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Interfacial Layers for High Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells

  • Kim, Youn-Su;Choi, Ha-Na;Son, Seon-Kyoung;Kim, Ta-Hee;Kim, Bong-Soo;Kim, Kyung-Kon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2011.08a
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    • pp.74-74
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    • 2011
  • Polymer solar cells utilize bulk heterojunction (BHJ) type photo-active layer in which the electron donating polymer and electron accepting C60 derivatives are mixed together. In the BHJ system the electron donating polymer and electron accepting C60 derivatives are blended. The blended system causes charge recombination at the interface between the BHJ active layer and electrode. To reduce the charge recombination at the interface, it is needed to use an interlayer that can selectively transfer electrons or holes. We have developed solution processable wide band gap inorganic interfacial layers for polymer solar cells. The effect of interlayers on the performance of polymer solar cell was investigated for various types of conjugated polymers. We have found that inorganic interfacial layers enhanced the solar cell efficiency through the reduction of charge recombination at the interface between active layer and electrode. Furthermore, the stability of the polymer solar cell using the interlayer was significantly improved. The efficiency of 6.5% was obtained from the PTB7:PCBM70 based solar cells utilizing $TiO_2$nanoparticles as an interlayers.

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A response matrix method for the refined Analytic Function Expansion Nodal (AFEN) method in the two-dimensional hexagonal geometry and its numerical performance

  • Noh, Jae Man
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.11
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    • pp.2422-2430
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    • 2020
  • In order to improve calculational efficiency of the CAPP code in the analysis of the hexagonal reactor core, we have tried to implement a refined AFEN method with transverse gradient basis functions and interface flux moments in the hexagonal geometry. The numerical scheme for the refined AFEN method adopted here is the response matrix method that uses the interface partial currents as nodal unknowns instead of the interface fluxes used in the original AFEN method. Since the response matrix method is single-node based, it has good properties such as good calculational efficiency and parallel computing affinity. Because a refined AFEN method equivalent nonlinear FDM response matrix method tried first could not provide a numerically stable solution, a direct formulation of the refined AFEN response matrix were developed. To show the numerical performance of this response matrix method against the original AFEN method, the numerical error analyses were performed for several benchmark problems including the VVER-440 LWR benchmark problem and the MHTGR-350 HTGR benchmark problem. The results showed a more than three times speedup in computing time for the LWR and HTGR benchmark problems due to good convergence and excellent calculational efficiency of the refined AFEN response matrix method.

Computational Efficiency of 3-D Contact Analysis by Domain/Boundary Decomposition Formulation (영역/경계 분할 정식화에 의한 삼차원 접촉 해석의 효율성 검토)

  • Kim, Yong-Uhn;Ryu, Han-Yeol;Shin, Eui-Sup
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.469-476
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    • 2007
  • A domain/boundary decomposition technique is applied to carry out efficient finite element analyses of 3-D contact problems. Appropriate penalty functions are selected for connecting an interface and contact interfaces with neighboring subdomains that satisfy continuity constraints. As a consequence, all the effective stiffness matrices have positive definiteness, and computational efficiency can be improved to a considerable degree. If necessary, any complex-shaped 3-D domain can be divided into several simple-shaped subdomains without considering the conformity of meshes along the interface. With a set of numerical examples, the basic characteristics of computational efficiency are investigated carefully.

Top Emission Organic EL Devices Having Metal-Doped Cathode Interface Layer

  • Kido, Junji
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.1081-1081
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    • 2002
  • Top emission organic EL devices were fabricated by using metal-doped cathode interface layer to achieve low drive voltages. Also, facing-targets-type sputtering was used to sputter indium-tin oxide layer on top of organic active layer. The devices fabricated in this study showed reasonably high external quantum efficiency of about 1 % which is comparable to that of bottom-emission-type devices.

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An Interface Sharing Service based on Jini (Jini 기반의 인터페이스 공유 서비스)

  • 문창주;문석현;백두권
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.227-240
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    • 2003
  • When we develop and use the java-based distributed object system, the system developer must deploy distributed object, which is implemented to predefined interface, to network and the system user acquires reference about distributed object and changes reference to interface type. Sharing of interface is essential for these works In this paper, we propose the IRSJ(interface repository service based on jim) to improve efficiency of interface sharing at the JINI system development. the IRSJ is consisted of the java classes for JINI system and interface sharing service. If development teams perform collaborative work in short distance, the IRSJ can search interface file without information of lookup server or interface writer If development teams perform collaborative work in long distance, the IRJS can search interface with only an address of server that executes lookup service. Although the interface object not requires additional search, the interface object that failed search interface can download interface and use interface using remote event model. When the message service fails in interface search, the message service sends interface request message to a development team member who use the IRSJ automatically, so that interface sharing may be possible in short time.

