• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권12호
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• pp.4644-4651
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• 2022

Due to its short half-life, thoron gas has been assumed to have negligible health hazards on humans compared to radon. But, one of the decay products with a long half-life can make it to be transported to a long distance and to cause a severe internal dose through respiration. Since most commercial radon detectors can not discriminate thoron signals from radon signals, it is very common to overestimate radon doses which in turn result in biased estimation of lung cancer risk in epidemiological studies. Though some methods had been suggested to measure thoron and radon separately, they could not be used for real-time measurement because of CR-39 or LR-115. In this study, an effective method was suggested to measure radon and thoron separately from the free air. It was observed that the activity of thoron decreases exponentially due to delay time caused by a long pipe between two chambers. Therefore from two ion chambers apart in time, it was demonstrated that thoron and radon could be measured separately and simultaneously. We also developed a collimated alpha source and with this source and an SBD, we could convert the ion chamber reading to count rate in cps.

• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.250-253
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• 2008

New issues arise as to surface characterization, quantification and interface formation. Surface and interface control of CdSe nanocrystal systems, one of the most studied and useful nanostructures. Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have been the subject of much interest for both fundamental reseach and technical applications in recent years, due mainly to their strong size dependent properties and excellent chemical processibility. In this dissertation, the synthesis of CdSe quantum dots were synthesized by pyrolysis of high-temperature organometallic reagents. In order to modify the size and quality of quantum dots, we controlled the growth temperature and the relative amount of precursors to be injected into the coordinating solvent. Moreover, an effective surface passivation of monodisperse nanocrystals was achieved by overcoating them with a higher-band-gap material. Synthesized CdSe quantum dots were studied to evaluate the optical, electronic and structural properties using UV-absorption, and photoluminescence measurement.

• Electronic Materials Letters
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.774-783
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• 2018

Full maximum-entropy mobility-spectrum analysis (FMEMSA) is the best algorithm among mobility spectrum analyses by which we can obtain a set of partial-conductivities associated with mobility values (mobility spectrum) by analyzing magnetic-field-dependent conductivity-tensors. However, it is restricted to a direct band-gap semiconductor and should be modified for materials with other band structures. We developed the modified version of FMEMSA which is appropriate for a material with a single anisotropic valley, or an indirect-band-gap semiconductor quantum-well with a single non-degenerate conduction-band valley e.g., (110)-oriented AlAs quantum wells with a single anisotropic valley. To demonstrate the reliability of the modified version, we applied it to several sets of synthetic measurement datasets. The results demonstrated that, unlike existing FMEMSA, the modified version could produce accurate mobility spectra of materials with a single anisotropic valley.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.1037-1048
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• 2022

A radioactive isotope identification algorithm is a prerequisite for a low-resolution scintillation detector applied to an unmanned radiation monitoring system. In this paper, a sparse representation with dictionary learning approach is proposed and applied to plastic gamma-ray spectra. Label-consistent K-SVD was used to learn a discriminative dictionary for the spectra corresponding to a mixture of four isotopes (¹³³Ba, ²²Na, ¹³⁷Cs, and ⁶⁰Co). A Monte Carlo simulation was employed to produce the simulated data as learning samples. Experimental measurement was conducted to obtain practical spectra. After determining the hyper parameters, two dictionaries tailored to the learning samples were tested by varying with the source position and the measurement time. They achieved average accuracies of 97.6% and 98.0% for all testing spectra. The average accuracy of each dictionary was above 96% for spectra measured over 2 s. They also showed acceptable performance when the spectra were artificially shifted. Thus, the proposed method could be useful for identifying radioisotopes in gamma-ray spectra from a plastic scintillation detector even when a dictionary is adapted to only simulated data. Furthermore, owing to the outstanding properties of sparse representation, the proposed approach can easily be built into an insitu monitoring system.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.78-81
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• 2020

양자점은 산소와 수분에 취약하기 때문에 수분과 산소를 막아줄 수 있는 베리어 특성을 가진 제품을 이용하여 샌드위치 형식 양자점 층을 감싸는 형태로 제조하여 양자점의 광학적 신회성을 평가하였다. 다른 보호막이 없는 양자점 레진으로만 이루어진 필름, 양자점 필름과 PET를 합지한 필름 및 베리어 필름을 합지한 양자점 필름, 3가지를 이용하여 온도 60℃, 습도 90 %인 고온고습 조건에서 650시간 동안 변화를 평가를 진행하였다. 베리어 필름과 합지한 양자점 필름 제품은 휘도와 CIE x 및 CIE y 값이 유지되는 반면 PET와 합지한 양자점 필름 제품은 휘도 8 %, CIE x 2 % 및 CIE y 8 %가 낮아졌다. 또한 수분과 산소에 그대로 노출되었던 양자점 필름 제품은 측정 전부터 산화되어 낮게 측정되었으며 최종적으로 휘도 12 %, CIE x 9 % 및 CIE y 14 %가 낮게 측정되었다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.1027-1034
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• 2017

