• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.28-36
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• 2001

Objective: To provide a systematic overview of the effects of various parameters on contrast enhancement within the same population, an animal experiment as well as a computer-aided simulation study was performed. Materials and Methods: In an animal experiment, single-level dynamic CT through the liver was performed at 5-second intervals just after the injection of contrast medium for 3 minutes. Combinations of three different amounts (1, 2, 3 mL/kg), concentrations (150, 200, 300 mgI/mL), and injection rates (0.5, 1, 2 mL/sec) were used. The CT number of the aorta (A), portal vein (P) and liver (L) was measured in each image, and time-attenuation curves for A, P and L were thus obtained. The degree of maximum enhancement (Imax) and time to reach peak enhancement (Tmax) of A, P and L were determined, and times to equilibrium (Teq) were analyzed. In the computed-aided simulation model, a program based on the amount, flow, and diffusion coefficient of body fluid in various compartments of the human body was designed. The input variables were the concentrations, volumes and injection rates of the contrast media used. The program generated the time-attenuation curves of A, P and L, as well as liver-to-hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) contrast curves. On each curve, we calculated and plotted the optimal temporal window (time period above the lower threshold, which in this experiment was 10 Hounsfield units), the total area under the curve above the lower threshold, and the area within the optimal range. Results: A. Animal Experiment: At a given concentration and injection rate, an increased volume of contrast medium led to increases in Imax A, P and L. In addition, Tmax A, P, L and Teq were prolonged in parallel with increases in injection time The time-attenuation curve shifted upward and to the right. For a given volume and injection rate, an increased concentration of contrast medium increased the degree of aortic, portal and hepatic enhancement, though Tmax A, P and L remained the same. The time-attenuation curve shifted upward. For a given volume and concentration of contrast medium, changes in the injection rate had a prominent effect on aortic enhancement, and that of the portal vein and hepatic parenchyma also showed some increase, though the effect was less prominent. A increased in the rate of contrast injection led to shifting of the time enhancement curve to the left and upward. B. Computer Simulation: At a faster injection rate, there was minimal change in the degree of hepatic attenuation, though the duration of the optimal temporal window decreased. The area between 10 and 30 HU was greatest when contrast media was delivered at a rate of 2 3 mL/sec. Although the total area under the curve increased in proportion to the injection rate, most of this increase was above the upper threshould and thus the temporal window was narrow and the optimal area decreased. Conclusion: Increases in volume, concentration and injection rate all resulted in improved arterial enhancement. If cost was disregarded, increasing the injection volume was the most reliable way of obtaining good quality enhancement. The optimal way of delivering a given amount of contrast medium can be calculated using a computer-based mathematical model.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.179-188
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• 2007

