• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.785-793
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• 2007

An electrochemical transient response technique was used to study the corrosion of reinforcing steel bar in the concrete. Analysis of the transient electrochemical potential response in a corrosion interface to an applied current has enabled the separate components that make up the measured transient response to be isolated. These components display a range of resistances and capacitances, dependent on the corrosion conditions of the reinforcing steel, which may be attributed to the corrosion process, to effects within the concrete cover or to film effects on the surface of the concrete. In this technique, the corrosion rate was evaluated by summing all of the resistances in the separate components to obtain an aggregated corrosion resistance. However, it is possible that not all resistances identified are associated with the corrosion process. The results obtained show that the corrosion rates are significant dependent on the assignment of the separate components to either corrosion or to other processes. The assignment of resistive components associated with the corrosion rate can be clearly identified by taking a series of the transient measurement at different lateral distances from the corroding reinforcing steel. An inappropriate selection of measurement time however may result in an additional resistance, which is not associated with corrosion, being included or part of the resistance associated with corrosion being left out.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2003

CsI single crystals doped with lithium, potassium or rubidium were grown by using Czochralski method at Ar gas atmosphere. The energy resolutions of CsI(Li:0.2 mole%), CsI(K:0.5 mole%) and CsI(Rb:1.5 mole%) scintillators were 14.5%, 15.9% and 17.0% for $^{137}Cs$(0.662 MeV), respectively. The energy calibration curves of CsI(Li), CsI(K) and CsI(Rb) scintillators were linear for $\gamma$-ray energy. The time resolutions of CsI(Li:0.2 mole%), CsI(K:0.5 mole%) and CsI(Rb:1.5 mole%) scintillators measured by CFT(constant-fraction timing method) were 9.0 ns, 14.7 ns and 9.7 ns, respectively. The fluorescence decay times of CsI(Li:0.2 mole%) scintillator had a fast component and slow one of ${\tau}_1=41.2\;ns$ and ${\tau}_2=483\;ns$, respectively. The fluorescence decay times of CsI(K:0.5 mole%) scintillator were ${\tau}_1=47.2\;ns$ and ${\tau}_2=417\;ns$. And the fluorescence decay times of CsI(Rb:1.5 mole%) scintillator were ${\tau}_1=41.3\;ns$ and ${\tau}_2=553\;ns$. The phosphorescence decay times of CsI(Li:0.2 mole%), CsI(K:0.5 mole%) and CsI(Rb:1.5 mole%) scintillators were 0.51 s, 0.57 s and 0.56 s, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.27-27
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• 2003

최근 탄소나노튜브를 전계방출 표시소자(FED, field omission display)용 에미터 재료로 사용한 캐소드 개발에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 캐소드전극으로는 투명전도성 반도체 박막인 ITO를 사용하고, 에미터용 재료로는 탄소나노튜브를 사용해서 스크린 인쇄법으로 2극(diode type)형 전계방출 소자용 캐소드를 제작하였다. 본딩재(bonding materials)의 종류와 공정변수를 달리해서 에미터용 탄소나노튜브와 ITO 캐소드 전극 사이의 전기적 접촉방법을 변화시켰을때 탄소나노튜브 캐소드의 전계방출 특성을 체계적으로 연구하였다. 첫째로, 본딩재의 전기전도성 (electrical conductivity)을 변수로 해서 탄소나노튜브 에미터의 전계강화(fold enhancement) 효과를 연구한 결과 본딩재의 구성 성분중 부도체(insulator)의 분율이 높을수록 전계강화 효과가 크게 나타남을 확인하였다. 두 번째로, ITO박막 캐소드전극과 탄소나노튜브 잉크 사이에 중간층(inter layer)을 형성시켜서 중간층이 전계방출 특성에 미치는 영향을 연구하여, 중간층의 존재가 탄소나노튜브의 전계방출 전류의 균일성과 전류밀도의 증가에 기여하는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구의 결과 전계방출 전류가 안정적이면서 동시에 전계방출 효율이 크게 개선된 탄소나노튜브 캐소드를 제작하는 공정기술이 개발되었다. 개발된 기술은 기존의 방법에 비해서 탄소나노튜브 캐소드의 진공패키징시 아웃개싱(outgassing)의 양도 현격하게 작았으며, 에미터와 캐소드 전극 사이의 본딩력(adhesion)도 우수해서 항후 탄소나노튜브 전계방출 표시소자의 개발에 크게 기여할 것으로 판단된다.luminum 첨가량이 증가함에 따라 세라믹 수율도 증가하였음을 확인하였다. 합성된 aluminum-contained polycarbosilane은 20$0^{\circ}C$에서 1시간 동안 불융화과정을 거쳐 환원 및 진공 분위기에서 고온 열처리하였으며 이로부터 얻어진 시료에 대해 XRD분석을 수행하였다. SEM과 TEM을 이용하여 미세구조를 관찰하였다./100 duty로 구동하였으며, duty비 증가에 따라 pulse의 on-time을 고정하고 frequency를 변화시켰다. dc까지 duty비가 증가됨에 따라 방출전류의 양이 선형적으로 증가하였다. 전압을 일정하게 고정시키고 각 duty비에서 시간에 따라 방출전류를 측정한 결과 duty비가 높을수록 방출전류가 시간에 따라 급격히 감소하였다. 각 duty비에서 방출전류의 양이 1/2로 감소하는 시점을 에미터의 수명으로 볼 때 duty비 대 에미터 수명관계를 구해 높은 duty비에서 전계방출을 시킴으로써 실제의 구동조건인 낮은 duty비에서의 수명을 단시간에 예측할 수 있었다. 단속적으로 일어난 것으로 생각된다.리 폐 관류는 정맥주입 방법에 비해 고농도의 cisplatin 투여로 인한 다른 장기에서의 농도 증가 없이 폐 조직에 약 50배 정도의 고농도 cisplatin을 투여할 수 있었으며, 또한 분리 폐 관류 시 cisplatin에 의한 직접적 폐 독성은 발견되지 않았다이 낮았으나 통계학적 의의는 없었다[10.0%(4/40) : 8.2%(20/244), p>0.05]. 결론: 비디오흉강경술에서 재발을 낮추기 위해 수술시 폐야 전체를 관찰하여 존재하는 폐기포를 놓치지 않는 것이 중요하며, 폐기포를 확인하지 못한

