• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.1005-1009
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• 2008

A noble infrared $\lambda/4$ absorbing structure using metal reflector was studied for uncooled infrared sensors. This paper described the design and the fabrication of IR uncooled detectors which were composed of 21 by 21 elements using the surface micromachining technology. The characteristics of the array were investigated in the spectral region of 4.26 ${\mu}m$. The fabricated detectors exhibited the thermal mass of $9.75\times10^{-9}$ J/K, the thermal conductance of $1.31\times10^{-6}$ W/K, the thermal time constant of 7.4 ms, the responsivity of $1.07\times10^5$ V/W and the detectivity of $1.04\times10^9$ $cmHz^{1/2}/W$, at the chopper frequency of 10 Hz and the bias current of 9.22${\mu}A$. Finally the absorptance efficiency of $\lambda/4$ absorbing structure was about 23.2 % higher than that of absence absorbing structure.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.56-60
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• 2021

In this study, the relationship between the transmitted light intensity and full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) of a Fabry-Perot filter was investigated. The measured refractive indices and absorption coefficients of the fabricated thin films were applied to the Fabry-Perot filter via simulations using optical software. Although considerable research has been conducted on Fabry-Perot filters, this study focused on the usefulness of 4.26-㎛ infrared filtering in carbon dioxide detection. Optical analysis was performed considering the effects of the thickness, refractive indices, and number of thin films in a distributed Bragg reflector. Ultimately, a clear trade-off relationship was observed wherein the transmitted light intensity decreased as the number of multilayers increased; however, the FWHM was observed to be narrower.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• v.53 no.5
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• pp.475-480
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• 2011

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of different feeding level of TDN (Total Digestible Nutrients) on the generation of main greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in Hanwoo cows. The diet TDN (kg) adjusted to achieve ADG of 0 g/day (Control), 200 g/day (T1), and 400 g/day (T2) of the maintenance level TMR (Total Mixed Ration) delivered twice a day at 08:30 and 17:30. Cow are housed in a respiration chamber and the environmental temperature was maintained at $20^{\circ}C$. The gases were measured for 24 hours using the multi-detector instrument Mamos-300. The analyzed methane emissions of T1 and T2 were 33.5% and 69.6% higher than control, respectively, and the carbon dioxide emissions were 21.1% and 40.6% higher than control. Also, the hourly pattern of carbon dioxide and methane production were showed very similar emission. Gas production showed peak after 1 hour of feeding and this gap was wider in the afternoon than in the morning hours. It is clearly conducted that $CO_2$ and $CH_4$ emissions were different by limited intake levels of feed.

• 한국가스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.123-128
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• 2006

This paper describes NDIR $CO_2$ gas sensor that shows the characteristics of temperature compensation. It consists of novel optical cavity that has two elliptical mirrors and a thermopile detector that includes ASIC chip in the same metal package for the amplification of detector output voltage and temperature sensor. The newly developed sensor modules shows high accuracy (less than +/-40 ppm) throughout the measuring concentration of $CO_2$ gas from 0 ppm to 2,000 ppm. After implementing the calculation methods of gas concentration, which is based upon the experimental results, the sensor module shows high accuracy less than +/- 5 ppm error throughout the measuring temperature range $(15^{\circ}C\;to\; 35^{\circ}C)$ and gas concentrations.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.110-110
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• 2003

제올라이트는 다양한 유기질 분리의 촉매제 및 광학, 화학 센서, 기체 분리 등의 고기능 소재로서 크게 주목받고 있으며, 그 중 MFI type(ZSM-5, Silicalite-1) 제올라이트는 주로 석유화학공정에 주로 이용되고 있고, 분리막으로서 이산화탄소의 분리/회수 및 물/유기 혼합물의 분리 등에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 분리막 제조에 유리할 것으로 판단되어지는 적합한 크기와 형상을 갖춘 나노크기의 제올라이트 분말을 수열합성법과 마이크로웨이브 합성법을 이용하여 합성하였으며, 위의 조건으로 다공질 알루미나 지지 체 위에서 알루미나/제올라이트 분리막 제조를 하는데 성공하였다. 또 한 다양한 조건(시간, 온도, 조성)에 따른 막의 두께변화와 균열발생정도를 관찰한 결과 합성시간, 건조온도에 따라서 같은 조건의 분리막 사이에서도 현격한 차이가 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 얻어진 MFI type제올라이트 분말과 분리막은 XRD, SEM, BET, TGA, FT-IR등의 분석수단을 이용하여 물성평가를 실시하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.628-634
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• 2005

We have simulated and proposed novel optical cavity, which has two elliptical mirrors, for NDIR gas sensor module and have tested it from 0 ppm to 2,000 ppm $CO_2$ concentration. The proposed sensor module shows the maximum peak voltage at 500 ms pulse modulation time, however, it shows a maximum voltage changes at 200 ms pulse duration with 18,000 times amplification gain. From 0 ppm to 2,000 ppm, the voltage difference of sensor module $({\Delta}V)$ shows 360 mV at 200 ms pulse duration and 3 sec turn-off time. The response time of designed sensor module is about 30 seconds.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.298-311
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• 1991

