• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.353-359
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• 2017

The sonophoresis, a representative low-intensity ultrasonic therapy, is a technique for delivering the drugs into the epidermis, dermis and skin appendages by using physical vibration and heat effects of the ultrasonic waves. Sonophoresis could increases the delivering and absorption efficiency of the drugs usually consisting of hydrophilic molecules and macromolecules. In addition, it has the advantage of being effective in delivering drugs with relatively large molecular sizes such as insulin or lipid. In this study, we proposed a multi-structure ultrasonic transducer assembly with a large-size single piezoelectric element and a drug delivery function at the treatment site for efficient sonophoresis treatment. Futhermore, a transducer assembly structure capable of raising and maintaining the temperature of the treatment site was proposed and evaluated for effectiveness. The transducer assembly proposed in this study is expected to improve the efficiency of sonophoresis by providing a constant amount of drug, and assisting drug delivery through heating the treatment site.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.869-873
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• 2004

[ $Sr_xBa_{1-x}Nb_2O_6$ ] (SBN, $0.25{\leq}x{\leq}0.75$) ceramic is a ferroelectric material with tetragonal tungsten bronze (TTB) type structure, which has a high pyroelectric coefficient, piezoelectric, and a photo refractive properties. In this study, SBN60(x=0.6) thin film was manufactured by ion beam sputtering technique. Using the prepared SBN60 target in $Ar/O_2$ atmosphere as-deposited SBN60 thin film on Pt(100)/$TiO_2/SiO_2/Si$ substrate crystallization and orientation behavior as well as electric properties of SBN60 thin film were examined. SBN60 deposition up to $3000{\AA}$ in thickness, SBN60 thin film was heat-treated at $650^{\circ}C{\sim}800^{\circ}C$. The orientation was shown primarily along (001) plane from XRD pattern where working pressure was $4.3{\times}10^{-4}$ torr. The deposited layer was uniform, preferred orientatin and crystallization behavior resulted in the change of $O_2$ ratio was observed. In electric propertie of Pt/SBN60/Pt thin film capacitor remnant polarization (2Pr) value was $10{\mu}C/cm^2$, the coercive filed (Ec) 50 kV/cm, and the dielectric constant 615, respectively.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.351-358
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• 2006

The capability of high pressure injection with small fuel quantify at all engine operating conditions is one of the main feature in common rail fuel injection system, which is used in small and light-duty Diesel engine. The key parameter for the better atomized fuel sprays and multiple injections of this common rail fuel injection control, that can be freely selected irrespective of the engine speed and load is the mechanism controlling the needle energizing and movement in high pressure Diesel injector. In the electro-hydraulic injector, the injection nozzle is being opened and closed by movement of the injector's needle which is balanced by pressure between the nozzle seat and the needle control chamber. This study describes the macroscopic spray structure characteristics of the common rail Diesel injectors with different electric driving method i.e. the solenoid-driven and piezo-driven type. The macroscopic spray characteristics such as spray tip speed. spray tip penetration and spray cone angle were investigated by the high speed spray, which is measured by the back diffusion light illumination method with optical system for the high speed temporal photography in a constant volume chamber pressurized by nitrogen gas. As the results, the prototype piezo-driven injector system was designed and fabricated for the first time in domestic case and the effect of injector's needle response driven by different drive type was compared between the solenoid and piezo-driven injector It was found therefore. that the piezo-driven injector showed faster needle response and had better needle control capability by altering the electric input value than the solenoid-driven injector.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.135-141
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• 1995

Abstract The sintering behavior and the electrical properties of sintered PZT ceramics using 2.45 GHz microwave energy were investigated. The ceramics were sintered between $1050 ~ 1130^{\circ}C$ for 5 min. Sintered body with high density and good electrical properties were achieved as the sintering temperature increases. Above $1090^{\circ}C$, however, the bulk density was decreased due to the volatilization of PbO component, and also electrical properties were decreased. The relative dielectric constant, mechanical Quality factor, electro- mechanical coupling factor of microwave sintered body at $1090^{\circ}C$ without PbO atmosphere were 1900, 80, 0.53 respectively, which were comparable to conventional sintering values. The sintering process completed within 20 min using microwave hybrid energy. The processing time and the amount of energy con-sumption could be reduced by microwave hybrid energy assisted rapid sintering.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.30 no.6 s.249
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• pp.553-559
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• 2006

Most diesel injector, which is currently used in high-pressure common rail fuel injection system of diesel engine, is driven by the solenoid coil energy for its needle movement. The main disadvantage of this solenoid-driven injector is a high power consumption, high power loss through solenoid coil and relatively fixed needle response's problem. In this study, a prototype piezo-driven injector, as a new injector mechanism driven by piezoelectric energy based on the concept of inverse piezo-electric effect, has been designed and fabricated to know the effect of piezo-driven injection processes on the diesel spray structure and internal nozzle flow. Firstly we investigated the spray characteristics in a constant volume chamber pressurized by nitrogen gas using the back diffusion light illumination method for high-speed temporal photography and also analyzed the inside nozzle flow by a fully transient simulation with cavitation model using VOF(volume of fraction) method. The numerical calculation has been performed to simulate the cavitating flow of 3-dimensional real size single hole nozzle along the injection duration. Results were compared between a conventional solenoid-driven injector and piezo-driven injector, both equipped with the same micro-sac multi-hole injection nozzle. The experimental results show that the piezo-driven injector has short injection delay and a faster spray development and produces higher injection velocity than the solenoid-driven injector. And the predicted simulation results with the degree of cavitation's generation inside nozzle for faster needle response In a piezo-driven injector were reflected to spray development in agreement with the experimental spray images.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.30-35
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• 2004

