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Compensation for The Solar Radiation Effect of Radiosonde's Temperature Sensor Using Solar Panel (솔라패널을 이용한 라디오존데 온도센서의 일사보정)

  • Park, Myeong-Seok;Lee, Jin-Wook;Jeung, Se-Jin;Jang, Jea-Won
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.283-294
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    • 2019
  • For the upper air observations, a temperature measurement using radiosonde is a common method, and the compensation of solar radiation effects in the radiosonde temperature sensor is an important factor. In this paper, we present various experiments and compensation methods of the radiosonde temperature sensor to overcome the errors caused by the movement of the radiosonde rotation, etc. The methods and procedures of this study are as follows. First, we used the solar simulator to analyze the temperature variation and solar effect of the temperature sensor in the radiosonde according to the insolation. We also analyzed the temperature variation and solar effect of the temperature sensor according to the incident angle between the solar simulator and radiosonde. Second, we measured and analyzed solar radiation absorbed by solar cells attached to radiosonde. Third, we present combined compensate solution of the first and the second experiment results, to overcome errors caused by insolation effects in the radiosonde temperature sensors. Fourth, we compared that the reference temperature in similar environment with the upper air conditions, to verify the new radiated compensation performance of the radiosonde temperature sensor. Finally, the radiosonde fabricated in this study was raised to the atmosphere, and the laser correction algorithm proposed through experiments was reviewed. As a result of the radiosonde SRS-10 produced in this study, the temperature deviation from Vaisala RS92 was $0.057^{\circ}C$ in nighttime observation, $0.17^{\circ}C$ in daytime observation, It is expected that the GRUAN under WMO will be able to obtain a high test rating of 5.0.

Development of Packaging Technology for CdTe Multi-Energy X-ray Image Sensor (CdTe 멀티에너지 엑스선 영상센서 패키징 기술 개발)

  • Kwon, Youngman;Kim, Youngjo;Ryu, Cheolwoo;Son, Hyunhwa;Kim, Byoungwook;Kim, YoungJu;Choi, ByoungJung;Lee, YoungChoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.8 no.7
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    • pp.371-376
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    • 2014
  • The process of flip-chip bump bonding, Au wire bonding and encapsulation were sucessfully developed and modularized. The CdTe sensor and ROIC were optimally jointed together at $150^{\circ}C$ and $270^{\circ}C$ respectively under24.5 N for 30s. To make SnAg bump on ROIC easy to be bonded, the higher bonding temperature was established than CdTe sensor's. In addition, the bonding pressure was lowered minimally because CdTe Sensor is easier to break than Si Sensor. CdTe multi-energy sensor module observed were no electrical failures in the joints using developed flip chip bump bonding and Au wire bonding process. As a result of measurement, shearing force was $2.45kgf/mm^2$ and, it is enough bonding force against threshold force, $2kgf/mm^2s$.

The Study on Applicability of Semi-conductive Compound for Radioactive Source Tracing Dosimeter in NDT Field (비파괴 검사 분야의 방사성 동위원소 위치추적을 위한 반도체 화합물의 적용 가능성 연구)

  • Shin, Yohan;Han, Moojae;Jung, Jaehoon;Kim, Kyotae;Heo, Yeji;Lee, Deukhee;Cho, Heunglae;Park, Sungkwang
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2019
  • Radiation safety management is being considered very important since radioactive isotopes such as Co-60 and Ir-192 are widely used in fields such as non-destructive test(NDT). In this study, the applicability of Mercury(II) Iodide($HgI_2$) source for tracing system was evaluated. To make sure the unit cell sensor's reliability, we evaluated the electrical properties of the sensor made with $HgI_2$, and then position dependence of the sensor was analyzed and compared with the dose distribution from the planning system. As a result of the evaluation, high reliability of the sensor was shown through the linearity of R-sq > 0.990 and reproducibility of CV < 0.015. In the position dependence evaluation, the maximum value was measured at the isocenter of the sensor and gradually decreased according to the distance. However, the dose distribution data from the planning system was turned out that has difference with that of the sensor up to 30%. This seems to come from the difference between single-point measuring based planning system and area measuring based sensor.

