• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.08a
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• pp.179.2-179.2
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• 2013

A large-area RF-driven ion source is being developed at Germany for the heating and current drive of ITER device. Negative hydrogen ion sources are major components of neutral beam injection (NBI) systems in future large-scale fusion experiments such as ITER and DEMO. The RF sources for the production of positive hydrogen ions have been successfully developed at IPP (Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics), Garching, for the ASDEX-U and W7-AS neutral beam heating systems. Ion sources of the first NBI system (NBI-1) for the KSTAR tokamak have been developed successfully with a bucket plasma generator based on the filament arc discharge, which have contributed to achieve a good plasma performance such as 15 sec H-mode operation with an injection of 3.5 MW NB power. There is a development plan of RF ion source at the KAERI to extract the positive ions, which can be used for the second NBI system (NBI-2) of the KSTAR and to extract the negative ions for future fusion devices such as Fusion Neutron Source and Korea-DEMO. The development progresses of RF ion source at the KAERI are described in this presentation.

• Current Applied Physics
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.1540-1545
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• 2018

SiGe alloy is widely used thermoelectric materials for high temperature thermoelectric generator applications. However, its high thermoelectric performance has been thus far realized only in alloys synthesized employing mechanical alloying techniques, which are time-consuming and employ several materials processing steps. In the current study, for the first time, we report an enhanced thermoelectric figure-of-merit (ZT) ~ 1.1 at $900^{\circ}C$ in ntype $Si_{80}Ge_{20}$ nano-alloys, synthesized using a facile and up-scalable methodology consisting of rapid solidification at high optimized cooling rate ${\sim}3.4{\times}10^7K/s$, employing melt spinning followed by spark plasma sintering of the resulting nano-crystalline melt-spun ribbons. This enhancement in ZT > 20% over its bulk counterpart, owes its origin to the nano-crystalline microstructure formed at high cooling rates, which results in crystallite size ~7 nm leading to high density of grain boundaries, which scatter heat-carrying phonons. This abundant scattering resulted in a very low thermal conductivity ${\sim}2.1Wm^{-1}K^{-1}$, which corresponds to ~50% reduction over its bulk counterpart and is amongst the lowest reported thus far in n-type SiGe alloys. The synthesized samples were characterized using X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, based on which the enhancement in their thermoelectric performance has been discussed.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.464-472
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• 2020

We suggest a hydroponic cultivation system combined with a plasma generator to investigate the changes in the growth and functional substance content of lettuces during the cultivation period. Lettuce seedlings of uniform size were planted in semi-DFT after seeding for 3 weeks, and the plasma-activated water was intermittently operated for 1 hour at an 8 hours cycle for 4 weeks. Lettuces grew with or without plasma-activated water with the nutrient solution in hydroponics culture systems. Among the reactive oxygen species generated during plasma-activated water treatment, brown spots and necrosis appeared in the individuals closer to the plasma generating device due to O₃, and there was no significant difference in the growth parameters. While the rutin and total phenolic content of the lettuce shoot grown in the nutrient solution were higher than that of the plasma-activated water, epicatechin contents in plasma-activated water were significantly greater than the nutrient solution. However, in the roots, all kinds of secondary metabolites measured in this work, rutin, epicatechin, quercetin, and total phenolic contents, were significantly higher in the plasma-activated water than the control. These results were indicated that the growth of lettuce was decreased due to the reactive oxygen species such as ozone in the plasma-activated water, but the secondary metabolites in the root zone increased significantly. It has needed to use this technology for the cultivation of root vegetables with the modified plasma-activated water systems to increase secondary metabolite in the roots.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.557-575
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• 2020

Plasma blasting which is generated by high voltage arc discharge of electricity is applied to soil mass to improve permeability of soil and cleaning efficiency of oil contamination. A new high voltage generator was manufactured and three types of soil including silty sand, silty sand mixed with lime and silty sand mixed with cement were prepared. Small and large soil columns were produced using these types of soil and plasma blasting was performed within soil columns to investigate the variation of soil volume penetrated by fluid and permeability. Soil volume penetrated by fluid increased by 11~71% when plasma blasting was applied in soil. Although plasma blasting with low electricity voltage induced horizontal fracture and fluid penetrated along this weak plane, plasma blasting with high voltage induced spherical penetration of fluid. Plasma blasting increased the permeability of soil. Permeabilty of soils mixed with lime and cement increased by 450~1,052% with plasma blasting. Permeability of soil increased as discharge voltage increased when plasma blasing was applied once. However, several blastings with the same discharge voltage increase or decrease permeability of soil. Oil contaminated soil was prepared by adding diesel into soil artificially and plasma blasting was performed in these oil contaminated soil. Cleaning efficiency increased by average of 393% for soil located nearby the blasting and by average of 239% for soil located far from the blasting. Cleaning efficiency did not show any correlation with discharge voltage. All these results indicated that plasma blasting might be used for in-situ cleaning of oil contaminated soil because plasma blasting increased permeability of soil and cleaning efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.08a
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• pp.424-424
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• 2012

