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Performance improvements of organic solar cell using dual cathode buffer layers

  • Sachdeva, Sheenam;Kaur, Jagdish;Sharma, Kriti;Tripathi, S.K.
    • Current Applied Physics
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    • v.18 no.12
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    • pp.1592-1599
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    • 2018
  • The present study deals with the effect of dual cathode buffer layer (CBL) on the performance of bilayer of 4,4'-cyclohexylidenebis[N,N-bis(4-methylphenyl)benzenamine] (TAPC) and fullerene (C70)-based organic solar cell (OSC) with low donor concentration. OSC devices with CBLs have been fabricated using thermal vapor deposition technique. We report the use of lithium fluoride (LiF) and molybdenum trioxide ($MoO_3$) as CBLs. The insertion of LiF between C70 and aluminium (Al) electrode enhances the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of device from 1.89% to 2.47% but quenching of photogenerated excitons is observed at interface of C70 and LiF layers. Incorporation of $MoO_3$ between LiF and Al electrode further enhances PCE of device to 3.51%. This has also improved the material quality and device properties, by preventing the formation of gap states and diminishing exciton quenching.

Effects of $CH_{2}F_{2}$ and $H_2$ flow rates on process window for infinite etch selectivity of silicon nitride to PVD a-C in dual-frequency capacitively coupled plasmas

  • Kim, Jin-Seong;Gwon, Bong-Su;Park, Yeong-Rok;An, Jeong-Ho;Mun, Hak-Gi;Jeong, Chang-Ryong;Heo, Uk;Park, Ji-Su;Lee, Nae-Eung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.250-251
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    • 2009
  • For the fabrication of a multilevel resist (MLR) based on a very thin amorphous carbon (a-C) layer an $Si_{3}N_{4}$ hard-mask layer, the selective etching of the $Si_{3}N_{4}$ layer using physical-vapor-deposited (PVD) a-C mask was investigated in a dual-frequency superimposed capacitively coupled plasma etcher by varying the following process parameters in $CH_{2}F_{2}/H_{2}/Ar$ plasmas : HF/LF powr ratio ($P_{HF}/P_{LF}$), and $CH_{2}F_{2}$ and $H_2$ flow rates. It was found that infinitely high etch selectivities of the $Si_{3}N_{4}$ layers to the PVD a-C on both the blanket and patterned wafers could be obtained for certain gas flow conditions. The $H_2$ and $CH_{2}F_{2}$ flow ratio was found to play a critical role in determining the process window for infinite $Si_{3}N_{4}$/PVDa-C etch selectivity, due to the change in the degree of polymerization. Etching of ArF PR/BARC/$SiO_x$/PVDa-C/$Si_{3}N_{4}$ MLR structure supported the possibility of using a very thin PVD a-C layer as an etch-mask layer for the $Si_{3}N_{4}$ layer.

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Nonvolatile Memory Characteristics of Double-Stacked Si Nanocluster Floating Gate Transistor

  • Kim, Eun-Kyeom;Kim, Kyong-Min;Son, Dae-Ho;Kim, Jeong-Ho;Lee, Kyung-Su;Won, Sung-Hwan;Sok, Jung-Hyun;Hong, Wan-Shick;Park, Kyoung-Wan
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.27-31
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    • 2008
  • We have studied nonvolatile memory properties of MOSFETs with double-stacked Si nanoclusters in the oxide-gate stacks. We formed Si nanoclusters of a uniform size distribution on a 5 nm-thick tunneling oxide layer, followed by a 10 nm-thick intermediate oxide and a second layer of Si nanoclusters by using LPCVD system. We then investigated the memory characteristics of the MOSFET and observed that the charge retention time of a double-stacked Si nanocluster MOSFET was longer than that of a single-layer device. We also found that the double-stacked Si nanocluster MOSFET is suitable for use as a dual-bit memory.

