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Bulk and Surface of Al2O3 doped ZnO Films at Different Target Angles by DC magnetron sputtering

  • Kang, Junyoung;Park, Hyeongsik;Yi, Junsin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2016.02a
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    • pp.345.2-345.2
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    • 2016
  • Alumina (Al2O3) doped zinc oxide (ZnO) films (AZO) have been prepared from 2 wt.% Al2O3 doped ZnO target by DC magnetron sputtering at a 2 mTorr (0.27 Pa) chamber pressure in (15 sccm) argon ambient. We obtained films of various opto-electronic properties by variation of target angle from 32.5o to 72.5o. At lower target angle deposited films show higher values in optical gap, mobility of charge carrier, carrier concentration, crystallite grain size, transmission range of wavelength, which are favorable characteristics of AZO as a transparent conducting oxide (TCO). At higher target angle the sheet resistance, work function, surface roughness for the AZO films increases. Measured haze ratio of the films changed lower to higher and size of characteristic surface structure of as deposited film ranges from ~40 nm to ~300 nm. By a combination of low and high target angle we obtained a textured TCO film with high conductivity.

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Development of Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing Technique for Nuclear Power Plant Cast Piping Weld (원자력발전소 주조 배관 용접부 위상배열 초음파검사 기술 개발)

  • Yoon, Byungsik;Yang, Seunghan;Kim, Yongsik
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.16-22
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    • 2010
  • Cast austenitic stainless steel(CASS) is used in the primary cooling piping system of nuclear power plant for it's relative low cost, corrosion resistance and easy of welding. However, the coarse-grain structure of cast austenitic stainless steel can strongly affect the inspectability of ultrasonic testing. The major problems encountered during inspection are beam skewing, high attenuation and high background noise of CASS component. So far, the best inspection performance involving CASS components have been achieved using low frequency TRL(Transmitter/Receiver side-by-side L wave) angle beam probe. But TRL technique could not detect shallow defect and it contains an uncertainty for sizing capability. Currently, most of researchers are studying to overcome these challenge issue. In this study, low-frequency phased array TRL technique used to detect and sizing the flaws in CF8A cast austenitic stainless steel.As conclusion, we could detect and size not only axial flaw but also circumferential flaw using low frequency phased array technique.

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UT Inspection Technique of Cast Stainless Steel Piping Welds Using Low Frequency TRL UT Probe (저주파수 TRL 탐촉자를 이용한 Cast Stainless Steel 배관 용접부 초음파탐상기법)

  • Shin, Keon-Cheol;Chang, Hee-Jun;Jeong, Young-Cheol;Noh, Ik-Jun;Lee, Dong-Jin
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2010
  • Ultrasonic inspection of heavy walled cast austenitic stainless steel(CASS)welds is very difficult due to complex and coarse grained structure of CASS material. The large size of anisotropic grain strongly affects the propagation of ultrasound by severe attenuation, change in velocity, and scattering of ultrasonic energy. therefore, the signal patterns originated from flaws can be difficult to distinguish from scattered signals. To improve detection and sizing capability of ID connected defect for heavy walled CASS piping welds, the low frequency segmented TRL Pulse Echo and Phased Array probe has been developed. The experimental studies have been performed using CASS pipe mock-up block containing artificial reflectors(ID connected EDM notch). The automatic pulse echo and phase array technique is applied the detection and the length sizing of the ID connected artificial reflectors and the results for detection and sizing has been compared respectively. The goal of this study is to assess a newly developed ultrasonic probe to improve the detection ability and the sizing of the crack in coarse-grained CASS components.

