• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.99-102
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• 2006

Optimal flow-field design of bipolar-plates for a commercial class PEM(polymer electrolyte membrane) fuel cell stack was carried out on the basis of three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics(CFD) simulation. A three-dimensional CFD model originally developed by Shimpalee et al., has been utilized for performing large-scale simulation of a single fuel cell consisting of bipolar-plates gas diffusion layers, and a membrane-electrode-assembly(MEA). The CFD model is able to predict the current density, pressure drops, gas velocities, vapor and liquid water contents, temperature distributions, etc. inside a single fuel cell. Depending on simulation results from the CFD modeling of a PEM fuel cell, several flow-fields of bipolar-plates were designed and verified. The final design of the bipolar-plate has been chosen from the simulations and experimental tests and showed the best performance as expected from the simulation results under a normal operating condition. Thus, the CFD simulation approach to design the optimal flow-field of the bipolar-plates was successful. The final design was adopted as the best flow-field to build a commercial scale PEM fuel cell stack, the performance of which shows about 42% higher than that of the older bipolar-plate design.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.449-458
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• 2007

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in person's mood, energy, and ability to function. Compared with manic episode, the depression episode causes more serious results such as restless, loss of interest or pleasure, or thoughts of death or suicide and the cure rate of depression episode is lower than that of manic episode. Furthermore, a long term use of antidepressants in bipolar patients may result in manic episode. Our interest is to investigate the effect of antidepressant on switch of moods of bipolar patients and to estimate the transition probabilities of switch between moods, depression and (hypo) manic. In this study, three approaches are applied in terms of multi state model. Parametric model is applied using left censoring data and nonparametric model is implemented under illness-death model with counting process. In order to estimate the effect of covariates, a multiplicative model is used. These all methods have similar results.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.268-273
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• 2014

The forming, reset and set operation of bipolar resistive random access memory (RRAM) have been predicted by using a finite element (FE) model which includes interface effects. To the best of our knowledge, our bipolar RRAM model is applicable to realistic cell structure optimization because our model is based on the FE method (FEM) unlike precedent models.

• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.13-16
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• 1999

A mathematical analysis of bipolar electrode reactor model for complex electrochemical reactions could estimate total current from time-concentration data, which coincided well with experimental total current data. Thus behaviour of bipolar electrode reactor could be described by a proposed simulation model. This paper demonstrates how such a model can be used a useful tool in the design for pilot plant experimentation.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.604-606
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• 2009

The primary dose effects on an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) irradiated with a $^{60}Co$ gamma-ray source are found in both of the components of the threshold shifting due to oxide charge trapping in the MOS and the reduction of current gain in the bipolar transistor. In this letter, the IGBT macro-model incorporating irradiation is implemented, and the electrical characteristics are analyzed by SPICE simulation and experiments. In addition, the collector current characteristics as a function of gate emitter voltage, VGE, are compared with the model considering the radiation damage of different doses under positive biases.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.1591-1597
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• 1989

Through the matematical alaysis of EX-NOR logic relation between the input vector and the memory matrix, we propose a new method for optical implementation of the bipolar Hopfield neural network model based on the optical vector-matrix multiplier.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.30A no.3
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• pp.88-94
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• 1993

In this paper, a simple Ebers-Moll Model for the heterojunction bipolar transistor is presented. Using the model structure for the npn type HBT, the current-voltage characteristics was analyzed. And from the obtained terminal currents, the Ebers-Moll equations were derived. Then substituting the physical parameters for heterojunction to those for homojunction, this model would be used to analyze the characteristics of single and/or duble heterojunction HBT's. And directly relating model parameters to device parameters, it would be also used to optimize the characteristics of HBT's. The simulated results using this model were in good agreement with experimental data.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.14-19
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• 2007

A flow channel model of a bipolar plate with varying cross-sectional area was newly designed for improving performance and efficiency of a PEM fuel cell stack. As a result, the varying cross-sectional area model showed poor uniformity in velocity distribution, however, maximum velocity in the flow path is about 30% faster than that of the uniform cross-sectional area model. The proposed varying cross-sectional area model is expected to diffuse operating fluids more easily into diffusion layer because it has relatively higher values in pressure distribution compared with other flow channel models. It is expected that the implementation of the varying cross-sectional area model can reduce not only the mass transport loss but also the activation loss in a PEM fuel cell, and open circuit voltage of a fuel cell can thus be increased slightly.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1901-1911
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• 2018

This study presents a circuit model for simulating the switching transients of insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) with inductive load switching. The modeling approach used in this study considers the behavior of IGBTs and freewheeling diodes during the transient process and ignores the complex semiconductor physics-based relationships and parameters. The proposed circuit model can accurately simulate the switching behavior due to the detailed consideration of device-circuit interactions and the nonlinear nature of model parameters, such as internal capacitances. The developed model is incorporated in an IGBT loss calculation module of an electromagnetic transient simulation program to enable the estimation of switching losses in voltage source converters embedded in large power systems.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.389-391
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• 2009

The performance loss as pressurized by inside components like GDL and bipolar plate happened when assembling the PEMFC stack with clamping force. Numerical analysis of Gasket was carried out to analyze distribution of clamping pressure about the inside components. In case of the gasket, Mooney-Rivlin model which is the Strain Energy Function was used for numerical analysis. This result made the stress distribution of bipolar plate to expect.