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Flexible Planar Heater Comprising Ag Thin Film on Polyurethane Substrate (폴리우레탄 유연 기판을 이용한 Ag 박막형 유연 면상발열체 연구)

  • Seongyeol Lee;Dooho Choi
    • Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2024
  • The heating element utilizing the Joule heating generated when current flows through a conductor is widely researched and developed for various industrial applications such as moisture removal in automotive windshield, high-speed train windows, and solar panels. Recently, research utilizing heating elements with various nanostructures has been actively conducted to develop flexible heating elements capable of maintaining stable heating even under mechanical deformation conditions. In this study, flexible polyurethane possessing excellent flexibility was selected as the substrate, and silver (Ag) thin films with low electrical resistivity (1.6 μΩ-cm) were fabricated as the heating layer using magnetron sputtering. The 2D heating structure of the Ag thin films demonstrated excellent heating reproducibility, reaching 95% of the target temperature within 20 seconds. Furthermore, excellent heating characteristics were maintained even under mechanically deforming environments, exhibiting outstanding flexibility with less than a 3% increase in electrical resistance observed in repetitive bending tests (10,000 cycles, based on a curvature radius of 5 mm). This demonstrates that polyurethane/Ag planar heating structure bears promising potential as a flexible/wearable heating element for curved-shaped appliances and objects subjected to diverse stresses such as human body parts.

A Study on the Electrochemical Properties of Langmuir-Blodgett Film Mixed with Saturated Fatty Acid and Phospholipid(DMPC) (포화지방산과 인지질(DMPC)혼합 Langmuir-Blodgett막의 전기화학적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Woo, Seong-Hyup;Park, Keun-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.359-366
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    • 2014
  • We investigated an electrochemical properties for Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of saturated fatty acid and phospholipid(L-${\alpha}$-dimyristoylphosphatidyl choline, DMPC) mixture. LB films of saturated fatty acid and DMPC monolayer were deposited by the LB method on the indium tin oxide(ITO) glass. The electrochemical properties measured by cyclic voltammetry with three-electrode system(an Ag/AgCl reference electrode, a platinum wire counter electrode and LB film-coated ITO working electrode) in $NaClO_4$ solution. As a result, monolayer LB films of saturated fatty acid and phospholipid mixture was appeared on irreversible process caused by the oxidation current from the cyclic voltammogram. Diffusion coefficient (D) of saturated fatty acid and DMPC mixture(molar ratio 1:1, C12, C14, C16, C18) was calculated $1.2{\times}10^{-3}$, $2.1{\times}10^{-3}$, $1.4{\times}10^{-4}$ and $1.1{\times}10^{-3}cm^2/s$ in 0.05 N $NaClO_4$ solution, respectively.

Tribological Characteristics of Silver Electroless-Plating Process According to Thicknesses Variation (무전해 도금 코팅 공정을 이용한 은 박막의 두께 변화에 따른 트라이볼로지 특성)

  • Lee, Hyun-Dai;Kim, Dae-Eun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.219-225
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    • 2013
  • In this study, the tribological characteristics of silver films that were deposited on a glass substrate by electroless plating were investigated. The electroless-plating method has many notable advantages. It is easy and economical to obtain solid films using this coating process, and it can be applied to both nonconducting and conducting substrates. In this study, silver was selected as the electroless-plating material because it is one of the most common materials used as a solid lubricant. The mechanical properties of silver electroless-plated specimens were investigated for various coating conditions. The thickness of the coating could be controlled by varying the electroless-plating time. The properties of the coatings were investigated using AFM, SEM, and a tribotester.