• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.339-350
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• 2016

Based on the resonance integral (RI) tables produced by the NJOY program, the conventional subgroup method usually ignores both the resonance elastic scattering and the resonance interference effects. In this paper, on one hand, to correct the resonance elastic scattering effect, RI tables are regenerated by using the Monte Carlo code, OpenMC, which employs the Doppler broadening rejection correction method for the resonance elastic scattering. On the other hand, a fast resonance interference factor method is proposed to efficiently handle the resonance interference effect. Encouraging conclusions have been indicated by the numerical results. (1) For a hot full power pressurized water reactor fuel pin-cell, an error of about +200 percent mille could be introduced by neglecting the resonance elastic scattering effect. By contrast, the approach employed in this paper can eliminate the error. (2) The fast resonance interference factor method possesses higher precision and higher efficiency than the conventional Bondarenko iteration method. Correspondingly, if the fast resonance interference factor method proposed in this paper is employed, the $k_{inf}$ can be improved by ~100 percent mille with a speedup of about 4.56.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제47권7호
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• pp.791-803
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• 2015

The effective cross sections (XSs) in the direct whole core calculation code nTRACER are evaluated by the equivalence theory-based resonance-integral-table method using the WIMS-based library as an alternative to the subgroup method. The background XSs, as well as the Dancoff correction factors, were evaluated by the enhanced neutron-current method. A method, with pointwise microscopic XSs on a union-lethargy grid, was used for the generation of resonance-interference factors (RIFs) for mixed resonant absorbers. This method was modified by the intermediate-resonance approximation by replacing the potential XSs for the non-absorbing moderator nuclides with the background XSs and neglecting the resonance-elastic scattering. The resonance-escape probability was implemented to incorporate the energy self-shielding effect in the spectrum. The XSs were improved using the proposed method as compared to the narrow resonance infinite massbased method. The RIFs were improved by 1% in $^{235}U$, 7% in $^{239}Pu$, and >2% in $^{240}Pu$. To account for thermal feedback, a new feature was incorporated with the interpolation of pre-generated RIFs at the multigroup level and the results compared with the conventional resonance-interference model. This method provided adequate results in terms of XSs and k-eff. The results were verified first by the comparison of RIFs with the exact RIFs, and then comparing the XSs with the McCARD calculations for the homogeneous configurations, with burned fuel containing a mixture of resonant nuclides at different burnups and temperatures. The RIFs and XSs for the mixture showed good agreement, which verified the accuracy of the RIF evaluation using the proposed method. The method was then verified by comparing the XSs for the virtual environment for reactor applicationbenchmark pin-cell problem, as well as the heterogeneous pin cell containing burned fuel with McCARD. The method works well for homogeneous, as well as heterogeneous configurations.

• Carbon letters
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• 제27권
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• pp.90-97
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• 2018

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding is an important issue in modern daily life due to the increasing prevalence of electronic devices and their compact design. This study estimated EMI-shielding effect (EMI-SE) of small ($8-14{\times}17mm$) Hanji (Korean traditional paper) doped with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and compared to Hanji without CNT using $^2H$ (92.1 MHz) and $^{23}Na$ (158.7 MHz) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) peak area data obtained from 1 M NaCl in $D_2O$ samples in capillary tubes that were wrapped in the Hanji samples. The simpler method of using the variation of reflected power and tuning frequency by inserting the sample into an NMR coil was also tested at 242.9, 158.7, and 92.1 MHz. Overall, EMI shielding was relatively more effective at the higher frequencies. Our results validated that NMR methods to be useful to evaluate EMI-SE, particularly for small, flexible shielding materials, and demonstrated that EMI shielding by absorption is dominant in Hanji mixed with CNT.

• 천문학회보
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.79.1-79.1
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• 2012

Due to the quantum interference of many atomic levels, the exact scattering cross section around a given resonance transition deviates from the Lorentz function when the frequency of the incident radiation is quite far from the resonance frequency. This atomic effect is quite significant in the case of damped Ly alpha systems, where HI column density is in excess of 10^20 cm^-2. In this poster, we present the deviation quantitatively taking into consideration of the Rayleigh and Raman scattering around Lyman alpha and Lyman beta.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.1233-1242
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• 2008

The hydration effect on the intrinsic magnetism of natural salmon double-strand DNA was explored using electron magnetic resonance (EMR) spectroscopy and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetic measurements. We learned from this study that the magnetic properties of DNA are roughly classified into two distinct groups depending on their water content: One group is of higher water content in the range of 2.6-24 water molecules per nucleotide (wpn), where all the EMR parameters and SQUID susceptibilities are dominated by spin species experiencing quasi one-dimensional diffusive motion and are independent of the water content. The other group is of lower water content in the range of 1.4-0.5 wpn. In this group, the magnetic properties are most probably dominated by cyclotron motion of spin species along the helical π -way, which is possible when the momentum scattering time (${\tau}_k$) is long enough not only to satisfy the cyclotron resonance condition (${\omega}_c{\tau}_k$ > 1) but also to induce a constructive interference between the neighboring double helices. The same effect is reflected in the S-shaped magnetization-magnetic field strength (M-H) curves superimposed with the linear background obtained by SQUID measurements, which leads to larger susceptibilities at 1000 G when compared with the values at 10,000 G. In particular, we propose that the spin-orbital coupling and Faraday's mutual inductive effect can be utilized to interpret the dimensional crossover of spin motions from quasi 1D in the hydrate state to 3D in the dry state of dsDNA.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.525-534
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• 1996