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Laser crystallization of Si film for poly-Si thin film transistor on plastic substrates

  • Kwon, Jang-Yeon;Cho, Hans-S;Kim, Do-Young;Park, Kyung-Bae;Jung, Ji-Sim;Park, Young-Soo;Lee, Min-Chul;Han, Min-Koo;Noguchi, Takashi
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.957-961
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    • 2004
  • In order to realize high performance thin film transistor (TFT) on plastic substrate, Si film was deposited on plastic substrate at 170$^{\circ}C$ by using inductivity coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition (ICPCVD). Hydrogen concentration in as-deposited Si film was 3.8% which is much lower than that in film prepared by using conventional plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). Si film was deposited as micro crystalline phase rather than amorphous phase even at 170$^{\circ}C$ because of high density plasma. By step-by-step Excimer laser annealing, dehydrogenation and recrystallization of Si film were carried out simultaneously. With step-by-step annealing and optimization of underlayer structure, it has succeeded to achieve large grain size of 300nm by using ICPCVD. Base on these results, poly-Si TFT was fabricated on plastic substrate successfully, and it is sufficient to drive pixels of OLEDs, as well as LCDs.

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Ferroelectric Properties of Bi3.25La0.75Ti3O12 Thin Films Prepared by MOD (MOD 법으로 제작된 Bi3.25La0.75Ti3O12 박막의 강유전 특성)

  • 김경태;김창일;권지운;심일운
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.486-491
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    • 2002
  • We have fabricated $Bi_{3.25}La_{0.75}Ti_3O_12$ (BLT) thin films on the Pt/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si substrates using a metalorganic decomposition (MOD) method with annealing temperature from $550^{\circ}C$ to $750^{\circ}C$. The structural properties of BLT films examined by x-ray diffraction (XRD). From XRD analysis. BLT thin films show polycrystalline structure. The layered-perovskite phase was obtained by spin-on films at above $600^{\circ}C$ for 1h. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed uniform surface composed of rodlike grains. The grain size of BLT films increased with increasing annealing temperature. The BLT film annealed at $650^{\circ}C$ was measured to have a dielectric constant of 279, dielectric loss of 1.85(%), remanent polarization of $25.66\mu C/\textrm{cm}^2$, and coercive field of 84.75 kV/cm. The BLT thin films showed little polarization fatigue test up to $3.5{\times}10^9$ bipolar cycling at 5 V and 100 kHz.

Electrical Characteristics and Fabrication of CNT/Cu Nanocomposite (CNT/Cu 나노복합체의 제조 및 전기적 특성평가)

  • Hong, Youn-Jeong;Kim, Hye-Jin;Lee, Kyu-Mann;Kim, In-Woo
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.59-63
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    • 2007
  • The CNTs are the most extensively studied material which are characterized by the complete property of matter, structure, and the large thermal conductivity (thermal conductivity of CNTs ~>2000W/mK vs. thermal conductivity of Aluminum ~> 204W/mK). Thus, they are successfully applied to the various fields. However, due to the strong agglomeration caused by the van der waal's force, their applications are limited. In the present study, a new method for CNTs dispersion was developed by using the mechanical dispersion, acid treatment, and then Cu was coated. This process produces CNTs/Cu nanocomposite powders, whereby the CNTs are homogeneously located within the Cu powders. The electrical properties of the CNTs/Cu nanocomposite were investigated.

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Effects of Thermal Annealing on Dielectric and Piezoelectric Properties of Pb(Zn, Mg)1/3Nb2/3O3-PbTiO3 System in the Vicinity of Morphotropic Phase Boundary

  • Hyun M. Jang;Lee, Kyu-Mann
    • The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.13-20
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    • 1995
  • Effects of thermal annealing on the dielectric/piezoelectric properties of $Pb(Zn, Mg)_{1/3}Nb_{2/3}O_3-PbTiO_3$ ceramics (PZMNPT) with Zn/Mg=6/4) were examined across the rhombohedral/tetragonal morphotropic phase boundary (MPB). Both the relative dielectric permittivity ($\varepsilon$r)and the piezoelectric constant($d_33$)/electromechanical coupling constant ($k_p$)were increased by thermal annealing ($800^{\circ}$~$900^{\circ}C$) after sintering at $1150^{\circ}C$ for 1 hr. Based on the dielectric analysis using the series mixing model and the concept of a random distribution of the local Curie points, the observed improvements in the dielectric and piezoelectric properties of PZMN-PT were interpreted in terms of the elimination of PbO-rich amorphous intergranular layers(~1nm) induced by thermal annealing. A concrete evidence of the presence of amorphous grain-boundary layers in the unannealed (as-sintered) specimen was obtained by examining the structure of intergranular region using a TEM.