Design of Total RMS(Radiation Monitoring System) for nuclear and nuclear medicine (원자력 및 핵의학 분야용 Total RMS (Radiation Monitoring System)의 설계)

  • Ko, Tae-Young;Lee, Joo-Hyun;Lee, Seung-Ho
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.158-161
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we propose Total RMS(Radiation Monitoring System) for nuclear and nuclear medicine. The proposed system can expand and control Stack Monitor, Area Monitor, and Water(Liquid) Monitor into one system, and can monitor the signals measured by each radiation detector in an integrated manner. The proposed system consists of a sensor module that detects the radiation, a display unit that displays the radiation dose near the radiation detection location, an alarm unit that reports the alarm when the detected radiation dose reaches the danger level, A Main Hub for collecting and storing the contents to the remote monitoring system, and an RMS Monitoring Unit for clearly displaying the measured radiation dose at the remote site. In order to evaluate the performance of Total RMS for the proposed nuclear and nuclear medicine field, it is confirmed that the measurement uncertainty is less than 8.5% and it operates normally within ${\pm}15%$ of the international standard.

Radiation detector material development with multi-layer by hetero-junction for the reduction of leakage current (헤테르접합을 이용한 누설전류 저감을 위한 다층구조의 방사선 검출 물질 개발)

  • Oh, Kyung-Min;Yoon, Min-Seok;Kim, Min-Woo;Cho, Sung-Ho;Nam, Sang-Hee;Park, Ji-Goon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.11-15
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    • 2009
  • In this study, the basic research verifying possibility of applications as radiology image sensor in Digital Radiography was performed, the radiology image sensor was fabricated using a multi-layer technique to decrease dark current. High efficiency materials in substitution for Amorphous Selenium(a-Se) have been studied as a direct method of imaging detector in Digital Radiography to decrease dark current by using PN junction or Hetero junction already used as solar cell, semiconductor. Particle-In -Binder method is used to fabricate radiology image sensor because it has a lot of advantages such as fabrication convenient, high yield, suitability for large area sensor. But high leakage current is one of main problem in Particle-In -Binder method. To make up for the weak points, multi-layer technique is used, and it is considered that high efficient digital radiation sensor can be fabricated with easy and convenient process. In this study, electrical properties such as leakage current, sensitivity, signal linearity is measured to evaluate multi-layer radiation sensor material.

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Development of a Breath Control Training System for Breath-Hold Techniques and Respiratory-Gated Radiation Therapy

  • Hyung Jin Choun;Jung-in Kim;Jong Min Park;Jaeman Son
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.136-141
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: This study aimed to develop a breath control training system for breath-hold technique and respiratory-gated radiation therapy wherein the patients can learn breath-hold techniques in their convenient environment. Methods: The breath control training system comprises a sensor device and software. The sensor device uses a loadcell sensor and an adjustable strap around the chest to acquire respiratory signals. The device connects via Bluetooth to a computer where the software is installed. The software visualizes the respiratory signal in near real-time with a graph. The developed system can signal patients through visual (software), auditory (buzzer), and tactile (vibrator) stimulation when breath-holding starts. A motion phantom was used to test the basic functions of the developed breath control training system. The relative standard deviation of the maxima of the emulated free breathing data was calculated. Moreover, a relative standard deviation of a breath-holding region was calculated for the simulated breath-holding data. Results: The average force of the maxima was 487.71 N, and the relative standard deviation was 4.8%, while the average force of the breath hold region was 398.5 N, and the relative standard deviation was 1.8%. The data acquired through the sensor was consistent with the motion created by the motion phantom. Conclusions: We have developed a breath control training system comprising a sensor device and software that allow patients to learn breath-hold techniques in their convenient environment.