We have developed a fast steady state free precession interferometry (SSFPI) technique which is useful for the fMRl (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging). As is known, SSFP sequence with a suitable adjustment of Vadient (readeut) allows us to measure precession angle 6 which in tw relates to the field inhomogeneity. Combining the two pulses (known as FID and Echo) in FADE (Fast Acquisition Double Echo) sequence, for example, one can obtain the interference term which is directly related to the precession angle It has been known that a fast high resolution magnetic field mapping is possible by use of the modified FADE sequence or SSFPI, and we have attempted to use the SSFPI technique for the susceptibility-induced fMRl. When the method is applied to the susceptibility effect based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRl), it was found that the direct susceptibility effect measurement was possible without perturbations such as the backgrounds and inflow effect. In this paper, simulation results and experimental results obtained with 2.0 Tesla MRI system are presented.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.1006-1009
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• 2017

We discuss the problems of scattering in this framework, and show that the applied method is very useful in the investigation of the effect of the resonance in the observed scattering cross sections. In this study, not only the scattering cross sections but also the decomposition of the scattering cross sections was computed for the ${\alpha}-{\alpha}$ system. To obtain the decomposition of scattering cross sections into resonance and residual continuum terms, the complex scaled orthogonality condition model and the extended completeness relation are used. Applying the present method to the ${\alpha}-{\alpha}$ and ${\alpha}-n$ systems, we obtained good reproduction of the observed phase shifts and cross sections. The decomposition into resonance and continuum terms makes clear that resonance contributions are dominant but continuum terms and their interference are not negligible. To understand the behavior of observed phase shifts and the shape of the cross sections, both resonance and continuum terms are calculated.

• 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.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제43권9호
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• pp.99-104
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 기존의 2차원적 metamaterial 구조의 교차 편파 효과에 의한 차폐 특성의 열화를 개선하기 위하여 LTCC(Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic) 공정을 이용한 3-D 공진기 구조를 제안하였다. 제안된 3-D 공진기 구조는 X축, Y축, Z축 방향을 갖는 두 개의 평판과 하나의 비아로 구성된 2차원적 병렬 공진기들로 구성되어 있다. 제안된 3-D 공진기 구조의 공진 주파수는 5.024GHz, 차단 대역폭은 19MHz를 나타내었다. 교차 편파에서 3-D 공진기 구조의 공진 주파수는 4.825GHz, 차단 대역폭은 19MHz를 나타내었다. 제안된 3-D 공진기 구조는 교차 편파 효과에 따른 차폐 특성의 열화를 개선하였다. 향후 콘크리트 구조물에 흡수재와 함께 적용하므로 ETCS(Electric Toll Collection System)의 신호 간섭 현상을 차단할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 인지과학
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.109-132
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• 2012

최근 체화된 인지 접근에 따르면 행위의 이해는 추상적인 기호 처리가 아니라 그 행위와 관련된 감각-운동 정보의 심적 모사(mental simulation)를 통해 이루어진다고 주장되고 있다. 이 주장을 지지하는 증거로서 제시된 운동공명효과(motor resonance effect)는 관찰되는 행위와 현재 수행하는 행위 사이의 유사성에 의해 행위자의 운동 반응에 일어나는 간섭 혹은 촉진 효과를 말한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 운동공명효과가 복잡한 사회적 행위를 지각하는 상황에서도 일어나는지 그리고 사회적 행위의 해석 관점에 따라 그 효과가 어떻게 달라지는 지를 알아보고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 어떤 행위자가 세 가지 신체 부위(팔, 발, 입)를 사용하여 다른 사람과 다투는 행위 장면을 그림으로 묘사하고, 각 그림을 행위자의 관점에서 기술하거나(예, 간호사가 의사를 때렸다/밟았다/물었다), 피행위자의 관점에서 기술하여(예, 의사가 간호사에게 맞았다/밟혔다/물렸다), 행위 사건 지각의 관점을 조절하였다. 실험 1에서는 실험참가자로 하여금 제시된 그림과 문장이 일치하면 페달을 밟거나 혹은 버튼을 누르는 행동 반응을 하도록 지시함으로써, 발 행위의 운동공명효과를 측정하였고, 실험 2에서는 마이크와 버튼을 이용하여 입 행위에 대한 운동공명효과를 측정하였다. 실험 1의 결과, 페달을 밟는 발 행동 반응이 발 행위 장면을 행위자의 관점에서 능동적으로 해석한 경우 다른 행위 지각 조건에 비해 빨라졌으며, 피행위자 관점에서 수동적으로 해석한 경우에는 오히려 느려졌다. 이와 유사하게, 실험 2에서는 마이크에 '합'이라는 소리를 내는 입 행동 반응이 입 행위 장면을 행위자가 상대방을 무는 행위로 능동적으로 해석한 경우 빨라졌으며, 같은 장면이라도 피행위자 관점에서 기술하였을 때는 오히려 느려졌다. 본 연구의 결과는 일상생활에서 사회적 행위를 지각하는 과정에서도 운동공명효과는 일어날 수 있다는 것과, 그러나 그 효과 또한 행위 사건을 해석하는 관점에 따라 조절될 수 있다는 점을 시사한다.