• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.14-17
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• 2016

Annealing as-grown electron-doped cuprates under a low oxygen-partial-pressure condition is a necessary step to achieve superconductivity. It has been recently found that the so-called protect annealing results in much better superconducting properties in terms of the superconducting transition temperature and volume fraction. In this article, we report on angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies of a protect-annealed electron-doped cuprate $Pr_{0.9}La_{1.0}Ce_{0.1}CuO_4$ on annealing condition dependent superconducting and pseudo-gap properties. Remarkably, we found that the one showing a better superconducting property possesses almost no pseudo-gap while others have strong pseudo-gap feature due to an anti-ferromagnetic order.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.310-310
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• 2010

Electronic and photovoltaic characteristics of two sensitizers (TA-BTD-CA and TA-BTD-St-CA), composed of a different $\pi$-conjugation in the linker group, have been investigated by theoretical and experimental methods. The electronic structure, transition dipole moment and oscillator strengths of two sensitizers have been scrutinized by using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) method. The LUMO level and the oscillator strength of TA-BTD-St-CA was higher than that of TA-BTD-CA, which may facilitate the electron injection process as well as increase the absorption coefficient. The relative efficiencies of the electron injection from the excited sensitizer to nanocrystalline TiO2 and SnO2 films have also been investigated by nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. The relative electron injection efficiency of TA-BTD-St-CA exhibited similar injection efficiency for two different semiconductors. However, in the case of TA-BTD-CA sensitizer, electron injection into SnO2 was approximately three times larger than that into TiO2. This enhancement of electron injection of TA-BTD-CA for the SnO2 is due to the increment of the driving force caused by positive shift of conduction band of semiconductor, which was also confirmed from the investigation for the photovoltaic characteristics according to the electrolyte additive, such as LiI additive.

• Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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• 2003.12a
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• pp.147-147
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• 2003

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.172-183
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• 1995

The nucleophilic substitution reactions of p-substituted benzyl bromide with l-substituted N,N-dimethylanilines in methanol and acetonitrile binary solvent mixture which is known to an isodielectric solvent system kinetically and the results are as follows. The positive charge is developed on the reaction center of the substrate and it means that the bond cleavage is preceded more than bond formation in the transition state on the analogy of Hammett px values. The bond form3tlon is not progressed in the case of electron donating substituent of substrate. However, the bond formation is much developed in the case of electron withdrawing substituent of substrate on the analogy of Hammett py values. The nucleophilic attacking ability is shown a highest at 80% (V/V) methanol content and the bond formation is well progressed at the same methanol composition on the result of a cross interaction coefficient, pxy. The result of transition state structure that is applicated to the potential energy surface model is in accord with the result that Is applicated to the reaction susceptibilities. The reaction Is subject to the polarity-polarizability term more than the hydrogen bond donor acidity term by application to the solvatochromic parameter eouation.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.8 no.3B
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• pp.269-275
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• 1999

The phase transition on the surface which several adsorbates (K, Mg, etc.) are deposited was observed by Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED) and Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction (RGEED). We took the photoelectron spectra from the valence and core level at several oxygen exposure. For oxygen adsorption, the surface state in valence spectra diminished concurrently with S1, S2 peaks in core level spectra and surface periodicity turned to 3$\times$2 by post-annealing. These results suggest that the phase transition from 3$\times$2 to 3$\times$ on the Si(113) at initial stage is induced by a rearrangement of atoms on the substrate, not by the formation of overlayer.

• Advances in nano research
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.211-217
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• 2014

The self-assembled strain-induced sub-micrometric islands and nanostructures are grown from In-As-Sb-P quaternary liquid phase on InAs (100) substrates in Stranski-Krastanow growth mode. Two samples are under consideration. The first sample consists of unencapsulated islands and lens-shape quantum dots (QDs) grown from expressly inhomogeneous liquid phase. The second sample is an n-InAs/p-InAsSbP heterostructure with QDs embedded in the p-n junction interface. The morphology, size and shape of the structures are investigated by high-resolution scanning electron (SEM) and transmission electron (TEM) microscopy. It is shown that islands, as they decrease in size, undergo shape transitions. Particularly, as the volume decreases, the following succession of shape transitions are detected: sub-micrometric truncated pyramid, {111} facetted pyramid, {111} and partially {105} facetted pyramid, completely unfacetted "pre-pyramid", hemisphere, lens-shaped QD, which then evolves again to nano-pyramid. A critical size of $5{\pm}2nm$ for the shape transformation of InAsSbP-based lens-shaped QD to nano-pyramid is experimentally measured and theoretically evaluated.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.539-545
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• 2001