Cluster Head Chain Routing Protocol suitable for Wireless Sensor Networks in Nuclear Power Plants (원전 무선 센서 네트워크에 적합한 클러스터 헤드 체인 라우팅 프로토콜)

  • Jung, Sungmin
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.61-68
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    • 2020
  • Nuclear power plants have a lower cost of power generation, and they are more eco-friendly than other power generation plants. Also, we need to prepare nuclear plant accidents because of their severe damage. In the event of a safety accident, such as a radiation leak, by applying a wireless sensor network to a nuclear power plant, many sensor nodes can be used to monitor radiation and transmit information to an external base station to appropriately respond to the accident. However, applying a wireless sensor network to nuclear power plants requires routing protocols that consider the sensor network size and bypass obstacles such as plant buildings. In general, the hierarchical-based routing protocols are efficient in energy consumption. In this study, we look into the problems that may occur if hierarchical-based routing protocols are applied to nuclear power plants and propose improved routing protocols to solve these problems. Simulation results show that the proposed routing protocol is more effective in energy consumption than the existing LEACH protocol.

Electrochemical gas sensor based on Pt-Ru-Mo/MWNT electrocatalysts and vinyl ionic liquids as electrolyte

  • Ju, Dong-Woo;Choi, Seong-Ho
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.8-16
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    • 2015
  • We prepared a novel electrochemical gas sensor (EG sensor) based on interdigitated electrode (IDE) coated with vinyl ionic liquids (ILs) as electrolyte and Pt-Ru-Mo/MWNT electrocatalysts for occurring redox-active of CNCl gas. The vinyl ILs such as 1-butyl-3-(vinylbenzyl)imidazolium chloride, $[BVBI]^+Cl^-$, and 3-hexyl-1-vinylimidazolium bromide, $[HVI]^+Br^-$, were synthesized by $SN_2$ reaction in order to use electrolyte. The Pt-Ru-Mo/MWNT electrocatalysts were also prepared by one-step radiation-induced reduction of metal ions in the presence of MWNTs as supports. The fabricated EG sensor with vinyl ILs electrolyte was evaluated through optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The prepared EG sensor is clearly detected over 2.0 ppm CNCl gas and is exhibited a liner relationship between current and concentration over a region of 10-100 ppm.

Inspection of the spot welding using IR sensor (적외선 감지 센서를 이용한 점 용접부의 검사)

  • Lim, Dae-Cheol;Park, In-Tae;Kang, Hyoung-Shik;Gweon, Dae-Gab
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.16 no.1 s.94
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    • pp.132-140
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    • 1999
  • This paper suggests a monitoring method for the pulsed laser spot welding of the thin metal sheets using a point IR(InfraRed) sensor. A new criterion was introduced and the experimental results guaranteed the efficiency. The ideal radiation feature was derived from the mathematical model and was simulated. The radiation feature is robust to withstand the change of measuring condition and can be used to detect the absorbed laser energy. In an experiment, the radiation feature was examined for the differect laser energy. The pulse width and the laser power was variated and the radiation feature was examined. In the other experiment, the relationship between the weld strength and radiation feature was examined. Artificial Neural Network(ANN) was employed to find out the relationship. The correlation coefficient between the real strength and the estimated strength is high as 0.94 and the mean square error is low as 0.64 kgf learned parts. Another group of the welds was used to appraise the learning efficiency. The correlation coefficient between the measured and the estimated weld strength is high as 0.91.

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Radiation Measurement of a Operational CANDU Reactor Fuel Handling Machine using Semiconductor Sensors (ICCAS 2003)

  • Lee, Nam-Ho;Kim, Seung-Ho;Kim, Yang-Mo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.1220-1224
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we measured the radiation dose of a fuel handling machine of the CANDU type Wolsong nuclear reactor directly during operation, in spite of the high radiation level. In this paper we will describe the sensor development, measurement techniques, and results of our study. For this study, we used specially developed semiconductor sensors and matching dosimetry techniques for the mixed radiation field. MOSFET dosimeters with a thin oxide, that are tuned to a high dose, were used to measure the ionizing radiation dose. Silicon diode dosimeters with an optimum area to thickness ratio were used for the radiation damage measurements. The sensors are able to distinguish neutrons from gamma/X-rays. To measure the radiation dose, electronic sensor modules were installed on two locations of the fuel handling machine. The measurements were performed throughout one reactor maintenance cycle. The resultant annual cumulative dose of gamma/X-rays on the two spots of the fuel handling machine were 18.47 Mrad and 76.50 Mrad, and those of the neutrons were 17.51 krad and 60.67 krad. The measured radiation level is high enough to degrade certain cable insulation materials that may result in electrical insulation failure.

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