• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.697-700
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 개미산 연료전지의 연료극에서 Pt 촉매의 안정성과 활성을 높이기 위해 Bi를 UPD법을 이용하여 Pt 촉매 위에 증착시켰다. 증착된 Bi의 활용도를 높이기 위해 다층 전극구조를 적용하였으며, 전자탐침미세분석(EPMA) 결과에서 Bi가 장기성능 실험동안 촉매층에 안정적으로 존재하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 연료전지 성능실험에서는 Pt black 촉매 위에 Bi를 UPD한 다층 구조의 전극이 PtRu black 촉매보다 전류밀도 $150mA/cm^2$에서 약 200 mV정도 높은 성능을 나타냈다. Pt black을 40% Pt/C로 대체했을 경우 역시 높은 성능과 장기 안정성을 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.3144-3164
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• 2019

Face recognition systems have several potential applications, such as security and biometric access control. Ongoing research is focused to develop a robust face recognition algorithm that can mimic the human vision system. Face pose, non-uniform illuminations, and low-resolution are main factors that influence the performance of face recognition algorithms. This paper proposes a novel method to handle the aforementioned aspects. Proposed face recognition algorithm initially uses 68 points to locate a face in the input image and later partially uses the PCA to extract mean image. Meanwhile, the AdaBoost and the LDA are used to extract face features. In final stage, classic nearest centre classifier is used for face classification. Proposed method outperforms recent state-of-the-art face recognition algorithms by producing high recognition rate and yields much lower error rate for a very challenging situation, such as when only frontal ($0^{\circ}$) face sample is available in gallery and seven poses ($0^{\circ}$, ${\pm}30^{\circ}$, ${\pm}35^{\circ}$, and ${\pm}45^{\circ}$) as a probe on the LFW and the CMU Multi-PIE databases.

• 대한디지털의료영상학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.81-87
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• 2010

The setting parameters of ultrasound scanner give influences to change of image. Sonographers have used a Matlab program to make Low Contrast Sensitivity(LCS) value and compared original images in order to evaluate the use of the supersonic diagnosis machinery. We confirmed the change of image in Grayscale values using Photoshop program. Experiment equipment of our research used A Medison Accuvix V10, A Multi-Tissue Ultrasound Phantom(040 GSE) of CHRIS Company, A Adobe Photoshop CS4 Program, A Convex Probe, A USB memory stick, A Probe Fixation Equipment. The method used Gain, Dynamic Range(DR) of the setting parameters of ultrasound scanner and researched Gain and DR was set to 10 dB. We changed the different settings to see the changes of images using Grayscale values of a Photoshop program about tissue images of a phantom. This study evaluated DR and Gain whether it is an image controller to get the optimum contrast to produce an image to see the how effect on the images. We did not use Gateway in supersonic diagnosis machinery. We can easily open to open the files through Photoshop program before we get Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine(DICOM) files use USB memory stick in supersonic diagnosis machinery. When we diagnosed the lesion of the patient with ultrasound, the contrast and the Gray scale value of image are very important. In this research, we determined the optimum setting parameters that provided useful information to diagnose disease and evaluated the change of improved images.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.335-342
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• 2004

