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Evaluation of Electrical Degradation in Epoxy Composites by DC Dielectric Breakdown Properties (DC 절연파괴 특성을 이용한 Epoxy 복합체의 전기적 열화 평가)

  • 임중관;박용필
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.779-783
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    • 2002
  • The dielectric breakdown of epoxy composites used for transformers was experimented and then its data were simulated by Weibull distribution probability. As a result, first of all, speaking of dielectric breakdown properties, the more hardener increased the stronger breakdown strength at low temperature because of cross-linked density by the virtue of ester radical. And the breakdown strength of specimens with filler was lower than it of non-filler specimens because it is believed that the adding filler forms interface and charge is accumulated in it, therefore the molecular motility is raised, the electric field is concentrated, and the acceleration of electron and the growth of electron avalanche are early accomplished. In the case of filled specimens with treating silane, the breakdown strength become much higher since this suggests that silane coupling agent improves interfacial combination and relaxs electric field concentration. Finally, from the analysis of weibull distribution, it was confirmed that as the allowed breakdown probability was given by 0.1%, the applied field value needed to be under 21.5MVcm.

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Design and Operation Characteristics of 2.4MJ Pulse Power System for Electrothermal-Chemical(ETC) Propulsion(I) (전열화학추진용 2.4MJ 펄스파워전원의 설계와 동작특성(I))

  • Jin, Y.S.;Lee, H.S.;Kim, J.S.;Cho, J.H.;Lim, G.H.;Kim, J.S.;Chu, J.H.;Jung, J.W.;Hwang, D.W.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2000.07c
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    • pp.1868-1870
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    • 2000
  • As a drive for an ETC (Electro-thermal Chemical) launcher, a large pulse power system of a 2.4MJ energy storage was designed, constructed and tested. The overall power system consists of eight capacitive 300kJ energy storage banks. In this paper we describe the design features, setup and operation test result of the 300kJ pulsed power module. Each capacitor bank of the 300kJ module consists of six 22kV 50kJ capacitors. A triggered vacuum switch (TVS-43) was adopted as the main pulse switch. Crowbar diode circuits, variable multi-tap inductors and energy dumping systems are connected to each high power capacitor bank via bus-bars and coaxial cables. A parallel crowbar diode stack is fabricated in coaxial structure with two series 13.5kV, 60kA avalanche diodes. The main design parameters of the 300kJ module are a maximum current of 180kA and a pulse width of 0.5 - 3ms. The electrical performances of each component and current output variations into resistive loads have been investigated.

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Performance Improvement for Visible Light Communications Using Pre-Equalizer and Optical Design (전치 등화기와 광학설계를 이용한 가시광통신 전송 용량 및 거리 향상 연구)

  • Kwon, Do-Hoon;Yang, Se-Hoon;Kim, Hyun-Seung;Son, Yong-Hwan;Han, Sang-Kook
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.39C no.6
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    • pp.476-481
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we design the pre-equalizer of transmitter circuit in order to enhancement modulation bandwidth of white LED which is light source of VLC (Visible Light Communication). Also, we eliminate yellow light component by optical filtering which mitigate frequency response of white LED. Power loss by optical filtering is overcome by using convex lens. By applying proposed system, 3 dB bandwidth deciding modulation bandwidth of white LED increases from 3 MHz to more than 25 MHz and the transmission distance increases by optical design which secure additional signal power. We optically modulate NRZ-OOK signal to LED and receive light signal using APD. We analyze received data using CSA and RFSA. As a result, we experimently demonstrate the possibility that transmits NRZ-OOK signal up to 30 Mbps in 4.5 m, 50 Mbps in 1.5 m through the pre-equalizer and optical design.

Analysis of Landslide and Debris flow Hazard Area using Probabilistic Method in GIS-based (GIS 기반 확률론적 기법을 이용한 산사태 및 토석류 위험지역 분석)