PMW-PZT thick films of about $30{\mu}m$ thickness were fabricated on Pt/$TiO_2$/$SiN_x$Si substrate by the hybrid method of screen printing and PZT sol application. With the increase of the number of the sol application times, the sintered density and electrical properties of PMW-PZT thick films were evidently increased. For the PMW-PZT thick film with PZT sol application of 10-times, the dielectric constant ($\varepsilon_r$) was 745 at the frequency of 100 KHz and thepiezoelectric coefficient ($d_33$) was 155 pC/N at the applied pressure of 1 atm.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.29 no.12
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• pp.764-768
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• 2016

To investigate excess $Na^+$ effect, $Bi_{0.5}(Na_{0.78+x}K_{0.22})_{0.5}TiO_3$ ($0{\leq}x{\leq}0.05$) (BNKT) ceramics were prepared by using a conventional solid-state reaction method. The structure and ferroelectric properties of BNKT ceramics were characterized by XRD (X-ray diffraction) and polarization dependence by external electric field. Also, the temperature dependence of dielectric constant and loss were studied. From these results, it was found that appropriate excess $Na^+$ into BNKT ceramics compensate the volatility and induce dense ceramics. The enhanced piezoelectric coefficient (158 pC/N) and depolarization temperature ($202^{\circ}C$) were obtained for the x=0.01 composition.

• Advances in materials Research
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.93-105
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• 2016

KNN-based ceramics modified with small amounts of $Bi_4Zr_3O_{12}$ (BiZ) has been synthesized using high-throughput experimentation (HTE). The results from X-ray diffraction show that for samples with base composition $(K_{0.5}Na_{0.5})NbO_3$ (KNN), the phase present changes from orthorhombic to pseudo-cubic with more than 0.2 mol% BiZ addition; for samples with base composition $(K_{0.48}Na_{0.48}Li_{0.04})(Nb_{0.9}Ta_{0.1})O_3$ (KNNLT), the phase present changes from a mixture of orthorhombic and tetragonal symmetry to pseudo-cubic with more than 0.4 mol % while for samples with base composition $(K_{0.48}Na_{0.48}Li_{0.04})(Nb_{0.86}Ta_{0.1}Sb_{0.04})O_3$ (KNNLST), the phase present is tetragonal with <0.3 mol% BiZ addition and transforms to pseudo-cubic with more dopant addition. The microstructures of the samples show that addition of BiZ decreases the average grain size and increases the volume of pores at the grain boundaries. The values of dielectric constant for KNN and KNNLT compositions increase slightly with BiZ addition while that for KNNLST decreases gradually with BiZ addition. The dielectric loss values are between 0.02 and 0.04 for KNNLT and KNNLST compositions while they are ~ 0.05 for KNN samples. The resistivity values increases with BiZ addition and values in the range of $10^{10}{\Omega}cm$ and $10^{12}{\Omega}cm$ are obtained. The piezoelectric charge coefficient ($d{^*}_{33}$) is highest for KNNLST samples and decreases gradually from ~400 pm/V to ~100 pm/V with BiZ addition.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.858-868
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• 1992

0.085Ba(LaS11/2TNbS11/2T)OS13T-0.915Pb(ZrS1yTTiS11-yT)OS13T (0.45$\leq$y$\leq$0.65) transparent electrooptic ceramics were fabricated by two-stage sintering method. The structural, ferroelectric and electrooptic properties were investigated varying composition and second sintering time. Also the possibility of application to electrooptic device was studied. If we increase the PbZrOS13T contents, dielectric constants were increased and Curie temperature was decreased. In the composition of 0.55[mol] PbZrOS13T, electromechanical coupling factor and piezoelectric charge constant were the highest values of 43[%] and 173x10S0-12T[C/N], respectively. Mechanical quality factors were decreased with the increasing PbZrOS13T contents. Light transmittance was increased with wavelength when measured from 300[nm] to 900[nm], and with PbZrOS13T contents in the range of 0.50[mol]-0.65[mol], and had the highest value of 67[%] in the composition of 0.65[mol] PbZrOS13T. From the results of ferroelectric hysteresis loop and transmitted light intensity with electric field, the specimens with compositions of 0.65,0.60,0.55[mol] PbZrOS13T were applicable to electrooptic memory device and those with compositions of 0.50,0.45[mol] PbZrOS13T were applicable to linear electrooptic device.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.361-366
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• 2004

The poling characteristics of PVDF (poly(vinylidene fluoride)) film was investigated by measuring the electric voltage generated by the external load for the distributed tactile sensor applications. The poling conditions for the PVDF films were controlled by changing temperature and electric field, and the resulting crystal structure of the $\beta$-phase crystal was confirmed by FT-IR, DSC, and XRD experiments. The $\beta$-phase crystal was increased with the poling temperature and poling voltage, and subsequently the permittivity of the Poled PVDF films was increased. Finally, the prototype tactile sensor was tested by a 8 $\times$ 8 may circuit exhibiting high voltage signal for the highly poled PVDF films.