Magnetic and magneto-optical properties of Fe/Pt/Fe, Co/Pd/Co trilayers and also the sandwiches with wedge-shaped magnetic (Fe, Co) and nonmagnetic (Pt, Pd) layers were investigated. The oscillatory behavior of the saturation field $H_{s}$ of the studied trilayers with changing the thickness of the nonmagnetic layer (NML) $t_{NML}$ was revealed. That was explained by the exchange coupling between ferromagnetic layers (FML) through the nonmagnetic spacer. For the first time, oscillations of the transverse Kerr effect (TKE) with changing the Pt- and Pd-wedge thickness were discovered. Period of these oscillations was found to depend on the FML thickness and the photon energy of the incident light. TKE spectra of the examined samples were discovered to modify very strongly with increasing $t_{NML}$. The discovered peculiarities of magneto-optical properties of thin-film systems were explained by a concept of the spin-polarized quantum well states in the pt and Pd layers.

HTS superconducting tapes are now commercially available for practical applications such as magnets and cables. Since superconductors in such applications are subjected to high mechanical loads that can significantly degrade the superconducting properties, mechanical properties and the strain tolerance known as the strain effect on superconducting properties are needed to be estimated for developing superconducting devices. The progress in technology achieved in the field of strain effect evaluation on the critical current of HTS tapes in various deformation modes is discussed in this study.

Pre-treatment of Bi-2223/Ag tapes has been investigated to improve the superconducting property and grain alignment. However, rolling deformability of Bi-2223/Ag wires was degraded by the breakage of Ag alloy sheath after pre-treatment. Various pre-treatment conditions were tried to prevent the problem of sliver sheath and improve the superconducting property of Bi-2223/Ag tapes. Filament precursor of Bi-2223/Ag tapes was modified to be textured easily during main sintering by the optimum pre-treatment with low oxygen pressure and up to $800^{\circ}C$. Critical current was also increased up to 20% than that of no pre-treated tape.

YBCO coated conductor, also called the 2nd generation high temperature superconducting wire, consists of oxide multi-layer hetero-epitaxial thin films. Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) is one of many film deposition methods used to make coated conductor, and is the one known to be the best to make superconducting layer so far. As a part of the effort to make long length coated conductor, the optimum deposition condition of YBCO film on single crystal substrate (SrTiO3) was investigated using PLD. Substrate temperature, oxygen partial pressure, and laser fluence were varied to find the best combination to grow high quality YBCO film.

본 연구는 고온초전도 coated coductors의 기판으로 cube texture된 순수 Ni 기판을 개발하기 위하여 전체 가공율과 압연율에 따른 (100) texture의 변화와 1차적으로 열처리한 기판을 다시 압연한 후 재열처리 하였을 때의 전체 가공율과 압연율에 따른 (100) texture의 변화를 GADS XRD와 SEM을 이용하여 연구하고자 하였다. 그 결과, 압연 후에는 압연율에 관계없이 비교적 약한 강도의 (220)과 (200), (111), (311) peak가 나타났는데, 4%로 압연했을 경우 (220) peak가 가장 강한 peak로 나타난 반면, 10%로 압연한 경우에는 (200) peak가 비교적 강하게 나타났다. 그러나 이를 $900^{\circ}C$에서 열처리한 후에는 (200) peak 만 뚜렷이 발달되어 나타났는데, 전체 가공율과 압연율이 높을수록 (200) peak의 강도가 높게 나타나 압연을 통하여 발달한 결정립자의 (110) 면을 따른 배열이 열처리 과정을 통하여 회전하여 (100)면을 따른 배열로 바뀌는 것으로 추측할 수 있었다. 그러나 $900^{\circ}C$에서 열처리한 두께 0.2mm 판재를 다시 0.1mm까지 4%와 10%의 압연율로 압연하고 500~$900^{\circ}C$에서 1시간동안 최종 열처리한 후에는 상대적으로 낮은 2차 가공율에 의하여 집합조직의 전체 가공율과 압연율에의 의존성이 사라지는 것으로 나타났다.

