• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.35-42
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• 1989

The mode of transglycosylation reaction observed during the action of low-molecular-weigh $\beta$-D-glucosidase ($\beta$-D-glucoside glucohydrolase, EC3.2.1.21) purified from Trichoderma koningii ATCC 26113 was investigated using $^{1}H$-NMR spectroscopy. The enzyme was purified by the series of procedures including ammonium sulfate precipitation, and fractionations by column chromatographies on Bio-Gel P-150, DEAE-Sephadex A-50, and SP-Sephadex C-50. The final purification was performed by the band eluation after preparative polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme showed its molecular size of 78,000 through the analysis of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and its isoelectric point of 5.80 through the analysis of analytical isoelectric focusing. The H-1 proton resonances were analyzed. After the reaction of the enzyme with cellobiose, the reaction products were separated by high performance liquid chromatography using refractive index detector. H-1 resonances of the products were consisted with those of gentiobiose [$\beta$-D-glucopyranosyl--(1,6)-D-glucopyranose], and cellotriose [$\beta$-D glucopyranosyl-(1,4)-$\beta$-D-glucopyranosyl]-(1,4)-D-glucopyranose] with minor resonances of sophorose [$\beta$-D-glucopyranosyl-(1,2)-D-glucopyranose], respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.9
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• pp.23-30
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• 2000

The performance of two types of surface reflecting all-optical switches with InGaAs/InAlAs multiple quantum wells are investigated. The absorption spectra and the refractive index changes of the quantum well are calculated for various pump and probe beam intensities and device conditions. From theses results, on ON/OFF ratio and switching speed of the two switches are compared. It is shown that the switch using DBR has higher ON/OFF ratio and higher switching speed than the switch without DBR.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.10
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• pp.2909-2912
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• 2010

Hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (${\mu}c$-Si:H) thin film for solar cells is prepared by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition and physical properties of the ${\mu}c$-Si:H p-layer has been investigated. With respect to stable efficiency, this film is expected to surpass the performance of conventional amorphous silicon based solar cells and very soon be a close competitor to other thin film photovoltaic materials. Silicon in various structural forms has a direct effect on the efficiency of solar cell devices with different electron mobility and photon conversion. A Raman microscope is adopted to study the degree of crystallinity of Si film by analyzing the integrated intensity peaks at 480, 510 and $520\;cm^{-1}$, which corresponds to the amorphous phase (a-Si:H), microcrystalline (${\mu}c$-Si:H) and large crystals (c-Si), respectively. The crystal volume fraction is calculated from the ratio of the crystalline and the amorphous phase. The results are compared with high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) for the determination of crystallinity factor. Optical properties such as refractive index, extinction coefficient, and band gap are studied with reflectance spectra.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.85-91
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• 2017

Lenses have different refractive indices for different wavelengths of light. This is why different wavelengths of rays are focused at different positions in the focal plane. Images are blurred and noticeable colored edges appear around the objects, which is known as chromatic aberration (CA). In this paper, an algorithm for removing CA artifacts in color images is proposed. Based on the fact that the gradients of color channels are highly correlated, the differences of the gradients of the channels in edges are minimized. The cost function is designed by using the gradients of the channels. Experimental results show the good performance of the proposed algorithm in removing the CA artifacts.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.169-174
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• 2003

We report theoretical and experimental investigation of a polarizer made of single mode side-polished fiber covered with a metal film. The influence of the metal film thickness and the refractive index of overlay on the device performance has been analyzed in terms of the normal mode theory. Based on the theoretical prediction, a polarizer with 40 ㏈ of polarization extinction ratio and 0.5 ㏈ insertion loss at optical communication wavelength has been realized.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.245-249
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• 1997

An electro-optic polymer digital optical switch with a coupling region modified for optimum coupling is designed and demonstrated. Its branch waveguide is fabricated by reactive ion etching. Then, the modified coupling region is adiabatically introduced along the propagation direction from the branching point of the two waveguides, and it is implemented by photobleaching after the device fabrication. The structure of the modified coupling region and its refractive index profiles are designed to optimize and mode coupling in the Y-branch waveguide. Therefore, the switching performance of the device was shown to be enhanced with a fixed device length. The measured drive voltage is reduced by more than 30 percents, and the crosstalk is also improved by about 4~6 dB.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.571-575
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• 2002

An immersion-type on-line refractometer useful for the in-situ measurement of salinity and temperature of sea water is developed, and its performance is examined by applying the refractometer to known salt solution having salt concentration between 2 and 4 % similar to practical sea water salinity. Since refractive index and temperature are measured simultaneously, it is possible to compensate the effect of temperature for fast and direct measurement. The outcome of salinity measurement for the different concentrations of salt solution indicates that the device is suitable for the salinity measurement by yielding stable and reproducible reading.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.16-22
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• 2016

The optical and physical and characteristics of hydrogel ophthalmic lens polymerized with addition of 2,6-difluoropyridine, SiPc(silicon 2,9,16,23-tetra-tert-butyl-29H31H-phthalocyanine dihydroxide) and nanodiamond in the basic hydrogel material were evaluated. In particular, the utility of 2,6-difluoropyridine, SiPc and nanodiamond as a hydrogel ophthalmic lens material was investigated. 2,6-difluoropyridine, SiPc and nanodiamond were used as additives. And also, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, acrylic acid, methyl methacrylate and a cross-linker EGDMA were copolymerized in the presence of AIBN as an initiator. The refractive index of 1.4348~1.4361, water content of 33.30~34.02%, UV-B transmittance of 4.77~67.50%, UV-A transmittance of 1.45~89.19% and visible transmittance of 32.12~92.21% were obtained. The results of hydrogel lens containing 2,6-difluoropyridine (add 5%) showed antibiosis for staphylococcus aureus. The produced copolymer is suitable for hydrogel soft ophthalmic lenses with antibiotic and anti-UV effect.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.236-239
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• 2019

In this work, we performed an optical simulation study on the performance of a PMDPP3T:PCBM based on an organic photovoltaic (PV) device. The virtual PV device was developed in Lumerical, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solutions. Different layers of the PV cell have been defined through the incorporation of complex refractive index value of those layers' constituent materials. During the simulation study, the effect of the variation active layer thickness on an ideal short circuit current density ($J_{sc,ideal}$) of the PV cell has been, first, observed. Thereafter, we have investigated the impact of surface roughness of a transparent conducting oxide (TCO) electrode on $J_{sc,ideal}$ of the PV cells. From this simulation, it has been observed that the $J_{sc,ideal}$ value of the PV cell is strongly dependent on the thickness of its active layer and the photon absorption of the PV cell has gradually decreased with the increment of the TCO's surface roughness. As a result, the capability of the PV device has been reduced with the increment of the surface roughness of the TCO.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.67-73
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• 2019

In this paper, we investigated the sensing ability of an extraordinary optical transmission sensor, which is based on the diverse configurations of highly ordered structures. The diverse nanostructures of subwavelength hole array were designed to have different periods and lattice configurations of the array. To verify the sensing ability of the sensor, we measured the transmittance spectra of samples (n = 1.333, 1.363) for diverse configurations of substrates. The measured transmittance spectra of diverse materials with different refractive indices show that the sensitivity increased as the period of the structures increased. Also, improved sensing performance of the sensor was achieved for the square array, compared to the hexagonal array.