• Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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• 제73권10호
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• pp.1479-1485
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• 2018

A number of experiments have been performed on light slowing and stopping in the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) media of hot atomic gases where the Doppler-shift may add detunings to the field frequencies in an inhomogeneous fashion. We provide here a theoretical analysis as to the effect of such a Doppler-broadened environment on the dynamics of the system in comparison to a cold atomic medium. We will show that one of the most critical factors in the formation of a stationary light pulse is the enhancement of the excited-state decay rate caused by the collisions between the atoms of the medium and the molecules of the buffer gas.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.43-52
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• 2023

When a children's school bus stops on the road, the operator enables an amber flashing light (indicating stopping or slowing) or a red flashing light (indicating that children are getting on and off). Drivers of vehicles passing by the stopped school bus, as well as vehicles in adjacent lanes to the school bus must stop temporarily. However, many drivers are not aware of the laws and do not comply with them, so children are exposed to an increased risk of being hit, especially at night as the color recognition of the vehicle is significantly lower than during the day. In our experiments, messages and shapes using light were projected to the front and rear of a parked school bus, in addition to its red lights flashing.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.1287-1300
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• 2017

Based on the observation that ignoring the angle dependency of multigroup resonance cross sections within a fuel pellet would result in nontrivial underestimation of the spatial self-shielding of flux, a parametrized spectral superhomogenization (SPH) factor library (PSSL) method is developed as a practical means of resolving the problem. Region-wise spectral SPH factors are calculated by the normal and transport corrected SPH iterations after ultrafine group slowing down calculations over various light water reactor pin-cell configurations. The parametrization is done with fuel temperature, U-238 number density, fuel radius, moderator source represented by ${\Sigma}_{mod}V_{mod}$, and the number density ratio of resonance nuclides to that of U-238 in a form of resonance interference correction factors. The parametrization is successful in that the root mean square errors of the interpolated SPH factors over the fuel regions of various pin-cells are within 0.1%. The improvement in reactivity error of the PSSL method is shown to be superior to that by the original SPH method in that the reactivity bias of -200 pcm to -300 pcm vanishes almost completely. It is demonstrated that the environment effect takes only about 4% in the reactivity improvement so that the pin-cell based PSSL method is effective in the assembly problems.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.70-72
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• 2022

In this study, we report on a power system developed as a decelerator for a driving module in an electric vehicle. The system is to be mounted in a limited space. The research focus was on development of miniaturization, light weight, and high power density. In particular, we aimed to minimize the layout of existing external components as integrated or built-in, and to maximize the power density by applying optimal cooling technology to increased requirements for developing modular power systems applicable to various OEM models. South Korean automakers ranked fourth in global electric-vehicle sales in 2020, but domestic sales are relatively slow. Despite government's expansion in subsidies for eco-friendly cars, consumers are delaying purchases after 2021 considering the cost-effectiveness of electric vehicles. In major European markets, the demand for electric vehicles exceeded the demand for diesel cars, and sales of hybrid cars, which used to represent eco-friendly cars, are slowing down as Toyota, started selling electric vehicles. In this study, the internal lubrication characteristics of a decelerator installed in an electric vehicle were analyzed in terms of the deceleration time while driving. By selecting the proper oil and oil viscosity, it was confirmed that there is no problem in lubricating the bearings and gears of the decelerator.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.195-207
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• 2006