Design and Implementation of Broadband Antenna and Diplexer for Dual- Band Handsets

  • Joung, Myoung-Sub;Park, Jun-Seok;Kim, Hyeong-Seok;Lim, Jae-Bong;Cho, Hong-Goo
    • KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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    • v.4C no.6
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    • pp.288-294
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, a ceramic antenna and diplexer are designed for dual-band handset ap plications. Basically, the antenna is designed by using the meander line configuration. The diplexer presented in this paper is composed of both low- and high-pass filters. We have designed the low- and high-pass filters with attenuation poles to improve the attenuation performances of the diplexer. The attenuation poles are located at each rejection frequency region so as to improve the shrinkage characteristic of the diplexer. In order to accomplish the volume effectiveness, the antenna and the diplexer have been designed and fabricated in a multi-layer structure. The diplexer designed with a multi-layer structure has inductors and capacitors, which are implemented by LTCC (Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics) process technique. Design of the multi-layer antenna and diplexer has been achieved by employing the full 3-D EM simulation. The designed antenna and diplexer offer excellent return loss and broadband performances with highly isolated rejection performance.

Design Analysis and Economic Analysis of high Efficiency 100kW Generator for Hydro Power System (소수력 발전용 고효율 100kW 발전기의 설계해석 및 경제성 분석)

  • Jee, In-Ho;Kang, Seung-Jin
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.65 no.3
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    • pp.428-438
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    • 2016
  • This paper shows the design of the 100 kW IPMSG for small hydraulic power generator. The high-efficient generator, method of the dual layer interior permanent magnet was studied to improve the method of the single layer interior permanent magnet, which is mostly used. Analysis of magnet arrangement and cogging torque was done by FEM. According to structure analysis of dual layer interior permanent magnet, the amount of usage of the permanent magnet was reduced and cogging torque was decreased as well. With these successful results, the high-efficient generator design was accomplished. Based on the results of the structure analysis, the test product was designed and manufactured. And the design values and performance outputs were compared and verified with success. Also, the economic feasibility was conducted based on the electric power generated from the test product installed at the site. By the B/C analysis, in case that only SMP was analyzed, B/C ratio was 1.24 at the discount ratio of 5.5%, which considered to be economically feasible. The study is expected to be used for the application of developing large scale high-efficient interior permanent magnet synchronous generator.

Breeakdown Voltage Characteristics of the SOI RESURF LIGBT with Dual-epi Layer as a function of Epi-layer Thickness (이중 에피층을 가지는 SOI RESURF LIGBT 소자의 에피층 두께비에 따른 항복전압 특성분석)

  • Kim, Hyoung-Woo;Kim, Sang-Cheol;;Bahng, Wook;Kim, Nam-Kyun;Kang, In-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.110-111
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    • 2006
  • 이중 에피층을 가지는 SOI (Silicon-On-Insulator) RESURF(REduced SURface Field) LIGBT(Lateral Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) 소자의 에피층 두께에 따른 항복전압 특성을 분석하였다. 이중 에 피층 구조를 가지는 SOI RESURF LIGBT 소자는 전하보상효과를 얻기 위해 기존 LIGBT 소자의 n 에피로 된 영역을 n/p 에피층의 이중 구조로 변경한 소자로 n/p 에피층 영역내의 전하간 상호작용에 의해 에피 영역 전체가 공핍됨으로써 높은 에피 영역농도에서도 높은 항복전압을 얻을 수 있는 소자이다. 본 논문에서는 LIGBT 에피층의 전체 두께와 농도를 고정한 상태에서 n/p 에피층의 두께가 변하는 경우에 항복전압 특성의 변화에 대해 simulation을 통해 분석하였다.

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Performance Analysis of Dual-Layer Differential Precoding Technique Using 8-PSK Constellation (8-PSK 성운을 이용하는 이중계층 차분 선부호화 기법의 성능 분석)

  • Park, Noe-Yoon;Kim, Young-Ju
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.38A no.5
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    • pp.401-408
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    • 2013
  • Dual-layer differential codebook using 8-PSK (phase shift keying) constellation as its codeword elements, is proposed for Long term evolution (LTE) and/or LTE-Advanced systems. Due to the temporal correlation of the adjacent channel matrices, the consecutive precoding matrices are likely to be similar. This approach quantize only the differential information of the channel instead of the whole channel subspace, which virtually increase the codebook size to realize more accurate quantization of the channel. Especially, the proposed codebook has the same properties of LTE release-8 codebook that is, constant modulus, complexity reduction, and nested property. The mobile station can be designed by using less expensive non-linear amplifier utilizing constant modulus property. Computer simulations show that the capacity of the proposed dual-layer codebook performs almost 1.2dB better than those of any other non-differential codebooks with the same amount of feedback information.

