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Feasibility as radiation detectors of Flexible ITO film fabricated by roll-to-roll sputtering (롤-투-롤 스퍼터링으로 제작된 Flexible ITO Film의 방사선검출기 적용가능성 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Hun;Lee, S.H.;Jeon, S.P.;Park, G.U.;Heo, E.S.;Sung, Han-Kyu;Park, J.G.;Nam, Sang-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.374-374
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    • 2010
  • 본 연구는 Roll-to-Roll Sputtering 장비를 사용하여 제작된 Flexible ITO electrode 필름의 방사선 검출기로의 적용가능성을 알아보기 위해 기존의 Glass ITO electrode의 전기적 특성을 비교 평가하였다. 본 연구는 Flexible ITO electrode와 Glass ITO electrode을 하부전극으로 형성하고, 최근에 X-ray 변환체로 활발히 연구되고 있는 Powder 형태의 반도체물질인 HgI2 와 PbI2를 Binder와 일정한 비율로 혼합하여 3-Rolls-Miller를 사용하여 Powder를 일정한 미세크기로 만들고, 대면적 제작이 용이한 Screen-Printing method을 이용하여 시편을 제작하였다. 제작된 필름은 하부전극의 종류에 따른 X-ray 입사 후의 전기적신호의 차이를 측정하고, HgI2와 PbI2 중 Flexible ITO electrode와 더욱 효율적으로 반응하여 기존의 Glass ITO electrode를 대체할 수 있는 전극을 발견하여 진단용 의료영상의 왜곡 현상을 제거할 수 있는 Flexible 방사선 검출기의 제작의 초석을 제공하는 연구를 목적으로 한다. SEM(Scanning Electron Microscope) 통하여 반도체 물질의 결정구조와 크기를 알아보았고, 하부 전극의 종류에 따른 전기적 신호검출을 위해 제작된 필름의 암전류(Dark current) 와 민감도(Sensitivity)를 측정한 후, SNR (Signal -to- Noise)을 계산하여 평가하였다.

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Characteristics of an Optical Waveguide with Two Identical Elliptical Structures (두 개의 동일한 타원형 구조를 지닌 광 도파관의 특성)

  • Jang, SeongHo;Chung, SangHo;Yi, SeungHwan
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.48-54
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    • 2014
  • A unique optical waveguide structure is proposed to enhance the optical characteristics of alcohol screening sensors. This structure is then simulated. The structure consists of two elliptical waveguides that have a common focus to one side and has an IR source and detector at each of the other focal points of the ellipses. When the angle between the two elliptical waveguides is increased from 30 degrees to 90 degrees, the maximum level of irradiance is greatly decreased, falling from $2.23{\times}10^6 W/m^2$ to $5.74{\times}10^5W/m^2$. However, the diameter of the incident rays is at a minimum of 1.86mm and the total incident flux is less than 10% lower when compared to the structure at $90^{\circ}$. It can be seen from the simulation results that this structure might enhance the sensitivity of an optical gas sensor which has a large absorption wavelength.

Risk Assessment of Oyster Crassostrea gigas Processing Site For an HACCP System Model (HACCP 구축을 위한 굴(Crassostrea gigas) 가공공장의 위해 평가)

  • Kang, Kyung Tae;Kim, Min Joo;Park, Sun Young;Choi, Jong-Duck;Heu, Min Soo;Kim, Jin-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.49 no.5
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    • pp.533-540
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    • 2016
  • This study assessed the risk of an oyster-shucking site to establish the hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) system model by measuring viable cell counts, coliform group Staphylococcus aureus foreign material on oysters, oyster-producing equipment, and washing water. The viable cell count and coliform group levels of the harvested raw oysters were 4.00 log CFU/g and 1.1×102 MPN/100 g, while those of washed oysters were 2.99 log CFU/g and (3.2−4.6) × 10 MPN/100 g, respectively. After washing the oysters, no Escherichia coli or pathogenic bacteria (E. coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, S. aureus, Salmonella spp., Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and Clostridium perfringens) were detected. Regardless of the location of foreign matter, up to 100% more metallic and non-metallic foreign matter was detected at 1.5 mmΦ than at 3.5 mmΦ, using a metal detector with increased sensitivity. According to the results, the critical control points (CCP) are the washing and metal-detection processes. These results can be used as basic data to improve sanitation at oyster-shucking sites in factories with an HACCP system.

Determination Method of Puerarin and Daidzin from Puerariae Radix by Reversed-Phase HPLC with Pulsed Amperometric Detection (RP-HPLC-PAD를 이용한 갈근(葛根)과 갈근(葛根) 함유 처방의 Puerarin과 Daidzin 분석)