상업용 Ag 판재 위에 cyclic 전위와 일정 전위를 인가하는 전기증착법으로 Tl-1223상 precursor 막을 증착하는 연구를 수행한 다음, 이를 이영역 전기로를 사용하여 열처리함으로써 고온초전도 coated conductors를 제조하는 연구를 수행하였다. 전기증착법으로 비교적 균질하고 치밀한 precursor막을 증착할 수 있었으며, 이 막을 $870^{\circ}C$에서 20분 동안 열처리하여 임계온도가 114 K이고 자속고정능력도 비교적 우수한 50%의 Tl-1223상과 50%의 Tl-1212상으로 구성된 고온초전도 도체를 제조할 수 있었다. 이로부터 아주 값싼 증착법인 전기증착법을 이용하여 후막의 고온초전도 도체를 제조할 수 있음을 증명하였다.

The phase transformation of $REBa_2Cu_3O_{7-x}$ (RE=Nd, Gd, Dy) was investigated using isothermal heat-treatment and continuous cooling in air. During continuous cooling, the $REBa_2Cu_3O_{7-x}$ (RE=123) superconducting phase with well-distributed $REBa_2Cu_3O_{7-x}$ (RE-211) was obtainde at a cooling rate of $0.001^{\circ}C$/s. Single phase RE-123 (Nd, Gd, Dy) was stable at $1050^{\circ}C$, $1050^{\circ}C$, and $950^{\circ}C$ during isothermal heat-treatment, respectively. Above these temperatures the RE-211 phase existed within the RE-123 grains. The RE-123, RE-211, $BaCu_2Od_2$, and CuO phases coexisted at $50^{\circ}C$ below the partial melting temperature for each respective rare-earth RE-123.

전원장치의 소형 경량화 및 고효율화를 위한 핵심 기술인 변압기를 설계 및 제조하기 위해 넓은 유효단면적을 가진 평면 자성체와 편편하고 넓은 도체를 이용하여 고주파 손실을 감소시켜 고주파 대역용 전원장치에 채용 가능한 입력 220 V, 출력 15V, 300 W급 포워드(Forward) 평면 변압기를 설계 및 제조하고 전자기적 특성과 입출력 신호 특성을 측정하였다. 1차 코일과 2차 코일의 권선수는 각각 15회와 2회 그리고 여자(demagnetizing) 권선은 15회로 설계하였으며, 변압기의 총 발열은 $44.78^{\circ}C$로 설계 및 제작하였다. 스위칭 주파수 100kHz에서 1.65mH의 인덕턴스 값을 얻었으며, 100 V의 입력전압에 대하여 13 V의 안정한 구형 출력파형을 얻었다. 따라서 스위칭 듀티(duty)가 최고 0.4로 설계되었기 때문에 설계 목표한 15 V 출력에 유사한 전압을 나타내어 평면 변압기의 설계 방법을 확립하였으며, 평면 변압기의 응용 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.

The output characteristics of thin film NiO/NiFe bilayered magnetoresistive device have been measured as a function of the direction of external magnetic field. Each layer was fabricated by rf magnetron sputtering method, and especially, the under layer, NiO, was fabricated under the in-situmagnetic field of about 1000Oe. The magnetoresistive devices were designed with the angle of 45degree between the direction of current of the device pattern and the induces magnetic field in the NiO film layer. The output of the devices had a good linearity when the devices were placed on the external magnetic field perpendicular to induced field direction and also 45 degree with the currenr path direction.

FeMn based spin valves often consist of a NiFe/FeMn/NiFe trilayer structure. We have investigated the evolution of exchange bias at the bottom and top interfaces in the NiFe(5nm)/FeMn(x)/NiFe(5nm) trilayer structure as a function of FeMn thickness in the range 3 nm to 30 nm. The XRD results indicate (111) textured growth for NiFe and FeMn layers. The magnetization studies using VSM show two hysteresis loops corresponding to the bottom NiFe seed layer and top NiFe layers with greater bias for the bottom NiFe layer, for FeMn thickness equal to and above 5 nm. The larger exchange bias for the bottom seed layer is confirmed by the surface sensitive MOKE hysteresis loop measurements which show gradual weakening of the MOKE hysteresis loop for the bottom NiFe layer with increasing FeMn thickness. The observed large exchange bias in a spin valve structure is usually attributed to the pinning NiFe layer on top of the FeMn layer, even when a NiFe seed layer of a few nm thickness is present, whereas, in reality it may be arising from the bottom seed layer, as shown by the present study.