목 적: 본 연구에서는 삼핵산 반복서열 확장에 의해 발병하는 헌팅톤병, 척수소뇌성 운동실조증과 X-염색체 취약 증후군 등에 대한 착상전 유전진단을 시행하기 위한 전임상 검사에서 진단 방법을 최적화하는 과정을 통해 얻은 결과들에 대해 기술하고자 한다. 연구방법: 단일 림프구를 이용한 임상전 검사에서는 서로 다른 allele를 갖고 있는 환자의 단일 세포를 사용하였으며, 헌팅톤병과 척수소뇌성 운동실조증에서는 fluorescent semi-nested PCR 시행 후 fragment analysis를 수행하였다. X-염색체 취약 증후군의 경우 multiple displacement amplification (MDA) 방법을 이용한 whole genome amplification에서 얻어진 MDA 산물로 fluorescent PCR을 시도하였다. 결 과: 헌팅톤병의 경우 단일 림프구 시료 모두에서 CAG repeats 증폭에 성공하여 100.0%의 증폭성공률과 14.0% allele drop-out (ADO) rate를, 척수소뇌성 운동실조증의 경우 94.7%의 증폭성공률과 5.6%의 ADO rate을 나타내었다. X-염색체 취약 증후군의 경우 fluorescent semi-nested PCR 방법만으로는 단일 림프구 시료에서 CGG repeats이 증폭되지 않았지만, MDA 산물을 이용한 fluorescent PCR 결과 84.2%의 증폭성공률과 31.3%의 ADO rate을 얻을 수 있었다. 결 론: 본 연구를 통해 헌팅톤병과 척수소뇌성 운동실조증의 착상전 유전진단에는 fluorescent semi-nested PCR 방법의 적용이 가능함을 확인하였으며, X-염색체 취약 증후군의 경우에는 MDA를 이용한 fluorescent PCR 방법을 사용해야 함을 알 수 있었다. 유전자의 변이에 대한 분석이 쉽지 않은 단일 유전자 이상에 대한 착상전 유전진단의 경우 다양한 유전자 분석 방법을 이용한 단일 세포에서의 진단 방법의 최적화 연구가 필수적으로 선행되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.844-861
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• 2008

The papers published in the Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering during the year of 2007 have been reviewed. Focus has been put on current status of research in the aspect of heating, cooling, ventilation, sanitation and building environments. The conclusions are as follows. (1) The research trends of fluid engineering have been surveyed as groups of general fluid flow, fluid machinery and piping, etc. New research topics include micro nano fluid, micropump and fuel cell. Traditional CFD was still popular and widely used in research and development. Studies about fans and pumps were performed in the field of fluid machinery. Characteristics of flow and fin shape optimization are studied in the field of piping system. (2) The research works on heat transfer have been reviewed in the field of heat transfer characteristics, heat exchangers, and desiccant cooling systems. The research on heat transfer characteristics includes thermal transport in pulse tubes, high temperature superconductors, ground heat exchangers, fuel cell stacks and ice slurry systems. For the heat 'exchangers, the research on pin-tube heat exchanger, plate heat exchanger, condensers and gas coolers has been cordially implemented. The research works on heat transfer augmenting tubes have been also reported. For the desiccant cooling systems, the studies on the design and operating conditions for desiccant rotors as well as performance index are noticeable. (3) In the field of refrigeration, many papers were presented on the air conditioning system using CO2 as a refrigerant. The issues on the two-stage compression, the oil selection, and the appropriate oil charge were treated. The subjects of alternative refrigerants were also studied steadily. Hydrocarbons, DME and their mixtures were considered and various heat transfer correlations were proposed. (4) Research papers have been reviewed in the field of building facilities by grouping into the researches on heat and cold sources, air conditioning and air cleaning, ventilation and fire research including tunnel ventilation, flow control of piping system, and sound research with drain system. Main focuses have been addressed to the promotion of efficient or effective use of energy, which helps to save energy and results in reduced environmental pollution and operating cost. (5) Studies were mostly focused on analyzing the indoor environment in various spaces like cars, old tombs, machine rooms, and etc. in an architectural environmental field. Moreover, subjects of various fields such as the evaluation of noise, thermal environment, indoor air quality and development of energy analysis program were researched by various methods of survey, simulation, and field experiment.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.292-292
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• 2016