  • Chiao, Chen-Ying;Kwon, Ha-Jeong;Jeong, Ji-Seon;Lee, Je-Hyun;Hong, Seon-Pyo
    • The Korea Journal of Herbology
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.171-177
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    • 2008
  • Objectives: This study presents a reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography- pulsed amperometric detection(RP-HPLC-PAD) method for the determination of puerarin and daidzin in Puerariae Radix extract and Chinese medicinal preparations. Methods: Chromatographic separation was performed using a 10% acetonitrile with a reversed-phase column(Unison UK-C18, $100mm{\times}2.0mm$ I.D.; $3{\mu}m$). The analyses were detected by pulsed amperometric detector(PAD) in alkaline conditions by combining with post-column NaOH solution. Geniposide was used as an internal standard. Results: The limit of detection(S/N=3) and the limit of quantification(S/N=10) were 0.025 ng, 0.075 ng for puerarin, and 0.05 ng, 0.15 ng for daidzin, respectively. The intra- and inter-day precisions(RSDs) were less than 6.5% and average recoveries of puerarin were 99.7-101.3% and those of daidzin were 101.0-102.8%. Conclusions: According to above results, we developed a determination method for puerarin and daidzin in Puerariae Radix with high sensitivity and selectivitely.

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Label-free Femtomolar Detection of Cancer Biomarker by Reduced Graphene Oxide Field-effect Transistor

  • Kim, Duck-Jin;Sohn, Il-Yung;Jung, Jin-Heak;Yoon, Ok-Ja;Lee, N.E.;Park, Joon-Shik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.02a
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    • pp.549-549
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    • 2012
  • Early detection of cancer biomarkers in the blood is of vital importance for reducing the mortality and morbidity in a number of cancers. From this point of view, immunosensors based on nanowire (NW) and carbon nanotube (CNT) field-effect transistors (FETs) that allow the ultra-sensitive, highly specific, and label-free electrical detection of biomarkers received much attention. Nevertheless 1D nano-FET biosensors showed high performance, several challenges remain to be resolved for the uncomplicated, reproducible, low-cost and high-throughput nanofabrication. Recently, two-dimensional (2D) graphene and reduced GO (RGO) nanosheets or films find widespread applications such as clean energy storage and conversion devices, optical detector, field-effect transistors, electromechanical resonators, and chemical & biological sensors. In particular, the graphene- and RGO-FETs devices are very promising for sensing applications because of advantages including large detection area, low noise level in solution, ease of fabrication, and the high sensitivity to ions and biomolecules comparable to 1D nano-FETs. Even though a limited number of biosensor applications including chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown graphene film for DNA detection, single-layer graphene for protein detection and single-layer graphene or solution-processed RGO film for cell monitoring have been reported, development of facile fabrication methods and full understanding of sensing mechanism are still lacking. Furthermore, there have been no reports on demonstration of ultrasensitive electrical detection of a cancer biomarker using the graphene- or RGO-FET. Here we describe scalable and facile fabrication of reduced graphene oxide FET (RGO-FET) with the capability of label-free, ultrasensitive electrical detection of a cancer biomarker, prostate specific antigen/${\alpha}$ 1-antichymotrypsin (PSA-ACT) complex, in which the ultrathin RGO channel was formed by a uniform self-assembly of two-dimensional RGO nanosheets, and also we will discuss about the immunosensing mechanism.

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Infrared Spectro-Polarimeter of the Solar Flare Telescope at NAOJ

  • Hagino, Masaoki;Sakurai, Takashi;Hanaoka, Yoichiro;Shinoda, Kazuya;Noguchi, Motokazu;Miyashita, Masakuni;Fukuda, Takeo;Suzuki, Isao;Arai, Takehiko;Takeyama, Norihide
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.85.2-85.2
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    • 2011
  • A new infrared spectro-polarimeter was installed in 2008 onto the Solar Flare Telescope of NAOJ in the Mitaka headquarters. The Solar Flare Telescope had been operated previously as a filter-based magnetograph and obtained vector magnetograms of active regions with the Fe I 630.3nm line during 1992 - 2005. The aim of this new instrument is to measure the distribution of magnetic helicity over the whole Sun and for an extended period with high magnetic sensitivity in the infrared wavelengths. This spectro-polarimter is able to obtain polarizations in both photospheric and chromospheric layers. In order to take full Stokes profiles, we observe Fe I 1564.8 nm and He I 1083.0 nm lines (with the neighboring photospheric Si line) for the photospheric and chromospheric magnetic field vectors, respectively. The infrared detector of this instrument is a $640{\times}512$-pixel InGaAs camera produced by a Belgian company Xenics. The frame rate of the camera is 90 frames/sec. The 640-pixel row of this camera is set along the spectrograph slit of the polarimeter. Since the slit only covers the solar hemisphere, a full disk map is obtained by raster scanning the solar disk twice. A magnetic map is made of about $1200{\times}1200$ pixels with a pixel size of 1.8 arcsec. It generally takes 1.5 hours to scan the whole Sun. Although some issues on the instrument calibration still remain, a few maps of the whole Sun at the two wavelengths are now taken daily. In this presentation, we will introduce the instrument and present some observational results.

