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New Functional Conductive Polymer Composites Containing Nickel Coated Carbon Black Reinforced Phenolic Resin

  • Farid El-Tantawy;Nadia Abdel Aal;Yong Kiel Sung
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • 제13권3호
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    • pp.194-205
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    • 2005
  • The network structure of Ni-coated carbon black (NCB) composites filled with phenolic resin was investigated by means of using scanning electron microscopy, viscosity, interfacial tension, shrinkability, Flory-Huggins interaction parameters, and swelling index. The electrical properties of the composites have been characterized by measurement of the specific conductivity as a function of temperature. Additionally, the variation of conductivity with temperature for the composites has been reported and analyzed in terms of the dilution volume fraction, relative volume expansion, and barrier heights energy. The thermal stability of phenolic-NCB composites has been also studied by means of the voltage cycle processes. The experimental data of EMI wave shielding were analyzed and compared with theoretical calculations. The mechanical properties such as tensile strength, tensile modulus, hardness and elongation at break (EB) of NCB-phenolic resin composites were also investigated.

세라믹 PTC 서미스터의 입계 장벽과 자기제어 정온발열 기능의 상관성 (Correlation between Grain-boundary Barrier-height and Self-controlled Fixed-temperature Heat-generation Function of Ceramic PTC Thermistor)

  • 소대화;임병재
    • 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국전기전자재료학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.18
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    • pp.240-241
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    • 2005
  • 비 직선적 정(+) 저항온도계수 특성을 갖는 PTC thermistor는 전이온도(큐리점) 부근에서 온도변화에 대하여 극히 큰 저항 값의 변화를 나타내는 산화물계반도체 저항기(또는 발열체)로써, 일반적으로 반도체의 온도-저항 특성과 같이 상온영역에서 온도의 상승과 함께 부성저항 특성을 나타내다가 온도가 점점 증가하여 큐리점 부근에 도달하면 저항이 급격히 증가하는 독특한 특성을 갖는다. Perovskite 구조의 $BaTiO_3$를 주성분으로 미량의 Dopant를 첨가하여 도전성을 갖게 한 N형 반도체의 일종으로 저항-온도 특성 전류-전압 특성, 전류감쇄 특성 등을 이용하여 과전류 보호회로, 히터, TV 소자회로(degausser), 모터기동회로, 온도센서, 정온발열기기 등으로 널리 사용된다. 본 연구는 큐리점 부근의 급격한 저항변화 현상과 결정입계의 전위장벽 형성 및 그에 따른 정온발열 기능의 상관성으로부터 그 응용성을 조사하였다.

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ICP-CVD로 성장된 SiC박막의 Ni 금속 접합과 Ni/SiC Schottky diode의 특성 분석 (Characteristics of Ni metallization on ICP-CVD SiG thin film and Ni/SiC Schottky diode)

  • 길태현;김용상
    • 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한전기학회 1999년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 C
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    • pp.938-940
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    • 1999
  • We have fabricated SiC Schottky diode for high temperature applications. SiC thin film for drift region has been deposited by ICP-CVD. In order to establish metallization conditions, we have extracted the device parameters of the Schottky diode from the forward I-V characteristics and the C-V characteristics as a function of temperature. The ideality factor was varied from 2.07 to 1.15 and the barrier height was also varied from 1.26eV to 1.92eV with increase of temperature. The reverse blocking voltage was 183 V.

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Neonatal innate immunity and Toll-like receptor

  • Yoon, Hye-Sun
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • 제53권12호
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    • pp.985-988
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    • 2010
  • The innate immune response is the first line of defense against microbial infections. Innate immunity is made up of the surface barrier, cellular immunity and humoral immunity. In newborn, immunologic function and demands are different to adults. Neonatal innate immunity specifically suppresses Th1-type immune responses, and not Th2-type immune responses, which are enhanced. And the impaired response of macrophages is associated with the defective innate immunity in newborn period. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a key roles in the detection of invading pathogens and in the induction of innate immune responses. In newborn, the expression of TLRs is age dependent, so preterm has low expression of TLRs. Also, there are defects in signaling pathways downstream of TLRs. As a consequence, the defects of TLRs activity cause the susceptibility to infection in the neonatal period.

Sphingolipids and Antimicrobial Peptides: Function and Roles in Atopic Dermatitis

  • Park, Kyungho;Lee, Sinhee;Lee, Yong-Moon
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • 제21권4호
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    • pp.251-257
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    • 2013
  • Inflammatory skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis (AD) and rosacea were complicated by barrier abrogation and deficiency in innate immunity. The first defender of epidermal innate immune response is the antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) that exhibit a broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity against multiple pathogens, including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The deficiency of these AMPs in the skin of AD fails to protect our body against virulent pathogen infections. In contrast to AD where there is a suppression of AMPs, rosacea is characterized by overexpression of cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide (CAMP), the products of which result in chronic epidermal inflammation. In this regard, AMP generation that is controlled by a key ceramide metabolite S1P-dependent mechanism could be considered as alternate therapeutic approaches to treat these skin disorders, i.e., Increased S1P levels strongly stimulated the CAMP expression which elevated the antimicrobial activity against multiple pathogens resulting the improved AD patient skin.

