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Size-homogeneous gold nanoparticle decorated on graphene via MeV electron beam irradiation

  • Kim, Yoo-Seok;Song, Woo-Seok;Jeon, Cheol-Ho;Kim, Sung-Hwan;Park, Chong-Yun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.487-487
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    • 2011
  • Recently graphene has emerged as a fascinating 2D system in condensed-matter physics as well as a new material for the development of nanotechnology. The unusual electronic band structure of graphene allows it to exhibit a strong ambipolar electric field effect with high mobility. These properties lead to the possibility of its application in high-performance transparent conducting films (TCFs). Compared to indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes, which have a typical sheet resistance of ${\sim}60{\Omega}$/sq and ~85 % transmittance in the visible range (400?900 nm), the CVD-grown graphene electrodes have a higher/flatter transmittance in the visible to IR region and are more robust under bending. Nevertheless, the lowest sheet resistance of the currently available CVD graphene electrodes is higher than that of ITO. Here, we report an ingenious strategy, irradiation of MeV electron beam (e-beam) at room temperature under ambient condition, for obtaining size-homogeneous gold nanoparticle decorated on graphene. The nano-particlization promoted by MeV e-beam irradiation was investigated by transmission electron microscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy elemental mapping, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. These results clearly revealed that gold nanoparticle with 10 ~ 15 nm in mean size were decorated along the surface of the graphene after 1.5 MeV-e-beam irradiation. A chemical transformation and charge transfer for the metal gold nanoparticle were systematically explored by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. This approach advances the numerous applications of graphene films as transparent conducting electrodes.

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Improved Electrical Properties of Graphene Transparent Conducting Films Via Gold Doping

  • Kim, Yoo-Seok;Song, Woo-Seok;Kim, Sung-Hwan;Jeon, Cheol-Ho;Lee, Seung-Youb;Park, Chong-Yun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2011.08a
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    • pp.388-388
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    • 2011
  • Graphene, with its unique physical and structural properties, has recently become a proving ground for various physical phenomena, and is a promising candidate for a variety of electronic device and flexible display applications. The physical properties of graphene depend directly on the thickness. These properties lead to the possibility of its application in high-performance transparent conducting films (TCFs). Compared to indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes, which have a typical sheet resistance of ~60 ${\Omega}/sq$ and ~85% transmittance in the visible range, the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthesized graphene electrodes have a higher transmittance in the visible to IR region and are more robust under bending. Nevertheless, the lowest sheet resistance of the currently available CVD graphene electrodes is higher than that of ITO. Here, we report an ingenious strategy, irradiation of MeV electron beam (e-beam) at room temperature under ambient condition,for obtaining size-homogeneous gold nanoparticle decorated on graphene. The nano-particlization promoted by MeV e-beam irradiation was investigated by transmission electron microscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy elemental mapping, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. These results clearly revealed that gold nanoparticle with 10~15 nm in mean size were decorated along the surface of the graphene after 1.0 MeV-e-beam irradiation. The fabrication high-performance TCF with optimized doping condition showed a sheet resistance of ~150 ${\Omega}/sq$ at 94% transmittance. A chemical transformation and charge transfer for the metal gold nanoparticle were systematically explored by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. This approach advances the numerous applications of graphene films as transparent conducting electrodes.

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The CREAM Experiment in the International Space Station

  • Lee, Jik;Jeon, Jina;Lee, Hyun Su;Lee, Hye Young;Lim, Heuijin;Park, Il Hung;Roh, Youn;Kim, Hongjoo;Park, Hwanbae;Lee, Moo Hyun;Seo, Eun-Suk
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.206.1-206.1
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    • 2012
  • The NASA Antarctica balloon experiment CREAM has successfully collected the data of energetic cosmic rays during six flights in past years. It recently observed the unexpected discrete hardening in energy spectra of comic rays. However high-statistics data of energetic cosmic rays are required for the further investigation of the unexpected hardening in comic-ray energy spectra. The International Space Station (ISS) is an ideal platform for the CREAM experiment to investigate the unexpected hardening and explore the fundamental issues like the acceleration mechanism and the origin of energetic cosmic rays because of the high duty cycle of the experiment in the ISS platform. We will present the design of the ISS-CREAM experiment, and the development and fabrication status of the detector components including the 4-layer silicon charge detector which will measure the charge constitution of cosmic rays with unprecedented accuracy.

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Space Weather and Relativistic Electron Enhancement

  • Lee, J.J.;Parks, G.K.;McCarthy, M.P.;Min, K.W.;Lee, E.S.;Kim, H.J.;Park, J.H.;Hwang, J.A.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.52-52
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    • 2006
  • Many spacecraft failures and anomalies have been attributed to energetic electrons in the Earth's magnetosphere. While the dynamics of these electrons have been studied extensively for several decades, the fundamental question of how they are accelerated is not fully resolved. Proposed theories have not been successful in explaining fast high energy increase such as REE (Relativistic electron enhancement). In this presentation, we show observations of energetic electron precipitation measured by the Korean satellite, STSAT-1 which simultaneously detect (100ev - 20 keV) and (170 - 360 keV) energy electrons at the 680 km orbit, when the RES event observed at the geosynchronous orbit on October 13, 2004. STSAT-1 observed intense electron precipitation in both energy ranges occurred in the midnight sector clearly demonstrating that electrons having wide energy band are injected from the plasma sheet. To make the balance between loss and injection, the injected electron flux should be also large. In this situation, the injected electrons can be trapped into the magnetosphere and produce REE, though they have low e-folding energies. We propose this plasma sheet injection might be the primary source of relativistic electron (1 MeV) flux increases.

