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A Two-Dimensional Particle-in-cell Simulation for the Acceleration Channel of a Hall Thruster

  • Lim, Wang-Sun;Lee, Hae-June;Lee, Jong-Sub;Lim, Yu-Bong;Seo, Mi-Hui;Choe, Won-Ho;Seon, Jong-Ho;Park, Jae-Heung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.557-560
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    • 2008
  • A two-dimensional particle-in-cell(PIC) simulation with a Monte-Carlo Collision(MCC) has been developed to investigate the discharge characteristics of the acceleration channel of a HET. The dynamics of electrons and ions are treated with PIC method at the time scale of electrons in order to investigate the particle transport. The densities of charged particles are coupled with Poisson's equation. Xenon neutrals are injected from the anode and experience elastic, excitation, and ionization collisions with electrons, and are scattered by ions. These collisions are simulated by using an MCC model. The effects of control parameters such as magnetic field profile, electron current density, and the applied voltage have been investigated. The secondary electron emission on the dielectric surface is also considered.

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Construction of a Fluxgate Magnetometer for the Measurment of Magnetic Field Difference (자기장 차이 측정용 플럭스게이트 마그네토미터 제작)

  • Choi, K.W.;Son, D.;Cho, Y.
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.304-308
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    • 1995
  • In order to measure magnetic field difference, we have constructed a fluxgate magnetometer which is based on the measurement of apparent coreci ve field strength from the magnetizing current of two sensors. 'Co-based amorphous ribbon, which has square shape of ac hysteresis loop, was used as core material. Two sensors have 315 turns of the primary and the secondary windings respectively, and core size of 2 mm wide and 30 mm long. The primary windings are connected parallel to measure external magnetic field difference and the secondary windings serieally for the averaged magnetic induction of the cores. The constructed magnetometer could measure magnetic field difference with sensitivity of $1.6{\times}10^{6}V/T$ and resolution of 1 nT at 1 Hz bandwidth.

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A Status Survey on the Preservice Education of Secondary Science Teachers (중등 과학교사 양성 과정의 실태 분석)

  • Kim, Heui-Baik;Kim, Young-Soo;Pak, Sung-Jae
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.199-213
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    • 1994
  • The quality of science teachers is one of the most important factors to improve the science education in secondary schools. In this study the current status of preservice education of secondary science teachers was surveyed and the directions for the improvement were suggested as follows: 1. The purposes of departments of science education have to be partially revised to include other education programs related to science education than preservice training courses of science teachers. 2. Training courses of integrated science teacher should be organized differently from those of physics, chemistry, biology or earth science teachers because their requirements are different. 3. Strict standards of curricula for training science teacher have to be established and applied practically. 4. The curricula of departments of science education have to reflect the contents and the changes of secondary science education. 5. More credits to subjects on the science education, the nature of science, and the laboratory experiments should be taken in the preservice courses of science teachers. 6. Professors at the department of science education have to use various methods to teach inquiry lab and evaluation techniques so that students can experience them at the training courses. 7. The number of professors majoring in science education at the department of sciece education should be increased. 8. Enough research funds have to be supported to activate the researches in science education.

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Short packet communication in underlay cognitive network assisted by an intelligent reflecting surface

  • Pham Ngoc Son;Tran Trung Duy;Pham Viet Tuan;Tan-Phuoc Huynh
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.28-44
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    • 2023
  • We propose short packet communication in an underlay cognitive radio network assisted by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) composed of multiple reconfigurable reflectors. This scheme, called the IRS protocol, operates in only one time slot (TS) using the IRS. The IRS adjusts its phases to give zero received cumulative phase at the secondary destination, thereby enhancing the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio. The transmitting power of the secondary source is optimized to simultaneously satisfy the multi-interference constraints, hardware limitations, and performance improvement. Simulation and analysis results of the average block error rates (BLERs) show that the performance can be enhanced by installing more reconfigurable reflectors, increasing the blocklength, lowering the number of required primary receivers, or sending fewer information bits. Moreover, the proposed IRS protocol always outperforms underlay relaying protocols using two TSs for data transmission, and achieves the best average BLER at identical transmission distances between the secondary source and secondary destination. The theoretical analyses are confirmed by Monte Carlo simulations.

Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of Si/graded-$Si_{1-x}Ge_x$/Si Heterostructure Films Grown by Reduced Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition

  • Seo, J.J.;Choi, S.S.;Yang, H.D.;Kim, J.Y.;Yang, J.W.;Han, T.H.;Cho, D.H.;Shim, K.H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.190-191
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    • 2006
  • We have investigated optical properties of Si/graded-$Si_{1-x}Ge_x$/Si heterostructures grown by reduced pressure chemical vapor deposition. Compared to standard condition using Si(100) substrate and growth temperature of $650^{\circ}C$, Si(111) resulted in low growth rate and high Ge mole fraction. Also samples grown at higher temperatures exhibited increased growth rate and reduced Ge mole fraction. The features regarding both substrate temperature and crystal orientation, representing high incorporation of silicon supplied from gas stream played as a key parameter, illustrate that reaction control were prevailed in this process growth condition. Using secondary ion mass spectroscopy and spectroscopic ellipsometry, microscopic changes in atomic components could be analyzed for Si/graded-$Si_{1-x}Ge_x$/Si heterostructures.