암세포가 정상세포에 비해 전기적 도전율이 세배에서 열배까지 높다는 점을 이용하여 본 논문에서는 유방암 검출을 위한 생체 어드미턴스 스캐너를 개발하고, 시스템의 성능검사를 수행하여 유방암 검출의 가능성을 제시하였다. 전압인가전극을 이용하여 정현파의 정전압을 인가하고 유방의 표면에 부착된 평면배열 접지전극을 통하여 배출되는 전류를 측정한다. 측정된 전류값과 인가한 전압사이의 전달 어드미턴스로부터 측정 부위의 도전율을 표현할 수 있으며, 전달 어드미턴스의 실수부와 허수부의 크기로부터 유방암의 유무와 크기, 위치를 판별하는 데이터를 획득한다. 개발한 생체 어드미턴스 스캐너는 주제어부, 인가전압 발생부, 유기전류 측정부, 전압인가전극 및 평면배열 접지전극과 컴퓨터로 구성된다. 개발한 디지털 인가전방 발생기의 진폭 안정도는 0.2445％의 오차를 가지며, 총 고조파 왜곡은 0.03％ 이다. 유기전류 측정부는 실수부의 경우 68dB, 허수부의 경우 54dB이상의 SNR블 가지며, 1nA정도의 작은 전류도 측정이 가능하도록 제작되었다. 저항 펜텀을 이용하여 실험한 결과 측정된 핀달 어드미턴스는 Pspice 시뮬레이션 결과와 비교할 때 93％ 이상의 정확도를 나타내었다. 이러한 측정의 정확도를 갖는 생체 어드미턴스 스캐너를 가지고 저항 팬텀 및 전해질용액 펜텀을 이용하여 실험한 결과 도전율이 다른 물체를 식별할 수 있는 전달 어드미턴스 분포 영상을 획득할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 향후 시스템의 성능을 향상시키고, 여러 가지 다른 핀범을 제작하여 이를 정확히 찾아내는지를 실험할 예정이며, 도전율이 다른 물체의 크기, 위치 및 깊이를 찾는 알고리즘을 시스템에 적용하여 알고리즘을 실험적으로 검증하고 유방암의 조기 검진을 위해 활용이 가능한 시스템을 개발하는 연구를 수행할 예정이다.

• 새물리
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• 제68권11호
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• pp.1167-1172
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• 2018

탄소 나노 튜브는 탄소 원자들이 육각형의 벌집모양으로 서로 연결된 고분자 탄소동소체로 다중벽일 경우 $3000W{\cdot}m^{-1}{\cdot}K^{-1}$, 단일벽일 경우 $6000W{\cdot}m^{-1}{\cdot}K^{-1}$ 정도로 매우 높은 열전도도를 보인다. 본 연구에서는 단일 빔과 이중 빔 방법으로 열렌즈 효과를 이용하여, 1.5 M 다중벽 탄소 나노튜브 분산액의 투과율과 열확산도를 측정하였다. 단일 레이저 빔의 진행방향으로 시료를 움직이는 z-scan 방법을 통해 비선형 광학계수들을 구하고, 이중 레이저 빔을 이용하여 열확산도를 측정하였다. 펌프 빔으로는 파장 532 nm이고 세기가 100 mW인 DPSS (Diode-pumped solid state, DPSS) 레이저를 사용하였고, 프로브빔으로는 파장이 633 nm이며 세기가 5 mW인 He-Ne 레이저를 사용하였다. 실험 결과 농도가 9.99, 11.10, 16.65, 19.98 mM일 때 비선형 흡수계수는 각각 0.046, 0.051, 0.136, 0.169 m/W였다. 또한 비선형 굴절률은 0.20, 0.51, 1.25, $1.32{\times}10^{-11}m^2/W$였고, 열확산도 평균치는 $1.33{\times}10^{-6}m^2/s$이었다.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2006

Alternative splicing (AS) is an important mechanism of producing transcriptome diversity and microarray techniques are being used increasingly to monitor the splice variants. There exist three types of microarrays interrogating AS events-junction, exon, and tiling arrays. Junction probes have the advantage of monitoring the splice site directly. Johnson et al., performed a genome-wide survey of human alternative pre-mRNA splicing with exon junction microarrays (Science 302:2141-2144, 2003), which monitored splicing at every known exon-exon junctions for more than 10,000 multi-exon human genes in 52 tissues and cell lines. Here, we describe an algorithm to deduce the relative concentration of isoforms from the junction array data. Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is applied to obtain the transcript structure inferred from the expression data. Then we choose the transcript models consistent with the ECgene model of alternative splicing which is based on mRNA and EST alignment. The probe-transcript matrix is constructed using the NMF-consistent ECgene transcripts, and the isoform abundance is deduced from the non-negative least squares (NNLS) fitting of experimental data. Our method can be easily extended to other types of microarrays with exon or junction probes.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2015년도 제49회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.221.2-221.2
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• 2015

