• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.720-726
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• 2022

The behavior changes of the lipid bilayer, induced by the hydroxybutyric-acid incorporation, were investigated with respect to each phase of the layer using fluorescence intensity change. Spherical phospholipid bilayers, called vesicles, were prepared using an emulsion technique. Only in the aqueous inside of the vesicles was encapsulated 8-Aminonaphthalene-1,3,6-trisulfonic-acid-disodium-salt(ANTS). p-Xylene-bis-N-pyridinium-bromide(DPX) was included as a quencher only outside of the vesicles. The fluorescence scale was calibrated with the ANTS-encapsulated vesicles in DPX-dispersed-buffer taken as 100% and the mixture of ANTS and DPX in the buffer as 0%. Hydroxybutyric-acid addition into the vesicle solution led the change in the bilayer. The change was found to be related to the phase of each layer according to the ratio of hydroxybutyric-acid to lipid. These results seem to depend on the stability of the vesicles, due to the osmotic and volumetric effects on the arrangement in both head-group and tail-group.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.621-627
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• 1998

The formation of Co-silicide between Co/Zr bilayer on the amorphous and crystalline Si substrates has been investigated. The films of Zr(50$\AA$) and Co(l50$\AA$) were deposited with e-beam evaporation system and were heattreated with the rapid thermal annealing system at the temperatures between 50$0^{\circ}C$ and 80$0^{\circ}C$ with 10$0^{\circ}C$ increments for 30 seconds. The phase identification of Co-silicide was carried out by XRD and the chemical analysis was examined by AES and RBS. The interface morphologies of Co/Zr bilayer films were investigated by cross sectional TEM and HRTEM. $CoSi_2$ was formed epitaxially on the crystalline Si substrate above $700^{\circ}C$ while polycrystalline $CoSi_2$ was grown on the amorphous Si substrate. The formation temperature of Co-silicide on the amorphous Si substrate was about 100 C lower than that on the crystalline Si. The COzSi phase was not identified on the both Si substrates. The formation temperature of first phase of Co-silicide on ColZr bilayer was higher than that on Co mono layer. CoSizlayer formed on the amorphous Si substrate exhibits better uniformity compared to the CoSiz formed on the crystalline substrate. The sheet resistance of CoSiz layer on crystalline Si was lower than that on the amorphous Si at high temperatures.tures.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.265-273
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• 1997

The MR ratios and the exchange biasing field and interlayer coupling field were investigated in $Ni_{91}Fe_{19}/Co_{90}Fe_{10}/Cu/Co_{90}Fe_{10}/NiO$ spin-valve sandwiches grown on antiferromagnetic NiO films as a function of the NiO thickness, the thickness of Cu and pinning layer $Co_{90}Fe_{10}$. The spin-valve sandwiches were deposited on the Corning glass 7059 by means of the 3-gun dc and 1-gun rf magnetron sputtering at a 5 mtorrpartial Ar pressure and room temperature. The deposition field was 50 Oe. The MR curve was measured by the four-terminal method with applied magnetic soft bilayer [NiFe/CoFe] (90$\AA$) decreased dramatically to less than 10 Oe when the NiFe/CoFe bilayer used an NiFe bilayer thicker that 20$\AA$. So NiFe layer improved the softmagnetic properties in the NiFe/CoFe bilayer. The GMR ratio and the magnetic field sensitivity of the spin-valve film $Ni_{91}Fe_{19}(40{\AA})/Co_{90}Fe_{10}(50{\AA}) /Cu(30{\AA})/Co_{90}Fe_{10}(35{\AA})/NiO(800{\AA})$ was 6.3% and about 0.5 (%/Oe), respectively. The MR ratio had 5.3% below an annealing temperature of 20$0^{\circ}C$ which slowly decreased to 3% above 30$0^{\circ}C$. The large blocking temperature of the spin-valve film was taken (as being) due to the good stability of the NiO films. Thus, the spin-valve films with a free NiFe/CoFe layer clearly had a high large GMR output and showed a effective magnetic field sensitivity for a suitable spin-valve head material.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.15-20
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• 1996

Co/Pd와 Co/Pd 다층박막으로 구성된 이중막 시스템에서 direct overwriting을 구현하는데 필수적인 교환결합 (exchange coupling)에 대하여 연구하였다. Co/Pd 및 Co/Pd 다층박막을 수직자성을 가지도록 하기 위하여 Co층의 두께를 4- .angs. 이하로 하여 전자빔 증착법으로 제작한 후 x-ray 회절 실험으로 구조 분석을 하였고, Kerr spectrometer, VSM을 사용하여 자기 및 자기광학적 성질을 조사하였다. 기억막과 기준막으로 구성된 이중막에서는 exchange coupling이 커서 자화반전이 두 박막에서 동시에 일어나며, 두 박막사이에 적당한 두께의 비자성 사이막(non-magnetic spacer)이 존재하는 경우에는 두 박막사이의 교환결합의 크기가 줄어들어서 두 박막의 자화반전이 분리되어 계단식 자화곡선이 생겼다. 또 비자성 사이막이 두꺼우면 두 박막사이의 교환결합이 사라짐이 관찰 되었다. 두 박막사이의 교환결합은 자구 기록 실험을 통해서도 그 존재를 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.94-97
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• 2002

