• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.28 no.spc
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• pp.23-29
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• 2022

To detect harmful chemical substances in seawater, we fabricated a prototype sensor and evaluated its performance. The prototype sensor consisted of a detector, housing, and driving circuit. We built the detector by printing an Indium-Tin-Oxide (ITO) nanoparticle film on a flexible substrate, and it had two detection parts for simultaneous detection of temperature and HNS concentration. The housing connected the detector and the driving circuit and was made of Teflon material to prevent chemical reactions that may affect sensor performance. The driving circuit supplied electric power, and display measured data using a bridge circuit and an Arduino board. We evaluated the sensor performances such as response (ΔR), the limit of detection (LOD), response time, and errors to confirm the specification.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.106-109
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• 2012

A low power methane gas sensor with microheater was fabricated by silicon bulk micromachining technology. In order to heat up the sensing layer to operating temperature, a platinum (Pt) micro heater was embedded in the gas sensor. The line width and gap of the microheater was 20 ${\mu}m$ and 4.5 ${\mu}m$, respectively. Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowhisker arrays were grown on a sensor from a ZnO seed layer using a hydrothermal method. A 200 ml aqueous solution of 0.1 mol zinc nitrate hexahydrate, 0.1 mol hexamethylenetetramine, and 0.02 mol polyethylenimine was used for growing ZnO nanowhiskers. Temperature distribution of the sensor was analyzed by infrared thermal camera. The optimum temperature for highest sensitivity was found to be $250^{\circ}C$ although relatively high (64%) sensitivity was obtained even at as low a temperature as $150^{\circ}C$. The power consumption was 72 mW at $250^{\circ}C$, and only 25 mW at $150^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of Radiation Industry
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.147-153
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• 2014

This paper describes a large area CMOS image sensor module Implementation using the precision align inspection program. This work is needed because wafer cutting system does not always have high precision. The program check more than 8 point of sensor edges and align sensors with moving table. The size of a $2{\times}1$ butted CMOS image sensor module which except for the size of PCB is $170mm{\times}170mm$. And the pixel size is $55{\mu}m{\times}55{\mu}m$ and the number of pixels is $3,072{\times}3,072$. The gap between the two CMOS image sensor module was arranged in less than one pixel size.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.08a
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• pp.359-359
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• 2011

This study reports the H2S gas sensing properties of CuO / ZnO nano-hetero structure bundle and the investigation of gas sensing mechanism. The 1-Dimensional ZnO nano-structure was synthesized by hydrothermal method and CuO / ZnO nano-heterostructures were prepared by photo chemical reaction. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectra confirmed a well-crystalline ZnO of hexagonal structure. In order to improve the H2S gas sensing properties, simple type of gas sensor was fabricated with ZnO nano-heterostructures, which were prepared by photo-chemical deposition of CuO on the ZnO nanorods bundle. The furnace type gas sensing system was used to characterize sensing properties with diluted H2S gas (50 ppm) balanced air at various operating temperature up to 500$^{\circ}C$. The H2S gas response of ZnO nanorods bundle sensor increased with increasing temperature, which is thought to be due to chemical reaction of nanorods with gas molecules. Through analysis of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), the sensing mechanism of ZnO nanorods bundle sensor was explained by well-known surface reaction between ZnO surface atoms and hydrogen sulfide. However at high sensing temperature, chemical conversion of ZnO nanorods becomes a dominant sensing mechanism in current system. Photo-chemically fabricated CuO/ZnO heteronanostructures show higher gas response and higher current level than ZnO nanorods bundle. The gas sensing mechanism of the heteronanostructure can be explained by the chemical conversion of sensing material through the reaction with H2S gas.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.144-149
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• 2013

In this research, we developed a biosensor to detect lung cancer-specific biomarker using Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) chip based on interference and nano surface plasmon resonance (nanoSPR). The nano-porous AAO chip was fabricated $2{\mu}m$ of pore-depth by two-step anodizing method for surface uniformity. NanoSPR has sensitivity to the refractive index (RI) of the surrounding medium and also provides simple and label-free detection when specific antibodies are immobilized to the Au-deposited surface of nano-porous AAO chip. To detect the lung cancer-specific biomarker, antibodies were immobilized on the surface of the chip by Self Assembled Monolayer (SAM) method. Since then lung cancer-specific biomarker was applied atop the antibodies immobilized layer. The specific reaction of the antigen-antibody contributed to the change in the refractive index that cause shift of resonance spectrum in the interference pattern. The Limit of Detection (LOD) was 1 fg/ml by using our nano-porous AAO biosensor chip.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.13.2-13.2
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• 2009