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.11
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• pp.6-12
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• 2010

A sigma-delta modulator based class-D audio amplifier is presented. Parallel digital input is serialized to two-bit output by a fourth-order digital sigma-delta noise shaper. The output of the digital sigma-delta noise shaper is applied to a fourth-order analog sigma-delta modulator whose three-level output drives power switches. The pulse density modulated (PDM) output of the power switches is low-pass filtered by an LC-filter. The PDM output of the power switches is fed back to the input of the analog sigma-delta modulator. The first integrator of the analog sigma-delta modulator is a hybrid of continuous-time (CT) and switched-capacitor (SC) integrator. While the sampled input is applied to SC path, the continuous-time feedback signal is applied to CT path to suppress the noise of the PDM output. The class-D audio amplifier is fabricated in a standard $0.13-{\mu}m$ CMOS process and operates for the signal bandwidth from 100-Hz to 20-kHz. With 4-${\Omega}$ load, the maximum output power is 18.3-mW. The total harmonic distortion plus noise and dynamic range are 0.035-% and 80-dB, respectively. The modulator consumes 457-uW from 1.2-V power supply.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.42-47
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• 2007

Purpose: To evaluate the tracing of optic nerve tract using manganese enhanced magnetic resonance Imaging. Materials and Methods: After injecting $30{\mu}l$ of $MnCl_2(1mol)$ (1 mol) Into the retina of female New Zealand white rabbit, the contrast enhancements at major anatomical structures of optic nerve tract were evaluated by high resolution T1-weighted Images 12 hours, 24 hours, and 48 hours after $MnCl_2(1mol)$ Injection using 3D FSPGR (Fast Speiled Gradient Recalled echo) pulse sequence at 1.5T clinical MR scanner with high performance gradient system. Also, for quantitative evaluation, the signal-to-noise ratios of circular ROI on anatomical locations were measured. Results: The major structures on the optic nerve tract were enhanced after injecting $MnCl_2(1mol)$. The structures, which showed enhancement, were right optic nerve, optic chiasm, left optic tract, left lateral geniculate nucleus, left superior colliculus. The structures on the contralateral optic pathway to the right retina were enhanced whereas the structures on the ipsilateral pathway did not show enhancement. Conclusion: The Mn transport through axonal pathway of optic nerve sys)em was non- invasively observed after injecting injecting $MnCl_2$ at the retina, which is the end terminal of optic nerve system. This Mn transport seems to occur by voltage gated calcium $(Ca^{2+})$ channel and In case of direct Injection Into the retina, the fast transpori pathway of voltage gated calcium channel seems to be responsible for Mn transport.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Groundwater Environment
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.155-161
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• 1998