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with a two-dimensional layered structure have been considered highly promising materials for next-generation flexible, wearable, stretchable and transparent devices due to their unique physical, electrical and optical properties. Recent studies on TMD devices have focused on developing a suitable doping technique because precise control of the threshold voltage ($V_{TH}$) and the number of tightly-bound trions are required to achieve high performance electronic and optoelectronic devices, respectively. In particular, it is critical to develop an ultra-low level doping technique for the proper design and optimization of TMD-based devices because high level doping (about $10^{12}cm^{-2}$) causes TMD to act as a near-metallic layer. However, it is difficult to apply an ion implantation technique to TMD materials due to crystal damage that occurs during the implantation process. Although safe doping techniques have recently been developed, most of the previous TMD doping techniques presented very high doping levels of ${\sim}10^{12}cm^{-2}$. Recently, low-level n- and p-doping of TMD materials was achieved using cesium carbonate ($Cs_2CO_3$), octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS), and M-DNA, but further studies are needed to reduce the doping level down to an intrinsic level. Here, we propose a novel DNA-based doping method on $MoS_2$ and $WSe_2$ films, which enables ultra-low n- and p-doping control and allows for proper adjustments in device performance. This is achieved by selecting and/or combining different types of divalent metal and trivalent lanthanide (Ln) ions on DNA nanostructures. The available n-doping range (${\Delta}n$) on the $MoS_2$ by Ln-DNA (DNA functionalized by trivalent Ln ions) is between $6{\times}10^9cm^{-2}$ and $2.6{\times}10^{10}cm^{-2}$, which is even lower than that provided by pristine DNA (${\sim}6.4{\times}10^{10}cm^{-2}$). The p-doping change (${\Delta}p$) on $WSe_2$ by Ln-DNA is adjusted between $-1.0{\times}10^{10}cm^{-2}$ and $-2.4{\times}10^{10}cm^{-2}$. In the case of Co-DNA (DNA functionalized by both divalent metal and trivalent Ln ions) doping where $Eu^{3+}$ or $Gd^{3+}$ ions were incorporated, a light p-doping phenomenon is observed on $MoS_2$ and $WSe_2$ (respectively, negative ${\Delta}n$ below $-9{\times}10^9cm^{-2}$ and positive ${\Delta}p$ above $1.4{\times}10^{10}cm^{-2}$) because the added $Cu^{2+}$ ions probably reduce the strength of negative charges in Ln-DNA. However, a light n-doping phenomenon (positive ${\Delta}n$ above $10^{10}cm^{-2}$ and negative ${\Delta}p$ below $-1.1{\times}10^{10}cm^{-2}$) occurs in the TMD devices doped by Co-DNA with $Tb^{3+}$ or $Er^{3+}$ ions. A significant (factor of ~5) increase in field-effect mobility is also observed on the $MoS_2$ and $WSe_2$ devices, which are, respectively, doped by $Tb^{3+}$-based Co-DNA (n-doping) and $Gd^{3+}$-based Co-DNA (p-doping), due to the reduction of effective electron and hole barrier heights after the doping. In terms of optoelectronic device performance (photoresponsivity and detectivity), the $Tb^{3+}$ or $Er^{3+}$-Co-DNA (n-doping) and the $Eu^{3+}$ or $Gd^{3+}$-Co-DNA (p-doping) improve the $MoS_2$ and $WSe_2$ photodetectors, respectively.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.89-106
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• 2022

최근 영상 데이터의 급증으로 이를 효과적으로 처리하기 위해 객체 탐지 및 추적, 행동 인식, 표정 인식, 재식별(Re-ID)과 같은 다양한 컴퓨터비전 기술에 대한 수요도 급증했다. 그러나 객체 탐지 및 추적 기술은 객체의 영상 촬영 장소 이탈과 재등장, 오클루전(Occlusion) 등과 같이 성능을 저하시키는 많은 어려움을 안고 있다. 이에 따라 객체 탐지 및 추적 모델을 근간으로 하는 행동 및 표정 인식 모델 또한 객체별 데이터 추출에 난항을 겪는다. 또한 다양한 모델을 활용한 딥러닝 아키텍처는 병목과 최적화 부족으로 성능 저하를 겪는다. 본 연구에서는 YOLOv5기반 DeepSORT 객체추적 모델, SlowFast 기반 행동 인식 모델, Torchreid 기반 재식별 모델, 그리고 AWS Rekognition의 표정 인식 모델을 활용한 영상 분석 시스템에 단일 연결 계층적 군집화(Single-linkage Hierarchical Clustering)를 활용한 재식별(Re-ID) 기법과 GPU의 메모리 스루풋(Throughput)을 극대화하는 처리 기법을 적용한 행동 및 표정 검출용 영상 분석 시스템을 제안한다. 본 연구에서 제안한 시스템은 간단한 메트릭을 사용하는 재식별 모델의 성능보다 높은 정확도와 실시간에 가까운 처리 성능을 가지며, 객체의 영상 촬영 장소 이탈과 재등장, 오클루전 등에 의한 추적 실패를 방지하고 영상 내 객체별 행동 및 표정 인식 결과를 동일 객체에 지속적으로 연동하여 영상을 효율적으로 분석할 수 있다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.233-253
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• 2014