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Physical Layer Security for Two-Way Relay NOMA Systems with Energy Harvesting

  • Li, Hui;Chen, Yaping;Zou, Borong
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.2094-2114
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    • 2022
  • Due to the wide application of fifth generation communication, wireless sensor networks have become an indispensable part in our daily life. In this paper, we analyze physical layer security for two-way relay with energy harvesting (EH), where power splitter is considered at relay. And two kinds of combined methods, i.e., selection combining (SC) and maximum ratio combining (MRC) schemes, are employed at eavesdropper. What's more, the closed-form expressions for security performance are derived. For comparison purposes, this security behaviors for orthogonal multiple access (OMA) networks are also investigated. To gain deeper insights, the end-to-end throughput and approximate derivations of secrecy outage probability (SOP) under the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime are studied. Practical Monte-Carlo simulative results verify the numerical analysis and indicate that: i) The secure performance of SC scheme is superior to MRC scheme because of being applied on eavesdropper; ii) The secure behaviors can be affected by various parameters like power allocation coefficients, transmission rate, etc; iii) In the low and medium SNR region, the security and channel capacity are higher for cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems in contrast with OMA systems; iv) The systematic throughput can be improved by changing the energy conversion efficiency and power splitting factor. The purpose of this study is to provide theoretical direction and design of secure communication.

Influence of Quantum well Thickness Fluctuation on Optical Properties of InGaN/GaN Multi Quantum well Structure Grown by PA-MBE

  • Woo, Hyeonseok;Kim, Jongmin;Cho, Sangeun;Jo, Yongcheol;Roh, Cheong Hyun;Kim, Hyungsang;Hahn, Cheol-Koo;Im, Hyunsik
    • Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.52-54
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    • 2017
  • An InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well (MQW) structure is grown on a GaN/sapphire template using a plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PA-MBE). The fluctuation of the quantum well thickness formed from roughly-grown InGaN layer results in a disordered photoluminescence (PL) spectrum. The surface morphologies of the InGaN layers with various In compositions are investigated by reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). A blurred InGaN/GaN hetero-interface and the non-uniform QW size is confirmed by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM). Inhomogeneity of the quantum confinement results in a degradation of the quantum efficiency even though the InGaN layer has a uniform In composition.

Optical follow-up observation of three long GRBs with SomangNet facilities

  • Paek, Gregory S.H.;Im, MyungShin;Kim, Joonho;Lim, Gu;Jeong, Mankeun;Kang, Wonseok;Kim, Taewoo;Burkhonov, Otabek;Mirazaqulov, Davron;Ehgamberdiev, Shyhrat A.;Seo, Jinguk;Lee, Chung-Uk;Kim, Seung-Lee;Sung, Hyung-Il
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.49.5-50
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    • 2021
  • We report the optical follow-up observations of three long γ-ray burst events, GRB 201020A, GRB 201103B and GRB 210104A by the network of telescopes in the SomangNet project. We show light curves, color evolution and SED evolution, and fit them to a single power law function to derive decay index and compare their properties with other long GRBs samples. Also, we show a good observational example that 0.4-1m class telescopes in SomangNet have potential to catch dim light from high red shift object (R>22 mag) by deep imaging. In conclusion, we found that three GRBs have optical afterglow properties of long GRB and our results are consistent with the reports of high energy analysis.

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High Resolution Photonic Force Microscope Using Resonance Energy Transfer

  • Heo, Seung-Jin;Kim, Ki-Pom;Cho, Yong-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.08a
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    • pp.288-288
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    • 2010
  • Photonic Force Microscope (PFM) is a scanning force microscope using an optical trap with several piconewton. In PFM, we can have topological information from the bead position trapped in optical trap. Typically the resolutions of lateral and vertical position are 40 nm and 50 nm respectively. To improve the vertical resolution below 10 nm, we use resonance energy transfer which has 5nm resolution in distance. Here we show preliminary results, including performances of scanning bead and fluorescence imaging system.

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Analysis of FUV auroras by high energy electron precipitation

  • Lee, Chi-Na;Lee, Jae-Jin;Min, Kyung-Wook;Parks, G.K.;Fillingim, M.O.;Cho, Kyung-Suk;Park, Young-Deuk;Han, W.;Edelstein, J.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.43.3-43.3
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    • 2009
  • Our previous study showed the intensity of the long LBH (1600 - 1715 ${\AA}$) was enhanced very much compared to that of the short LBH (1400 - 1500 ${\AA}$) when the characteristic energy of the precipitating electrons increased from 1 keV to > 7 keV, in accordance with the theoretical models. In this presentation, we would like to present the results of our study for new modeling results about previous report and even higher energy electrons. We selected the events in which the fluxes both in the low energy (100 eV ~ 20 keV) and in the high energy (170 ~ 360 keV) were enhanced, and examined the auroral spectra for these events observed simultaneously by the imaging spectrograph on the same spacecraft. While the accurate characteristic energy could not be determined because of the gap in the energy range, our result showed the intensity ratio of the long LBH to the short LBH ranged from 1.2 to 2.0 in these events, in contrast to 1.0 or smaller for the events in which the highest enhancement was seen only in the low energy. Our study suggests that intense auroras might be accompanied by high energy electrons above 20 keV.

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High Power Lasers and Their New Applications

  • Izawa, Yasukazu;Miyanaga, Noriaki;Kawanaka, Junji;Yamakawa, Koichi
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.178-185
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    • 2008
  • Recent progress in high power lasers enables us to access a regime of high-energy-density and/or ultra-strong fields that was not accessible before, opening up a fundamentally new physical domain which includes laboratory astrophysics and laser nuclear physics. In this article, new applications of high-energy and ultra-intense laser will be reviewed.