  • Oh, Chae-Yeon;Jun, Kye-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.172-177
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    • 2012
  • In areas around Deoksan Li and Deokjeon Li, Inje Eup, Inje Gun, located between $38^{\circ}2^{\prime}55^{{\prime}{\prime}}N$ and $38^{\circ}5^{\prime}50^{{\prime}{\prime}}N$ in latitude and $128^{\circ}11^{\prime}20^{{\prime}{\prime}}E$ and $128^{\circ}18^{\prime}20^{{\prime}{\prime}}E$ in longitude, large-sized avalanche disasters occurred due to Typhoon Ewiniar in 2006. As a result, 29 people were dead or missing, along with a total of 37.25 billion won of financial loss(Gangwon Province, 2006). To evaluate such landslide and debris flow risk areas and their vulnerability, this study applied a technique called 'Weight of Evidence' based on GIS. Especially based on the overlay analysis of aerial images before the occurrence of landslides and debris flows in 2005 and after 2006, this study extracted 475 damage-occurrence areas in a shape of point, and established a DB by using such factors as topography, hydrologic, soil and forest physiognomy through GIS. For the prediction diagram of debris flow and landslide risk areas, this study calculated W+ and W-, the weighted values of each factor of Weight Evidence, while overlaying the weighted values of factors. Besides, the diagram showed about 76% in prediction accuracy, and it was also found to have a relatively high correlationship with the areas where such natural disasters actually occurred.

System Design and Performance Analysis of 3D Imaging Laser Radar for the Mapping Purpose (맵핑용 3차원 영상 레이저 레이다의 시스템 설계 및 성능 분석)

  • La, Jongpil;Ko, Jinsin;Lee, Changjae
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.90-95
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    • 2014
  • The system design and the system performance analysis of 3D imaging laser radar system for the mapping purpose is addressed in this article. For the mapping, a push-bloom scanning method is utilized. The pulsed fiber laser with high pulse energy and high pulse repetition rate is used for the light source of laser radar system. The high sensitive linear mode InGaAs avalanche photo-diode is used for the laser receiver module. The time-of-flight of laser pulse from the laser to the receiver is calculated by using high speed FPGA based signal processing board. To reduce the walk error of laser pulse regardless of the intensity differences between pulses, the time of flight is measured from peak to peak of laser pulses. To get 3D image with a single pixel detector, Risley scanner which stirs the laser beam in an ellipsoidal pattern is used. The system laser energy budget characteristics is modeled using LADAR equation, from which the system performances such as the pulse detection probability, false alarm and etc. are analyzed and predicted. The test results of the system performances are acquired and compared with the predicted system performance. According to test results, all the system requirements are satisfied. The 3D image which was acquired by using the laser radar system is also presented in this article.

The degradation phenomena in SiGe hetero-junction bipolar transistors induced by bias stress (바이어스 스트레스에 의한 실리콘-게르마늄 이종접합 바이폴라 트랜지스터의 열화 현상)

  • Lee, Seung-Yun;Yu, Byoung-Gon
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.229-237
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    • 2005
  • The degradation phenomena in SiGe hetero-junction bipolar transistors(SiGe HBTs) induced by bias stress are investigated in this review. If SiGe HBTs are stressed over a specific time interval, the device parameters deviate from their nominal values due to the internal changes in the devices. Reverse-bias stress on emitter-base(EB) junctions causes base current increase and current gain decrease because carriers accelerated by the electrical field generate recombination centers. When forward-bias current stress is conducted at an ambient temperature above $140^{\circ}C$ , hot carriers produced by Auger recombination or avalanche multiplication induce current gain fluctuation. Mixed-mode stressing, where high emitter current and high collector-base voltage are simultaneously applied to the device, provokes base current rise as EB reverse-bias stressing does.

Improvement of Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference Visibility by Using a Single-Mode Optical-Fiber Photon Collector (단일모드 광섬유 집광기를 이용한 Hong-Ou-Mandel 간섭 가시도 향상)

  • Han, Sung-Wook;Kim, Heonoh;Seo, Joo Yeon;Kim, Myung-Whun
    • New Physics: Sae Mulli
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    • v.68 no.12
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    • pp.1374-1377
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    • 2018
  • We achieved 95% visibility in the Hong-Ou-Mandel interference experiment while we achieved only 56% visibility in a previous report. We used a 120 mW 405 nm single-mode continuous wave laser, a 5-mm-thick type-1 ${\beta}$-barium borate single crystal, standard Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer optics, two avalanche photodiode single-photon counters, and a homemade coincidence counting unit. The photon collection unit was the key difference between the present study and the previous study. In the present experiment, we used single-mode optical fibers for photon collection, which suppressed accidental coincidence between-different mode photons by acting as a spatial filter because of its core size being much smaller than a multi-mode fiber.

