• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.40-49
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• 2013

To predict ground conditions ahead of the tunnel face, seismic refraction survey has been widely used. But due to the development in seismic equipment and techniques, tomography using borehole and others are actively applied in recent years. This study has a purpose to prevent stability problems during excavation and construction of tunnels by predicting unfavorable ground conditions such as fault, fractured zone and rock quality variation zone ahead of the tunnel face using TSP survey equipment. In this study, the validity of predicting ground conditions ahead of tunnel face by TSP survey has been evaluated through the case study in the road construction site.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.477-484
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• 2015

Purpose: This study was investigated to evaluate the effect of the variation of the face form angle(FFA) of spectacle frame on the visual acuity and the visual function. Methods: The visual acuity, the contrast sensitivity, the stereopsis, and the phoria were measured with the spectacle frame whose the FFA is at $5^{\circ}$ and $25^{\circ}$ and the surveys were conducted on subjective symptoms. Here, 30 adults (14 men and 16 women, average age:$25.46{\pm}3.9$), who did not have ocular diseases and were fully corrected in case of having had refractive error, were to act as experimental subjects for this measurement. Results: The visual acuity and the contrast sensitivity was decreased and the phoria was tended to increase to the esophoria direction at the FFA $25^{\circ}$ than at the FFA $5^{\circ}$. The stereopsis was significantly reduced at the FFA $25^{\circ}$ than at the FFA $5^{\circ}$. Also when the FFA was larger, the higher the degree of refractive error was, the more the increase of the subjective symptoms such as being blurred characters, being disturbed head, and having sore eyes was, which reveals a statistically significant correlation between them. Conclusions: If the FFA increases, the visual acuity, the contrast sensitivity and the stereopsis was found to decrease and the phoria to increase to the esophoria direction. Therefore it shows that the variation of the FFA of spectacle frame can influence the visual acuity and the visual function.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.31-35
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• 2014

$TiO_2$-nanoparticle-dispersed silicone was applied to a LED package and the light efficiency of the LED package was evaluated in this study. The addition of $TiO_2$ nanoparticles in silicone increased refractive index, which improved the light efficiency of the LED package. The $TiO_2$ nanoparticles were fabricated by hydrothermal synthesis and were dispsersed by a vinyl silane coating treatment. After the silane treatment, the $TiO_2$ nanoparticles dispersed with diameters of 10~40 nm but rod-shape $TiO_2$ nanoparticles with lengths of 100 nm were also observed. The refractive index increased with the $TiO_2$ concentration in silicone, while the transmittance decreased with the $TiO_2$ concentration. The light efficient of the LED package with $TiO_2$+silicone encapsulant was higher than that of the LED package with no $TiO_2$ in silicone encapsulant.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.249-254
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• 2012

Purpose: To investigate amount of myopic progression with increase of age for children myopes among patients of a Korean optometry clinic. Methods: It has followed up 99 children subjects (male 55, female 44) who had no ocular disease and have visited a Korean optometric clinic for mean $33{\pm}8$ months (13 to 54 months) since June of 2001. Mean age of subjects at first visit was $118{\pm}23$months. Non-cycloplegic refractive error were measured 6 times using Canon RK-3(Japan) every mean 6 months. Results: For all subjects mean of refractive errors increased -0.78 D per year from $-2.02{\pm}1.05D$ at first visit to $-4.18{\pm}1.30D$ at final visit with longitudinal study, but -0.19 D per year with cross-section study, which showed a big difference between two methods. Mean of astigmatic refractive error increased -0.15 D per year. As progression of refractive error according to ages at first visit, refractive errors increased -1.04 D per year for 6 years old, -0.9 D for 7 years old, -0.89 D for 8 years old, -0.89 D for 9 years old, -0.74 D for 10 years old, -0.74 D for 11 years old and -0.72 D for 12 years old. And it showed a tendency that the younger age was the higher progression of myopia. However it was not significantly different between each groups. Conclusions: Follow-up results for myopic children among patients of a Korean optometry clinic showed increase of -0.78 D for myopic refractive error and -0.14 D for astigmatic refractive error per year.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.311-320
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• 2023

Surfactin, one of the most powerful biosurfactants, can be widely applied in agriculture, food, and pharmaceutics. The purpose of the present study was to establish suitable indicators for a rapid detection method that can confirm the surfactin productivity of cheonggukjang. In the present study, changes in the total number of bacteria were quantified according to the fermentation time of chenggukjang. Furthermore, physicochemical factors, such as pH, color value, surface tension, refractive index, absorbance, and protein contents, were assessed in chenggukjang viscous substances, and a correlation analysis between the physicochemical factors and surfactin contents was performed. We found that the protein contents gradually increased up to 48 h (4.21±0.11 mg/mL) without a change in the surface tension. Furthermore, the refractive index, absorbance at 280 nm, and color value were significantly increased as the fermentation time increased; however, there were no statistically significant differences after 36 h of fermentation. Interestingly, this result exhibited a tendency similar to the surfactin content according to fermentation time. These findings suggest that surfactin can be used as a suitable quality indicator and may provide an experimental basis for the fermented food industry.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.206-206
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• 2011

