• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.3-35
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• 2017

For recent years, several disputes between Korean consumers and multinational companies have arisen. Since the disputes were big and material that children's safety was at issue, a question started if Korean law properly has protected consumers' rights against multinational companies. While the Korean legal society tried to legislate punitive compensation with this concern, the U.S. Supreme Court reached an interesting case law regarding consumer contracts. A recent trend on consumer contracts in the United States shows that general terms have arbitration clause with class action waiver. As much as international arbitration has worked as the most effective resolution in international commercial disputes, the concept is still foreign and the experts are not approachable to lay individual consumers. However, class action in arbitration can hugely help for lay individual consumers to bring a case before arbitration tribunal. California courts consistently showed the analysis that the practical impact of prohibiting class action in arbitration clause is to ban lay individual consumers from fighting for their rights. However, the Supreme Court held that the arbitration clause shall be enforced as parties agree even if consumers practically cannot fight for their rights in the end. Even though consumer contracts are a typical example of lack of parity and of adhesive contract, the Supreme Court still applies liberalism that parties are equal in power and free to agree. This case law has a crucial implication since Korean consumers buy goods and services from the U.S. and other countries in everyday life. Accordingly, they are deemed to agree on the dispute resolution clauses, which might violate their constitutional right to bring their cases before the adjudication tribunal. This issue could be more important than adopting punitive compensation because consumers' rights are not necessarily governed by Korean law but by the governing law of the general terms and conditions chosen and written by the multinational companies. Thus this paper studies and analyzes the practical reality of international arbitration and influence of arbitration clause with class action waiver with the U.S. Supreme Court and California case laws.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.682-690
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• 2015

The bonding performance of two types of wood adhesives, namely phenol-resorcinol-formaldehyde (PRF) resin and melamine-urea-formaldehyde (MUF) resin for glued laminated timber manufactured by high frequency (HF) heating was evaluated. The HF heating system consists of HF oscillator with dielectric heating system for curing adhesives, and hydraulic press system for clamping glued laminated timber. The designed frequency and output power of the HF system was as 5 MHz and 60 kW, respectively. To verify dielectric heating mechanism under HF oscillation, the heat loss factors of laminae and adhesives were measured. The results show that it is possible to selectively heat adhesives for their curing due to the remarkably higher loss factor of the adhesives than those of wood laminae. The temperature of adhesive in the bonding line reached up to the set temperature within a few seconds by high frequency oscillating, which advanced the curing of adhesive afterwards. The bonding performance, such as shear strength of bonding line, water soaking delamination, and boiling water soaking delamination of PRF resin met the requirement of Korean Standard (KS), however the MUF resin did not meet the KS requirement of boiling water soaking delamination. These results indicate that the HF heating system is successful to manufacture glued laminated timbers with PRF resins to meet the bonding requirements.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.429-435
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• 2009

전분을 보호 콜로이드이자 공중합체로 사용하면서 아크릴 단량체인 뷰틸 아크릴레이트, 2-에틸 헥실 아크릴레이트, 아크릴 산을 사용하여 무유화 중합에 의해 점착제를 합성하였다. 전분의 함량이 증가할수록 점착제의 겔 함량은 증가하였고, 결과로서 전분 함량의 증가는 점착력과 유지력의 증가를 가져왔으며, 초기점착력은 감소하는 결과를 보였다. 접촉각 측정에서 점착제의 젖음성은 전분의 하이드록시 그룹에 의한 극성의 증가로 전분 함량이 증가함 따라 상승하였다. 생분해성을 간접적으로 측정하는 에멀젼의 시간에 따른 pH 측정에서 전분의 분해에 의한 유기산의 생성에 의해 전분 함량의 증가에 비례하여 pH가 감소하였다.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2009년도 추계 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.43-46
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to enhance durability of concrete structures that uses this surface protecting material by carrying out the performance test of the surface protecting material of concrete, and as s result, we reached out the conclusion as follow. 1. As a result of the test measuring the stability and adhesive power of conductive film against ultraviolet, freezing & thawing, and damage from seawater that deteriorate the surface protecting material, it was turned out to meet the performance criteria specifying in the KS standard enough to gain a good evaluation to use as a surface protecting material. 2. As a result of the test identifying the neutralization-furtherance, it was assessed to be capable of protecting effectively concrete structures from carbonic acid gas by a very low depth of 0.1mm of neutralization. 3. As a result of the test identifying Penetrated Resistance Properties of chloride ion, as it was turned out to have a very low value of 819 Coulombs, it was assessed that even in the environment where the corrosion by chloride such sea environment is very affective, the film can effectively protect the concrete structure. 4. As a result of the test identifying freezing & thawing, as there was no change in reduction of mass after 400 cycle, it was assessed that the film has a good resistance against freezing & thawing. According to the results of study above, it is expected that this technology can extend its durability of concrete structure and be widely used for concrete structure through means (methods) to prevent the neutralization and damage from seawater as original purposes of the surface protecting material.

