• Title/Summary/Keyword: Ion Irradiation

Search Result 453, Processing Time 0.025 seconds

Growth Retardation and Death of Rice Plants Irradiated with Carbon Ion Beams Is Preceded by Very Early Dose- and Time-dependent Gene Expression Changes

  • Rakwal, Randeep;Kimura, Shinzo;Shibato, Junko;Nojima, Kumie;Kim, Yeon-Ki;Nahm, Baek Hie;Jwa, Nam-Soo;Endo, Satoru;Tanaka, Kenichi;Iwahashi, Hitoshi
    • Molecules and Cells
    • /
    • v.25 no.2
    • /
    • pp.272-278
    • /
    • 2008
  • The carbon-ion beam (CIB) generated by the heavy-ion medical accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC) was targeted to 7-day-old rice. Physiological parameters such as growth, and gene expression profiles were examined immediately after CIB irradiation. Dose-dependent growth suppression was seen three days post-irradiation (PI), and all the irradiated plants died by 15 days PI. Microarray (Agilent rice 22K) analysis of the plants immediately after irradiation (iai) revealed effects on gene expression at 270 Gy; 353 genes were up-regulated and 87 down-regulated. Exactly the same set of genes was affected at 90 Gy. Among the highly induced genes were genes involved in information storage and processing, cellular processes and signaling, and metabolism. RT-PCR analysis confirmed the microarray data.

Ion Beam Modified ppolyimide: A Study of the Irradiation Effect

  • Lee, Y.S.;Lim, K.Y.;Chung, Y.D.;Lee, K.M.;Choi, B.S.;Whang, C.N.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
    • /
    • 1998.02a
    • /
    • pp.132-132
    • /
    • 1998
  • Ion bombardment in the keV range is known to induce drastic chemical modifications in organic and inoranic molecular comppounds. A degrading effects in orgainc materials such as the release of ppolymer compponents and the chemistry of the iradiation pprocess have been observed. The work to be described was carried out in order to understand the irradiation effect better. The sampple(ppolyimide : Kappton ) Were irradiated by Ar+, Ne+, H+ ions and electrons (3 keV) to fluence ranging from ~1$\times$1015 to ~1$\times$1017 ions/$cm^2$ at room tempperature. The impplant was usually rastered over an area of a few $cm^2$ . These ion impplantation were carried out in an electron sppectrometer ESCA 5700 (ppHI Ltd) at a residual gas ppressure of ~5$\times$10-10 Torr. X-ray pphotoelectron sppectroscoppy(XppS) measurements were made using a monochromatized Al Ka(1486.6 eV) excitation source. The pphotoemitted electrons were detected by hemisppherical analyser with a ppass energy of 23.5 eV. Core-level binding energies were referenced to the Fermi level. To avoid the charging effect it was used the neutralizer. We studied the irradiation effects on ppolyimide with Ar+, Ne+, He+ ions and electrons by XppS which 추 pprovide detailed information concerning the bonding-induced changes.

  • PDF

A calculation on the Metal-Film Mixing by Intense Pulse Ion Beam (IPIB)

  • Le, X.Y.;Yan, S.;Zhao, W.J.;Wang, Y.G.;Xue, J.M.
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
    • /
    • v.12 no.S1
    • /
    • pp.74-78
    • /
    • 2003
  • In this paper, we studied, by numerical calculation, a system, which was composed of metal-film and metal-substrate irradiated by IPIB with beam ion energy 250 keV, current density 10 to 250 A/$\textrm{cm}^2$. While the IPIB irradiation was going on, an induced effect named mixing occurred. In this case, metal-film and part of metal-substrate melted and mixed. The mixing state was kept as it was in melting phase due to the fast cooling rate. Our works were simulating the heating and cooling process via our STEIPIB program and tried to find proper parameters for a specific film-substrate system, 500 nmtitanium film coated on aluminum, to get best mixing results. The parameters calculated for such Ti-Al system were compared with the experimental results and were in good accordance to the experimental results.

