• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.56 no.4
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• pp.331-339
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• 2019

While high-temperature ceramic composites consisting of carbides, borides, and nitrides, the so-called ultra-high-temperature ceramics (UHTCs), have been commonly produced through solid-state sintering, melt-solidification is an alternative method for their manufacture. As many UHTCs are binary or ternary eutectic systems, they can be melted and solidified at a relatively low temperature via a eutectic reaction. The microstructure of the eutectic composites is typically rod-like or lamellar, as determined by the volume fraction of the second phase. Directional solidification can help fabricate more sophisticated UHTCs with highly aligned textures. This review describes the fabrication of UHTCs through the eutectic reaction and explains their mechanical properties. The use of melt-solidification has been limited to small specimens; however, the recently developed laser technology can melt large-sized UHTCs, suggesting their potential for practical applications. An example of laser melt-solidification of a eutectic ceramic composite is demonstrated.

• Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.399-407
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• 1990

The effect of thermal cycling and isothermal exposure on the high temperature microstructural stability of unidirectionally solidified $Al-CuAl_2$ eutectic composite has been studied. A coarsening procedures of lamellar eutectic structures were initiated at growth fault region because of diffusion through low angle boundary at this region. It was considered that thermally induced residual stresses produced by thermal cycling were high enough to increase the dislocation density in Al-rich matrix phase. However, it was also considered that dislocations generated by these high thermal stresses were annihilated at high temperature by stress relaxation. Consequently, the thermal cycling up to 1440 cycles between 20 and $520^{\circ}C$ did not affect the microstructural stability.

• Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.149-157
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• 1996

Several aluminum based alloys were fabricated by a twin roll strip casting mill. As-cast microstructures and microsegregations of these aluminum alloys were investigated by means of optical microscope, scanning electron microscope and electron probe micro analysis. Clear distinction on microsegregation among the alloy systems was observed, that is, A1235 and A8011 alloys showed diffused segregation in the middle of the strip, while A3003 and A5086 alloys revealed a centerline segregation consisted of lamellar structure. Above center line segregation was resulted from enrichment of the alloying elements such as Mn, Fe, Cu, Si and eutictic reaction in central region of the alloy strip.

• Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.179-186
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• 2003

공정계 및 공정계 조성에 가까운 주조용 AISi합금은 자동차엔진 생산분야 등에서 광범위하게 사용되고 있다. 일반적으로 AISi합금은 적용 분야에 따른 다양한 요구조건을 충족시키기 위하여 공정 조직 내 Si lamellar 상의 개량을 목적으로 종종 열처리를 행하나, 그들의 기계적 성질은 주로 응고 기간 중의 주조 조직 변화에 의해 결정되어진다. 본 연구는 1차 정출상들에 대한 미세화 첨가원소와 공정조직 내 Si의 형상 및 결정입 사이에서 나타날 수 있는 상호 작용에 대하여 관찰하였으며, 특히 AISi9 및 AISi14 합금에서의 인장 및 마모 특성은 물론 그들의 미세 조직 변화에 대한 P와 Sr의 동시 첨가 효과에 대하여 조사하였다. 동시 첨가한 경우 공정 조직 내 Si의 개량화는 물론 1차 정출상의 미세화를 통하여 단일 첨가에 비하여 상기 합금의 인장 및 마모 특성을 동시에 증가시켰다.

• Macromolecular Research
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.588-595
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• 2006

The morphology, structure and melting behaviour of cold-crystallized isotactic polystyrene (iPS) were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The polymer was found to crystallize according to the dual-lamellar stack model. The two populations of lamellae, along with a melting-recrystallization phenomenon, determined the appearance of multiple melting peaks in DSC traces. The annealing peak was attributed to the relaxation of a rigid amorphous phase, rather than to the melting of crystalline material.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.142-142
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• 2017