• 접착 및 계면
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2011

본 연구는 보호콜로이드로 PVA를 사용한 PVAc 에멀젼 폴리머와 VAE 에멀젼 폴리머 블렌드에 관한 것으로 보호콜로이드로 사용된 PVA는 블렌드 전의 각각의 에멀젼 폴리머 필름과 블렌드 후의 필름에서도 연속상으로 존재하였다. 이는 블렌드를 구성하는 입자사이에서 뛰어난 접착력을 예상하게 한다. Tg가 서로 다른 에멀젼 폴리머 블렌드는 중요한 관심 대상이며 PVAc/VAE 에멀젼 폴리머 블렌드는 이 중 간단하면서도 또 다른 뛰어난 연구 방향을 제시하였다. 혼합 결과, PVAc 증가에 따라 신율이 저하되었고, PVAc 제조에 사용된 가소제가 혼합물의 Tg에 영향을 미쳐 PVAc 가소제의 VAE 에멀젼 폴리머으로의 이행으로 인하여 VAE 에멀젼 폴리머의 Tg를 저하시켰고, 인장강도 및 내열성, 접착력에서 두 혼합물의 상승효과가 나타났다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.449-453
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• 2021

Interest and investment in renewable energy have increased worldwide, highlighting the need for renewable energy. Solar energy was the most promising energy of all renewable energy sources, and it has the highest investment value. Because photovoltaics require a certain amount of area for installation, high density and high output performance are required. Shingled module is a promising technology in that they are featured by higher density and higher output compared to the conventional modules. Shingled technology uses a laser scribing to divide solar cells that are to be bonded with electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) to produce and connect strings, which has a higher output in the same area than the conventional modules. In the process of producing solar modules, metal ribbons are used to interconnect cells, but they are also needed for string connections in shingled solar cells. Accordingly, in this study, we researched the interconnection that best suits the connector that joins the string to the string. The module outputs produced under the conditions of the string interconnection were compared and analyzed.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제33A권11호
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• pp.97-104
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• 1996

Because of the novel characteristics such as chemical stability, hardness, electrical resistivity and thermal conductance, diamond-like carbon (DLC) film is a suitable materials for the passivation layers. For this purpose, DLC films are synthesized under various conditions and are characterized. Adhesive stregth is excellent and increased with the increase of the hydrogen gas flow rate. The resistivity of approximately 5.3X10$^{8}{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ is measured by automatic spreading resistance probe analysis method. The thermal conductivity of DLC films is superior to that of PSG oxide and improved by increasing the hydrogen gas flow rate. The patterning techniques of the DLC films is developed using the lift-off and RIE methods to form 5${\mu}$m line. Finally, power transistor with the DLC film as passivation layer is fabricated and analyzed. The test result shows the improsved long-term stability and higher breakdown voltage.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.95-99
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• 2017

The interconnecting shingled solar cells method shows extremely high ratio active area per total area and has the excellent potential for high power PV (photovoltaic). Compared to the conventional module, it can have much more active area due to busbar-free structure. The properties of ECA (electrically conductive adhesives) are significant to fabricate the shingled array PV since it should be used in terms of electric and structural connection. Various ECA were tried and characterized to optimize the soldiering conditions. The open circuit voltage of shingled array cells showed a three-fold increase and efficiency was also increased by 1.63%. The shingled array cells used in CE3103WLV showed the highest power and in CA3556HF the lowest curing temperature and very fast curing time.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.64-71
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• 2018

Currently, functional patterns are formed by screen printing on stretchable films, and they are applied to wearable and stretchable devices. In this study, three types of silver paste were prepared using three polyester binders with different Tg and molecular weights in order to impart elasticity to the conductive pattern itself. Rheological properties and DSC measurements were performed for each silver paste. Then, each silver paste was screen printing and cured by an IR dryer to evaluate adhesive strength, pencil hardness, resistance and surface shape change according to strain. As a result, it was found that the silver paste using a binder with a low Tg and a high molecular weight has the smallest resistance change depending on the strain. Namely, it was found that it is most preferable to use a binder with a low Tg and a high molecular weight as the stretchable electrode.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.112-117
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• 2007

a parametric investigation was conducted to evaluate the effect of the laser beam for plastic adhesion. To determine the best condition for plastic adhesion, the $CO_2$(wavelength $10.6{\mu}m$) and nd:yag(wavelength $10.6{\mu}m$) laser were experimented with. From the experiment results obtained, the nd:yag laser was revealed to be the most suitable for plastic adhesion. In this study, three adhesion parameters such as input power level, working time of laser beam and pps(pulse per second) were systematically adjusted for suitable adhesion. From these experiments, it was observed that the target plastic melted and was evaporated by the nd:yag laser. Furthermore, the relationships between adhesive surface by laser beam and above three parameters were discovered.