• 센서학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.220-226
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• 2020

Graphene has been widely considered a promising candidate for high-quality chemical sensors, owing to its outstanding characteristics, such as sensitive gas adsorption at room temperature, high conductivity, high flexibility, and high transparency. However, the main drawback of a graphene-based gas sensor is the necessity for external heaters due to its slow response, incomplete recovery, and low selectivity at room temperature. Conventional heating devices have limitations such as large volume, thermal safety issues, and high power consumption. Moreover, metal-based heating systems cannot be applied to transparent and flexible devices. Thus, to solve this problem, a method of supplying the thermal energy necessary for gas sensing via the self-heating of graphene by utilizing its high carrier mobility has been studied. Herein, we provide a brief review of recent studies on self-activated graphene-based gas sensors. This review also describes various strategies for the self-activation of graphene sensors and the enhancement of their sensing properties.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.223-227
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• 2012

Focused Ion Beam (FIB) systems have incorporated versatile nanomanipulators with inherent sophisticated machining capability to characterize the electrical properties of highly miniature components of electronic devices. Carbon fibers were chosen as a model system to test the applicability of nanomanipulators to microscale electronic materials, with special emphasis on the direct current current-voltage characterizations in terms of electrode configuration. The presence of contact resistance affects the electrical characterization. This resistance originates from either i) the so-called "spreading resistance" due to the geometrical constriction near the electrode - material interface or ii) resistive surface layers. An appropriate electrode strategy is proposed herein for the use of FIB-based manipulators.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제41권7호
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• pp.753-759
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• 1992

For the fabrication of the microscale memory or electrical devices, Langmuir-Blodgett(LB) method is the most possible candidate. N-Alkylquinolium-TCNQ compounds were synthesized. The structure of the compounds were identified by the NMR spectroscopy and the purity were checked to be good by the elemental analysis. The surface pressure($\pi$) was measured at the air-water interface. The isotherm showed two transitions at 30mN/m and 45mN/m. The LB films were deposited by the home-made Kuhn type apparatus. The transfer ratio($\tau$) of the deposition was more than 0.95 for the up-stroke and less than 0.4 for the down-stroke. The absorbance peaks of the LB films appear at around 420nm and 700-820nm.

• 센서학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.252-256
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• 2023

A one-step method for nanoscale patterning of silver ionic ink on a substrate is developed using a microscale, elastic mold deformation. This method yields unique micro/nanoscale metallic structures that differ from those produced using the original molds. The linewidth of these metallic structures is significantly reduced (approximately 10 times) through the sidewall deformation of the original mold cavity on a thin liquid film, as verified by finite element analysis. The process facilitates the fabrication of various, isolated and complex micro/nanoscale metallic structures with negligible residual layers at low cost and high throughput. These structures can be utilized for various applications, including optoelectronics, wearable sensors, and metaverse-related devices. Our approach offers a promising tool for manipulation and fabrication of micro/nanoscale structures of various functional materials.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.96-103
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• 2024

As micro-electronic devices are getting miniaturized, technology that can manage the temperature of confined area is required. On these demands, microchannel heat exchanger is suggested as promising solution. However, due to laminar flow created inside the microchannel with high Reynolds number suppresses diffusion based natural convection, leads to low heat transfer performance of microchannel. This paper shows how acoustic streaming flow enhances the heat transfer performance inside the microchannel without using additional structure or nanoparticle inside the straight microchannel and fluid numerically. Various parameters, such as Reynolds number (Re), initial displacement (ξ) was adopted to evaluate the influence of acoustic streaming flow. The results showed that acoustic streaming flow can disturb the thermal boundary, by creating the micro-vortex inside the straight-microchannel and enhance the heat transfer performance.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.554-561
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• 2024

Micro light-emitting diodes (µLEDs) have been utilized in various fields such as displays, and smart devices, due to their superior stabilities. Since the applications of the µLEDs have been extended to medical devices and wearable sensors, excellent optical properties and uniformity of the µLEDs are important. Hence, several researchers have investigated to enhance the optical efficiency of the µLEDs through micro/nano lens. However, the reported methods for realizing the micro/nano lens have some drawbacks such as complex and high-cost manufacturing processes. Herein, we developed µLEDs with 3D-printed hydrogel microlenses. The printed hydrogel had high transparency and excellent adhesive strength, allowing it to attach onto top surface of the µLEDs without any additional adhesives. Microscale printing technology using a 3D printer achieved quick and fine printing in desired shapes and arrangements, showing the possibility of mass production. The 3D-printed microlens can be applied to improve not only the optical properties of µLEDs but also other optical devices.