Graphene is very interesting 2 dimensional material providing unique properties. Especially, graphene has been investigated as a stretchable and transparent conductor due to its high mobility, high optical transmittance, and outstanding mechanical properties. On the contrary, high sheet resistance of extremely thin monolayer graphene limits its application. Artificially stacked multilayer graphene is used to decrease its sheet resistance and has shown improved results. However, stacked multilayer graphene requires repetitive and unnecessary transfer processes. Recently, growth of multilayer graphene has been investigated using a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method but the layer controlled synthesis of multilayer graphene has shown challenges. In this paper, we demonstrate controlled growth of multilayer graphene using a two-step process with multi heating zone low pressure CVD. The produced graphene samples are characterized by optical microscope (OM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Raman spectroscopy is used to distinguish a number of layers in the multilayer graphene. Its optical and electrical properties are also analyzed by UV-Vis spectrophotometer and probe station, respectively. Atomic resolution images of graphene layers are observed by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM).

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new multi-purpose Scanning Force Microscope (SFM) system. The system can be used for nano/micro-scratching, in-process profile measurement, and observation of potential surface defects which occur during the scratching in air or liquid. Experimental results of nano/micro-scratching show that the smallest scratching depth can be controlled to be 10nm, which corresponds to the stability of the SFM system. Profile measurements of nano/micro-scratching surfaces have also been performed by the method of on-machine measurement and in-process measurement. Two measurement results were in good agreement with each other. The maximum difference was approximately 10 nm, which was mainly caused by the sampling repeatability error that influences the measurement accuracy Also, micro-defects on the micro-scratching surface were successfully detected by the SFM system. It was confirmed that the number of micro-defects increases when the surface is subjected to a cyclic bending load. The maximum depth was less than 100nm.

• BMB Reports
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.546-551
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• 2004

The increasing pace of development in molecular biology during the last decade has had a direct effect on mass testing and diagnostic applications, including blood screening. We report the model Microarray that has been developed for Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Hepatitis D virus (HDV) detection. The specific primer pairs of PCR were designed using the Primer Premier 5.00 program according to the conserved regions of HBV and HDV. PCR fragments were purified and cloned into pMD18-T vectors. The recombinant plasmids were extracted from positive clones and the target gene fragments were sequenced. The DNA microarray was prepared by robotically spotting PCR products onto the surface of glass slides. Sequences were aligned, and the results obtained showed that the products of PCR amplification were the required specific gene fragments of HBV, and HDV. Samples were labeled by Restriction Display PCR (RD-PCR). Gene chip hybridizing signals showed that the specificity and sensitivity required for HBV and HDV detection were satisfied. Using PCR amplified products to construct gene chips for the simultaneous clinical diagnosis of HBV and HDV resulted in a quick, simple, and effective method. We conclude that the DNA microarray assay system might be useful as a diagnostic technique in the clinical laboratory. Further applications of RD-PCR for the sample labeling could speed up microarray multi-virus detection.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.595-598
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• 2002

Laser scanners are getting used more and more in reverse engineering and inspection. For CNC-driven laser scanners, it is important to automate the scanning operations to improve the accuracy of capture point data and to reduce scanning time in industry. However, there are few research works on laser scan planning system. In addition, it is difficult to directly analyze multi-patched freeform models. In this paper, we propose an STL (Stereolithography) mesh based laser scan planning system for complex freeform surfaces. The scan planning system consists of three steps and it is assumed that the CAD model of the part exists. Firstly, the surface model is approximated into STL meshes. From the mesh model, normal vector of each node point is estimated. Second, scan directions and regions are determined through the region growing method. Also, scan paths are generated by calculating the minimum-bounding rectangle of points that can be scanned in each scan direction. Finally, the generated scan directions and paths are validated by checking optical constraints and the collision between the laser probe and the part to be scanned.