Improvement of Light Extraction Efficiency of LED Packages Using an Enhanced Encapsulant Design

  • Choi, Hyun-Su;Park, Joon-Sik;Moon, Cheol-Hee
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.370-376
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    • 2014
  • We optimized the design of the flat encapsulant of a light-emitting diode (LED) package to obtain higher light output power (LOP), both by experiment and simulation using three-dimensional ray-tracing software. In the experiment, the refractive index of the encapsulant was varied (1.41 and 1.53). In addition, double-layer structures with these refractive indices (1.41/1.53) were investigated by varying the shape of the interface between the two among flat, concave, and convex. The experiments showed that the LOP of the double-layer encapsulant with convex interface increased by 13.4% compared to the single-layer encapsulant with a refractive index 1.41, which was explained by the increase of the light extraction efficiency (LEE) in connection with the increase of the critical angle (${\theta}_c$) and the decrease of the Fresnel reflection.

Characteristic Improvements of Organic Light Emitting Diodes By Using Co-Evaporated Cathodes

  • Kwak, Y.H.;Lee, Y.S.;Park, J.H.;Choi, Jong-Sun
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.710-713
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    • 2002
  • In order to improve the power efficiency of multi-layer organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), electron injection into ETL(electron transport layer) from cathode at the interface between ETL and cathode was enhanced by interposing a proper electron injection layer at the interface. The HTL(hole transport layer) and ETL materials used were N, N'diphenyl- N, N' - bis(3-methylphenyl-1, 1'- biphenyl - 4, 4 'diamine (TPD) and tris (8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum ($Alq_3$) respectively. Cathodes using co-evaporated Al-CsF, Al-KF, and Al-NaF composites are adopted to enhance the electrical and optical properties of OLEDs. OLEDs with alkaline metal-doped cathode show a luminance of as high as 35,000 cd/$m^2$, and external quantum efficiency about 1.35 %. In addition, they show higher power efficiency at all bias conditions and good reproducibility.

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A Message Management System for Cooperative Message-based Interface Development (메시지 기반 인터페이스 공동 개발을 위한 메시지 관리 시스템)

  • Yu, Je-Young;Park, Jin-Hee
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.609-613
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    • 2008
  • In Large scale system, components are developed by many different developers. In such a development environment, efficiency of the development depends largely on effectiveness of interface management. In the early stage of development, many components are newly defined or modified quite often. These definitions and modifications of components cause the change of interfaces between components. If changes of interfaces are not properly managed, many developers may implement components based on different version of interfaces. This causes decrease in efficiency of development. "Message Definition and Management system (MDMS)" provides the means to cope with the inefficiency of unmanaged interface definitions and changes. MDMS automatically generates source code and Interface Design Description (IDD). The automatic generation of source code and IDD prevents the disagreement between code and documents. Furthermore, MDMS shows the overall view of message flow for a system. Based on this information, we can optimize the system identifying message bottleneck and apply to support for the performance tuning of the system.

Development of a Four-way Interface for Online Capillary Isoelectric Focusing-Electrospray-Mass Spectrometry (CIEF-ESI-MS)

  • Yu, Hai Dong;Kim, Byungjoo;Shin, Dae-Ho;Ahn, Seonghee
    • Mass Spectrometry Letters
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.83-86
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    • 2013
  • A new interface for coupling CIEF and MS using a four-way cross has been developed in a single mechanical system. This new interface could be operated without the electric discontinuity and reinstallation of lines. Additionally, a bare fused silica capillary was facilitated as a spray needle to produce electrospray and to guide catholyte or sheath liquid. Focusing for CIEF was completed in a hanging droplet at the end of spray needle. This capillary spray needle also provided stable spray, enhanced the ionization efficiency and increased sensitivity. Results with carbonic anhydrase I showed that focusing and spraying were well completed with the new interface and the new spray needle.

SPECTRAL LEGENDRE AND CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION FOR THE STOKES INTERFACE PROBLEMS

  • HESSARI, PEYMAN;SHIN, BYEONG-CHUN
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.109-124
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    • 2017
  • The numerical solution of the Stokes equation with discontinuous viscosity and singular force term is challenging, due to the discontinuity of pressure, non-smoothness of velocity, and coupled discontinuities along interface.In this paper, we give an efficient algorithm to solve this problem by employing spectral Legendre and Chebyshev approximations.First, we present the algorithm for a problem defined in rectangular domain with straight line interface. Then it is generalized to a domain with smooth curve boundary and interface by employing spectral element method. Numerical experiments demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of our algorithm and its spectral convergence.