Animal Face Classification using Dual Deep Convolutional Neural Network

  • Khan, Rafiul Hasan;Kang, Kyung-Won;Lim, Seon-Ja;Youn, Sung-Dae;Kwon, Oh-Jun;Lee, Suk-Hwan;Kwon, Ki-Ryong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.525-538
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    • 2020
  • A practical animal face classification system that classifies animals in image and video data is considered as a pivotal topic in machine learning. In this research, we are proposing a novel method of fully connected dual Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN), which extracts and analyzes image features on a large scale. With the inclusion of the state of the art Batch Normalization layer and Exponential Linear Unit (ELU) layer, our proposed DCNN has gained the capability of analyzing a large amount of dataset as well as extracting more features than before. For this research, we have built our dataset containing ten thousand animal faces of ten animal classes and a dual DCNN. The significance of our network is that it has four sets of convolutional functions that work laterally with each other. We used a relatively small amount of batch size and a large number of iteration to mitigate overfitting during the training session. We have also used image augmentation to vary the shapes of the training images for the better learning process. The results demonstrate that, with an accuracy rate of 92.0%, the proposed DCNN outruns its counterparts while causing less computing costs.

Development of ZnS(Ag)/plastic dual scintillator sheet for simultaneous alpha- and beta-ray counting (알파 및 베타선 동시측정용 ZnS(Ag)/플라스틱 이중섬광체 검출센서 개발)

  • Seo, Bum-Kyoung;Woo, Zu-Hee;Kim, Gye-Hong;Lee, Kune-Woo;Lee, Dong-Gyu;jung, Chong-Hun
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.117-122
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    • 2008
  • Dual scintillator for simultaneous alpha- and beta-ray counting used by detection materials of a surface contamination monitor was developed. In this study, preparation method was not a heat melting method but a solvent method, by which the counting material was manufactured by dissolving the polymer materials with solvent. It was simplified the preparation process. Plastic scintillator for beta-ray counting was prepared by solidifying the casting solution mixed with organic scintillator, polymer, and solvent. ZnS(Ag) scintillator layer was prepared by screen printing the paste solution mixed with ZnS(Ag), paste, and solvent onto the plastic layer. The good counting ability for alpha- and beta-ray using the ZnS(Ag)/plastic dual scintillator prepared and possibility for the counting material of surface contamination monitor was confirmed.

Regional Distribution of Isotropy Magnetic Property of Dual-type Giant Magnetoresistance-Spin Valve Multilayer (이중구조 거대자기저항-스핀밸브 박막의 자기등방성 영역분포에 관한 연구)

  • Khajidmaa, Purevdorj;Lee, Sang-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.193-199
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    • 2013
  • The regional distribution of magnetic isotropy depending on the post annealing condition for the dual-type structure GMR-SV (giant magnetoresistance-spin valve) of NiFe/Cu/NiFe/IrMn/NiFe/Cu/NiFe multilayer was investigated. The rotation of in-plane ferromagnetic layer induced by controlment of the post annealing temperature inside of the vacuum chamber. The magnetoresistive curves of a dual-type IrMn based GMR-SV depending on the direction of the magnetization easy axis of the free layer and the pinned layer are measured by between $0^{\circ}$ and $360^{\circ}$ angles for the applied fields. The optimum annealing temperature having a steady and isotropy magnetic sensitivity of 1.52 %/Oe was $107^{\circ}C$ in the rotational section of $0{\sim}90^{\circ}$. By investigating the switching process of magnetization for an arbitrary measuring direction, the in-plane orthogonal magnetization for the dual-type GMR-SV multilayer can be used by a high sensitive biosensor for detection of magnetized micro-beads.