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Neutron Diffraction Study on the Crystal Structure of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconium Oxide (중성자회절법을 이용한 이트리아 저코니아의 결정구조 연구)

  • Jin-Ho Lee;Chang-Hee Lee;Won-Sa Kim
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.164-170
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    • 2000
  • Neutron single crystal and powder diffraction techniques have been applied to the structure analysis of yttria-stabilized zirconium, Z $r_{0.73}$ $Y_{0.27}$ $O_{1.87}$., prepared by the skull-melting method. The crystal structure has been determined to be cubic symmetry, space group Fm/equation omitted/ with a=5.155(2)$\AA$, V=136.99(5)$\AA$, Z=4, and R(F)=5.65%, $\omega$R(I)=10.57% for 70 integrated intensities of Bragg Peaks observed from single crystal of Z $r_{0.73}$ $Y_{0.27}$ $O_{1.87}$. The stabilizer atoms randomly occupy the zirconium sites and there are displacements of oxygen atoms with amplitudes of $\Delta$/a~0.033 and 0.11 along <110> and <100> directions from the ideal positions of the fluorite structure, respectively. There are no significant differences in crystallographic data between the single crystal and powder studies. Diffraction pattern after Rietveld refinement, using neutron powder data, has shown the evidence of a tetragonal impurity phase, or a slight tetragonal distortion.

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Fabrication of Prototype vuv Spectrometer & Liquid Target System Containing Hydrogen

  • Lee, Yun-Man;Kim, Jae-Hun;Kim, Jin-Gon;An, Byeong-Nam
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.02a
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    • pp.586-586
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    • 2012
  • The vuv spectrometer for ITER main plasma measurement is designed as a five-channel spectral system. To develop and verify the design, a two-channel prototype system was fabricated with No. 3 (14.4-31.8 nm) and No. 4 (29.0-60.0 nm) among the five channels. For test of the prototype system, a hollow cathode lamp is used as a light source. The system is composed of a collimating mirror to collect the light from source to slit, and two holographic diffraction gratings with toroidal geometry to diffract and also to collimate the light from the common slit to detectors. The overall system performance was verified by comparing the measured spectral resolutions with the calculated spectral resolutions. And we also have developed liquid jet target system. This study is about a neutron generator, which is designed to overcome many of the limitations of traditional beam-target neutron generators by utilizing a liquid target. One of the most critical aspects of the beam-target neutron generator is the target integrity under the beam exposure. A liquid target can be a good solution to overcome damage to the target such as target erosion and depletion of hydrogen isotopes in the active layer, especially for the ones operating at high neutron fluxes and maintained relatively thin with no need for water cooling. In this study, liquid target containing hydrogen has been developed and tested.

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Nanomaterials Research Using Quantum Beam Technology

  • Kishimoto, Naoki;Kitazawa, Hideaki;Takeda, Yoshihiko
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.7-7
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    • 2011
  • Quantum beam technology has been expected to develop breakthroughs for nanotechnology during the third basic plan of science and technology (2006~2010). Recently, Green- or Life Innovations has taken over the national interests in the fourth basic science and technology plan (2011~2015). The NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science) has been conducting the corresponding mid-term research plans, as well as other national projects, such as nano-Green project (Global Research for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials science). In this lecture, the research trends in Japan and NIMS are firstly reviewed, and the typical achievements are highlighted over key nanotechnology fields. As one of the key nanotechnologies, the quantum beam research in NIMS focused on synchrotron radiation, neutron beams and ion/atom beams, having complementary attributes. The facilities used are SPring-8, nuclear reactor JRR-3, pulsed neutron source J-PARC and ion-laser-combined beams as well as excited atomic beams. Materials studied are typically fuel cell materials, superconducting/magnetic/multi-ferroic materials, quasicrystals, thermoelectric materials, precipitation-hardened steels, nanoparticle-dispersed materials. Here, we introduce a few topics of neutron scattering and ion beam nanofabrication. For neutron powder diffraction, the NIMS has developed multi-purpose pattern fitting software, post RIETAN2000. An ionic conductor, doped Pr2NiO4, which is a candidate for fuel-cell material, was analyzed by neutron powder diffraction with the software developed. The nuclear-density distribution derived revealed the two-dimensional network of the diffusion paths of oxygen ions at high temperatures. Using the high sensitivity of neutron beams for light elements, hydrogen states in a precipitation-strengthened steel were successfully evaluated. The small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) demonstrated the sensitive detection of hydrogen atoms trapped at the interfaces of nano-sized NbC. This result provides evidence for hydrogen embrittlement due to trapped hydrogen at precipitates. The ion beam technology can give novel functionality on a nano-scale and is targeting applications in plasmonics, ultra-fast optical communications, high-density recording and bio-patterning. The technologies developed are an ion-and-laser combined irradiation method for spatial control of nanoparticles, and a nano-masked ion irradiation method for patterning. Furthermore, we succeeded in implanting a wide-area nanopattern using nano-masks of anodic porous alumina. The patterning of ion implantation will be further applied for controlling protein adhesivity of biopolymers. It has thus been demonstrated that the quantum beam-based nanotechnology will lead the innovations both for nano-characterization and nano-fabrication.

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Estimation Curvature Change Due to Layer Removal in Strips with Uniaxial Residual Stress Fidlds (축방향의 잔류응력이 내재하는 STRIP의 층 가공에 따른 곡율변화)

  • 신상현
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.149-155
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    • 1997
  • 잔류응력을 측정하는 비파괴 방법중 Neutron diffraction technique의 발달로 인하여 기존의 X-ray diffraction technique에 비하여 잔류응력 측정가능 두께가 대부분의 물질에 있어서 훨씬 깊어졌다. 비파괴 방법으로 부품내의 잔류응력 분포가 측정되어진 경우, 부품의 가공시 잔류응력의 재분포로 인한 형상의 변화를 정량적으로 예측할 수 있는 방법에 대해 어떠한 경우도 논의된 바 없다. 본 연구에서는 축 방향의 잔류응력이 내재하는 strip의 층 가공시 일어나는 strip의 곡율변화를 정량적으로 예측할 수 있는 수식을 제시하였다. 간단히 컴퓨터 프로그램화 할 수 있는 수식을 전개하므로 써 현장에서 유용하게 이용할 수 있게 하였다.

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