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Improved Responsivity of an a-Si-based Micro-bolometer Focal Plane Array with a SiNx Membrane Layer

  • Joontaek, Jung;Minsik, Kim;Chae-Hwan, Kim;Tae Hyun, Kim;Sang Hyun, Park;Kwanghee, Kim;Hui Jae, Cho;Youngju, Kim;Hee Yeoun, Kim;Jae Sub, Oh
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.366-370
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    • 2022
  • A 12 ㎛ pixel-sized 360 × 240 microbolometer focal plane array (MBFPA) was fabricated using a complementary metaloxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible process. To release the MBFPA membrane, an amorphous carbon layer (ACL) processed at a low temperature (<400 ℃) was deposited as a sacrificial layer. The thermal time constant of the MBFPA was improved by using serpentine legs and controlling the thickness of the SiNx layers at 110, 130, and 150 nm on the membrane, with response times of 6.13, 6.28, and 7.48 msec, respectively. Boron-doped amorphous Si (a-Si), which exhibits a high-temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) and CMOS compatibility, was deposited on top of the membrane as an IR absorption layer to provide heat energy transformation. The structural stability of the thin SiNx membrane and serpentine legs was observed using field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). The fabrication yield was evaluated by measuring the resistance of a representative pixel in the array, which was in the range of 0.8-1.2 Mohm (as designed). The yields for SiNx thicknesses of SiNx at 110, 130, and 150 nm were 75, 86, and 86%, respectively.

A Study on Adaptable Non-contact Shape Inspection System (적응형 비접촉 형상 검사에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Young-June;Park, Nak-Gyu;Lee, Dong-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.74-80
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    • 2005
  • A new dimension measuring method for the measurement of diameter of an object has been developed using laser triangulation. The 3D data of an object was calculated from the 2 dimensional image information obtained by the laser stripe using the laser triangulation. The system that use existing theory can measure the diameter of hole not only in a normal plane but also ill an incline plane. However, in the existing theory, since the lens with fixed feral length was used, the area of measurement was fixed. The simplest way to solve this problem is to change distance between a CCD camera and object. Other way is to use a zoom lens having variable focal length. In this paper, the zoom lens with variable focal length was used. Therefore, we ran experiment with magnification that is optimized according to size of object using zoom lens with variable focal length.

The Aspheric Analysis through the Optical Capacity of 35mm Camera with an Aspheric Zoom Lens System (35mm 카메라 비구면 줌 렌즈계의 광학적 성능을 통한 비구면 분석)

  • Ji, Taek Sang;Lim, Hyeon Seon;Kim, Bong Hwan
    • Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2001
  • We analyzed aspheric patterns after we investigated zoom lens' constructions and optical capacities of a ordinary designed 35mm camera with an aspheric zoom lens system in this research. As this lens system was the zoom lens system about infinite object point, it was made to get a short back focal length, be able to use a lens unit more close to the image plane, and be used the compact camera which got a viewing system. The zoom ratio of the system was 1 : 2 and it got a positive and negative power's distribution. As it was determined the 35~70 mm focal length range which the most common people used, it might be called economic optical system considered universality. As it was used two aspheric surface, it was used just three lens, compensated the aberration and schemed lens' miniaturization, lightweightization, and the decrease effect of the unit cost of production.

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Analysis on the Source Characteristics of the Recent Five-year Earthquakes Occurred in the Central and Western Areas of the Korean Peninsula (최근 5년간 한반도 중서부 지역에서 발생한 지진의 진원 특성 분석)

  • Back, Jin-Ju;Kyung, Jai-Bok;Choi, Ho-Seon
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.161-169
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    • 2011
  • Focal mechanism solutions in the central and western areas of the Korean Peninsula (36-37.8$^{\circ}N$, 126-128$^{\circ}E$) were obtained from the analysis of the recent seventeen earthquakes (M${\geq}$2.2) which occurred from January, 2005 to May, 2010. The spatial differences between the epicenters recalculated by this study and those announced by the Korea Meteorological Administration are less than $0.03^{\circ}$, indicating a small deviation. Focal mechanism solutions were obtained from the analysis of P wave polarities, SH wave polarities and SH/P amplitude ratios. The focal mechanism solutions show dominant strike-slip faulting or oblique slip faulting with strike-slip components. The P-axes trends are mainly ENE-WSW or E-W directions. The direction of fault plane and auxillary fault plane with NNE-SSW and WNW-ESE are almost parallel to the general trends of lineaments in the study area. The results also show that focal mechanism solutions and the main axis of stress field in the Kyonggi massif and Okchon belt are almost same.