• 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가시화정보학회 2002년도 마이크로/바이오 가시화기술부문 학술강연회
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• pp.79-84
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• 2002

Most microfluidic devices such as heat sinks for cooling micro-chips, DNA chip, Lab-On-Chip, and micro pumps etc. have microchannels of various size. Therefore, the design of practical microfluidics demands detail information on flow structure inside the microchannels. However, detail velocity field measurements are rare and difficult to carry out. In addition, as the microfluidics expands, accurate understanding of microscale transport phenomena becomes very important. In this research, micro-PIV system was employed to measure the velocity fields of flow inside a micro-channel. We carried out PIV measurements for several microchannels with varying channels width, inlet and outlet shape, filters, CCD camera and ICCD camera, etc. For effective composition of micro-PIV system, first of all, it is essential to understand optics related with micro-imaging of particles and the particle dynamics encountered in micro-scale channel flows. In addition, it is necessary to find the optimal condition for given experimental environment and? micro-scale flow to be investigated. The problems encountered in measuring velocity field of micro-channel flows are discussed in this paper.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2011

비슷한 형상을 가진 스위스롤 연소기의 물리적 크기에 대한 시험이 레이놀즈수와 담��러수의 독립적인 효과를 알아보기 위해 진행되었다. 이를 통해서 촉매연소와 비촉매연소의 소염한계 경계가 연소기의 크기 감소에 따라 다른 경향으로 좁아지는 것을 알 수 있었다. 추가적으로 연료의 화학적 성질의 중요성을 판단하기 위해 알칸기와 에테르기를 포함한 동종의 다른 형태 연료를 적용하여 시험을 수행하였다. 이러한 결과들을 통해 연소기의 크기와 연료의 형태에 따른 효과로 소형 연소기의 성능 및 그러한 장치들에 미치는 영향력에 대한 부분들이 논의되었다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2011

가스연소와 촉매연소 실험을 통해 열교환 연소기의 연소 및 소염한계에 대하여 레이놀즈 수에 적용하여 성능평가를 수행하였으며, 마이크로 스케일 연소 장치에 대한 적용 가능성에 대해 살펴보았다. 본 논문에서는 연소기의 특성을 살펴보기 위해 나선형 연소기의 물리적 크기와 회전수를 변화시킨 스위스롤 연소기를 제작하여 실험을 수행하였다. 또한 연소가스 분석을 통한 연소효율에 대해서도 살펴보았다. 실험 결과를 바탕으로 스위스롤 연소기의 최적 작동상태에 대해서도 분석하였다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.25-29
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• 2012

루타일(rutile) $TiO_2$ 분말의 알칼리 수열합성과 $300{\sim}500^{\circ}C$ 열처리를 통해 $TiO_2$ 나노튜브를 제조하고, 이를 리튬이 차전지의 음극 활물질로 채택하여 그 물성과 전기화학적 특성을 조사하였다. 수열반응 직후의 정제과정에서 불순물인 미세분진을 완전히 제거하여 제조된 $TiO_2$ 나노튜브는 고비표면적과 확연한 나노튜브 결정상을 보였다. 또한 열처리 온도가 증가함에 따라 등방적으로 분산된 나노튜브들이 서로 응집되어 비표면적의 감소를 초래하였다. $300^{\circ}C$ 열처리한 $TiO_2$ 나노튜브가 250 mAh $g^{-1}$의 가장 높은 초기 방전용량을 나타내었으며, 사이클과 고율 특성은 $400^{\circ}C$ 열처리한 시료가 가장 우수한 성능을 보였다.