Can the stock market really be predicted? Stock market prediction has attracted much attention from many fields including business, economics, statistics, and mathematics. Early research on stock market prediction was based on random walk theory (RWT) and the efficient market hypothesis (EMH). According to the EMH, stock market are largely driven by new information rather than present and past prices. Since it is unpredictable, stock market will follow a random walk. Even though these theories, Schumaker [2010] asserted that people keep trying to predict the stock market by using artificial intelligence, statistical estimates, and mathematical models. Mathematical approaches include Percolation Methods, Log-Periodic Oscillations and Wavelet Transforms to model future prices. Examples of artificial intelligence approaches that deals with optimization and machine learning are Genetic Algorithms, Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Neural Networks. Statistical approaches typically predicts the future by using past stock market data. Recently, financial engineers have started to predict the stock prices movement pattern by using the SNS data. SNS is the place where peoples opinions and ideas are freely flow and affect others' beliefs on certain things. Through word-of-mouth in SNS, people share product usage experiences, subjective feelings, and commonly accompanying sentiment or mood with others. An increasing number of empirical analyses of sentiment and mood are based on textual collections of public user generated data on the web. The Opinion mining is one domain of the data mining fields extracting public opinions exposed in SNS by utilizing data mining. There have been many studies on the issues of opinion mining from Web sources such as product reviews, forum posts and blogs. In relation to this literatures, we are trying to understand the effects of SNS exposures of firms on stock prices in Korea. Similarly to Bollen et al. [2011], we empirically analyze the impact of SNS exposures on stock return rates. We use Social Metrics by Daum Soft, an SNS big data analysis company in Korea. Social Metrics provides trends and public opinions in Twitter and blogs by using natural language process and analysis tools. It collects the sentences circulated in the Twitter in real time, and breaks down these sentences into the word units and then extracts keywords. In this study, we classify firms' exposures in SNS into two groups: positive and negative. To test the correlation and causation relationship between SNS exposures and stock price returns, we first collect 252 firms' stock prices and KRX100 index in the Korea Stock Exchange (KRX) from May 25, 2012 to September 1, 2012. We also gather the public attitudes (positive, negative) about these firms from Social Metrics over the same period of time. We conduct regression analysis between stock prices and the number of SNS exposures. Having checked the correlation between the two variables, we perform Granger causality test to see the causation direction between the two variables. The research result is that the number of total SNS exposures is positively related with stock market returns. The number of positive mentions of has also positive relationship with stock market returns. Contrarily, the number of negative mentions has negative relationship with stock market returns, but this relationship is statistically not significant. This means that the impact of positive mentions is statistically bigger than the impact of negative mentions. We also investigate whether the impacts are moderated by industry type and firm's size. We find that the SNS exposures impacts are bigger for IT firms than for non-IT firms, and bigger for small sized firms than for large sized firms. The results of Granger causality test shows change of stock price return is caused by SNS exposures, while the causation of the other way round is not significant. Therefore the correlation relationship between SNS exposures and stock prices has uni-direction causality. The more a firm is exposed in SNS, the more is the stock price likely to increase, while stock price changes may not cause more SNS mentions.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제39권5_3호