Undoped and Co$^{2+}$ $\alpha$-Ga$_2$S$_3$ thin films were grown by spray pyrolysis method. It has been found that these thin films have a monoclinic structure and direct optical energy gap and indirect were located to 3.477eV and 3.123 eV at 10K respectively. In the photoluminescence due to a D0A(donor-acceptor) pair recombination were observed at 502 nm and 671 nm for the $\alpha$-Ga$_2$S$_3$ thin film, where is excited by the 325 nm-line of He-Cd laser. These peaks are identified to be corresponding to the electron transition between the energy levels of Co$^{2+}$ ion sited a the T$_{d}$ symmetry point in the $\alpha$-Ga$_2$S$_3$;Co$^{2+}$ thin film. film.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.303-309
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• 1991

Limitation of photosynthesis in detached Chinese cabbage (Brassica campestris L.) leaves was induced by feeding of mannose (25 mM) for 12 h in the light, and changes in the basic thylakoid functions under this condition were investigated. The acid soluble phosphate contend and CO2 uptake rate was decreased by 66% and 67%, respectively. However, the starch content was increased by 24% compared to those of controls. From the fast induction curves of chlorophyll fluorescence, dark level fluorescence (Fo) slightly increased while intermediate plateau fluorescence level (FI) to peak level fluorescence (Fp) transient was significantly decreased with a slight decrease in the Fo-to-FI transient. This data means that reduction of secondary electron acceptor of PSII (QB) might be more severely inhibited than that of primary electron acceptor of PSII (QA) by decrease in phosphate level. The strong decline of (Fv)m//Fm ratio suggests that efficiency of excitation energy capture by PSII was decreased markedly. The quenching of Fo (qO), an indicator of state transition, was also occurred over the slow induction kinetics of chlorophyll fluorescence. From quenching analysis, fluorescence was dominantly quenched by nonphotochemical quenchings (qE+qT). These results showed that the capture and transfer efficiency of excitation energy to PSII reaction center in thylakoid was decreased with the decline of leaf phosphate level, and that the state transition was occurred during the induction of photosynthesis under these conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.08a
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• pp.211-211
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• 2011

Nanostructures, with a diversity of shapes, built on substrates have been developed within many research areas. Lithography is one powerful, but complex, technique to make structures at the nanometer scale, such as platinum nanowires for studying CO catalytic reactions [1], or aluminum nanodisks for studying the plasmon effect [2]. In this work, we approach a facile method to construct nanostructures using noble metals on a titania thin film by using self-assembled structures as a pattern. Here, a large-scale silica monolayer is transferred to the titania thin film substrates using a Langmuir-Blodgett trough, followed by the deposition of a thin transition metal layer. Owing to the hexagonal close-packed structure of the silica monolayer, we would obtain a metal nanostructure that includes separated metallic triangles (islands) after removing the patterning silica beads. This nanostructure can be employed to investigate the role of metal-oxide interfaces in CO catalytic reactions by changing the patterning silica particles with different sizes or by replacing the oxide support. The morphology and chemical composition of the structure can be characterized by scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. In addition, we modify these islands to a connected island structure by reducing the silica size of the patterning monolayer, which is utilized to generating hot electron flow based on the localized surface plasmon resonance effect of the metal nanostructures.

• Macromolecular Research
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.365-377
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• 2009

In this feature article, we briefly review the new methods we have utilized recently in the investigation of morphology and phase behavior of block copolymers. We first describe the chromatographic fractionation method to purify block copolymers from their side products of mainly homopolymers or block copolymer precursors inadvertently terminated upon addition of the next monomer in the sequential anionic polymerization. The chromatographic method is extended to the fractionation of the individual block of diblock copolymers which can yield the diblock copolymer fractions of different composition and molecular weight, which also have narrower distributions in both molecular weight and composition. A more detailed phase diagram could be constructed from the set of block copolymer fractions without the need of acquiring many block copolymers each prepared by anionic polymerization. The fractions with narrow distribution in both molecular weight and composition exhibit better long-range ordering and sharper phase transition. Next, epitaxial relationships between two ordered structures in block copolymer thin film is discussed. We employed the direct visualization method, transmission electron microtomography(TEMT) to scrutinize the grain boundary structure.