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Slipchip Device Development in Molecular Diagnostics

  • Qingtian Yin;Huiwen Bai;Ruijie Li;Youngung Seok
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.63-71
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    • 2024
  • Slipchip offers advantages such as high-throughout, low cost, and simple operation, and therefore, it is one of the technologies with the greatest potential for high-throughput, single-cell, and single-molecule analyses. Slipchip devices have achieved remarkable advances over the past decades, with its simplified molecular diagnostics gaining particular attention, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and in various infectious diseases scenarios. Medical testing based on nucleic acid amplification in the Slipchip has become a promising alternative simple and rapid diagnostic tool in field situations. Herein, we present a comprehensive review of Slipchip device advances in molecular diagnostics, highlighting its use in digital recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA), loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Slipchip technology allows users to conduct reliable droplet transfers with high-throughput potential for single-cell and molecule analyses. This review explores the device's versatility in miniaturized and rapid molecular diagnostics. A complete Slipchip device can be operated without special equipment or skilled handling, and provides high-throughput results in minimum settings. This review focuses on recent developments and Slipchip device challenges that need to be addressed for further advancements in microfluidics technology.

Design of Signal Processing Circuit for Semi-implantable Middle Ear Hearing Device with Bellows Transducer (벨로즈형 진동체를 갖는 반이식형 인공중이용 신호처리회로 설계)

  • Kim, Jong Hoon;Shin, Dong Ho;Seong, Ki Woong;Cho, Jin-Ho
    • Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.63-71
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, a signal processing circuit for semi-implantable middle ear hearing device is designed using the TCBT which is recently proposed for a new middle ear transducer that can be implanted at round window of cochlea. The designed semi-implantable hearing device transmits digital sound signal from external device located at behind the ear to the internal device implanted under the skin using inductive coupling link methods with high efficiency. The coils and signal processing circuits are designed and implemented considering the total transmission and reception distance including skin thickness of temporal bone for the semi-implantable hearing device. And also, to improve the data transmission efficiency, the output circuits which can supply sufficient signal power is designed. In order to confirm operation of semi-implantable hearing device using inductive coupling link, the circuit analysis was performed using PSpice, and the performance was verified by implementing a signal processing board of an available size.

Process of Collection for a Removable Storage Device Image Using a Software (소프트웨어를 이용한 이동식 저장매체 이미지 수집 절차)

  • Baek, Hyun Woo;Jeon, Sang Jun;Lee, Sang Jin
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2017
  • As the prevalence of removable device, critical intelligences are often stored in the removable device. For that reason, in seizure and search, the removable device became a important evidence of while it could be has a salient key for prove a crime. When we acquired a removable device for proof, we image it by a imaging device or software with a write protection. However, these are high-priced exclusive equipments and sometimes it could be out of order. In addition, we found that some secure USB and inbuilt vaccine USB are failed to connect to the imaging device. Therefore, in this paper, we provide a suitable digital evidence collection procedure for real.

Functional Integration of Serial Dilution and Capillary Electrophoresis on a PDMS Microchip

  • Chang, Jun-Keun;Heo, Yun-Seok;Hyunwoo Bang;Keunchang Cho;Seok Chung;Chanil Chung;Han, Dong-Chul
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.233-239
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    • 2003
  • For the quantitative analysis of an unknown sample a calibration curve should be obtained, as analytical instruments give relative, rather than absolute measurements. Therefore, researchers should make standard samples with various known concentrations, measure each standard and the unknown sample, and then determine the concentration of the unknown by comparing the measured value to those of the standards. These procedures are tedious and time-consuming. Therefore, we developed a polymer based microfluidic device from polydimethylsiloxane, which integrates serial dilution and capillary electrophoresis functions in a single device. The integrated microchip can provide a one-step analytical tool, and thus replace the complex experimental procedures. Two plastic syringes, one containing a buffer solution and the other a standard solution, were connected to two inlet holes on a microchip, and pushed by a hydrodynamic force. The standard sample is serially diluted to various concentrations through the microfluidic networks. The diluted samples are sequentially introduced through microchannels by electro-osmotic force, and their laser-induced fluorescence signals measured by capillary electrophoresis. We demonstrate the integrated microchip performance by measuring the fluorescence signals of fluorescein at various concentrations. The calibration curve obtained from the electropherograms showed the expected linearity.

