• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.6
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• pp.786-791
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• 2013

A high voltage pulse generator based on the Blumlein pulse forming line (PFL) was fabricated to produce a voltage pulse whose peak value is ~300 kV and pulse duration is ~50 ns. Three cylindrical electrodes, such as inner, middle, and outer electrodes, are concentrically placed to make a compact PFL. To increase the pulse duration of the output pulse without any change of the size of the generator, the middle electrode is replaced by a helical strip electrode. To determine the radius of the helical electrode, the impedance of the helical Blumlein PFL is calculated using an approximate formula where the dispersive property of the helical Blumlein PFL is not considered. The dependence of the impedance on the frequency is computed by a commercial program. The number of turns in the helical electrode is decided to provide a demanded pulse duration. The experimental result shows that the helical Blumlein PFL is capable of making a high voltage pulse of ~50 ns pulse duration.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.27-31
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• 2013

Magnesium alloy is used on parts of aircraft and electronic equipment because of the highest specific strength among the common metal materials. Recently, studies about appling magnesium alloy sheet to automotive bodies are on the increase rapidly. For application to automotive bodies, researches about characteristics of resistance spot welding of magnesium alloy sheet are essential. Magnesium alloy has low boiling point, so getting sound bead shape is difficult when appling varies welding processes. Resistance spot welding is also particular about setting optimum welding conditions because of spatter generation, pores and cracks occurrence in nugget. And life of electrodes is very short because of alloying with copper that main material of electrodes. This requires frequent dressing and replacement of electrodes and decrease in productivity of resistance spot welding on magnesium alloy. Therefore in this study, for effective analysis of changes in tensile shear load and nugget size during electrode life test, evaluate detail characteristics of resistance spot welding on magnesium alloy sheet using dome type electrode.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.34 no.11
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• pp.1121-1128
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• 1997

In this study, the Ar plasma treatment was used to improve the surface roughness of Poly-Si1-xGex thin film deposited by RTCVD. The surface roughness and the resistivity of Si1-xGex thin film were investigated with variation of Ar plasma treatment parameters (electrode distance, working pressure, time, substrate temperature and R.F power). When the Ar plasma treatment was used, the cluster size decreased by the surface etching effect due to the increasing surface collision energy of particles (ion, neutral atom) in plasma under the conditions of decreasing electrode distance and increasing pressure, time, temperature, and R. F power. Although the surface roughness value decreased by the reduction of the cluster size due to surface etching effect, however, the resistivity increased. This may be due to the surface damage caused by the increasing surface collision energy. It was concluded that the surface roughness could be improved by the Ar plasma treatment, while the resistivity was increased by the surface damage on the substrate.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1272-1273
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• 2008

PRAM(Phase change access memory) has desirable characteristics including high speed, low cost, low power, and simple process. PRAM is based on the reversible phase transition between resistive amorphous and conductive crystalline states of chalcogenide. However, PRAM needs high reset current for operation. PRAM have to reduce reset current for high density and competitiveness. Therefore, we have investigated the reset current of PRAM with top electrode contact hole size using 3-D finite element analysis tool in this paper.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.496-506
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• 2001

The effect of corona discharge on soot emission was experimentally investigated. Size and number concentrations of soot aggregates were measured and compared for various voltages. Regardless of the polarity of the applied voltage, the flame length decreased and the tip of flame spreaded with increasing voltage. For the experimental conditions selected, the flame was blown off toward the ground electrode by corona ionic wind. When the negative applied voltage was greater than 3kV(for electrode spacing = 3.5cm), soot particles in inception or growth region were affected by the corona discharge, resulting in the reduction of number concentration. The results show that the ionic wind favored soot oxidation and increased flame temperature. Number concentration and primary particle size greatly increased, when the corona electrodes were located the region of soot nucleation or growth(close to burner mouth).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.307-310
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• 1998

Finite element analysis was investigated on the stress distribution at the 2-D model of piezoelectric ceramic actuators. The y direction maximum stress decreased with a(internal electrode gap) size until 0.4 mm and is not much difference with c(external electrode thickness) size. The stress distribution with internal layers is almost same, and the stress distribution of load condition is higher than that of no load condition. The y direction maximum stress increased exponentially with the number of layer and saturated at 260 layers. In the case of defective actuator, the stress distribution is smaller than that of normal actuator.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07g
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• pp.3292-3294
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• 1999

In this paper, electrostatic scanner mirror for optical pick-up head is designed and fabricated. The mirror size is $20{\mu}m{\times}2400{\mu}m{\times}2400{\mu}m$ and torsional beam size is $10{\mu}m{\times}20{\mu}m{\times}500{\mu}m$. Static deflection angle is calculated ${\pm}0.4$ degrees when the maximum driving voltage is 20 V. Silicon mirror was fabricated using KOH etching and deep RIE. For passivation of the patterned mirror from KOH solution, parylene thin film was used and its usefulness has been verified. Driving electrode was fabricated using UV LIGA process. Mirror and electrode were bonded.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.423-426
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• 2000

The 3-D $31.5$\times$31.5$\times$2.5mm$^3$model of contour vibration mode piezoelectric transformer with Pb($Ni_{1/2}$$W_{1/2}$)$O_3$-Pb(Zr,Ti)$O_3$ ceramics was simulated by ANSYS according to the dot size 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 $mm\phi$ and analyzed the results. The mechanical quality factor of the 3-D model was decreased with the dot size and increased as 2605 at 20 $mm\phi$ and after then decreased again. The output voltage of that sample was 74123 [V] and the maximum stress of the dot electrode at that sample was 288[$10^7$N/$m^2$] and the maximum displacement of the ring electrode at that sample was 128 [$\mu\textrm{m}$].

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 1993.05a
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• pp.115-119
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• 1993

Many qualitive analyses of sampled process variables have been attempted to predict nugget size in resistance spot welding process. In this paper, dynamic resistance and electrode movement signal which is a good indicative of the nugget size was examined by introducing an artificial neural network estimator. An artificial neural feedforward network with back-propagation of error was applied for the estimation of the nugget size. To assess the advantage of this method. results have been compared with conventional regression method.

• 한국전기화학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.41-41
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• 2002