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Study on the Development of Wet Cell Holder for the Measurement of Hydrophilic Contact Lens (친수성 콘택트렌즈 측정용 Wet Cell 홀더 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Kyoung-Sek;Lim, Hyeon-Sun;Joo, Seok-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.455-462
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: To develop more accurate wet measuring system combining the wet cell, automatic lensmeter and the related software for hydrophilic contact lenses and to verify the accuracy of those measuring holder system already available in the market. Methods: Refractive power measurement were done in both a conventional method which has been commonly used in optical shops and a new method which is recently developed in korea. Hydrophilic contact lens of korean brand was chosen as a test material and was tested by water content ratio and by spherical refractive power. Results: When spherical power of -3.00 D contact lens is measured in the newly developed wet cell measurement holder with automatic lensmeter, it reads -3.01 D at water content ratio of 38%. -3.00 D at 45% and -2.98 D at 58%. The same experiment with the Poster soft contact lens wet cell measurement holder maintaining other conditions same resulted in -3.60 D at the water content ratio of 38%, -3.06 D at 45% and -2.46 D at 58%. Conclusions: At the higher water content, the refractive power values measured by both of the wet cell measuring holders are shown lower, and additionally, the new method using the wet cell holder and new software program in a automatic lensmeter showed more accurate readings than conventional Poster soft contact lens wet cell measuring system.

Contact-Independent Cell Death of Human Microglial Cells due to Pathogenic Naegleria fowleri Trophozoites

  • Kim, Jong-Hyun;Kim, Dae-Sik;Shin, Ho-Joon
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.217-221
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    • 2008
  • Free-living Naegleria fowleri leads to a fatal infection known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis in humans. Previously, the target cell death could be induced by phagocytic activity of N. fowleri as a contact-dependent mechanism. However, in this study we investigated the target cell death under a non-contact system using a tissue-culture insert. The human microglial cells, U87MG cells, co-cultured with N. fowleri trophozoites for 30 min in a non-contact system showed morphological changes such as the cell membrane destruction and a reduction in the number. By fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) analysis, U87MG cells co-cultured with N. fowleri trophozoites in a non-contact system showed a significant increase of apoptotic cells (16%) in comparison with that of the control or N. fowleri lysate. When U87MG cells were co-cultured with N. fowleri trophozoites in a non-contact system for 30 min, 2 hr, and 4 hr, the cytotoxicity of amebae against target cells was 40.5, 44.2, and 45.6%, respectively. By contrast, the cytotoxicity of non-pathogenic N. gruberi trophozoites was 10.2, 12.4, and 13.2%, respectively. These results suggest that the molecules released from N. fowleri in a contact-independent manner as well as phagocytosis in a contact-dependent manner may induce the host cell death.

Analysis of Body Pressure Distribution Characteristics According to the Design Factors of the Air-Cell Mattress for Preventing Decubitus Ulcer (욕창방지방석용 공기셀의 설계요소에 따른 체압 분포 특성 분석)

  • Cho, Hyeon-Seok;Ryu, Jei-Cheong;Kim, Gyoo-Suk;Mun, Mu-Sung;Lee, In-Hyuk
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.118-126
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    • 2007
  • A finite element simulation model was developed for the performance optimization of a closed type air-cell mattress used for the ulcer prevention. An H-model with material properties of human flesh and kinematic joints were used for the calculation of the body contact pressure. The material property of rubber air-cell was evaluated by tensile test of standard specimen. We evaluated the body contact pressure distribution after laying human model on the inflated air-cell mattress. It was found that the body contact pressure was dependent on cell height. but hardly affected by the thickness of the rubber in a cell.

Simplified Resistor Network Calculation for Electrical and Mass Transport in Anode-Supported Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (연료극지지 평판형 고체산화물 연료전지 내에서의 전기 및 물질전달에 대한 간략화된 저항 네트워크 계산)

  • Lee, Hyun-Jae;Nam, Jin-Hyun;Kim, Charn-Jung
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.1740-1745
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    • 2004
  • A simplified resistor network model for electrical and mass transport in anode-supported planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) was constructed in order to investigate the effect of interconnect rib geometry on the cell performance. For accurate potential calculation, activation and concentration over-potentials at the electrode/electrolyte interfaces were fully considered in this calculation. When contact resistance was not considered, the optimum interconnect rib length were calculated to be $0.1{\sim}0.2$ mm for 2 mm half unit cell for given operation conditions and properties. However, with realistic contact resistance, the interconnect rib length should be increased to provide larger contact area and thus to obtain better performance.