본 논문은 양자게이트의 모든 제어 동작점에서 양자들의 확률진폭, 확률, 평균 기댓값 및 정상상태 단위행렬의 행렬요소 등을 수학적 투사로 측정할 수 있는 새로운 함수 임베딩 방법을 제안하였다. 본 논문의 함수 임베딩 방법은 디랙 기호와 크로네커델타 기호를 사용해 각 제어 동작점에 대한 확률진폭의 직교 정규화조건을 2진 스칼라 연산자에 임베딩 한 것이다. 이와 같은 함수 임베딩 방법은 양자게이트 함수를 단일양자들의 텐서 곱으로 표현하는 유니터리 변환에서 유니터리 게이트의 산술 멱함수 제어에 매우 효과적 수단임을 밝혔다. Ternary 2-qutrit cNOT 게이트에 본 논문이 제안한 함수 임베딩 방법을 적용했을 때의 진화연산과 투사측정 결과를 제시하고, 기존의 방법들과 비교 검토하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 제5회 영호남 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.121-125
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• 2003

Time-resolved photoluminescence from InGaN/GaN multi-quantum well structures was investigated for two different shapes of square- and trapezoidal wells grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. To compare to the conventional square well structure with a radiative recombination lifetime of 0.170 nsec, the large value of lifetime of 0.540 nsec from trapezoidal well were found at room temperature. This value is similar to the value for GaN host material indicating no confinement effect of quantum well. Furthermore, the high resolution transmission electron microscopy image provides the In clustering effect in the trapezoidal well structure.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.182-183
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 전형적인 비선형 회귀문제를 다루기 위해 슈뢰딩거 방정식에 의해 표현되는 Hilbert공간에서 수행되는 Quantum 클러스터링과 Mountain 함수를 이용하여, 수치적인 입출력데이터로부터 TSK 형태의 자동적인 퍼지 if-then 규칙의 생성방법을 제안한다. 여기서 슈뢰딩거 방정식은 분석적으로 확률함수로부터 유도되어질 수 있는 포텐셜 함수를 포함한다. 이 포텐셜의 최소점들은 데이터의 특성을 포함하는 클러스터 중심들과 관련되어진다. 그러나 이들 클러스터 중심들은 데이터의 수와 같으므로 퍼지 규칙을 생성하기 어려울 뿐만 아니라 수렴속도가 느린 문제점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해서, 본 논문에서는 밀도 척도에 기초한 클러스터 중심의 근사적인 추정에 대해 간단하면서 효과적인 Mountain 함수를 이용하여 효과적인 클러스터 중심을 얻음과 동시에 적응 뉴로-퍼지 네트워크의 자동적인 퍼지 규칙을 생성하도록 한다. 자동차 MPG 예측문제에 대한 시뮬레이션 결과는 제안된 방법이 기존 문헌에서 제시한 예측성능보다 더 좋은 특성을 보임을 알 수 있었다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.31-35
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• 2004

A blue light emitting diode with 8 periods InGaN/GaN multi-quantum well structure grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition was fabricated with the inclusion of the metal-interconnection process in order to integrate the chips for light lamp. The quantum well structure provides the blue light photoluminescence peaked at 479.2 nm at room temperature. As decreasing the temperature to 20 K, the main peak was shifted to 469.7 nm and a minor peak at 441.9 nm appeared indicating the quantum dot formation in quantum wells. The current-voltage measurement for the fabricated LED chips shows that the metal-interconnection provides good current path with ohmic resistance of 41 $\Omega$.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.19-23
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• 2003

Time-resolved photoluminescence from InGaN/GaN multi-quantum well structures was investigated for two different shapes of square-and trapezoidal wells grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. To compare to the conventional square well structure with a radiative recombination lifetime of 0.170 nsec, the large value of lifetime of 0.540 nsec from trapezoidal well were found at room temperature. This value is similar to the value for GaN host material indicating no confinement effect of quantum well. Furthermore, the high resolution transmission electron microscopy image provides the In clustering effect in the trapezoidal well structure.