Retardation effect of heavy metals in soils caused by adsorption onto the surfaces of solids particles is well known phenomenon. In this study, we investigated the retardation effect on the mobility of a Zn in a sandy soil by conducting batch and column tests. The column test consisted of monitoring the concentrations of effluent versus time known as a breakthrough curve (BTC). We used NaCl and ZnCl$_2$ solutions with the concentration of 10 g/L as a tracer, and injected them respectively into the inlet boundary of the soil sample as a square pulse type, and monitored the effluent concentrations at the exit boundary under a steady state condition using an EC-meter and ICP-AES. The batch test was conducted based on the standard procedure of equilibrating fine fractions collected from the soil with various initial ZnCl$_2$ concentrations, and analysis of Zn ions in the equilibrated solutions using ICP-AES. The results of column test showed that i) the peak concentration of ZnCl$_2$analyzed by ICP was far less than that of either NaCl or bulk electrical conductivity and ⅱ) travel times of peak concentrations for two tracers were more less identical. The relatively low concentration of Zn can be explained by ion exchange between Zn and other cations, and possible precipitation of Zn in the form of Zn(OH)$_2$due to high pH range (7.0∼7.9) of the effluent. The identical result of travel times of peak concentrations indicates that the retardation effect is not present in the soil. The only way to describe the prominent decrease of Zn ion was to introduce decay or sink coefficient in the CDE model to account for irreversible decrease of Zn ions in the aqueous phase.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.23-32
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• 1999

Combined MRI and Relaxogram approach was introduced as a very useful tool for fat study. The phantoms simulating homogeneous mixture of fat and non-fat environments were measured with spin echo pulse sequence on a 0.15 T whole body imager. From 45 scans, the Tl values were obtained by fitting the data to continuous distribution (CONTIN) of relaxation time. This relaxogram gives broad distributions of relaxation time, which are characterized by a number of peaks with characteristic T1 values. Two distinct peaks in relaxogram were observed and identified as signals from com oil and gelatin gel. This model system can be served as simulating the distribution of fat in muscle. Also the relative ratio of two components, which is proportional to the area under the peak, is estimated and compared to nominal values. Based on the good agreement between two predictions, the values from our proposed method agreed with nominal values within $\pm$7 % error. The effects of different concentration of contrast agent and different region of interest are presented. To optimize total scan times, the minimum required data points and so further reduction in total scan times are discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.559-559
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• 2013

KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) 장치는 차세대 에너지원 중의 하나인 핵융합로를 위한 과학기술 기반을 마련하기 위해 개발된 중형급 토카막 실험장치로서 토카막 운전 영역의 확장과 안정성 확보, 정상상태 운전 도달을 위한 방법 연구, 최적화된 플라즈마 상태와 연속 운전 실현 등을 주요 목표로 하고 있다. 이를 위해 핵융합 반응에 의한 점화조건과 가까운 상태로 플라즈마를 가열해주어야 하며, 토카막 장치의 저항가열 이외에도 외부에서 추가 가열이 반드시 필요하다. 중성 입자빔 입사 장치는 현재 토카막에서 사용되고 있는 가열장치 중 가장 신뢰성있는 추가 가열 장치라 할 수 있으며 한국 원자력연구원에서는 1997년부터 KSTAR 토카막 실험 장치에 사용될 중성 입자빔 입사 장치를 개발해왔었다. 중성빔 입사 장치는 크게 이온원, 진공함, 열량계, 진공 펌프, 중성화 장치, 이온덤프와 전자석으로 이루어져 있으며, 이중 이온원은 중성빔의 성능을 좌우하는 핵심적인 장치라 할 수 있다. 최근 한국원자력연구원에서는 2 MW 중성 입자빔 입사장치용 이온원 개발을 완료하여 KSTAR 토카막 장치에 설치하였으며, 2013년 현재 KSTAR에는 총 두 개의 이온원이 장착되어 최대 약 3 MW 이상의 중수소 중성 입자빔을 입사하여 KSTAR 토카막 실험의 H-mode 달성과 운전 시나리오 연구에 많은 기여를 하고 있다. 한국원자력연구원에서 최초로 개발된 이온원은 미국 TFTR 장치에서 사용되었던 US LPIS (Long Pulse Ion Source)를 기본으로 하여 국내 개발을 수행하였다. 이 온원은 크게 플라즈마를 발생시키는 플라즈마 발생부와 발생된 이온을 인출 및 가속시키는 가속부로 구성되는데, 개발과정에서 가장 먼저 KSTAR의 장주기 운전에 적합하도록 플라즈마 방전부와 가속부의 냉각회로를 요구되는 열부하에 맞게 설계 수정하였다. 그 후 플라즈마 방전부는 방전 시간과 안정성, 플라즈마 밀도의 균일도, 정격 운전, 방전 효율 등을 고려하여 수정 보완하며 개발을 진행하여왔다. 가속부의 경우 국내 제작기술의 한계를 극복하기 위해 빔 인출그리드를 TFTR의 US LPIS 모델의 슬릿형 그리드 타입에서 원형 인출구 타입으로 변경하였으며, 이후 가속 전극의 고전압 내전력 문제, 빔 인출 전류와 전력, 인출 빔의 광학적 질(quality), 빔 인출 시간 동안의 안정성 등을 위해 그리드의 크기와 간격, 모양 등을 변경하여 개발을 수 행하여 왔다. 이 논문은 한국원자력연구원에서 개발이 진행되어 왔던 이온원들을 시간적으로 되짚어 보면서 현재까지의 성과와 문제점, 그리고 앞으로의 개발 방향에 대해 논의하고자 한다.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.73-82
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• 1998