Measurement of TOF of fast neutrons with 238U target

  • Li, Meng;Guan, Yuanfan;Lu, Chengui;Zhang, Junwei;Yuan, Xiaohua;Duan, Limin;Yang, Herun;Hu, Rongjiang;He, Zhiyong;Wei, Xianglun;Ma, Peng;Gan, Zaiguo;Yang, Chunli;Zhang, Hongbin;Chen, Liang;Qiu, Tianli;Hou, Yikai
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.53 no.6
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    • pp.1964-1969
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    • 2021
  • We developed a Dual-PPACs detector for fast neutron measurements that consists of two sets of PPAC: conventional PPAC and fission PPAC. A238U(U3O8) coating is placed in the fission PPAC's anode, which is used as the neutrons conversion layer. An experiment was performed to measure neutron time-of-flight (TOF) in which 252Cf spontaneous fission source was used. An excellent time resolution of 164ps has been observed at 6 mbar in isobutene gas. With the excellent time resolution of Dual-PPACs detector, exact neutron energy can be extracted from the timing measurement. The experimental detection efficiency was 1.9 × 10-7, consistent with the efficiency of 2.5 × 10-7 given by a Geant4 simulation. Ultimately, the results show that the Dual-PPACs detector is a suitable candidate for measuring fast neutrons in the future CiADS system.

High energy swift heavy ion irradiation and annealing effects on DC electrical characteristics of 200 GHz SiGe HBTs

  • Hegde, Vinayakprasanna N.;Praveen, K.C.;Pradeep, T.M.;Pushpa, N.;Cressler, John D.;Tripathi, Ambuj;Asokan, K.;Prakash, A.P. Gnana
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.5
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    • pp.1428-1435
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    • 2019
  • The total ionizing dose (TID) and non ionizing energy loss (NIEL) effects of 100 MeV phosphorous ($P^{7+}$) and 80 MeV nitrogen ($N^{6+}$) ions on 200 GHz silicon-germanium heterojunction bipolar transistors (SiGe HBTs) were examined in the total dose range from 1 to 100 Mrad(Si). The in-situ I-V characteristics like Gummel characteristics, excess base current (${\Delta}I_B$), net oxide trapped charge ($N_{OX}$), current gain ($h_{FE}$), avalanche multiplication (M-1), neutral base recombination (NBR) and output characteristics ($I_C-V_{CE}$) were analysed before and after irradiation. The significant degradation in device parameters was observed after $100MeV\;P^{7+}$ and $80MeV\;N^{6+}$ ion irradiation. The $100MeV\;P^{7+}$ ions create more damage in the SiGe HBT structure and in turn degrade the electrical characteristics of SiGe HBTs more when compared to $80MeV\;N^{6+}$. The SiGe HBTs irradiated up to 100 Mrad of total dose were annealed from $50^{\circ}C$ to $400^{\circ}C$ in different steps for 30 min duration in order to study the recovery of electrical characteristics. The recovery factors (RFs) are employed to analyse the contribution of room temperature and isochronal annealing in total recovery.

Developing a Cantilever-type Near-field Scanning Optical Microscope Using a Single Laser for Topography Detection and Sample Excitation

  • Ng'ang'a, Douglas Kagoiya;Ali, Luqman;Lee, Yong Joong;Byeon, Clare Chisu
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.229-237
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    • 2021
  • The capabilities of the near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) for obtaining high resolution lateral topographical images as well as for mapping the spectroscopic and optical properties of a sample below the diffraction limit of light have made it an attractive research field for most researchers dealing with optical characteristics of materials in nano scales. The apertured NSOM technique involves confining light into an aperture of sub-wavelength size and using it to illuminate a sample maintained at a distance equal to a fraction of the sub-wavelength aperture (near-field region). In this article, we present a setup for developing NSOM using a cantilever with a sub-wavelength aperture at the tip. A single laser is used for both cantilever deflection measurement and near-field sample excitation. The laser beam is focused at the apex of the cantilever where a portion of the beam is reflected and the other portion goes through the aperture and causes local near-field optical excitation of the sample, which is then raster scanned in the near-field region. The reflected beam is used for an optical beam deflection technique that yields topographical images by controlling the probe-sample in nano-distance. The fluorescence emissions signal is detected in far-field by the help of a silicon avalanche photodiode. The images obtained using this method show a good correlation between the topographical image and the mapping of the fluorescence emissions.