High Flory-Huggins interaction parameter (${\chi}$)를 가지는 polystyrene-block-dimethylsiloxane (PS-b-PDMS)는 초미세 패턴 제작과 우수한 defect density, 우수한 edge roughness 특성으로 향상된 패턴을 제공한다는 점에서 반도체 분야에서 많은 연구가 되고 있다. 하지만, PS와 PDMS 사이에 존재하는 큰 surface tension의 차이로 인해 PDMS는 PS와 air 사이에서 segregate되기 때문에 수직배향에 불리하여 high aspect ratio (HAR)을 가지는 cylinder, lamellar 패턴 제작에 있어 큰 어려움을 가진다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해, PS-b-PDMS BCP 패턴과 하부 실리콘 기판 사이에 amorphous carbon layer (ACL)를 삽입하여 효과적으로 pattern transfer하는 공정을 연구하였다. 플라즈마를 이용하여 무한대에 가까운 etch selectivity를 가지는 식각 공정을 개발함으로써 낮은 aspect ratio를 가지는 PS-b-PDMS BCP 패턴의 한계점을 극복하였다. Large-x value를 가지는 BCPs를 이용하여도 매우 높은 aspect ratio를 가지면서 동시에 pattern quality를 향상시킬 수 있는 plasma process를 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.261-261
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• 2010

Photonic band gap (PBG) materials have been of great interest due to their potential applications in science and technology. Their applications can be further extended when PBG becomes tunable against various chemical and electrical stimuli. In recent, it was found that tunable photonic band gap materials can be achieved by incorporating stimuli-responsive smart gels into PBG materials. For example, the characteristic volume phase transition of gels in response to the various external stimuli including temperature, pH, ionic strength, solvent compositions and electric field were recently combined with the unique optical properties of photonic crystals to form unprecedented highly responsive optical components. Since these responsive photonic crystals are capable of reversibly converting chemical or electrical energy into characteristic optical signals, they have been considered as a good platform for label-free chemical or biological detection, actuators or optical switches as well as a model system for investigating gel swelling behavior. Herein, we report block copolymer photonic gels self-assembled from polystyrene-b-poly (2-vinyl pyridine) (PS-b-P2VP) block copolymers. In this talk, we are going to demonstrate that selective swelling of lamellar structure can be effectively utilized for fabricating PBG materials with extremely large tunability. Optical properties and their applications will be discussed.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.97.1-97.1
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• 2012

Porous ceramics are widely used for applications such as catalysis supports, gas distributors and filters such as DPF. For these purpose, it is important to have proper porosity controlling pore structure while maintaining mechanical and thermal properties. In this work, we have prepared the porous ceramic structures made of reaction bonded silicon nitride with hierarchical pore structures. Uni-directionally aligned pore channels, which are mostly filled with ${\beta}$-Si3N4 whiskers, were achieved by an ice-templating method. The structures of the pore channels and the walls are controllable by the processing conditions, such as solid concentration, freezing rate of the slurry, and additives. We have investigated and characterized the influences of the conditions on the microstructures and the properties, such as porosity, pore size distribution, lamellar thickness, wavelength, and orientations. The compressive strength test and flow test was performed to determine the structural integrity and air permeability.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.161-166
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• 1979

Theoretical and practical aspects are investigated for electrochemical behavious, plating processes and the structures of electrodeposit of Pb-Sn binary alloy plating through numerous literatures in this report. The anodic and cathodic electrode reaction mechanisms of Pb and Sn could co-deposit and make Pb-Sn alloy deposit from the results of cathode current density-cathode potential curves of Pb, Sn and Pb-Sn alloys in fluoborate solutions. The compositions of the best alloy plating solutions are obtained for the purpose of bearing, anticorrosion and solder plating. In general, the casting anodes of Pb-Sn alloys are used, but separated anodes of Pb and Sn pure metal are used in order to obtain the fine compositions of Pb-Sn alloy deposits. The electrodeposits of Pb-Sn alloy are in nonequilibrium state and saturated solid solutions. Thus, ${\beta}$-phase (Sn-phase) is precipitated by heat treatment. The texture and structure of the electrodeposit are associated with the surface energies of deposit lattice planes and with the cathode polarization. The electrodeposit of Pb-Sn alloy is shown as lamellar structure.

• Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.69-73
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• 2008

In the present study, microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of Ti-Fe-Sn ultrafine eutectic alloys have been investigated. Ultrafine eutectic microstructure consisting of a mixture of ${\beta}$-Ti solid solution and TiFe intermetallic compound homogeneously formed in $(Ti_{70.5}Fe_{29.5})_{100-x}Sn_x$ alloys with x = 0, 1 and 3. Addition of Sn is effective to modify the eutectic colony into the spherical shape with decreasing the lamellar spacing and colony size. This results in enhancing the macroscopic plasticity up to 3.1% of the Ti-Fe-Sn ultrafine eutectic alloys.