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• pp.1043-1060
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• 2023

최근 기후변화의 가속화로 바다에 의한 탄소의 흡수 작용을 칭하는 '블루 카본(blue carbon)'에 대한 관심이 많아지고 있지만, 탄소 순환의 핵심이 되는 해양 생태계에 대한 우리의 이해는 아직 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구는 탄소 순환을 고려한 글로벌 해양 생태 권역(marine eco-province)을 k-means clustering 기법을 활용하여 분류·분석하였다. 지난 20년 간(2001-2020) 위성을 활용하여 생산된 Carbon-based Productivity Model (CbPM) 순 일차 생산량(Net primary production, NPP), particulate inorganic and organic carbon (PIC and POC), 위성 관측과 재분석모델을 결합하여 생산한 해수면 염분(sea surface salinity, SSS) 및 온도(sea surface temperature, SST) 총 다섯가지 자료를 활용하였다. 최적화 과정을 거쳐 총 9개의 생태권역을 도출하였으며, 각 권역의 공간분포와 특성을 분석하였다. 이 중 5개의 권역은 주로 대양의 특성을 반영하고, 4개의 권역은 연안 및 고위도 해역의 특성을 반영하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 기존에 알려진 해양 생태 권역과의 정성적 비교를 통하여 탄소순환을 고려한 해양 생태권역의 특징을 상세히 분석하였다. 마지막으로 과거 5년 단위(2001-2005, 2006-2010, 2011-2015, 2016-2020)로 생태 권역의 변화를 분석하였으며, 연안생태계의 빠른 변화와 특히 담수유입으로 인해 생산량이 높고 생태적으로 중요한 권역의 감소를 확인하였다. 이러한 연구 결과는 탄소 순환 및 기후변화를 고려한 해양 생태 권역 분류 및 연안 관리에 대한 중요한 참고자료로 활용 될 수 있으며, 기후 변화에 취약한 지역에 대한 체계적인 관리 지침 개발에 활용될 수 있다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.550-562
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• 2008

배경: 조직공학분야에서 이종조직의 세포성분에 대한 면역반응을 없애기 위한 기본적인 과정으로 조직의 탈세포화에 대한 연구가 있어왔다. 본 연구는 기존에 탈세포화에 효과적이었다고 보고되었던 방법들을 변형 혹은 재현해 보고, 이를 통해 치적의 탈세포화를 얻을 수 있는 조건을 찾고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 돼지의 대동맥 및 폐동맥판막, 대동맥 및 폐동맥벽, 심낭을 탈세포화 세정제(detergents)에 대한 농도 및 배양시간, 온도조건, 용질에 대한 삼투압 등을 달리하고, 여러 탈세포화용액 및 그 조합을 통해 단일단계 및 여러 단계의 방법으로 배양하여 탈세포화를 시행하였다. 이렇게 탈세포화 실험을 마친 조직은 hematoxylin-eosin (H&E) 염색을 통해 탈세포화의 정도와 세포 외 기질의 보존 정도를 평가하였고, 일부탈세포화된 조직에서는 이종항원면역제거 정도를 파악하는 alpha-Gal 염색과 DAPI 염색을 동시 시행하여 관찰하였다. 결과: Polyethylene glycol이나 peracetic acid를 이용한 방법에서는 탈세포화가 되지 않았다. 단일단계방법으로는 sodium deoxycholate (DOA), sodium dodesyl sulfate (SDS), Triton X-100, SDS와 Triton X-100을 섞은 용액에서, 다단계방법으로는 저장성 완충용액 ${\rightarrow}$ X-100 ${\rightarrow}$ SDS, DOA ${\rightarrow}$ 저장성 완충용액 ${\rightarrow}$ SDS, 저장성 완충용액 ${\rightarrow}$ SDS에서 탈세포화가 이루어 졌다. DOA는 다른 탈세포화 방법에 비해 세포 외 기질의 파괴가 심하였고, 특히 실험온도가 높아질 수록 세포 외 기질의 파괴가 더욱 현저함을 알 수 있었다. 사용되는 화학물질의 종류, 양, 처리시간 및 세포 외 기질의 파괴 정도를 고려하여 지속적으로 재현 가능한 탈세포화에 비교적 적합한 조합 및 조건은 단일단계방법으로 $4^{\circ}C$에서 SDS와 Triton X-100를 섞은 저장성용액에서 24시간 배양하는 방법과, 다단계방법으로 저장성 완충용액과 SDS를 연속적으로 사용하는 방법으로, $4^{\circ}C$에서 $6{\sim}8$시간 이상 저장성 완충용액에 처리한 후, 0.25% SDS가 섞인 저장성 완충용액에 16시간 배양 후 등장성 완충용액에 처리하는 방법이었다. 결론: $4^{\circ}C$에서 SDS 과 Triton X-100을 섞은 저장성 완충용액에서 24시간 배양하는 단일단계방법이나, 저장성완충용과 SDS를 연속적으로 사용하는 다단계 방법을 통해 세포 외 조직을 비교적 잘 보존하면서 적은 수의 탈세포화 용액을 사용하여 효과적인 탈세포화를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.81-101
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• 2011

In today's rapidly changing and increasingly competitive business environment, new product development in tune with market trends in a timely manner has been a matter of the utmost concern for all enterprises. Indeed, developing a sustainable new business has been a top priority for not only business enterprises, but also for the government policy makers accountable for the health of Its national economy as well as for decision makers in what type of organizations. Further, for a soft landing of new businesses, building a government-initiated industry base has been claimed to be necessary as a way to effectively boost corporate activities. However, the existing methodology in new service and new product development is not suitable for nurturing industry, because it is mainly focused on the research and development of