The effect of Ion Beam modification of Polyimide surface on alignment properties of liquid crystals

  • Cho, Seong-Jin;Kim, Chan-Soo;Roh, Jin-A;Gwag, Jin-Seog;Kim, Jae-Chang
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
    • /
    • v.12 no.S1
    • /
    • pp.107-112
    • /
    • 2003
  • The alignment effect of liquid crystals on Polyimide surfaces bombarded by a low energy argon ion beam and the effect of pretilt angle on viewing characteristics of an LCD cell are discussed. The unidirectional out-of-plane liquid crystal tilt angle is varied with various ion beam irradiation conditions, such as the energy of the incident ions, the angle of incidence and exposure time. As low pretilt angle is profitable for wider viewing property, LCD cell with ion beam modified Polyimide layer show wider viewing characteristics.

Practical Surface Sculpting Method for the Fabrication of Predefined Curved Structures using Focused Ion Beam

  • Kim, Heung-Bae
    • Applied Science and Convergence Technology
    • /
    • v.25 no.5
    • /
    • pp.92-97
    • /
    • 2016
  • Surface erosion using focused ion beam irradiation is the most promising technology for the realization of micro/nanofabrication. However, accurate fabrication of predefined structures is still challenging. This article introduces a single step surface driving method to fabricated predefined curved structures. The previously reported multi step surface driving method (MSDM) has been modified so that a single ion dose profile can be used instead of multiple ion dose profiles. Experimental realization of the method is presented with the fabrication of predefined curved surfaces as well as reference to surface propagation theory. For the purpose of verification, simulations are performed on the basis of a sound mathematical model.

A Scheduling System for the Patient Treatment on a Heavy-ion Radiotherapy

  • Toyama, Hinako;Shibayama, Kouichi;Kanatsu, Syusuke;Kuroiwa, Toshitaka;Watanabe, Hideo;Wakaisami, Mitsuji;Tsuji, Hiroshi;Endo, Masahiro;Tsujii, Hirohiko
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
    • /
    • 2002.09a
    • /
    • pp.177-179
    • /
    • 2002
  • We have developed a scheduling system for heavy ion radiotherapy considering the condition of three treatment rooms and treatment planning for each patient. This system consists of a database (patient information, treatment method and machine schedule), a schedule for radiotherapy and WEB server. All operation of this system, such as data input, to change and to view the schedule, are performed by using a WEB browser. In order to protect personal information for the patients, access privilege to each information are limited by according to the occupational category. This system is connected with a hospital central information management system (AMIDAS) and an irradiation-managing computer for the heavy ion radiotherapy. A basic information for the patient is got from AMIDAS and the daily schedule sends to the treatment control computer at each treatment room through the irradiation-managing computer every morning. The daily, weekly, monthly schedules in the treatment room and the treatment condition of each patient are shared on the WEB browser with the all participants of the heavy ion therapy. This system could be useful to save a time to generate a treatment schedule and to inform us the most up-to-date treatment schedule and the related information at the same time.

  • PDF

Studies on the cellular metabolism in microorganisms as influenced by gamma-irradiation.(V) "On the membrane permeability changes and leakage of celluar constituents of irradiated yeast cell" (미생물의 세포생리에 미치는 전이방사선의 영향에 관한 연구 (제 5 ) "-의 과성에 대한 $\gamma$-의 영향에 대하여")

