Recently, the display of liquid crystal having the blue phase have been studied more intensively because it has many merits such as wide viewing angle without compensation films, very fast switching response time, and no need for the alignment layer and the rubbing process. First, we confirmed the feasibility of the blue phase liquid crystal display by means of polymer stabilization in the test cell. Even though we could get a wide temperature range that shows the blue phase, there were still problems such as the high operation voltage, hysteresis so on. In 2008, by developing and applying new technologies for improving these characteristics, we successfully fabricated a new kind of the liquid crystal display using the blue phase for the first time in the world.

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According to trends in scientific technical competition, many countries around the world are interested in and focused on the STEAM integrated education. By observing the fact that the goal of our country's science education is to cultivate creative workers who have scientific knowledge, the need for STEAM integrated education cannot be denied. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop the STEAM integrated program focused on themes that considered activities and interest in the grade 6 science subject in order to identify its influence on the creativity and interest levels of elementary students. The STEAM integrated education program in this study was developed so that it can be applied as a unit review or reinforcement activities in the closing activities per unit in grade 6. The focus was placed on heightening students' creativity and interest in science subject learning through a program focused on activities per theme. As a result of applying the developed STEAM integrated program in prior and post conditions on 3 elementary school's students in J Province, it was discovered that significant improvement was found in the creativity and scientific interest of elementary students in the experimental group, compared to the control group. Therefore, continuous and systematic development of the STEAM integrated education program is required, and moreover, it must be developed for all elementary grade levels and efforts should be put into actively applying the program in the field of education.

RF characteristics of a nanoscale MOSFET are measured and analyzed at temperatures ranging from 4.2 to 300 K for deep-space RF applications. This device shows a 197-GHz current gain cutoff frequency (f T ) and a 162-GHz maximum oscillation frequency (f max ) when operating at liquid-helium temperature, which represent a 60% and 80% improvement compared to room temperature performances, respectively. f T continually improves as the temperature decreases to near-liquid-helium temperature due to the decrease of gate capacitance (C gg ). f max decreases as the temperature is lowered below 25 K due to the increase of gate resistance (R g ).Index Terms-Cutoff frequency, low temperature, maximum oscillation frequency, nanoscale MOSFET.

Bridge pier scour is one of the main causes of bridge failure and a major factor that contributes to the total construction and maintenance costs of bridge. Recently, because of unexpected high water during extreme hydrologic events, the resilience and security of hydraulic infrastructure with respect to the scour protection measure along a river reach has become a more immediate topic for river engineering society. Although numerous studies have been conducted to suggest pier scour estimation formulas, understanding of turbulence characteristics which is dominant driver of sediment transport around a pier foundation is still questionable. Thus, to understand near bed turbulence characteristics and resulting sediment transport around a pier, hydraulic laboratory experiments were conducted in a prismatic rectangular flume using scale-down bridge pier models. Three-dimensional velocities and turbulent intensities before and after scour were measured with Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV), and the results were compared/analyzed using the best available tools and current knowledge gained from recent studies. The results show that the mean flow variable is not enough to explain complex turbulent flow field around the pier leading to the maximum scour because of unsteady flows. Furthermore, results of quadrant analysis of velocity measurements just upstream of the pier in the horseshoe vortex region show significant differences before and after scour.