빈 시스템에서 적정 팬을 선정하기 위해서, 빈에서 벼를 건조 혹은 통풍시킬 때 벼의 저항에 의해 발생되는 공기의 압력손실을 예측하는 모델을 개발하였다. 또한 벼의 건물 손실을 예측하기 위하여 벼의 호흡 모델을 개발하였다. 그리고 온도 및 습도 센서들을 이용한 자동계측 시스템을 사용하여 저장된 벼의 상태를 연속적으로 측정, 분석함으로써 벼의 통풍기준을 결정하고 이를 근거로 빈의 자동통풍 시스템을 개발하여 평가하였다. 공기의 정압 손실은 공기의 속도 및 벼의 함수율의 함수로서 나타내어졌으며, 일정 곡물 깊이에서 벼의 함수율이 낮을수록 그 정압손실은 증가하였다. 벼의 호흡에 의해 발생되는 이산화탄소의 양은 저장온도, 벼의 함수율, 저장 기간의 함수로서 나타낼 수 있었다. 벼의 안전 저장을 위해 곡물의 온도 및 함수율, 평형상대습도, 벼의 품질저하지수(deterioration index)에 대한 자동통풍 기준을 결정하였으며 이들을 이용해서 퍼스널 컴퓨터로 팬, 제습기 등의 통풍 장치들을 자동제어하는 자동통풍 시스템을 개발하였다. 이 시스템은 곡물의 상태를 예측, 제어함으로써 14% 이하의 함수율과 4이하의 품질저하지수, 그리고 어떤 균류도 생성시키지 않음으로써 벼를 안전하게 저장할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.179-185
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• 2017

This article describes the characteristics of nondispersive infrared carbon dioxide gas sensor according to the temperatures and humidifies. In this researches, a thermopile sensor that included application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) was used and the White-cell structure was implemented as an optical waveguide. The developed sensor modules were installed in gas chamber and then the temperature of gas chamber has been increased from 283 K to 313 K with 10K temperature step. In order to analyze the effects of humidity levels, the relative humidity levels were changed from 30 to 80%R.H. with small humidifier. Then, the characteristics of sensor modules were acquired with the increment of carbon dioxide concentrations from 0 to 2,000 ppm. When the initial voltages of sensors were compared before and after humidifying the chamber at constant temperature, the decrements of the output voltages of sensors are like these: 9mV (reference infrared sensor), 41 mV (carbon dioxide sensor), 2 mV (temperature sensor). With the increment of ambient temperature, the averaged output voltage of carbon dioxide sensor was increased 19 mV, however, when the humidity level was increased, it was decreased 14mV. Based upon the experimental results, the humidity effect could be alleviated by the increment of temperature, so the effects of humidity and temperature could be only compensated by the ambient temperature itself. The estimated carbon dioxide concentrations showed 10% large errors below 200 ppm, however, the errors of the estimations of carbon dioxide concentrations were less than ${\pm}5%$ from 400 to 2,000 ppm.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.377-381
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• 2016

NDIR $CO_2$ gas sensor was prototyped with ASIC implemented thermopile sensor which included temperature sensor and White-Cell structure in this paper. The temperature dependency of dual infrared sensors ($CO_2$ and reference IR sensors) has been characterized and their output voltage ratios according to the temperature and gas concentration were presented in this paper for achieving temperature compensation algorithm. The initial output voltages of NDIR $CO_2$ gas and reference IR sensors showed $3^{rd}$ order polynomial and linear output voltages according to the variation of ambient temperatures from 253 K to 333 K, respectively. The output voltages of temperature sensor presented a linear dependency according to the ambient temperature and could be described with V(T) = -3.0069+0.0145T(V). The characteristics of output voltage ratios could be modeled with five parameters which are dependent upon the ambient temperatures and gas concentration. The estimated $CO_2$ concentrations showed relatively high error below 300 ppm (maximum 572 % at 7 ppm $CO_2$ concentration), however, as the concentration increased from 500 ppm to 2,000 ppm, the overall estimated errors of $CO_2$ concentrations were less than ${\pm}10%$ in this research.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.331-336
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• 2021

The Non-dispersive Infrared (NDIR) gas sensor has high selectivity, measurement reliability, and long lifespan. Thus, even though the NDIR gas sensor is expensive, it is still widely used for carbon dioxide (CO₂) detection. In this study, to reduce the cost of the NDIR CO₂ gas sensor, we proposed the new optical waveguide structure design based on ready-made gas pipes that can improve the sensitivity by increasing the initial light intensity. The new optical waveguide design is a structure in which a part of the optical waveguide filter is inclined to increase the transmittance of the filter, and a parabolic mirror is installed at the rear end of the filter to focus the infrared rays passing through the filter to the detector. In order to examine the output characteristics of the new optical waveguide structure design, optical simulation was performed for two types of IR-source. As a result, the new optical waveguide structure can improve the sensitivity of the NDIR CO₂ gas sensor by making the infrared rays perpendicular to the filter, increasing the filter transmittance.