The dependence on nickel oxide thickness and a ferromagnetic layer thickness in unidirectional and isotropic exchange-coupled NiO/NiFe(Fe) bilayer films was investigated by magnetic force microscopy to better understand the relation between magnetic domain structure and exchange biasing at microscopic length scales. As the NiO thickness increased, the domain structure of unidirectional biased films formed smaller and more complex in-plane domains. By contrast, for the isotropically coupled films, large domains generally formed with increasing NiO thickness including a cross type domain with out-of plane magnetization orientation. The density of the cross domain is proportional to exchange biasing field, and the fact that the domain mainly originated from the strongest exchange coupled region was confirmed by imaging in an applied external field during a magnetization cycle.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.1187-1191
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• 2010

$^1H-^{15}N$ heteronuclear dipolar coupling solid-state NMR experiments on lipid bilayer or bicelle samples are very useful for the structural studies of membrane proteins. However, to study these biological samples using solid-state NMR, a specific probe with high efficiency and high capability is required. In this paper, we describe the optimized design, construction, and efficiency of a 400 MHz wide-bore $^1H-^{15}N$ solid-state NMR probe with 5-mm solenoidal rf coil for high power, multi-pulse sequence experiments, such as 2D PISEMA or 2D SAMMY.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.426-432
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• 2012

The activity of an antimicrobial peptide, protegrin-1 (PG-1), on lipid membranes was investigated using solidstate NMR and a new sampling method that employed mechanically aligned bilayers between thin glass plates. At 95% hydration and full hydration, the peptide respectively disrupted 25% and 86% of the aligned 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphotidylcholine (POPC) bilayers at a P/L (peptide-to-lipid) ratio of 1/20 under the new experimental conditions. The kinetics of the POPC bilayers disruption appeared to be diffusioncontrolled. The presence of cholesterol at 95% hydration and full hydration reduced the peptide disruption of the aligned POPC bilayers to less than 10% and 35%, respectively. A comparison of the equilibrium states of heterogeneously and homogeneously mixed peptides and lipids demonstrated the importance of peptide binding to the biomembrane for whole membrane disruption.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.08a
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• pp.68-68
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• 2012

근래 탄소 단원자 두께의 2차원 결정재료인 그래핀은 연구자들에게 연구대상물질로 가장 각광 받고 있지만 그 합성법 및 이에 따른 분석법은 매우 제한되어 있다. 특히 분석의 핵심인 결정구조 및 원자구조 등을 탐구하기 위해서는 투과전자현미경(TEM)의 이용이 필수적이다. 최근 수차보정 기법을 이용한 투과전자현미경의 비약적인 발전으로 인해 탄소와 같이 가벼운 원소의 단원자까지 이미징해 낼 수 있는 수준에 이르고 있지만 정확한 그래핀 분석을 위해서는 전자현미경의 기본적인 이해와 분석사례 중심으로 깊이 있게 분석법을 살펴보는 것이 유용하다. 본 Tutorial에서는 전자현미경의 기본적인 이론과 최첨단 투과전자현미경의 소개, 그리고 이 투과전자현미경을 이용한 그래핀의 분석 방법과 그 사례들, 제한점등에 대해 알아본다. 그래핀의 층수분석을 위한 전자회절법, 그래핀의 결정입계 분석을 위한 전자회절, 암영상법 및 원자분해능 이미징, STEM영상 기법, 그래핀을 나노재료 분석에 지지막으로 이용하는 방법, bilayer 그래핀 등에 대해 살펴본다. 그리고 저전압에서 작동하는 저손상 단원자 분해능의 성능과 미래의 응용 가능성, 발전방향등을 전망해 본다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.386-388
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• 2006

Membrane proteins in highly oriented lipid bilayer samples are useful for membrane protein structure determination. We used in the past planar lipid bilayers which were aligned and supported on the glass slide. These samples were mechanically aligned in a magnetic field. However, these stacks of glass slides with planar lipid bilayers are not well suited for use with a commercial solid-state NMR probe with a round coil. Therefore, a homebuilt solid-state NMR probe was built and used with a stack of thin glass plates wherein the RF coil was wrapped directly around the flat square sample. Recently, we began to use magnetically aligned bicelles that are suitable for the structure determination of membrane proteins by solid-state NMR spectroscopy without any effort to build a flat square coil probe. These bicelle samples are well suited for use with a commercial solidstate NMR probe with a round coil, are very easy to prepare and are very stable, so that they can be kept for more than a year. In this paper, we present the solid-state NMR spectra of optimized and magnetically oriented bicelle samples of membrane proteins.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.467-472
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• 2012

In this paper, we present a finite element method (FEM) study on the space charge effects in organic light emitting diodes. The physical model covers all the key physical processes in OLEDs, namely charge injection, transport and recombination, exciton diffusion, transfer and decay as well as light coupling, and thin-film-optics. The exciton model includes generation, diffusion, and energy transfer as well as annihilation. We assumed that the light emission originates from oscillation which thus is embodied as exciton in a stack of multilayer. We discuss the accumulation of charges at internal interfaces and their signature in the transient response as well as the electric field distribution. We also report our investigation on the influence of the insertion of the emission layer (EML) in the bilayer structure.