• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.336-340
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• 2015

For rear metallization with Al paste, Al back contacts require good passivation, high reflectance, and a processing temperature window compatible with the front metal. In this paper, the effect of the firing ambient during the metallization process on the formation of Al rear metal was investigated. We chose three different gases as ambient gases during the firing process. Using SEM, we observed the formation of a back surface field in $N_2$, $O_2$, and Air ambients. To determine the effect of the ambient on Voc, the suns-Voc tool was used. In this study, we described the mechanism of burn-out of organic materials in Al paste during the firing process. The oxygen ambient plays an important role in the burn-out process. We calculated the efficiency with obtained the back surface recombination velocities using PC1D simulation. It was found that the presence of oxygen during the firing process influenced the uniform back surface field because the organic materials in the Al paste were efficiently burned out during heating. The optimized temperature with oxygen flow shows an absolute efficiency of 19.1% at PC1D simulation.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.184-188
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• 2007

Monodisperse PMMA/HDDA polymer particles were coated via electroless Ni plating using sodium hypophosphite as a reducing agent in an acidic environment. In this study, the effects of 1) the pretreatment conditions, 2) the plating temperature, 3) the plating pH, and 4) the initial pH, control of plating bath on the variation of plating rate, surface state of plated particles and plating reproducibility were investigated. It was observed that every pretreatment steps, especially conditioning and acceleration step, were very important for obtaining uniform Ni plating and the plating rate was increased with the increase of plating temperature and pH. Moreover, the initial pH control of plating bath was critical for the plating reproducibility.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.153-153
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• 2016

Aluminum alloys have poor corrosion resistance compared to the pure aluminum due to the additive elements. Thus, anodizing technology artificially generating thick oxide films are widely applied nowadays in order to improve corrosion resistance. Anodizing is one of the surface modification techniques, which is commercially applicable to a large surface at a low price. However, most studies up to now have focused on its commercialization with hardly any research on the assessment and improvement of the physical characteristics of the anodized films. Therefore, this study aims to select the optimum temperature of sulfuric electrolyte to perform excellent corrosion resistance in the harsh marine environment through electrochemical experiment in the sea water upon generating porous films by variating the temperatures of sulfuric electrolyte. To fabricate uniform porous film of 5083 aluminum alloy, we conducted electro-polishing under the 25 V at $5^{\circ}C$ condition for three minutes using mixed solution of ethanol (95 %) and perchloric (70 %) acid with volume ratio of 4:1. Afterward, the first step surface modification was performed using sulfuric acid as an electrolyte where the electrolyte concentration was maintained at 10 vol.% by using a jacketed beaker. For anode, 5083 aluminum alloy with thickness of 5 mm and size of $2cm{\times}2cm$ was used, while platinum electrode was used for cathode. The distance between the two was maintained at 3 cm. Afterward, the irregular oxide film that was created in the first step surface modification was removed. For the second step surface modification process (identical to the step 1), etching was performed using mixture of chromic acid (1.8 wt.%) and phosphoric acid (6 wt.%) at $60^{\circ}C$ temperature for 30 minutes. Anodic polarization test was performed at scan rate of 2 mV/s up to +3.0 V vs open circuit potential in natural seawater. Surface morphology was compared using 3D analysis microscope to observe the damage behavior. As a result, the case of surface modification presented a significantly lower corrosion current density than that without modification, indicating excellent corrosion resistance.

• Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.493-500
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• 1999

Squeeze casting was used for fabricating a light metal base composite having high strength and wearresistance. Reactive sintering was used to prepare the preform of Squeeze casting. To utilize Fe-Al intermetallic compounds and SiC particle as a reinforcement, there needs to prepare Fe-Al mixed powder at 50, 60, 70at.%Al, and add SiC powder to the above mixture at 4, 7, 16, 24wt.%. The prepared mixture with SiC was reactive sintered in a tube furnace at $660^{\circ}C$ to get a porous hybrid preform of intermetallic compound and SiC. The preform prepared above was placed in a metal mold, preheated at $660^{\circ}C$ AC4C matrix was injected into the mold with the temperature of the melt at $610^{\circ}C$ After these processes, 66MPa was applied to the mold for 5 minute to finish the whole procedure. The maximum reaction temperature was increased with the increased Al amount, but decreased with the increased SiC amount. The density of the preform was decreased with SiC amount increase in the compacts due to swelling of the preform. An optical microscope was applied to observe the micro structure and the dispersion of the reinforcements. To analyze phases, We utilized XRD, EDS. Hardness test were chosen to get the information of mechanical properties. There were no significant changes in micro structure between the composite and preform. However, it was shown that uniform dispersion of the reinforcers and complete infiltration of the melt into the preform were achieved through the procedure of the squeeze casting. It was observed that the hardness of the composite is decreased with increased SiC amount, resulting from the volumetric expansion of the preform.