The recently published and new results on design and fabrication of magnetophotonic crystals of different dimensionality are surveyed. Coupling of polarized light to 3D photonic crystals based on synthetic opals was studied in the case of low dielectric contrast. Transmissivity of opals was demonstrated to strongly depend on the propagation direction of light and its polarization. It was shown that in a vicinity of the frequency of a single Bragg resonance in a 3D photonic crystal the incident linearly polarized light excites inside the crystal the TE- and TM-eigen modes which passing through the crystal is influenced by Brags diffraction of electromagnetic field from different (hkl) sets of crystallographic planes. We also measured the faraday effect of opals immersed in a magneto-optically active liquid. It was shown that the behavior of the faraday rotation spectrum of the system of the opal sample and magneto-optically active liquid directly interrelates with transmittance anisotropy of the opal sample. The photonic band structure, transmittance and Faraday rotation of the light in three-dimensional magnetophotonic crystals of simple cubic and face centered cubic lattices formed from magneto-optically active spheres where studied by the layer Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method. We found that a photonic band structure is most significantly altered by the magneto-optical activity of spheres for the high-symmetry directions where the degeneracies between TE and TM polarized modes for the corresponding non-magnetic photonic crystals exist. The significant enhancement of the Faraday rotation appears for these directions in the proximity of the band edges, because of the slowing down of the light. New approaches for one-dimensional magnetophotonic crystals fabrication optimized for the magneto-optical Faraday effect enhancement are proposed and realized. One-dimensional magnetophotonic crystals utilizing the second and the third photonic band gaps optimized for the Faraday effect enhancement have been successfully fabricated. Additionally, magnetophotonic crystals consist of a stack of ferrimagnetic Bi-substituted yttrium-iron garnet layers alternated with dielectric silicon oxide layers of the same optical thickness. High refractive index difference provides the strong spatial localization of the electromagnetic field with the wavelength corresponding to the long-wavelength edge of the photonic band gap.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.94-98
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 듀얼 코어 광섬유 콜리메이터(dual-core fiber collimator)와 멤브레인형 마이크로미러를 이용한 광마이크로폰을 제안하고 구현하였다. 콜리메이터와 미러는 각각 광헤드(optical head)와 반사형 진동판으로서 사용된다. 특히, 미러 진동판은 얇은 실리콘 바(bar)에 의해 프레임에 연결되어 있어서 인가된 음압에 따라 자유롭게 움직인다. 두 개의 콜리메이터가 집적된 광헤드는 음압을 감지하고 변조하는데 사용되는 광을 공급하고 받는 역할을 한다. 이 콜리메이터 광헤드를 사용함으로써 진동판과의 초기 정렬시 기존의 광섬유를 이용한 경우에 비해 허용 오차가 클 뿐만 아니라 전체적으로 광마이크로폰의 구조도 간단해졌다. 본 논문에서는 광헤드와 진동판 사이의 거 리를 변화시켜 가면서 응답 특성을 측정하여 선형성과 민감도가 최대인 지점을 동작점으로 결정하였다. 음성신호의 주파수를 변화시켜 가면서 광마이크로폰의 출력을 측정하여 얻은 주파수 대역폭은 약 $\pm$5 dB 이하 출력 변화에 대해 약 3 kHz였다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제108권1호
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• pp.40-49
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• 2019

고사목(CWD)은 산림생태계 구성요소의 하나로서 산림의 에너지 흐름과 물질순환에서 주요한 역할을 한다. 특히 고사목은 탄소를 격리하는 장기 저장고로서, 산림에서 대기로 방출되는 탄소의 속도를 지연시키는 측면에서 고사목의 호흡속도를 구명하는 것은 의의가 크다. 따라서 본 연구는 온대중부지역의 일본잎갈나무와 리기다소나무 고사목을 대상으로 호흡속도를 측정하고, 호흡속도에 영향을 미치는 인자(밀도, 함수율, 탄소농도, 질소농도 및 C/N비)의 영향력을 파악하였다. 2018년 여름, 우리나라 중부지역 14개 임분에서 부후등급 별로 시료를 채취하고, 실험실에서 휴대용 이산화탄소 센서를 부착한 밀폐형 챔버를 이용하여 고사목 호흡을 측정하였다. 두 수종 모두 부후가 진행함에 따라 고사목 밀도는 감소하였으며, 함수율은 증가했다. 또한 탄소농도는 부후등급에 따라 유의성을 나타내지 않았으나, 질소농도는 증가하고 C/N비는 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 일본잎갈나무의 경우 부후 IV등급까지 고사목의 호흡속도가 유의하게 증가하였지만, 리기다소나무에서는 부후 II등급까지 증가 후 평형상태를 보였다. 따라서 탄소농도를 제외하고, 모든 인자들이 호흡속도와 유의한 상관관계를 나타냈으며, 단계적 회귀분석의 결과, 두 수종 모두 함수율이 고사목 호흡속도에 가장 영향을 미치는 인자로 나타났다. 이와 같이 고사목의 수분은 미생물의 활성도를 높여 호흡속도에 영향을 미치며, 온도와 광 환경 등 복잡하게 연결된 환경인자들과 밀접한 관계에 있으므로 향후 이들의 상호관계 및 수분의 시계열적패턴 추정에 대한 지속적인 연구가 필요하다.