• Particle and aerosol research
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.95-102
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• 2016

Controlling exposures to occupational hazards is important for protecting workers. Certified facepiece respirators are recommended when engineering controls do not adequately prevent exposures to airborne nanomaterials. The objective of this study is to carry out the experimental performance test to investigate the fractional efficiencies of the filter media for two grades of facepiece respirators. Experimental performance evaluations were carried out for the test NaCl particles and silver nanoparticles. For media of respirator filter, the penetration of NaCl particles was less than 5% and the most penetrating particle size occurred at about 40 nm. For silver nanoparticles, the most penetrating particle size was about 20nm with higher efficiency than those of NaCl particles. Charge characteristics of airborne nanoparticles is important because the media of respirator filter is made by the electret filter media.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.316-323
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• 1995

A vital step in magnetic tape manufacturing is the surface modification of polymer substrate prior to ink application. A critical element for good adhesion of magnetic ink on polymeric substrate is the ability to join ink in cost-effective manner. Corona discharging is one of the effective methods of modifying polymer surface to improve adhesion while maintaining the desirable properties of the film itself. Surface treatment by corona which is exposure of film surface to electron or ion bombardment, rather than mere exposure to active species, like atomic oxygen or ozone, can enhance adhesion by removing contaminant, electret, roughening surface, and/or introducing reactive chemical groups. Reactive neutrals, ions, electron and photons generated during the corona treatment interact simultaneously with polymers to alter surface chemical composition, wettability, and thus film adhesion. However, it is highly recommended that extensive chains scission be avoided because it can lead to side-effect by forming sticky matter, resulting in dropouts. This paper reviews principles of surface preparation of polymer substrate by corona discharging. In addition, the experimental section provides a description of parameter optimization on corona discharging treatment and its side-effect. Experimental results are discussed in terms of surface wetting as determined by contact angle measurements.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.219-225
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• 2012

A low-power, low-noise pre-amplifier for digital hearing-aid application is designed. This pre-amplifier amplifies single-ended signal from an electret microphone, and produces differential output to be delivered to an ADC. It has a variable gain of 3.6, 7.2, 14.4 and 28.8 with a bandwidth between 100Hz~10kHzon. The measurement results show 85 dB of SNR, 0.05 % of harmonic distortion and $200{\mu}W$ of power consumption with 1.2V supply.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.52 no.10
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• pp.464-468
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• 2003

The double layers of $SiO_2$/$Si_3$$N_4$ have superior charge storage stability than a single layer of $SiO_2$. Many researchers are very interested in the charge storage mechanism of $SiO_2$/$Si_3$$N_4$ [1,2]. In this paper, the electrical characteristics of thermal oxide and atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition (APCVD) of $Si_4$$N_4$ have been investigated and explained using high frequency capacitance-voltage measurements. Additionally, this paper will describe capacitance-voltage characteristics for double layers of $SiO_2$/$Si_4$$N_4$ by "Athena", a semiconductor device simulation tool created by Silvaco, Inc.vaco, Inc.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.417-423
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• 1976

Corona treatment of PE, PP and PVC showed a dramatic increase of bond strength when lap joints were made between the polymers and aluminum plates. Heating the corona-treated PE and PP, and PVC in a drying oven at 80 and $50^{\circ}C$, respectively, for 15 min reduced the bond strength to about a half of that of corona-treated but unheated polymers, which indicated that the increase of bond strength was not due to oxidation of the polymer surface. The Weibull distribution function was employed to check reliability of the scattered data obtained from testing the lap joints. It is speculated that electron was deposited on the corona-treated polymer surface to enhance bond strength with aluminum.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.41-46
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• 2018

Experiments were carried out the phenomenal observation on effect of corona treated hotmelt laminating film in process of manufacture by 2 kinds of rolling speed and electric power variatons. Surface treatment by corona which is exposure of film surface to electron of ion bombardment, rather than mere exposure to active species, like atomic oxygen or ozone, can enhance adhesion by removing contaminant, electret, roughening surface, and introducing reactive chemical group. Reactive neutrals, ions, electron and photons generated during the corona treatment interact simultaneously with polymers to alter surface chemical composition, wettability, and thus film adhesion. However, it is highly recommended that extensive chains scission is avoided because it can lead to side-effect by forming sticky matter, resulting in dropouts. This paper reviews principles of surface preparation of polypropylene substrate by corona discharging. In addition, the experimental section provides a description of parameter optimization on corona discharging treatment and its side-effect. Experimental results are discussed in terms of surface wetting as determined by contact angle and SEM measurements. When the rolling speed of the film decreased from 1.666 [m / sec] to 0.083 [m / sec], contact angle decreased from $80[^{\circ}]$ to $64[^{\circ}]$, and the wettability was greatly improved. As the supply power increased from 0.4 [kVA] to 2 [kVA] at the corona discharge surface treatment, the contact angle decreased from $77[^{\circ}]$ to $65[^{\circ}]$, and the wettability was greatly improved.