of resistivity. With the carrier concentration, mobility decreases when the heat treatment temperature increases more than 500 ℃.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.508-513
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• 2015

A capacitive-type touch screen panel (TSP) composed of silver nanowire (AgNW) crossing electrodes and transparent bridge structures was fabricated on a polycarbonate film. The transparent bridge structure was formed with a stack of Al-doped ZnO (AZO) electrodes and SU-8 insulator. The stable and robust continuity of the bridge electrode over the bridge insulator was achieved by making the side-wall slope of the bridge insulator low and depositing the conformal AZO film with atomic layer deposition. With an extended exposure time of photolithography, the lower part of the SU-8 layer around the region uncovered by the photomask can be exposed enough to the UV light scattered from the substrate. This leads to the low side-wall slope of the bridge insulator. The fabricated TSP sample showed a large capacitance change of 22.71% between with and without touching. Our work supplies the technological clue for ensuring long-term reliability to the highly flexible and transparent TSP made by using conventional fabrication processes.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.102-107
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• 2003

This study puts focus on the optimization of growth temperature of CIGS absorber layer which affects severely the performance of solar cells. The CIGS absorber layers were prepared by three-stage co-evaporation of metal elements in the order of In-Ga-Se. The effect of the growth temperature of 1st stage was found not to be so important, and 350$^{\circ}C$ to be the lowest optimum temperature. In the case of growth temperature at 2nd/3rd stage, the optimum temperature was revealed to be 550$^{\circ}C$. The XRD results of CIGS films showed a strong (112) preferred orientation and the Raman spectra of CIGS films showed only the Al mode peak at 173cm$\^$-1/. Scanning electron microscopy results revealed very small grains at 2nd/3rd stage growth temperature of 480$^{\circ}C$. At higher temperatures, the grain size increased together with a reduction in the number of the voids. The optimization of experimental parameters above mentioned, through the repeated fabrication and characterization of unit layers and devices, led to the highest conversion efficiency of 15.4% from CIGS-based thin film solar cell with a structure of Al/ZnO/CdS/CIGS/Mo/glass.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.27-38
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• 1993

본 연구에서는 제철소에서 발생하는 전로 dust를 사용하여 심강법(분급)에 의한 철산화물을 분리하여 고순도의 철분말을 회수하였으며, 아래와 같은 결론을 얻었다. 가. 전로 dust의 물성 1) 재항의 1제강, 2제강 C/F(Clarifier) dust, 광장의 E/C(Evaporation coolar), dust, 중국강철공사(C.S.C) OM(Clarifier underflow) dust 금철분이 63~72%로 높고, Metal Fe 가 21~50% 함유되어 있으며, 기타 산화물로는 CaO, MgO, Al$_{2}O_{3}$, SiO$_{2}$ 등이 있다. 2) 재항의 1제강, 2제강 C/F dust, 광양의 E/C, E/P dust, 중국강철공사(C.S.C), OM(clarifier underflow) dust 입자의 형상은 청입이 주로 구형으로 응고된 모양이었으며, 일반적으로는 출립의 외각부는 magnetite, hematite 등으로 산화가 진해되어 있다. 3) 전로 dust 들에 대한 X-ray 회절분석결과, 재항의 1제강, 2제강, C/F dust, 광양의 E/C, E/P dust는 ${\alpha}$-Fe, FeO(wusute)가 중성분으로 존재하며 그 밖에 FE$_{3}O_{4}$9magnetite), Fe$_{2}O_{3}$ CaO가 소량으로 존재하고 있었으며, 중국강철공사(C.S.D) OM(underflow) dust는 ${\alpha}$-Fe, ${\alpha}Fe_{2}O_{3}$, graphite가 주성분으로 존재하며, 그 밖에 $Fe_{3}O_{4}$, Fe$_{2}O_{3}$, ZnO이 소량으로 존재하고 있었다. 4) 순수한 순철분말과 전로 dust를 구성하고 있는 순철은 마광에 따른 입자의 분쇄보다는 마광시 구형의 입자가 소성변형으로 인해 flake형상으로 변하여 체질입도분석시 입도의 증가를 초래하였으며, 반면 철산화물은 마광에 따른 입자의 미세화가 발생함을 볼 수 있었다. 나. 철분구 외수 실험 1) 광양의 dust를 40분간 마광하여 심강(분급)실험을 행했을 때 Fe 99.17% 품위 철분말을 37.8% 회수할 수 있었다. 2) 재항의 C/F dust를 40분간 마광하여 심강(분급)실험을 행했을 때 Fe 98.38% 품위의 철분말을 44.42% 회수할 수 있었다. 3) 70 gauss 자석을 사용하여 자력선별을 행했을 때 +65-200 mesh 사이에서 Fe 품위 98% 이상의 철분말을 회수 할 수 있으나 회수율(14%)이 낮다.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.259-269
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• 1995

석탄연소 폐기물 (Pulverised Fuel Ash: PFA)을 17년, 40년 매립 풍화받은 것 그리고 현재 발생하는 신선한 시료등으로 구분 영국내 2개 화력발전소로부터 각각 채취하여 주상용출시험 (Column leaching test)을 실시하였다. 용매는 증류수와 인공합성 침출수의 2가지를 이용하였다. 전자의 경우 풍화 시료의 용출행태를 주로 알아보고자 하였으며 후자의 경우 PFA시료와 용매간의 반응중에 발생하는 2차 물질형성이 폐수처리중 중금속제거에 활용가능성이 있는가를 알아보자고 함이었다. 신선한 시료로부터 매우 높은 함량의 원소방출이 관찰된다. 이는 Ca, Na, K, B, Cr, Li, Mo, Se, 그리고 $SO^{2-}_4$등을 포함한다. 이는 원소들의 분포위치에 관한 정보를 제공하며 이들원소의 입자 표면 수반을 시사한다. 풍화 받은 시료로부터 채취된 용액시료에서는 신선한 시료와는 달리 원소들의 급격한 초기방출은 관찰되지 않으며 비교적 일정함량을 보이며 매우 완만한 농도감소 현상을 보인다. 이는 17년과 40년이라는 매립기간중 표면의 용융성원소들의 방출을 의미하며 입자를 주로 구성하는 유리질물질에 수반되는 부분이 이들 시료에서의 원소방출에 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 생각된다. 증류수를 이용한 실험결과를 여러가지 침출수배출기준, 음용수기준치 등과 비교시 PFA는 이들 기준에 초과하는 농도를 나타내는바 침출수배출시에는 희석 등의 처리가 필요할 것으로 생각되며 매립시 침출수가 지하수로 유입되지 않도록 하여야할 것으로 보인다. 인공 침출수가 PFA기둥을 통과하며 많은 중금속 - B, Fe, Zn, Hg, Ni, Li, Mo -등이 침출수로부터 제거되며 이 제거정도는 신선한 Drax > 풍화 Drax > 풍화 Meaford 시료의 순이다. 물분석시료를 지구화학 모델링 프로그램인 WATEQ4F를 이용하여 PFA 침출수내의 농도조정물질의 존재여부를 알아본 결과 Ca의 경우 $CaSO_4{\cdot}2H_2O$, Al의 경우 $Al(OH)_3$, Fe는 $Fe(OH)_3$ 등이 PFA침출수내에 각 해당원소의 농도를 제한하는 2차물질로 판단되었다.