• Journal of Adhesion and Interface
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.17-23
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• 2004

In this study, we prepared the polycarbonates with various molecular weights by melt polymerization and investigated the crystallization by solvent induced crystallization. Effects of the types and compositions of solvents, crystallizing temperatures and molecular weights on crystallinity and melt temperatures of polycarbonates were evaluated by DSC, XRD and SEM. In case of low molecular weight polycarbonates and high crystallization temperature, the crystallinity of the polycarbonate was increased. As the increase of the crystallization temperature and the solution concentration, relatively uniform crystalline structures were obtained. Also, by treating with mixed solvents, the control of desired surface areas and crystallinity could be possible.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.290-296
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• 2001

Fin metal particles of uniform shape, narrow size distribution and high purity are increasingly needed for specific uses in high tech industrial applications. Polyol process for the preparation of monodispersed cobalt powders in micron size is described. In this process in inorganic precursor is reduced in liquid polyol under controlled conditions. The reducing agent is the polyol itself and reaction parameters such as the traction temperature, reaction time, addition of protective agent and concentration of the precursor are varied for controling particles size, shape and agglomeration of the metal particles. An optimum synthesis condition was achieved at E.G/DiE/G volume ratio 1:4,Co$(OH)_{2}$polyol molar ratio 0.08~0.32 reaction temperature $210^{\circ}C$, PVP/Co$(OH)_{2}$ molar ratio 0.4.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.3-10
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• 1999

Kinetics of solution photopolymerization of acrylonitrile(AN) with sensitizer, such as $NaSCN,\;KSCN,\;Ba(SCN)_2,\;NH_4SCN,\;ZnCl_2$ and $Na_2SeO_3$, were studied using UV crosslinker at various monomer concentrations($1.8{\sim}7.58mo1/1$), sensitizer concentrations($10{\sim}60%$), reaction temperature($10{\sim}70^{\circ}C$), energy intensities($1,000{\sim}9,900{\mu}J/cm^2$) at isothermal condition under nitrogen atmosphere. Under the irradiation of high pressure mercury lamp(${\lambda}=365nm$). High conversion and uniform molecular weight were obtained compare to thermal polymerization at reaction temperature of $50^{\circ}C$, reaction time of 3hr and 50% NaSCN without any initiator. Their kinetic model was as follows : $R_p=0.0142[M]^{0.82}[I]^{0.49}[S]^{0.52}$ exp(-1.33/RT).

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2014

A bidirectional transient voltage suppression (TVS) diode consisting of specially designed $p^--n^{{+}+}-p^-$ multi-junctions was developed using low temperature (LT) epitaxy and fabrication processes. Its electrostatic discharge (ESD) performance was investigated using I-V, C-V, and various ESD tests including the human body model (HBM), machine model (MM) and IEC 61000-4-2 (IEC) analysis. The symmetrical structure with very sharp and uniform bidirectional multi-junctions yields good symmetrical I-V behavior over a wide range of operating temperature of 300 K-450 K and low capacitance as 6.9 pF at 1 MHz. In addition, a very thin and heavily doped $n^{{+}+}$ layer enabled I-V curves steep rise after breakdown without snapback phenomenon, then resulted in small dynamic resistance as $0.2{\Omega}$, and leakage current completely suppressed down to pA. Manufactured bidirectional TVS diodes were capable of withstanding ${\pm}4.0$ kV of MM and ${\pm}14$ kV of IEC, and exceeding ${\pm}8$ kV of HBM, while maintaining reliable I-V characteristics. Such an excellent ESD performance of low capacitance and dynamic resistance is attributed to the abruptness and very unique profiles designed very precisely in $p^--n^{{+}+}-p^-$ multi-junctions.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.707-713
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• 1998

The influence of plasma carburizing process on the surface hardness of SCM415 low-alloy steel (0.15% C) was investigated under the various process conditions of gas composition. gas pressure, plasma current density. temperature and time. The effective case depth was found to depend on the amount of methan gas containing carbon. thus the deepest case depth and the uniform hardeness were obtained with the 100% methan gas. The case depth increased with the plasma current density. The effective plasma carburizing temperature of SCM415 steel was found to be higher than 85$0^{\circ}C$, and the case depth was proportional to the square root of carburizing time under the same current density. The bending fatigue strength of the plasma carburized specimen is' higher than those of as- received specimen or reheat-quenched specimen.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.37-42
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• 2015

Nowadays, as the environmental pollution becomes severe on the earth, the water resource which can be used practically is dried up because of the natural disaster. And so, this is the time to be necessary to have the method for saving the water resource. This study investigates the distributions of velocity and temperature by the flow analysis inside the faucet models for bathroom. Model 3 has the most uniform distribution of temperature after mixing among all models. As model 3 has the smallest velocity distribution and the biggest space to mix by comparing the other models, it is seen to have the most influence on the discharged velocity of water and save the water. As the space of various configuration inside faucet model for bathroom is made by using the result of this study, it is thought to utilize at the development of this model in which more mixing becomes and the water can be saved. And it is possible to be grafted onto the convergence technique at design and show the esthetic sense.