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Buried contact solar cell (전극함몰형 태양전지)

  • 조은철;김동섭;이수홍
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.400-407
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    • 1995
  • A Abstract Buried contact solar cell is a very high efficiency silicon solar cell having over 19 % conversion effciency. In this paper, we investigated the process and characteristic of buried c contact solar cell. Manufacturing pro않sses of buried contact solar cell consist of three high temperature processes, one high vacuum deposition process, one laser application process and other wet chemical processes.

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Finite Element Analysis of Fuel Cell Stack with Orthotropic Material Model (직교이방성 연료전지 스택의 유한요소 해석)

  • 전지훈;황운봉;조규택;김수환;임태원
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.175-178
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    • 2003
  • Mechanical behavior of a fuel stack was studied by the orthotropic material model. The fuel stack is mainly composed of bipolar plate (BP), gasket, end plate, membrane electrolyte assembly (MEA), and gas diffusion layer (GDL). Each component is fastened with a suitable pressure. It is very important to maintain a suitable contact pressure of BP, because it affects the efficiency of the fuel cell. This study compared mechanical behavior of various fastening types of the fuel cell stack. Bar, band, and modified band fastening type are used. The band fastening type showed that it reduces total volume of the cell, but it does not improve the contact pressure distribution of each BP. The modified band fastening type was designed by considering the deformations of band fastening type, and it showed a good enhancement of contact pressure distribution.

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PA study on selective emitter structure and Ni/Cu plating metallization for high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells (결정질 실리콘 태양전지의 고효율 화를 위한 Selective emitter 구조 및 Ni/Cu plating 전극 구조 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Minjeong;Lee, Jaedoo;Lee, Soohong
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.91.2-91.2
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    • 2010
  • The use of plated front contact for metallization of silicon solar cell may alternative technologies as a screen printed and silver paste contact. This technologies should allow the formation of contact with low contact resistivity a high line conductivity and also reduction of shading losses. The better performance of Ni/Cu contacts is attributed to the reduced series resistance due to better contact conductivity of Ni with Si and subsequent electroplating of Cu on Ni. The ability to pattern narrower grid lines for reduced light shading combined with the lower resistance of a metal silicide contact and improved conductivity of plated deposit. This improves the FF as the series resistance is deduced. This is very much required in the case of low concentrator solar cells in which the series resistance is one of the important and dominant parameter that affect the cell performance. A selective emitter structure with highly dopes regions underneath the metal contacts, is widely known to be one of the most promising high-efficiency solution in solar cell processing. This paper using selective emitter structure technique, fabricated Ni/Cu plating metallization cell with a cell efficiency of 17.19%.

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Effects of Ozone Oxidation on the Contact Resistance of DRAM Cell (오존 산화가 DRAM 셀의 콘택 저항에 미치는 영향)

  • 최재승;이승욱;신봉조;박근형;이재봉
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.121-126
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, the effects of the ozone oxidation of the landing polycrystalline silicon on the cell contact resistance of the DRAM device were studied. For this study, the ozone oxidation of the landing polycrystalline silicon layer was performed under various conditions, which was followed by the normal DRAM processes. Then, the cell contact resistance and $t_{WR}$ (write recovery time) of the devices were measured and analyzed. The experimental results showed that the cell contact resistance was more significantly increased for higher temperature of oxidation, longer time of oxidation, and higher concentration of ozone in the oxidation furnace. In addition, the TEM cross-sectional micrographs clearly showed that the oxide layer at the interface between the landing polycrystalline silicon layer and the plug polycrystalline silicon layer was increased by the ozone oxidation. Furthermore, the rate of the device failure due to too large write recovery time was also found to be well correlated with the increase of the cell contact resistance.

The Effects of Gamiseungmagalgeuntang on Allergic contact dermatitis induced by DNCB in Mice (가미승마갈근탕(加味升麻葛根湯)이 면역반응에 미치는 실험적 연구)

  • Lee Jun-Hui;Park Jae-Hyeon;Gang Yun-Ho
    • The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.333-346
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    • 1998
  • In order In study the effects of an immunosuppression and a mitigation of inflammation of Gamiseungmagalgeuntang(GMSG) on the allergic contact dermatitis, contact hypersensitivity assay, mast cell, VCAM-1, and T cell of the lymph node in mice induced allergic contact dermatitis by the contacts-sensitizing DNCB were obsereved after oral administration of GMSG extract. The results of this study were as follows ; 1. Ear swelling in contact hypersensitivity assay was decreased in the GMSG group as compared with DNCB group. 2. It was investigated that mast cells were appeared degranulated type in DNCB group and a number of granulated type was more GMSG group than DNCB group. 3. VCAM-1 expression in epidermis and CD11b positive cell in dermis were decreased In the GMSG group as compared with DNCB group. 4. In the lymph node ,the distribution of CD4, CD8, IL-2R positive cell were decreased at the cortex and medula in the GMSG group as compared with DNCB group.

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