  • 김종협;전세열;김희자
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
    • /
    • v.6 no.2
    • /
    • pp.54-62
    • /
    • 1968
  • The effect of gamma-ray on yeast cells Sacch. cerevisiae, and the leakage of cellular constituents such as carbohydrates, ribose, amino acids, inorganic phosphates and organic phosphates have been studied. The samples of yeast cells washed throughly and starved intensively, radiation effects were compared with those of control (un-starved), the irradiation dose rates are in the range from 24 Kr. up. to 480, Kr. The loss of 260m$\mu$. absorbing material, are also observed. Mechanisms of membrane damage by gamma-irradiation are discussed corelating to permeability changes and loss of substances, then active and passive transport process are also under considerations in discussion. The experimental results are as follows, 1. Carbohydrates of yeast cell leak out by gamma-irradiation, and amounts of loss increase proportionally as the increasing of radiation dose, curve of carbohydrates loss in starved cells is parallel with those of non-starved cells. 2. Ribose leak out less than that of carbohydrate from irradiated cell, the dose response curve of loss is straight and proportional to the increasing of radiation doses, slope of the curve is much lower than of carbohydrates. 3. Amino acids also leak out and the curve of losses to radiation is not proportional, it is revealed that there are little losses from yeast at lower doses of irradiation. 4. The losses of inorganic phosphates increase unproportionally to the increasing of irradiation doses, there are little leakage at the lower doses of irradiation. The losses of organic phosphates increase proportionally to the increasing of irradiation doses, and the amount of losses are much more than that of inorganic phosphate at lower doses of irradiation. 5. Leakage from irradiated yeast cells was shown to be due to passive transport process not an energy requiring process of ion transport. 6. Loss of 260 m$\mu$. absorbing material is little more than that of control yeast by the gamma-irradiation dose of 120K.r. and 240K.r.

  • PDF

Degradation of herbicide paraquat by Fenton reagent and UV light irradiation (Fenton 시약 및 UV 광 조사에 의한 제초제 paraquat의 분해)

  • Kim, Byung-Ha;Ahn, Mi-Youn;Kim, Jang-Eok
    • The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
    • /
    • v.3 no.3
    • /
    • pp.20-26
    • /
    • 1999
  • This study was to investigate the potential degradation of a herbicide paraquat by Fenton reagents(ferric ion and hydrogen peroxide) under UV light irradiation(365 nm) in an aqueous solution. When $10{\sim}500$ mg/L of paraquat was reacted with either ferric ion or hydrogen peroxide in the dark or under UV light, no degradation was occurred. However, the simultaneous application of both ferric ion(0.8 mM) and hydrogen peroxide(0.140 M) in paraquat solution(500 mg/L) caused dramatic degradation of paraquat both in the dark (approximately 78%) and under UV light(approximately 90%). The reaction approached an equilibrium state in 10 hours. In the dark, when $0.2{\sim}0.8$ mM ferric ion was added, $20{\sim}70%$ paraquat of $10{\sim}500$ mg/L was degraded, regardless of hydrogen peroxide concentrations($0.035{\sim}0.140$ M), while under UV light, 95% of 10 and 100 mg/L paraquat was degraded regardless of ferric ion and hydrogen peroxide concentrations. At paraquat concentration of 200 and 500 mg/L, paraquat degradation increased with increasing ferric ion concentrations as in the dark. However the increase in hydrogen peroxide concentration did not affect the extent of paraquat degradation. The initial reaction rate constants(k) for paraquat degradation ranged from 0.0004 to 0.0314, and 0.0023 to 0.0367 in the dark and under UV light, respectively. The initial reaction rate constant increased in proportion to the increase in ferric ion concentration in both conditions. The half-lives of paraquat degradation(t1/2) were 20 - 1,980 and 19 - 303 minutes in the dark and under UV light, respectively. This study indicates that Fenton reagents under UV light irradiation are more potent than in the dark in terms of herbicide paraquat degradation in an aqueous solution.

  • PDF

Electro-optical characteristics of liquid crystal alignment layer modified by ion beam irradiation (액정배향막 표면 개질에 따른 전기광학적 특성연구)

  • Oh, Byeong-Yun;Seo, Dae-Shik
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
    • /
    • 2008.06a
    • /
    • pp.513-514
    • /
    • 2008
  • The potential of non-rubbing technology for applying to display devices was demonstrated by irradiating a high density argon ion beam (IB) on a polyimide (PI) as a liquid crystal alignment layer. The superior electro-optical characteristics were obtained, compared to rubbed PI, Although the low pretilt angle was created on the IB irradiated PI.

  • PDF