투명 전도성 산화물 (TCO, Transparent Conductive Oxide) 박막을 태양전지에 적용하기 위해서는 우수한 전기 전도성 및 가시광 영역에서 높은 투과율을 가져야 한다. 대표적인 TCO 물질인 ITO (Indium tin oxide) 박막은 우수한 전기적, 광학적 특성을 가지고 있지만 $400^{\circ}C$ 이상의 고온에서는 전기저항이 급격히 증가하게 되어 실제 태양전지 패널에 적용했을 때 전기적 특성이 저하된다. 따라서 태양전지용 TCO 박막을 개발 시, 뛰어난 고온 안정성이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고온 안정적 특성을 지니는 Ga3+를 도핑한 ZnO 계열 TCO인 GZO/ITO multi-layered 박막을 증착하였다. 또한 buffer layer의 두께 변화 및 구조 제어를 통한 최위층 박막의 전기적 특성 및 결정성을 조사하였으며 다층 박막의 계면 간 특성 및 굴절률 제어를 통한 광학적 물성을 연구하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.33-36
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• 1996

해양에서 내부파 (internal wave)는 수직적으로 밀도가 크게 다른 두 층의 경계면에서 생성되는데, 일반적으로 경계면은 수온약층 (thermocline)에 해당된다. 본 연구에서는 간단한 단주기(하나의 주기만을 갖는)내부파를 가정하고 이 내부파에 의해서 야기될 수 있는 저주파 (100-400 HZ) 전파손실의 변동 정도를 모델링을 통해 추정하였다. 내부파의 파장은 1Km이고 진폭은 25m이며 수심 50-100m 사이에 존재하는 것으로 가정하였다. 전파손실 계산은 PE (parabolic equation) 기법을 도입한 모델을 이용하였다.수층의 두께는 2000m로 균일하고 퇴적층 및 기반암층의 두께는 각각 500m로 가정하였다. 모델링 결과 단주기 내부파의 1 파장이 진행하는 동안 고정된 수신 깊이별로 20km 거리에서 10 dB 이상의 큰 변동이 야기 될 수 있음을 확인하였다. 이는 내부파 내에서 큰 굴절을 변화로 인한 음파의 산란 때문으로 볼 수 있다. 실제 해양에서는 내부파가 단주기 파동 형태로 나타나기 보다는 여러 주기의 파동이 중첩되어 나타나므로 정확한 내부파 영향을 추정하기 위해서는 보다 실제에 가까운 내부파를 모델링할 필요가 있다.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.485-488
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• 2001

The transmission spectra, the wavelength tunability. and the polarization characteristics of mechanically induced long-period fiber gratings (LPFG's) are investigated experimentally and analyzed theoretically. The transmission and mode coupling characteristics of the fabricated LPFG's agree well with the theoretical results. The resonant wavelengths at which the mode coupling occurs can be tuned over 180 nm and the peak wavelengths for of oethogonally polarized lights are split by -9 nm.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.226-231
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• 2007

In this paper, we analyze the characteristics of various curved waveguides composed of double metal strips using finite difference method (FDM). Our investigation reveals that the bending loss of the double metal strip waveguide can be improved with less degradation of the straight waveguide's propagation loss compared to the single metal strip structure. Optimization of the double metal strip waveguide structure has been conducted considering bending and propagation losses.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.410-410
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• 2007

광섬유 내에 첨가되어 있는 $GeO_2$ 등의 물질을 얼 확산시켜서 만드는 열확산 코어 광섬유는 열확산 기술에 따른 광섬유의 MFD(Mode Field Diameter)를 국소적으로 확대하여 굴절률 분포를 변화시킨 광섬유로 혹의 비틀림 및 간격에 대한 허용범위가 넓어지게 하여 접속 손실을 감소시킬 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 열확산 코어 광섬유를 제조할 때 안정된 얼확산 문제를 해결하기 위한 방법으로 트윈 토치를 이용한 프레임 브러싱 기법의 안정화된 코어 확장형 광섬유 제조시스템을 제작하였다. 또한 제작된 열확산 코어 광섬유 제조시스템을 이용하여 단일모드 조건을 만족하는 다양한 종류의 열확산 코어 광섬유가 제작됨을 확인할 수 있었다.