• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.153-160
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• 2010

A magnetocardiogram (MCG) is a recording of the biomagnetic signals generated by cardiac electrical activity. Biomagnetic instruments are based on superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). A liquid cryogenic Dewar flask was used to maintain the superconductors in a superconducting state at a very low temperature (4 K). In this study, the temperature distribution characteristics of the liquid helium in the Dewar flask was investigated. The Dewar flask used in this study has a 30 L liquid helium capacity with a hold time of 5 d. The Dewar flask has two thermal shields rated at 150 and 40 K. The temperatures measured at the end of the thermal shield and calculated from the computer model were compared. This study attempted to minimize the heat transfer rate of the cryogenic Dewar flask using an optimization method about the geometric variable to find the characteristics for the design geometric variables in terms of the stress distribution of the Dewar flask. For thermal and optimization analysis of the structure, the finite element method code ANSYS 10 was used. The computer model used for the cryogenic Dewar flask was useful to predict the temperature distribution for the area less affected by the thermal radiation.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.03a
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• pp.112-112
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• 2003

최근 자성반도체(diluted magnetic semiconductor; DMS)를 이용한 소자 개발이 가긍해짐에 따라 국내외에서 활발한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구실에서는 GaN-단일전구체를 이용하여 상온에서 자기적 특성을 나타내는 p-type GaMnN를 성장시켰다 극한 환경에서의 자성반도체 재료의 물성 변화를 알아보기 위해, 본 연구에서는 세계 최초로 중성자 빔의 조사에 따른 자성반도체의 구조적, 자기적 특성 및 열처리에 따른 특성 변화를 관찰 및 분석하였다. Molecular beam epitaxy(MBE)를 이용하여 Mn cell 온도가 각각 77$0^{\circ}C$, 94$0^{\circ}C$인 GaMnN 박막을 성장시켰다. 성장된 박막 시편에 한국원자력연구소 하나로 HTS공에서 중성자 빔을 각각 20min(4.17$\times$$10^{16}$n/$\textrm{cm}^2$), 24hour(3.0$\times$$10^{18}$n/$\textrm{cm}^2$)씩 조사하였다 중성자 빔을 조사한 시편은 진공분위기 하에서 100$0^{\circ}C$, 30초간 열처리하였다.(rapid thermal annealing;RTA, 승온속도: 8$^{\circ}C$/sec) 중성자 빔을 조사한 GaMnN 박막의 구조적인 특성은 X-ray diffraction(XRD) 측정을 통해 관찰하였고, 박막의 자기적 특성은 superconducting quantum interference device(SQUID)를 통해 측정하였다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.768-772
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• 2013

Layered mixed metal hydroxy double salts (HDS) with the formulas $(Cu_{0.75}Ni_{0.25})_2(OH)_3NO_3$ ((Cu, Ni)-HDS) and $Cu_2(OH)_3NO_3$ ((Cu, Cu)-HDS) were prepared via slow hydrolysis reactions of CuO with $Ni(NO_3)_2$ and $Cu(NO_3)_2$, respectively. The crystal structures, morphologies, bonding natures, and magnetic properties of (Cu, Ni)-HDS and (Cu, Cu)-HDS were characterized with X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). Even though (Cu, Ni)-HDS has a similar layered structure to that of (Cu, Cu)-HDS, the bonding nature of (Cu, Ni)-HDS is slightly different from that of (Cu, Cu)-HDS. Therefore, the magnetic properties of (Cu, Ni)-HDS are significantly different from those of (Cu, Cu)-HDS. The origin of the abnormal magnetic properties of (Cu, Ni)-HDS can be explained in terms of the bonding natures of the interlayer and intralayer structures.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.437-442
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• 1996

High quality $YBa_2Cu_3O_y$(YBCO) thin films for directly coupled dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) were fabricated by pulsed laser deposition. Several critical parameters have been optimized through systematic studies. Thus, the films showing the $T_c$ of above 91K and $J_c$ of above$2\times10^6A/cm^2$ at 77K were routinely obtained. Extensive AFM and X-ray diffraction studies have been conducted for morphological and structural analyses. The directly coupled DC-SQUIDs were fabricated from the YBCO thin films deposited on $SrTiO_3$ bicrystals under the optimized conditions. The measurement on $2I_c$ and swing voltage give 200$\mu$A and 17$\mu$V at 77K, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.71-75
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• 2007

Ultrasonic irradiation in a solution during the chemical reaction may accelerate the rate of the reaction and the crystallization at low temperature. We have synthesized nanometer sized zinc ferrite particles using chemical co-precipitation technique through a sonochemical method with surfactant such as oleic acid. The thermal behaviour of the zinc ferrite was determined by the thermoanalytical techniques (TGA-DSC). Powder X-ray diffraction measurements show that the samples have the spinel structure. Magnetic properties measurement were performed using a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer.

• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.34-37
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• 2015

Developing Magnetoencephalography (MEG) based on Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) facilitates to observe the human brain functions in non-invasively and high temporal and high spatial resolution. By using this MEG, we studied alpha rhythm (8-13 Hz) that is one of the most predominant spontaneous rhythm in human brain. The 8-13 Hz rhythm is observed in several sensory region in the brain. In visual related region of occipital, we call to alpha rhythm, and auditory related region of temporal call to tau rhythm, sensorimotor related region of parietal call to mu rhythm. These rhythms are decreased in task related region and increased in task irrelevant regions. This means that these rhythms play a pivotal role of inhibition in task irrelevant region. It may be helpful to attention to the task. In several literature about the alpha-band inhibition in multi-sensory modality experiment, they observed this effect in the occipital and somatosensory region. In this study, we hypothesized that we can also observe the alpha-band inhibition in the auditory cortex, mediated by the tau rhythm. Before that, we first investigated the existence of the alpha and tau rhythm in occipital and temporal region, respectively. To see these rhythms, we applied the visual and auditory stimulation, in turns, suppressed in task relevant regions, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.66-70
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• 2006

Magnetite nanoparticles, which have been extensively used in many fields, were encapsulated with a natural polymer, chitosan, to improve their biocompatibility. We have synthesized magnetite $(Fe_3C_4)$ nanoparticles using chemical coprecipitation technique with sodium oleate as surfactant. Nanoparticle size can be varied from 1.2 to 7.4nm by controlling the sodium oleate concentration. Magnetite phase nanoparticles could be observed from X-ray diffraction. Magnetic colloid suspensions containing particles with sodium oleate and chitosan have been prepared. High magnetic property chitosan-microsphere particles were prepared from oleate-coated magnetite suspension using spray method. The surftce, and tile morphology of the magnetic chitosan microsphere particles were characterized using optical microscope and scanning electron microscope. Magnetic hysteresis measurement were performed using a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer at room temperature to investigate the magnetic properties of the chitosan microspheres including magnetite nanoparticles. The SQUID measurements revealed superparamagnetism of nanoparticles.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.163-167
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• 2006

Ultrasonic irradiation in a solution during the chemical reaction may accelerate the rate of the reaction and the crystallization at low temperature. We have synthesized nanometer sized magnetite particles using coprecipitation method, sonochemical method without surfactant, and sonochemical method with surfactant, in order to investigate the effect of ultrasonic irradiation and surfactant on the coprecipitates of metal ions. The size of the magnetite nanoparticles prepared by coprecipitation method, and sonochemical method without surfactant showed broad distributions. But we got uniform nanoparticles using a sonochemical method with oleic acid. The average size of the particles can be controlled by the ratio $R=[H_2O]/[surfactant]$. The size of the magnetite nanoparticles prepared by this method showed narrow distributions. We have characterized the nanoparticles using an X-ray diffraction (XRD), a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), and atomic force microscope (AFM). The size and distribution of the magnetite nanoparticles were measured by dynamic light scattering (DLS) method.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.211-215
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• 2003

We fabricated the synthetic ferrimagnetic layers (SyFL) of permalloy/X (X=Ru, V)/permalloy by varying the X thickness, and investigated the changes of coercivity (H$\sub$c/), spin flopping field (H$\sub$sf/), and saturation magnetization field (H$\sub$s/) with a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). We also observed the microstructure with a cross sectional transmission electron microscope (TEM). Permalloy SyFL had less than 10 Oe coercivity, and H$\sub$sf/ and H$\sub$s/ could be tuned by varying ruthenium and vanadium layer thickness. The comparatively small exchange coupling in permalloy-V SyFL was caused by the intermixing of permalloy and vanadium decreasing the effective exchange coupling thickness.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.2137-2142
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• 2016

The electrical current generated by heart creates not only electric potential but also a magnetic field. In this study, the signals obtained magnetocardiogram(MCG) using 61 channel superconducting quantum interference device(SQUID) system, and the clinical significance of various feature parameters has been developed MCG. Neural network algorithm was used to perform the classification of ischemic heart disease. The MCG signal was obtained to facilitate the extraction of parameters through a process of pre-processing. The data used to research the normal group 10 and ischemic heart disease group 10 with visible signs of stable angina patients. The available clinical indicators were extracted by characteristic point, characteristic interval parameter, and amplitude ratio parameter. The extracted parameters are determined to analysis the significance and clinical parameters were defined. It is possible to classify ischemic heart disease using the MCG feature parameters as a neural network input.