전도성 고분자는 재료의 경제적 측면 이외에 반도체로서의 다양한 전기적 특성, 생물학적 적합성, 다양한 합성 가능성 등의 우수한 장점을 지니고있어 많은 분야에 응용되고 있다. 그러나 유기물질이라는 한계로 인하여 기존 nano/microfabrication에서 일반적으로 적용되는 패터닝 방법을 적용하는데 어려움이있다. 따라서 많은 연구자들이 독립적인 나노 크기 개체를 만든 후 이의 자가 조립, 혹은 이와 유사한 방법에 의해 소자를 형성하고자 하는 노력을 기울이고 있다.이러한 bottom-up방식에 의한 소자 구성은 나노크기의 전도성 고분자 물질을 소자화하는데에는 성공하고 있으나, 복잡한 패터닝과 다양한 크기의 나노구조체를 정확한 위치에 정렬시키는 문제에 있어서 명확한 해답을 제시하지 못하는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 현재 보편적으로 이용되고 있는 금속의nano/microfabrication공정과 전도성 폴리머의 전해합성를 복합화하여 고정밀도 및 다양한 패턴의 나노 소자를 구현하고자하였다. 이를 위하여 전해합성 조건에 따른 polypyrrole의전기적 특성을 평가하였으며, 하부 금속전극관의 복합적층화를 통한 접촉저항의 최소화를 구현하고자 하였다. 또한 이와 같은 self-alignedelectropolymerization방법을 이용하여 구성된 nano/micro 소자의 gas sensor 및 bio sensor로서의 적용가능성에 대하여평가하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1541_1542
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 바이오/환경센서 응용을 위해 실리콘 기판위에 나노 동공구조 백금 전극을 작동전극으로 갖는 소형화된 용존산소센서를 설계 및 제작하고 그 특성을 분석하였다. 제작된 용존산소 센서는 15 mm $\times$ 8 mm $\times$ 0.6 mm의 소형화된 크기를 가졌으며, -0.9 V의 인가전위 시에 각각 산소 포화 상태와 무산소 상태에서 2.14 mA와 0.8 mA의 환원전류 특성을 보였다. 또한, 다양한 산소 농도상태에서 각기 다른 전류응답 차이를 보였다. 이를 통해서 다양한 산소농도에 대한 센싱특성을 검증하였다. 한편, 제작된 용존산소 센서는 전극제작에 사용된 나노 동공구조 백금 전극의 높은 촉매 특성에 기인하여 90% 전류응답시간이 7초 이내로 기발표된 다른 연구들에 비해 현저히 향상된 응답특성을 보였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.653-657
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• 2005

AGV is very useful equipment to transfer containers in automated container terminal. AGV must have Obstacle Detection System (ODS) for port automation. ODS needs the function to classify some specified object from background in acquired data. And it must be able to track classified moving objects. Finally, ODS could determine its next action for safe driving whether it should do emergency stop or speed down, or it should change its deriving lane. For these functions, ODS can have many different kinds of algorithm. In this paper, we present one of AGV to be used in automated container terminal.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.235-238
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• 2009

To study the relationship between spark ignition and the gap in the nano-scale region, the electric potential was applied to between a Pt-Ir tip and a gold substrate. The tip was sharpened by electro-chemical etching process in the solution of $CaCl_2;H_2O$ and acetone. The radius of tip was measured to be around 200nm and attached to the scanning probe microscope to control the gap between the tip and the substrate. The electric potential of 10V to 80V was applied to initialize the spark. The gaps and the current profile were measured to analyze the characteristics of spark ignition. A spark sustaining time was measured to be between 50ns and 200ns depending on the applied electric potential and the gap between the electrodes. The continuous electric discharge was successfully sustained up to 1 second of spark or arc time. The developed process can be applicable to the micro-scale fabrication of automotive sensors as a similar concept of GTAW.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.297-303
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• 2012

In this study, voltammetry system for realizing high sensitivity nano-labeled sensor of detecting heavy metals was designed, and optimal system operating conditions were determined. High precision digital to analog converter (DAC) circuit was designed to control applied unit voltage at working electrode and analog to digital converter (ADC) circuit was designed to measure the current range of $0.1{\sim}1000{\mu}A$ at counter electrode. Main control unit (MCU) circuit for controlling voltammetry system with 150 MHz clock speed, main memory circuit for the mathematical operation processing of the measured current value and independent power circuit for analog/digital circuit parts to reduce various noise were designed. From result of voltammetry system operation, oxidation current peaks which are proportional to the concentrations of Zn, Cd and Pb ions were found at each oxidation potential with high precision.