Purpose : A precise NMR technique for measuring the rate of water exchange and cell membrane permeability across the hepatocyte membrane using liver-specific MR contrast agent is described. Materials and Methods : The rat hepatocytes isolated by perfusion of the livers were used for the NMR measurements. All experiments were performed on an IBM field cycling relaxometer operating from 0.02MHz to 60 MHz proton Larmor frequency. spin-echo pulse sequence was empolyed to measure spin-lattice relaxation time, T1. The continuous distribution analysis of water proton T1 data from rat hepatocytes containing low concentrations of the liver specific contrast agent, Gd-EOB-DTPA, modeled by a general two compartment exchange model. Results : The mean residence time of water molecule inside the hepatocyte was approximately 250 msec. The lower limit for the permeability of the hepatocyte membrane was $(1.3{\pm}0.1){\;}{\times}{\;}10^{-3}cm/sec$. The CONTIN analysis, which seeks the natural distribution of relaxation times, reveals direct evidence of the effect of diffusive exchange. the diffusive water exchange is not small in the intracellular space in the case of hepatocytes. Conclusions : Gd-EOB-DTPA, when combined with continuous distribution analysis, provides a robust method to study water exchange and membrane permeability in hepatocytes. Water exchange in hepatocyte is much slower thatn that in red blood cells. Therefore, tissue-specific contrast agent may be used as a functional agent to give physiological information such as cell membrane permeability.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.272-285
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• 2003

This study was conducted to observe the microscopic structures of cavities formed after ablation of primary teeth, permanent teeth, enamel and dentin in using a bur and cavities formed after ablation using laser and the following results were obtained after comparing the effects of ablation. Using a #330 bur and Er:YAG laser irradiated at 150 mJ, 200 mJ, 250 mJ and 300 mJ all at the frequency of 5 Hz, 1 mm enamel and dentin samples were ablated and the ablation time was measured. In order to measure the surfaces ablated, 5 each of primary teeth and permanent teeth were ablated using a #330 bur and Er:YAG laser at 150 mJ, 200 mJ, 250 mJ and 300 mJ for 1 sec and the cross section and vertical section were observed. The following results were obtained : 1. Cutting time of Er:YAG laser was longer than that of conventinal high-speed bur regardless of teeth type. 2. Cutting on enamel, Cutting time of conventional high-speed bur in deciduous teeth was longer than in permanent teeth(P<0.05). But Er:YAG laser was not showed any difference between the deciduous and permanent teeth(P>0.05). 3. Cutting on dentin, Cutting time of conventional high-speed bur in permanent teeth was longer than deciduous teeth. Er:YAG laser of 150 mJ, 5 Hz in permanent teeth was longer than in deciduous teeth(p<0.05). But laser of other power did not showed mean difference. 4. The cavity surface treated with the convetional high-speed bur revealed a relatively flat appearance, almost covered with a debris-like smear layer. Cavity wall showed striped appearance because of blade of bur. 5. The cavity surface treated by the Er:YAG laser system was irregular or rough surface with the absence charring, carbonization, or cracking of the dentin. In addition, there was an absence of a smear layer. Cavity floor was round and relatively smooth. According to these results, cutting time of Er:YAG laser was almostly same in permanent and deciduous teeth, but more effective in dentin than enamel. Cutting the sample, Er:YAG laser was needed more time than conventional bur. But SEM findings suggested that laser device produced favorable surface characteristic(i.e, no smear layer, irregular surface, cracking).