The degradation of the dielectric properties of insulating papers that were used under loaded conditions at cryogenic temperature was paid attention. Electrical and tensile stress properties of dielectric paper at cryogenic temperature have been investigated to optimum insulating design of high-Tc superconducting(HTS) cable. Tensile strength of PPLP in liquid nitrogen was high more than that of air, but tensile strain could know that decrease sharply. According as tensile strength increases, the breakdown stress of PPLP in liquid nitrogen was decreased.

Interconnected power system operation has given rise to the problem of increased fault levels and leads to over stressing of all the components. Use have been made of recently developed high Tc superconductor in devising a superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) that promises optimum performance in terms of capital cost, size, auto sensing, operational losses, response time and reliability. Recently, research about the application of the SFCL is actively progressing in Korea. To be applied for SFCL practically, the electrical insulation design of SFCL must be developed. Therefore, this paper presents the result of an investigation of the dielectric characteristics of turn-to-turn insulation for SFCL in liquid nitrogen. The dielectric characteristics of turn-to-turn insulation models of SFCL were investigated. We obtained following results. The breakdown voltages increased as the spacer thickness and length increased. And the breakdown voltages of turn-to-turn model without spacer were higher than the breakdown voltages of turn-to-turn model with spacer under impulse as well as AC voltages. The information gathered in this test series should be helpful in the design of liquid nitrogen filled SFCL.

Bi-2223 superconducting wires were fabricated by stacking, drawing process with different precursor powders and different heat-treatment histories. The precursor powders were 2 kinds of Pb content. And a part of the tapes were experienced pre-annealing process which caused tetragonal structure of Bi-2212 phase to orthorhombic structure of it was during drawing process. We confirmed the transformation of Bi-2212 phase from tetragonal structure to orthorhombic structure and reduction of second phases. XRD and DC magnetization analysis were performed in order to investigate the fraction of Bi-2223 phase in Bi-2223/Ag HTS tape. We could achieve best Ic of 70 A class at the Bi-2223/Ag tape using low Pb content of precursor powder and experienced pre-annealing process. DC magnetization analysis was useful to investigate the fraction of Bi-2223 phase in the Bi-2223/Ag tape.

Phase transformation of Bi-2223 tape during the final heat treatment has been investigated through the various duration time of heat treatment in a specially designed 3-step heat treatment. It was found that the phase assemblage in the sintering was determined by the sintering time and temperature. In this study, sintering time was changed to optimize the Bi-2223 phase assemblage, and acquire high critical current density. High critical current samples with Ic = 85 A and Je = 8.9 kA/$cm^2$ have been measured at 77K and self-field for 55-filament tapes sintered by optimum condition.

The quench characteristics of flux-lock type high-Tc superconducting fault current limiters(SFCL) was investigated. $YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-x}$(YBCO) thin film was used as the current limiting elements of the flux-lock type SFCL. The quench characteristics of current limiting elements consisting of the flux-lock type SFCL was more improved than that of the resistive type SFCL.

$SrSO_4$ were systematically added on Bi2212 from 0 to 10wt% to study the effect of Bi2212 superconductor tube characteristics. After mixing, the melted solution of Bi2212 and $SrSO_4$ was initially poured into the cylinder type of steel mold preheated at $550^{\circ}C$ for 30min and rotated at 1000rpm. Following that, tube was annealed at $840^{\circ}C$ for 72hrs. The tube dimension was 60 in diameter, 60mm in length and 2mm in thickness. XRD data suggests that there was no typical segregation phase related with $SrSO_4$. Well textured grain with typical 2212 phase was observed and average size was $20{\mu}m$. The measured critical current and critical current density of Bi2212 tube added by 5% $SrSO_4$ at 77K were 495A and $202A/cm^2$ respectively.

The interfacial diffusion in Fe/Cr/MgO(001) multilayers has been studied using synchrotron x-ray techniques, such as x-ray reflectivity, extended x-ray absorption fine structures (EXAFS), and anomalous x-ray scattering (AXS). The results of x-ray reflectivity indicated that the interfacial roughness of Fe/Cr multilayers with Cr-$4{\AA}$-thick was larger than that with Cr-$4{\AA}$-thick. The results of EXAFS indicated that the Fe element dominantly diffuse into the stable Cr layers at the Fe/Cr interface. The AXS was certified the existence of the interdiffused Fe element in the Cr layers. Our study revealed that the rough interface of the Fe/Cr multilayers was caused by the interfacia diffusion of Fe element into the Cr layers.

