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Thrust Performances of a Very Low-Power Micro-Arcjet

  • Hotaka Ashiya;Tsuyoshi Noda;Hideyuki Horisawa;Kim, Itsuro ura
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.03a
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    • pp.611-616
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    • 2004
  • In this study, microfabrication of a micro-arcjet nozzle with Fifth-harmonic generation Nd:YAG pulses (wavelength 213 nm) and its thrust performance tests were conducted. A micro-arcjet nozzle was machined in a 1.2 mm thick quartz plate. Sizes of the nozzle were 0.44 mm in width of the nozzle exit and constrictor diameter of 0.1 mm. For an anode, a thin film of Au (~100 nm thick) was deposited by DC discharge PVD in vacuum on divergent part of the nozzle. As for a cathode, an Au film was also coated on inner wall surface. In operational tests, a stable discharge was observed for mass flow of 1.0mg/sec, discharge current of 6 ㎃, discharge voltage of 600 V, or 3.6 W input power (specific power of 3.6 MW/kg). In this case, plenum pressure of the discharge chamber was 80 ㎪. With 3.6 W input power, thrust obtained was 1.4 mN giving specific impulse of 138 sec with thrust efficiency of 24 %.

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A Stable Black-Start Strategy for a Stand-Alone DC Micro-Grid

  • Cha, Jae-Hun;Han, Yoon-Tak;Park, Kyung-Won;Oh, Jin-Hong;Choi, Tae-Seong;Ko, Jae-Hun;MAHIRANE, Philemon;An, Jae-Yun;Kim, Jae-Eon
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.30-37
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    • 2018
  • Unlike an AC system, a DC system does not cause problems with synchronization, stability, reactive power, system losses, and cost. However, more research is still required for the application of DC Systems. This paper proposes a stable black-start strategy for a stand-alone DC micro-grid, which consists of an energy storage system, photovoltaic generator, wind-turbine generator, diesel generator, and DC loads. The proposed method is very important for avoiding inrush current and transient overvoltage in the power system equipment during restoration after a blackout. PSCAD/EMTDC software was used to simulate, analyze, and verify the method, which was found to be stable and applicable for a stand-alone DC micro-grid.

Improvement of Micro-hole EDM Efficiency using Vibration Flushing (진동기구를 이용한 미세구멍 방전가공의 효율향상)

  • Son, Seong-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.623-628
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    • 2011
  • Micro EDM(Electric Discharge Machining) is one of the most powerful technologies which are capable of fabricating micro-structure without any problems from high cutting force. However, there is a significant defect in the part machining with deep holes or pockets, because debris which are generated by electric discharging may frequently cause a short circuit between an electrode and workpiece material. Vibration flushing can reduce the undesirable phenomena with dynamic flow of EDM fluid in a deep and choked area. In this study, Vibration flushing with solenoid is suggested and the results show that the method can generate a remarkable EDM efficiency with high amplitude at a low frequency in comparison with current vibration flushing methods with high frequency using piezo actuators.

The Application and Verification of the 2MVA Battery Energy Storage System(BESS) with Wind-turbine in Micro-grid of Gapado, Jeju (가파도 마이크로그리드에서의 풍력발전 연계를 위한 2MVA급 배터리 에너지 저장시스템(BESS) 적용 및 실증)

  • Kim, Seung-Mo;Oh, Seung-Jin;Lee, Jong-Hak;Kim, Tae-Hyeong;Kwon, Byung-Ki;Ahn, Jae-Min;Jin, Kyung-Min;Choi, Chang-Ho
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.303-311
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    • 2014
  • This paper shows the test result of 2MVA BESS(Battery Energy Storage System) with wind-turbine in micro-grid of the Gapado. To implement of micro-grid with BESS, characteristics of generator and customer load in grid are considered. Also, to operate of 2-parallel PCU(Power Conversion Unit) in BESS, the droop control is adopted with operating mode of grid independent. Performances of BESS with wind-turbine were verified by analysis of power quality such as voltage harmonics, ratio of voltage and frequency regulation, and by measurement of waveform such as output voltage and current.

The Analysis of Chemical Vapor Deposition Characteristics using Focused Ion Beam (FIB-CVD의 가공 공정 특성 분석)

  • Kang E.G.;Choi H.Z.;Choi B.Y.;Hong W.P.;Lee S.W.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.593-597
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    • 2005
  • FIB equipment can perform sputtering and chemical vapor deposition simultaneously. It is very advantageously used to fabricate a micro structure part having 3D shape because the minimum beam size of ${\phi}$ 10nm and smaller is available. Currently FIB is not being applied in the fabrication of this micro part because of some problems to redeposition and charging effect of the substrate causing reduction of accuracy with regards to shape and productivity. Furthermore, the prediction of the material removal rate information should be required but it has been insufficient for micro part fabrication. The paper have the targets that are FIB-CVD characteristic analysis and minimum line pattern resolution achievement fur 3D micro fabrication. We make conclusions with the analysis of the results of the experiment according to beam current, pattern size and scanning parameters. CVD of 8 pico ampere shows superior CVD yield but CVD of 1318 pico ampere shows the pattern sputtered. And dwell time is dominant parameter relating to CVD yield.

