The effect ofgas sintering atmosphere on the carbon content and mechanical properties during the metal injection molding process of carbonyl iron-nickel powder was studied. The carbon content of the specimen after debinding in the pureatmosphere appeared 0.78 wt%. After showing the maximum value of 1.48 wt.% in the debinding atmosphere of 10%gas mixture, the carbon content of the debinded specimen decreased gradually with increasing thecontent in thegas mixture. The carbon contents of the sintered specimen were 0.46~0.63wt% in Na gas atmosphere, while they appeared extremely low above 40%gas atmosphere. The relative sintered density increased abruptly from 88~90% to 93~96% with the addition of Ni, while the density nearly unchanged above 2% Ni addition. The sintered density increased with increasing the fraction ofgas mixture. Tensile strength and hardness increased, and elongation decreased with increasing carbon and Ni content. In spite of high carbon content of 0.63 wt%, the superior elongation value of 10% was shown.

In this paper, we designed and fabricated the Electromagnetic(EM) wave absorber for an Electronic Toll Collection(ETC or Hi-pass) system by using Amorphous metal powder and CPE. The material properties and the absorption properties of the samples containing 50 wt.%, 60 wt.%, 70 wt.%, and 80 wt.% of Amorphous. Moreover, the EM wave absorption abilities were simulated for the different thicknesses of the EM absorbers by adopting the measured permittivity and permeability, and then the EM wave absorber was fabricated based on the simulated design values. As a result, the EM wave absorber with the composition of Amorphous metal powder : CPE = 50 : 50 wt.% with the thickness of 2.6 mm has excellent absorption ability more than 40 dB at 5.8 GHz.

본 논문에서는 항만 물류 시스템에서 사용하는 중심주파수 433 MHz에서 동작하는 전파흡수체를 설계 개발하였다. 먼저 자성손실 재료인 AMP (Amorphous Metal Powder)와 지지재인 CPE (Chlorinated Polyethylene)를 이용하여 AMP:CPE의 조성비가 각각 80:20 wt.%와 85:15 wt.%의 전파흡수체 샘플을 제작한 후, 입력임피던스를 측정하여 샘플의 재료정수를 계산하고 시뮬레이션에 의하여 최적의 전파흡수체를 설계하였다. 그 결과 AMP:CPE=85:15 wt.% 의 조성비에 두께 5.5 mm일 때 최적의 전파흡수특성이 얻어짐을 확인하고, 실제 제작하여 측정한 결과 433 MHz 주파수대역에서 17.5 dB의 흡수능이 얻어졌으며, 이는 본 연구에서 목표로 하는 15 dB 보다 우수한 결과이다.