The magnetic porcelain materials were studied by using the porcelain materials added Sr-ferrite powders before forming and firing process. For the high magnetic property, the Sr-ferrite magnetic powders with the grain size of 1 ${\mu}m$ were agglomerated the powder size of about 1 mm. The magnetic porcelain with 30 wt% of Sr-ferrite powders indicated the magnetic characteristics such as the remanent flux density of 240 G and the intrinsic coercivity of 3910 Oe, at the firing conditions of $1250^{\circ}C$/1hr in air.

전력선 통신용 LC 공진필터에 사용되는 Ni-Zn 페라이트를 제조하기 위해 $Ni_{0.8}Zn_{0.2}Fe_{2}O_{4}$를 기본조성으로 첨가제 $Bi_{2}O_{3}$, CaO와 x (co mol 비)를 변화시켜 전자기적 특성을 조사하였다. $Bi_{2}O_{3}$ CaO가 첨가됨으로써 균일한 입자성장과 입계에 고저항층이 형성되어 주파수 손실이 감소하였으며, $Ni_{0.8-x}Zn_{0.2}Co_{x}Fe_{2}O_{\delta}$의 기본조성에 Co의 함량을 증가시키면 x = 0.05에서 투자율 75, 공진주파수 20MHz의 특성을 나타내고 결정 입자 크기와 같은 구조적 특성에는 영향을 거의 미치지 않지만 전자기적 특성에는 영향을 미친다. 또한, $Ni_{0.75}Zn_{0.2}Co_{0.05}Fe_{2}O_{4.017}$ 조성의 페라이트 코어의 발열량은 큐리온도 이하에서 일어난다.

평면형 자심재료용으로 응용하기 위한 Mn-Zn 페라이트에서 저손실 조성의 전자기적 특성과 분위기 조건에 따른 특성변화를 관찰하였다. $Fe_{2}O_{3}$ : MnO : ZnO 의 물비가 53 : 36 : 11 일 때, 가장 우수한 특성을 나타내었으며, $SiO_{2}$와 CaO는 입계 저항층 형성을 통한 손실은 감소시키고, 이로 인해 성능지수는 증가하여 100kHz ~ 200kHz 범위에서 최대값을 나타내어 전자기적 효율이 극대화되었다. 산소분압의 제어는 승온과정부터 산소분압을 제어시켜주어야만 Zn-loss 현상의 증가와 $Fe^{2+}$이온 농도의 감소 및 $Fe^{2+}-Fe^{3+}$ 이온간의 호핑(hoping)현상 등에 의한 손실을 최소화 할 수 있으며, 높은 투자율을 얻을 수 있었다. 그리고 소결 또는 냉각 중 평형 산소분압이 유지되지 못하면 다량의 결함이 출현하게 되고, 특히 $600^{\circ}C$이하에서 스피넬 상의 분해-산화반응이 일어나면서 미세구조 상에 결함으로 남게 되어 전자기적 특성이 저하되었다.

The maximum coercive force of SmCo thin film was obtained at the Sm=28.2% and dc bias field was generated to CoZrNb, soft magnetic thin film, deposited on the SmCo thin film. DC field point having the maximum permeability for CoZrNb was shifted to higher dc field. DC field strength increased as the length of easy direction of magnetization decreased and 60Oe was measured for $3mm{\times}0.5mm$ sample.

강자성 형상기억합금은 기존의 압전재료 및 열적 형상기억합금을 이용한 전기-열-기계적 거동의 액츄에이터 재료를 대신할 수 있는 새로운 고성능 액츄에이터 재료로서 각광을 받고 있다. 그러한 강자성 형상기억합금들 중의 한 종류로서 단결정 및 다결정 $Ni_{2}MnGa$ 합금을 이용하여 자장인가시 변형을 관찰하였다. 거대 자장 유기 변형률을 설명하기 위하여 두 모델이 제안되었다. 변태 온도보다 낮은 온도에서는 마르텐사이트 상의 재배열에 의하여 변형이 일어났으며, 그 변태온도보다 높은 온도에서는 상변태에 의한 변형이 일어났다. 미세구조 관찰을 통하여 인가 자장의 방향에 따라 우선적으로 형성되는 마르텐사이트상을 관찰하였다.