ZnO는 수열합성법을 통해 저온에서 단결정으로 성장할 수 있기 때문에 광전소자 및 압전소자로 응용되고 있으나, 성장된 ZnO nanowire 내부 산소 결함 및 표면에 OH기의 흡착에 의해 소자특성 저하를 발생시킨다. 본 연구에서는 ZnO의 결함의 최소화를 위해 Glass 기판에 수열합성법으로 성장된 ZnO nanowire를 ICP 플라즈마 장치를 이용하여 O2 25 sccm, Base Pressure $1.5{{\times}}10^{-3}$ Torr을 기준으로 파워와 시간에 따라 표면처리 하였다. 플라즈마 처리된 ZnO nanowire의 결함특성과 형상을 XPS와 FE-SEM를 통하여 분석하였으며, ZnO nanowire의 소자특성을 평가를 위해 Kapton Film/AZO/ZnO nanowire/PMMA/Au 구조의 발전기를 제작하였다. 150 W, 10 min에서 532.4 eV의 -OH결합이 최소화됨을 확인하였으며, 이를 이용하여 Flexible ZnO nanowire 발전기 제작 했을 경우 최대 Voltage 5 V, Current 156 nA 전기적 특성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.221-222
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 급변하는 특징을 갖는 부하를 제어하기 위한 병렬부하 공진컨버터의 공진 네트워크를 설계한다. RPG(Remote Plasma Generator)는 플라스마를 생성하기 위한 장치로써 플라스마 발생 전, 후의 부하 조건이 급격하게 달라지는 특징을 갖는다. 이때 플라스마를 발생시키기 위해서는 고전압이 필요하며, 플라스마를 유지하기 위해서는 높은 스위칭 주파수와 일정 크기의 정현파 전류가 필요하다. 이러한 특성을 고려하여 공진 네트워크를 설계하고, 시뮬레이션을 통해 과정의 타당성을 입증한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.177-178
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 원격 플라스마 발생 장치용 리액터를 포함한 플라스마 부하의 등가 모델을 제안한다. 모델링을 위해 챔버 안에 존재하는 플라스마 부하의 특성을 고려하여, 플라스마 발생장치용 리액터를 포함한 전압, 전류의 정보를 통해 등가모델의 파라미터를 추출한다. 추출한 파라미터를 기반으로 플라스마 부하에 대한 전기적 등가회로를 구성하고, 플라스마 부하의 변화에 중요한 영향을 주는 플라스마 기체의 압력 정보를 등가 모델에 반영하여 이를 바탕으로 시뮬레이션을 진행해 모델링의 타당성을 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06d
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• pp.17-24
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• 2001

To solve the problems of energy and environment conservation issued recently, mainly in mechanical engineering point of view, R&D's on the thermal, fluid and environmental engineering technology have been carried out by two R&D departments in the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM). Now there are 65 researchers in the two. The representative projects in the field of thermal and fluid engineering are development of an inactive gas generator and development of a cryogenic cooler for electronic sensors. Pyrolysis and melting of wastes, gas treatment using nonthermal plasma, and desalination are important technology to be developed in environmental R&D areas. To reduce the emission from the existing diesel engines for buses, an LPG direct injection type of bus engine is being developed supported by LPG supply companies. These several R&D projects which have been carried out in KIMM are introduced briefly.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.560-566
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• 1986

In the design of an RF discharge system, the electrical equivalence of the gas discharge must be known. With this knowledge, one can design a suitable matching network for a maximum power transfer from the RF generator into the discharge. For this purpose, an experiment has been conducted in which the electrical impedance (conductance and capacitance) was determined as a function of power. In parallel with this, a detailed theoretical analysis has been done and the results are in accord with those of our experiment. Design equations are also given for a simple matching network, and a design example is presented to demonstrate its application. During the actual operation of an RF discharge system, however, it has been often observed that the reflected power tends to vary in small values due to the changes in the impedance of the system. This problem can be relieved by adding an automatic impedance matching circuit to the system and this paper presents such an automatic impedance matching network.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.682-685
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• 2004

본 논문은 반도체 스위치를 이용한 고압 펄스 발생기에 관한 연구이다. PSII (Plasma Source Ion Implantation)의 전원 장치로 사용되었으며, 기존의 hard switch나 싸이로트론 등을 이용한 고압 펄스 파워 발생기에 비해 다음과 같은 장점을 가진다. 장수명, 고효율과 펄스 크기, 반복률, 펄스폭 등의 조정이 자유로운 높은 유연성 등의 장점이다. 또한 제안된 펄스 발생기에서 사용된 반도체 스위치는 12개의 IGBT가 직렬로 연결되어 있으며, 그 중 하나의 스위치만 능동 구동기 두개가 존재하고 나머지 스위치는 수동 구동기만으로 구성되어 있어, 구동기가 매우 간단한 장점을 가지고 있다.