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Characteristics of Transmutation Reactor Based on LAR Tokamak

  • Hong, B.G.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.08a
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    • pp.431-431
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    • 2012
  • A compact tokamak reactor concept as a 14 MeV neutron source is desirable from an economic viewpoint for a fusion-driven transmutation reactor. LAR (Low Aspect Ratio) tokamak allows a potential of high "see full txt" operation with high bootstrap current fractions and can be used for a compact fusion neutron source. For the optimal design of a reactor, a radial build of reactor components has to be determined by considering the plasma physics and engineering constraints which inter-relate various reactor components and are constrained to use ITER physics and technology. In a transmutation reactor, the blanket should produce enough tritium for tritium self-sufficiency and the neutron multiplication factor, keff should be less than 0.95 to maintain sub-criticality. The shield should provide sufficient protection for the superconducting toroidal field (TF) coil against radiation damage and heating effects of the fusion neutrons, fission neutrons, and secondary gammas. In this work, characteristics of transmutation reactor based on LAR tokamak is investigated by using the coupled system analysis.

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Optical System Design for a Head-up Display Using Aberration Analysis of an Off-axis Two-mirror System

  • Kim, Byung-Hyun;Park, Sung-Chan
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.481-487
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    • 2016
  • This study presents a new optical system for a combiner-type head-up display (HUD) with a cylindrical lens as an asymmetrical aberration corrector, instead of a freeform mirror. In the initial design process based on off-axial aberration analysis, we obtain an off-axis two-mirror system corrected for linear astigmatism and spherical aberration by adding a conic secondary mirror to an off-axis paraboloidal mirror. Thus, since the starting optical system for an HUD is corrected for dominant aberrations, it enables us to balance the residual asymmetrical aberrations with a simple optical surface such as a cylinder, not a complex freeform surface. From this design process, an optical system for an HUD having good performance is finally obtained. The size of the virtual image is 10 inches at 2 meters away from a combiner, and the area of the eye box is 130×50 mm2.

Gifted Students Understanding of Science Concepts through Activities of Modifying of Scientific Conceptual Models

  • Kim, Jung-Kuk;Jeong, Seong-Oh;Kim, Young-Min
    • Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.113-123
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    • 2004
  • The concern with scientific mode1s has been growing in science education, and schematic models are frequently used to teach science concepts in secondary schools. The aim of this study is to investigate how well the scientifically gifted students understand scientific concepts through activities of modifying scientific models which we developed. Thirty 8th-grade students participated in the study, 15 in a control group and 15 in an experimental group. For the students in the experimental group, teaching material with activities of modifying models, while for the students in the control group, the teaching material with traditional activities such as explanation, problem solving, and reading. The teaching contents in physics for both groups were linear momentum. We used multiple-choice test and essay-type test to evaluate students' achievements after lessons, and then compared their achievements of both groups. Through the research, we could find a clue that model-modifying activities are helpful for the gifted students to enhance their understanding of physics concepts, although the statistics does not show meaningful difference between experimental and control groups.

Ferromagnetic Domain Behaviors in Mn doped ZnO Film

  • Soundararajan, Devaraj;Santoyo-Salazar, Jaime;Ko, Jang-Myoun;Kim, Ki-Hyeon
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.216-219
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    • 2011
  • Mn doped ZnO films were prepared on Si (100) substrates using sol-gel method. The prepared films were annealed at $550^{\circ}C$ for decomposition and oxidation of the precursors. XRD analysis revealed the presence of ZnMnO hexagonal wurtzite phase along with the presence of small quantity of $ZnMn_2O_3$ secondary phase and poor crystalline nature. The 2D, 3D views of magnetic domains and domain profiles were obtained using magnetic force microscopy at room temperature. Rectangular shaped domains with an average size of 4.16 nm were observed. Magnetic moment measurement as a function of magnetic field was measured using superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometry at room temperature. The result showed the ferromagnetic hysteresis loop with a curie temperature higher than 300 K.

The Accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Incorporated's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: A Review of Radiation-Exposed Medical Care and Waste (Secondary Publication)

  • Toshioh Fujibuchi;Kazuki Iwaoka;Yoko Shimada;Kuniaki Nabatame
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.65-67
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    • 2024
  • This review is based on articles published in Japanese Journal of Health Physics on "Radiation-exposed medical care and waste" related to Tokyo Electric Power Company Incorporated (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident. Here, we have considered three original articles; one technical data, one special article, one 50th anniversary article, one preface, three topics, and two cases of From Japan to the World (J to W). These articles have reported the system and standards that were established after the accident. Moreover, they have summarized rare experiences such as the fumbling response at the time and the evaluation of samples in that disaster. These articles constitute valuable records of the situation.