Multiple Lapse Time Window Analysis using Focal Mechanism (진원함수를 고려한 다중지연시간창 해석)

  • Chung, Tae-Woong;Yoshimoto, Kazuo
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.85-91
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    • 2012
  • Multiple Lapse Time Window (MLTW) analysis for obtaining intrinsic attenuation value require numerous data without directional bias to compensate focal mechanism. The first window of MLTW, therefore, shows large deviation in fitting smoothed theoretical curve. The information on the focal mechanism may reduce burdens of number and distribution. This study combined algorithm of computing focal mechanism to DSMC method by Yoshimoto (2000). However, the MLTW method based on the numerous data was not applicable to this study, because of the limited data to the almost same fault plane solution. This study showed that the available data was too insufficient to construct smoothed theoretical curve, although the deviation of the first window was improved. Instead of conventional solution by more data, the study seems to be needed for new constraints to obtain smoothed curve.

Twin-Image Elimination in In-line Digital Holography Microscope (In-line 디지털 홀로그래피 현미경에서 쌍둥이 상 제거연구)

  • Cho, Hyung-Jun;Yu, Young-Hun
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.117-121
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    • 2007
  • A fundamental problem in the in-line digital holography microscope is that the real image and virtual image and zero-order image are not separated spatially. In this paper, we have eliminated the zero-order noise by an averaging method and the twin image is divided using a geometrical set-up in an in-line digital holographic microscope. The size of the virtual image depends on the distance between the objective lens and the hologram plane and on the distance between the hologram plane and the image plane. We found that the virtual image size is smallest when the distance between the objective lens and the hologram plane is equal to the back focal length of the objective lens. We could divide the virtual image and real image by controlling the distance between the hologram plane and the objective lens.

ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION EFFECTS ON LAMOST

  • SUN AIQUN;Hu JINGYAO
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.spc1
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    • pp.397-398
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    • 1996
  • Large field spectrographs are severely influenced by atmospheric refraction. LAMOST is a large field multi-object spectroscopy telescope with $5^{\circ}$ field of view, f/5 focus ratio and 20m focal length. There will be 4000 fibers simultaneous on it's $\phi$1.75m focal plane. Here we discuss the atmospheric refraction effects on LAMOST in two hands. One is the effect of differential refraction across the field, another is the effect of atmospheric dispersion. According to the calculation, we find that: 1. The largest deviation from center within the field is 4.;32" during a 1.5-hour integration at $80^{\circ}$ declination. 2. The directions of deviation are complex, so the deviations can't be decreased by rotating the field. We also give out the atmospheric dispersions.

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Parametric Analysis of Digital Particle Holography for Spray Droplets (분무 액적을 위한 디지털 입자 홀로그래피의 파라미터 해석)

  • Yang, Yan;Kang, Bo-Seon
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.191-197
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    • 2007
  • This study presents in-line digital particle holography and its application to spray droplets to measure the characteristics of spray droplets. Several important parameters at the time of hologram recording such as the object distance and the region of laser beam used were verified. The correlation coefficient method with important parameters such as the reconstruction interval and the correlation interval was used for determination of the focal planes of particles. The optimal values of all these parameters are obtained by either numerical simulation of holograms or experiments. Using these optimal parameters, double pulse digital spray holograms in a short time interval were recorded with the synchronization system for the time control. The spatial positions of droplets that are used for the evaluation of the three dimensional droplet velocities can be easily located, which proves the feasibility of the digital holographic technology for measurements of several important features of spray droplets.

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Spatial Characterization of MAC, a High-Resolution Optical Earth Observation Camera for Small Satellites

  • Kim Eugene D.;Choi Young-Wan;Yang Ho-Soon;Ismail Mohd. Afiq bin
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.79-83
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    • 2005
  • Spatial calibrations have been performed on the Medium-sized Aperture Camera (MAC) of the RazakSAT satellite. Topics discussed in this paper include the measurements of system modulation transfer function (MTF), relative pixel line-of-sight (LOS), and end-to-end imaging tests. The MTF measurements were made by capturing the scanned knife-edge image on a pixel, and an issue in the MTF calculation algorithm is discussed. The method used to place the focal plane at the correct focal position is described, since they make use of MTF measurements. Relative LOS measurements are done by theodolite measurements of the telescope. Qualitative ground test result of end-to-end imaging is given.

악조건하의 비동일평면 카메라 교정을 위한 알고리즘

  • Ahn, Taek-Jin;Lee, Moon-Kyu
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.7 no.12
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    • pp.1001-1008
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    • 2001
  • This paper presents a new camera calibration algorithm for ill-conditioned cases in which the camera plane is nearly parallel to a set of non-coplanar calibration boards. for the ill-conditioned case, most of existing calibration approaches such as Tsais radial-alignment-constraint method cannot be applied. Recently, for the ill-conditioned coplanar calibration Lee&Lee[16] proposed an iterative algorithm based on the least square method. The non-coplanar calibration algorithm presented in this paper is an iterative two-stage procedure with extends the previous coplanar calibration algorithm. Through the first stage, camera, position and orientation parameters as well as one radial distortion factor are determined optimally for a given data of the scale factor and the focal length. In the second stage, the scale factor and the focal length are locally optimized. This process is repeated until any improvement cannot be expected any more Computational results are provided to show the performance of the algorithm developed.

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