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A Study on Quality Control Using Data Mining in Steel Continuous Casting Process (철강 연주공정에서 데이터마이닝을 이용한 품질제어 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jae-Kyeong;Kwon, Taeck-Sung;Choi, Il-Young;Kim, Hyea-Kyeong;Kim, Min-Yong
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.113-126
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    • 2011
  • The smelting and the continuous casting of steel are important processes that determine the quality of steel products. Especially most of quality defects occur during solidification of the steel continuous casting process. Although quality control techniques such as six sigma, SQC, and TQM can be applied to the continuous casting process for improving quality of steel products, these techniques don't provide real-time analysis to identify the causes of defect occurrence. To solve problems, we have developed a detection model using decision tree which identified abnormal transactions to have a coarse grain structure. And we have compared the proposed model with models using neural network and logistic regression. Experiments on steel data showed that the performance of the proposed model was higher than those of neural network model and logistic regression model. Thus, we expect that the suggested model will be helpful to control the quality of steel products in real-time in the continuous casting process.

Hydraulic Level Control System of Combine Body (콤바인 차체의 유압 수평제어 장치에 관한 연구)

  • Lee S. S.;Mun J. H.;Park W. Y.;Lee C. H.;Lee K. S.;Hwang H.
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.29 no.5 s.106
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    • pp.425-432
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    • 2004
  • In harvesting rice and barley using combine, the inclination of the body caused by the irregular surface condition of the field and the soil sinking from the unbalanced weight during the grain collection used to make harvesting operation difficult and even impossible. To overcome such a problem hydraulic system far automatic and manual leveling control of a combine has been developed. The system was composed of the combine body and the hydraulic level control system mounted on it. The maximum height of ground clearance was set up to be 290mm. And the limit angle of the leveling control was set up to be $\pm7^{\circ}$. The proposed controller and hydraulic system was implemented to the prototype combine. The prototype combine was designed and built as a separable structure with the body and the track of it. This paper shows results of a specification and design testing with the hydraulic level control system far body of combine.

Residual Stress on Concentric Laminated Fibrous Al2O3-ZrO2 Composites on Prolonged High Temperature Exposure

  • Sarkar, Swapan Kumar;Lee, Byong Taek
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.23 no.9
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    • pp.531-536
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    • 2013
  • This paper investigates the effect of prolonged high temperature exposure on concentric laminated $Al_2O_3-ZrO_2$ composites. An ultrafine scale microstructure with a cellular 7 layer concentric lamination with unidirectional alignment was fabricated by a multi-pass extrusion method. Each laminate in the microstructure was $2-3{\mu}m$ thick. An alternate lamina was composed of 75%$Al_2O_3$-(25%m-$ZrO_2$) and t-$ZrO_2$ ceramics. The composite was sintered at $1500^{\circ}C$ and subjected to $1450^{\circ}C$ temperature for 24 hours to 72 hours. We investigated the effect of long time high temperature exposure on the generation of residual stress and grain growth and their effect on the overall stability of the composites. The residual stress development and its subsequent effect on the microstructure with the edge cracking behavior mechanism were investigated. The residual stress in the concentric laminated microstructure causes extensive micro cracks in the t-$ZrO_2$ layer, despite the very thin laminate thickness. The material properties like Vickers hardness and fracture toughness were measured and evaluated along with the microstructure of the composites with prolonged high temperature exposure.