corporate business activities instead of new product development. The approach for developing new business is based on 'innovation' and 'convergence.' Yet, the convergence among technologies, supplies, businesses and industries is believed to be more effective than innovation alone as a way to gain momentum. Therefore, it has become more important than ever to study a new methodology based on convergence in industrial quality new product development (NPD) and new service development (NDS). In this research, therefore, we reviewed any restrictions in the existing new product and new service development methodology and the existing business model development methodology. In doing so, we conducted industry standard collaboration analysis on a new service model development methodology in the private sector and the public sector. This approach is fundamentally different from the existing one in that ours focuses on new business development under private management. The suggested framework can be categorized into industry level and service level. First, in the industry level, we define new business opportunities In occurrence of convergence between businesses. For this, we analyze the existing industry at the industry level to identify the opportunities in a market and its business attractiveness, based on which the convergence industry is formulated. Also, through the analysis of environment and market opportunity at the industry level. we can trace how different industries are lined to one another so as to extend the result of the study to develop better insights into industry expansion and new industry emergence. After then, in the service level, we elicit the service for the defined new business, which is composed of private service and supporting service for nurturing industry. Private service includes 3steps: plan-design-do; supporting service for nurturing industry has 4 steps: selection-make environment- business preparation-do and see. The existing methodology focuses on mainly securing business competitiveness, building a business model for success, and offering new services based on the core competence of companies. This suggested methodology, on other hand, suggests the necessity of service development, when new business opportunities arise, in relation to the opportunity analysis of supporting service based on the clear understanding of new business supporting infrastructure optimization. Meanwhile, we have performed case studies on the printing and publishing field with the restrict procedure and development system to assure the feasibility and practical application. Even though the printing and publishing industry is considered a typical knowledge convergence industry, it is also known as a low-demand and low-value industry in Korea. For this reason, we apply the new methodology and suggest the direction and the possibility of how the printing and publishing industry can be transformed as a core dynamic force for new growth. Then, we suggest the base composition service for industry promotion(public) and business opportunities for private's profitability(private).

• 한국광학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.266-271
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 높은 소멸비뿐만 아니라 낮은 파워 소모를 가지는 방향성 결합기 구조의 열광학 스위치를 설계하였다. 설계된 스위치는 전극의 열발생 유무에 따라 폴리머의 굴절률이 변하는 열광학 효과를 이용하여 동작한다. 전극에 파워가 인가되지 않으면(OFF), 입사된 빛은 반대쪽 도파로로 대부분 전이된다. 전극에 일정수준 이상으로 파워가 인가되면(ON), 입력 도파로로 입사된 빛은 반대쪽 도파로의 굴절률이 낮아져 입력 도파로로 진행한다. 방향성 결합기 스위치는 소멸비 일반화 곡선과 입력 도파로의 수평이동 방법을 이용하여 설계되었다. 결합길이는 1,610 ${\mu}m$, on과 off 상태의 소멸비는 각각 -28, -30 dB로 설계되었다. 또한, 본 논문에서 전극 구조는 열분석을 통해 최적화되었다. 전극의 폭(w)이 증가하고 전극과 도파로의 중심간격(d)이 감소할수록 도파로로 전달되는 열은 증가하였다. 전극에서 발생된 열은 반대쪽 도파로에도 영향을 주기 때문에 두 도파로간의 온도차이는 주어진 w와 d에 따라 변한다. 이때, 최대의 온도차이를 보이는 특정한 조건이 존재하였다. 최대 온도차이는 전극의 폭이 넓을수록, 전극의 온도가 높을수록 증가한다. 특히, 스위칭에 필요한 온도차이를 최대 온도차이 조건으로 설계하면 전극의 온도를 낮출 수 있다. 최대 온도차이 조건은 열광학 스위치의 파워소모를 감소시키는 방안이 될 것으로 기대된다.