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Micro-morphological Features of Liquid Urea-Formaldehyde Resins during Curing Process at Different Levels of Hardener and Curing Time Assessed by Transmission Electron Microscopy

  • Nuryawan, Arif;Park, Byung-Dae
    • Current Research on Agriculture and Life Sciences
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.125-130
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    • 2014
  • This study used transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to investigate the micro-morphological features of two formaldehyde to urea (F/U) mole ratio liquid urea-formaldehyde (UF) resins with three hardener levels as a function of the curing time. The micro-morphological features of the liquid UF resins were characterized after different curing times. As a result, the TEM examination revealed the presence of globular/nodular structures in both liquid UF resins, while spherical particles were only visible in the low F/U mole ratio resins. The high F/U mole ratio liquid UF resins also showed extensive particle coalescence after adding the hardener, along with the appearance of complex filamentous networks. When the resins were cured with a higher amount of hardener and longer curing time, the spherical particles disappeared. For the low mole UF resins, the particles tended to coalesce with a higher amount of hardener and longer curing time, although discrete spherical particles were still observed in some regions. This is the first report on the distinct features of the crystal structures in low F/U mole ratio UF resins cured with 5% hardener and after 0.5 h of curing time. In conclusion, the present results indicate that the crystal structures of low F/U mole ratio UF resins are formed during the curing process.

Evaluation of soil spatial variability by micro-structure simulation

  • Fei, Suozhu;Tan, Xiaohui;Wang, Xue;Du, Linfeng;Sun, Zhihao
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.565-572
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    • 2019
  • Spatial variability is an inherent characteristic of soil, and auto-correlation length (ACL) is a very important parameter in the reliability or probabilistic analyses of geotechnical engineering that consider the spatial variability of soils. Current methods for estimating the ACL need a large amount of laboratory or in-situ experiments, which is a great obstacle to the application of random field theory to geotechnical reliability analysis and design. To estimate the ACL reasonably and efficiently, we propose a micro-structure based numerical simulation method. The quartet structure generation set algorithm is used to generate stochastic numerical micro-structure of soils, and scanning electron microscope test of soil samples combined with digital image processing technique is adopted to obtain parameters needed in the QSGS algorithm. Then, 2-point correlation function is adopted to calculate the ACL based on the generated numerical micro-structure of soils. Results of a case study shows that the ACL can be estimated efficiently using the proposed method. Sensitivity analysis demonstrates that the ACL will become stable with the increase of mesh density and model size. A model size of $300{\times}300$ with a grid size of $1{\times}1$ is suitable for the calculation of the ACL of clayey soils.

A Study on the Effects of Micro Cavity on the HTL Thicknesses on the Top Emission Organic Light Emitting Diode (유기발광 다이오드의 정공수송층 두께에 따른 미소 공진 효과의 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, DongWoon;Cho, Eou Sik;Seong, Jin-Wook;Kwon, Sang Jik
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.91-94
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    • 2022
  • Top emission organic light-emitting diode is commonly used because of high efficiency and good color purity than bottom - emission organic light-emitting device. Unlike BEOLED, TEOLED contain semi-transparent metal cathode. Because of semi-transparent cathode, micro cavity effect occurs in TEOLED. We optimized this effect by changing the thickness of hole injection layer. Device consists of is indium-tin-oxide / N,N'-Di-[(1-naphthyl)-N,N'-diphenyl]-1,1'-biphenyl-4,4'-diamine (x nm) / tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (50nm) / LiF(0.5nm) / Mg:Ag (1:9), and we changed NPB thickness which is used as HTL in our device in order to study how micro cavity effects are changed by optical path. As the results, NPB thickness at 35nm showed the current efficiency of 8.55Cd/A.

An Enhanced Function Point Model for Software Size Estimation: Micro-FP Model (소프트웨어 규모산정을 위한 기능점수 개선 Micro-FP 모형의 제안)

  • Ahn, Yeon-S.
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.14 no.12
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    • pp.225-232
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    • 2009
  • Function Point Method have been applied to measure software size estimation in industry because it supports to estimate the software's size by user's view not developer's. However, the current function point method has some problems for example complexity's upper limit etc. So, In this paper, an enhanced function point model. Micro FP model, was suggested. Using this model, software effort estimation can be more efficiently because this model has some regression equation. This model specially can be applied to estimate in detail the large application system's size Analysis results show that measured software size by this Micro FP model has the advantage with more correlative between the one of LOC, as of 10 applications operated in an large organization.

Design of DC-DC Buck Converter Using Micro-processor Control (마이크로프로세서 제어를 이용한 DC-DC Buck Converter 설계)

  • Jang, In-Hyeok;Han, Ji-Hun;Lim, Hong-Woo
    • Journal of Advanced Engineering and Technology
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.349-353
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    • 2012
  • Recently, Mobile multimedia equipments as smart phone and tablet pc requirement is increasing and this market is also being expanded. These mobile equipments require large multi-media function, so more power consumption is required. For these reasons, the needs of power management IC as switching type dc-dc converter and linear regulator have increased. DC-DC buck converter become more important in power management IC because the operating voltage of VLSI system is very low comparing to lithium-ion battery voltage. There are many people to be concerned about digital DC-DC converter without using external passive device recently. Digital controlled DC-DC converter is essential in mobile application to various external circumstance. This paper proposes the DC-DC Buck Converter using the AVR RISC 8-bit micro-processor control. The designed converter receives the input DC 18-30 [V] and the output voltage of DC-DC Converter changes by the feedback circuit using the A/D conversion function. Duty ratio is adjusted to maintain a constant output voltage 12 [V]. Proposed converter using the micro-processor control was compared to a typical boost converter. As a result, the current loss in the proposed converter was reduced about 10.7%. Input voltage and output voltage can be displayed on the LCD display to see the status of the operation.