반응 경로의 일의적 함수 (제 2 보). Thermal Electrocyclic Reaction 에 대한 응용 (A Unique Function of Reaction Path (II). Applications to Thermal Electrocyclic Reactions)

  • 김호징;장효원
    • 대한화학회지
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    • 제32권2호
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    • pp.103-112
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    • 1988
  • thermal ring opening reaction의 가능한 두 반응 경로에 대한 근사적 반응 경로 함수, 그 함수의 norm과 근사적 반응경로 평균 에너지를 계산, 비교하였다. 이 예들은, 큰 norm과 적은 평균 에너지의 경로가 다른 경로에 비해 낮은 에너지 장벽을 갖는다는 가정을 명백히 증명하였다.

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Polyimide 터널 장벽을 이용한 Au/polyimide/유기 단분자막/Pb 구조에서 비탄성 전자 터널링에 관한 연구 (Inelastic Electron Tunneling in Au/polyimide/monolayer Organic Film/Pb Structures using a Polyimide Barrier)

  • 이호식;이원재;장경욱;최명규;이성일;김태완;;이준웅
    • 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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    • 제17권2호
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    • pp.196-200
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    • 2004
  • Using polyimide Langmuir-Blodgett(LB) films as a tunneling harrier, we fabricated Au/Polyimide/1-layer arachidic acid/Pb structure in order to investigate electron transport properties through a junction. It was found that 9-layer polyimide LB films function as a good tunneling harrier in a study of current-voltage(I-V) chararteristics. And several peaks originating in the vibrational modes of the constituent molecules of 1-layer arachidic acid LB films were clearly observed in d$^2$V/dI$^2$- V corves.

Abnormal Temperature Dependence of Tunneling Magnetoresistance for Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

  • Lee, K.I.;Lee, J.H.;Lee, W.Y.;Rhie, K.;Lee, B.C.;Shin, K.H.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.59-62
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    • 2002
  • Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) were fabricated with high bias for plasma oxidation and the effects of annealing on the temperature dependence of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) were investigated experimentally. As-grown, TMR increases, peaks around 160 K, and decreases with increasing temperature from 80 K to 300 K. When MTJs are annealed, $T_{max}$, the temperature at which maximum TMR is obtained, decreases as annealing temperature increases to the optimal point. In order to explain this abnormal temperature dependence of TMR, the difference of conductance between parallel and antiparallel alignments of magnetizations as a function of temperature is also analyzed. The shifts of $T_{max}$ due to annealing process are described phenomenologically with spin-dependent transfer rates of electrons tunnel through the barrier.

Magnetic Anisotropy Energy Distribution and Magnetization of CoPt Nanoparticles Encaged in Protein Shell

  • Lee, T.H.;Suh, B.J.;Jang, Z.H.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2017
  • Magnetic properties of CoPt nanoparticles (average size = 2.1 nm) encapsulated in synthesized protein shell have been investigated with SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) magnetometer and analyzed by the recently developed non-equilibrium magnetization calculation by our group [T. H. Lee et al., Phys. Rev. B 90, 184411 (2014)]. Field dependence of magnetization measured at 2 K was successfully analyzed with modified Langevin function. In addition, small hysteresis loops having the coercive field of 890 Oe were observed at 2 K. Temperature dependence of magnetization has been measured with zero field cooled (ZFC) and field cooled (FC) protocol with slightly modified sequence in accordance with non-equilibrium magnetization calculation. The analysis on the M vs. T data revealed that the anisotropy energy barrier distribution is found to be very different from the log-normal distribution found in a size distribution. Zero temperature coercive field and Bloch coefficient have also been extracted from the analysis and the validity of those values is checked.

에너지 준위 접합 최적화를 통한 유기태양전지 효율 향상법 (Optimization of energy level alignment for efficient organic photovoltaics)

  • 이현복
    • 진공이야기
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    • 제2권2호
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    • pp.12-16
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    • 2015
  • Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have attracted significant interest in an interdisciplinary research field for the decades as a next-generation photovoltaic device due to their unique advantages. One of requirements for OPVs having high power conversion efficiency is the favorable energy level alignment between the electrode/organic and organic/organic interfaces to manage the exciton dissociation and improve the charge transport. In this review, strategies to enhance the OPV performance by controlling the energy level alignment are discussed. The insertion of an exciton blocking layer leads to the efficient dissociation of photogenerated excitons at the donor/acceptor interface enhancing the short-circuit current density. The choice of a donor having a high ionization energy and an acceptor having a low electron affinity increases the open-circuit voltage. The insertion of an appropriate work function modifier which reduces the charge injection barrier removes the S-kink in current density-voltage characteristics of OPVs and improves the fill factor. This review would give a valuable guide to design the efficient OPV structure.