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A Study on the Magnetooptic Current Measurement System Using SF-4 Flint Glass (SF-4 Flint Glass를 이용한 자기광학적 전류측정시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Jo, In-Sik;Kim, Eun-Su;Yang, In-Eung
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.43-47
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    • 1985
  • This paper describes fiber-optic current sensor using SF-4 flint glass for the first time, ails the flint glass has been theoretically analyzed by jones matrix and experimentally verified. Verdet constant of SF-4 flint glass, which determines the sensitivity of current sensor, has been experimentally found as 0.0606(min/g.cm). It is relatively lower value than currently used faraday rotators such as FR-5, SF-6 flint glasses and YIG. The fiber.optic current sensor system was established and the current measurement was performed in the range of 100-600 (A) and 100- 500 (G). It has beenfhown by the experi-mental results that the detector output linearly increased in proportion to the current. Since these experimental results were in good agreement with theoretical results, it has been shown that SF-4 flint glass can be used for the magnetooptic current sensor.

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DEVELOPMENT OF LEAD SLOWING DOWN SPECTROMETER FOR ISOTOPIC FISSILE ASSAY

  • Lee, YongDeok;Park, Chang Je;Ahn, Sang Joon;Kim, Ho-Dong
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.837-846
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    • 2014
  • A lead slowing down spectrometer (LSDS) is under development for analysis of isotopic fissile material contents in pyro-processed material, or spent fuel. Many current commercial fissile assay technologies have a limitation in accurate and direct assay of fissile content. However, LSDS is very sensitive in distinguishing fissile fission signals from each isotope. A neutron spectrum analysis was conducted in the spectrometer and the energy resolution was investigated from 0.1eV to 100keV. The spectrum was well shaped in the slowing down energy. The resolution was enough to obtain each fissile from 0.2eV to 1keV. The detector existence in the lead will disturb the source neutron spectrum. It causes a change in resolution and peak amplitude. The intense source neutron production was designed for ~E12 n's/sec to overcome spent fuel background. The detection sensitivity of U238 and Th232 fission chamber was investigated. The first and second layer detectors increase detection efficiency. Thorium also has a threshold property to detect the fast fission neutrons from fissile fission. However, the detection of Th232 is about 76% of that of U238. A linear detection model was set up over the slowing down neutron energy to obtain each fissile material content. The isotopic fissile assay using LSDS is applicable for the optimum design of spent fuel storage to maximize burnup credit and quality assurance of the recycled nuclear material for safety and economics. LSDS technology will contribute to the transparency and credibility of pyro-process using spent fuel, as internationally demanded.

The solar photospheric and chromospheric magnetic field as observed in the near-infrared

  • Collados, Manuel
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.31.4-32
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    • 2016
  • Observing the solar atmosphere with ground-based telescopes in the near-infrared has a number of advantages when compared to classical measurements in visible wavelengths. One of them comes from the magnetic sensitivity of spectral lines, which varies as ${\lambda}_g$, where g is the effective $Land{\acute{e}}$ factor of the transition. This wavelength dependence makes the near-infrared range adequate to study subtle spatial or temporal variations of the magnetic field. Spectral lines, such as the photospheric Fe I $1.5648{\mu}m$ spectral line, with a $Land{\acute{e}}$ factor g=3, have often been used in the past for this type of studies. To study the chromosphere, the Ca II IR triplet and the He I $1.0830{\mu}m$ triplet are the most often observed lines. The latter has the additional advantage that the photospheric Si I $1.0827{\mu}m$ is close enough so that photosphere and chromosphere can be simultaneously recorded with a single detector in a spectrograph. The instrument TIP (Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter) has been continuously operating since 1999 at the 70-cm German VTT of the Observatorio del Teide and has been recently moved to the 1.5-m German GREGOR. During all this time, results have been obtained concerning the nature of the weak photospheric magnetic field of the quiet sun, magneto-acoustic wave propagation, evolution with the cycle of sunspot magnetic fields, photospheric and chromospheric magnetic field in emerging regions, magnetic field in chromospheric structures such as filaments, prominences, flares, and spicules, etc. In this talk, I will review the main results obtained after all these observations and mention the main challenges for the future. With its novel polarization-free design and a complete suite of instruments aimed at simultaneous (imaging and spectroscopic) observations of the solar photosphere and chromosphere, the EST (European Solar Telescope) will represent a major world-wide infrastructure to understand the physical nature of all these phenomena.

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A PLL Based 32MHz~1GHz Wide Band Clock Generator Circuit for High Speed Microprocessors (PLL을 이용한 고속 마이크로프로세서용 32MHz~1GHz 광대역 클럭발생회로)

  • Kim, Sang-Kyu;Lee, Jae-Hyung;Lee, Soo-Hyung;Chung, Kang-Min
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.235-244
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    • 2000
  • This paper presents a low power PLL based clock geneator circuit for microprocessors. It generates 32MHz${\sim}$1GHz clocks and can be integrated inside microprocessor chips. A high speed D Flip-Flop is designed using dynamic differential latch and a new Phase Frequency Detector(PFD) based on this FF is presented. The PFD enjoys low error characteristics in phase sensitivity and the PLL using this PFD has a low phase error. To improve the linearity of voltage controlled oscillator(VCO) in PLL, the voltage to current converter and current controlled oscillator combination is suggested. The resulting PLL provides wide lock range and extends frequency of generated clocks over 1 GHz. The clock generator is designed by using $0.65\;{\mu}m$ CMOS full custom technology and operates with $11\;{\mu}s$ lock-in time. The power consumption is less than 20mW.

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