Transport parameters in a-Se:As films for digital X-ray conversion material (디지털 X-선 변환물질 a-Se:As의 수송변수)

  • Park, Chang-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.51-55
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    • 2006
  • The effects of Asaddition in amorphous selenium(a-Se) films for digital X-ray conversion material have been studied using the moving photocarrier grating(MPG) technique. This method utilizes the moving interference pattern generated by the superposition of the two frequency shifted laser beams for the illumination of the sample. This moving intensity grating induces a short circuit current, j$_{sc}$ in a-Se:As film. The transport parameters of the sample are extracted from the grating-velocity dependent short circuit current induced in the sample along the modulation direction. The electron and hole mobility, and recombination lifetime of a-Se films with arsenic(As) additions have been obtained. We have found an Increase in hole drift mobility and recombination lifetime, especially when 0.3% As is added into a-Se film, whereas electron mobility decreases with As addition due to the defect density. The transport properties for As doped a-Se films obtained by using MPG technique have been compared with X-ray sensitivity for a-Se:As device. The fabricated a-Se(0.3% As) device film exhibited the highest X-ray sensitivity out of 5 samples.

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Design and Implementation of eRTOS Real-time Operating Systems for Wearable Computers (웨어러블 컴퓨터를 위한 저전력 실시간 운영체제 eRTOS 설계 및 구현)

  • Cho, Moon-Haeng;Choi, Chan-Woo;Lee, Cheol-Hoon
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.8 no.9
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    • pp.42-54
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    • 2008
  • In recent years, embedded systems have been expanding their application domains from traditional embedded systems such as military weapons, robots, satellites and digital convergence systems such as celluar phones, PMP(Portable Multimedia Player), PDAs(Personal Digital Assistants) to Next Generation Personal Computers(NGPCs) such as eating PCs, wearable computers. The NGPCs are network-based, human-centric digital information devices diverged from the traditional PCs used mainly for document writing, internet searching and database management. Wearable computers with battery capacity and memory size limitations have to use real-time operating systems with small footprints and low power management techniques to provide user's QoS in spite of hardware constraints. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a low-power RTOS (called eRTOS) for wearable computers. The implemented eRTOS has 18KB footprints and the dynamic power management and the device power management schemes are adapted in it. Experimental results with wearable computer applications show that the low power techniques could save energy up to 47 %.

Photo Retrieval System using Kinect Sensor in Smart TV Environment (스마트 TV 환경에서 키넥트 센서를 이용한 사진 검색 시스템)

  • Choi, Ju Choel
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.255-261
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    • 2014
  • Advances of digital device technology such as digital cameras, smart phones and tablets, provide convenience way for people to take pictures during his/her life. Photo data is being spread rapidly throughout the social network, causing the excessive amount of data available on the internet. Photo retrieval is categorized into three types, which are: keyword-based search, example-based search, visualize query-based search. The commonly used multimedia search methods which are implemented on Smart TV are adapting the previous methods that were optimized for PC environment. That causes some features of the method becoming irrelevant to be implemented on Smart TV. This paper proposes a novel Visual Query-based Photo Retrieval Method in Smart TV Environment using a motion sensing input device known as Kinect Sensor. We detected hand gestures using kinect sensor and used the information to mimic the control function of a mouse. The average precision and recall of the proposed system are 81% and 80%, respectively, with threshold value was set to 0.7.

Interface Design for Service Improvement of Unmanned Ordering Device to the Digital Underprivileged (디지털 소외계층의 무인주문기기 서비스 향상을 위한 인터페이스 설계)

  • Oh, Am-Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.26 no.11
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    • pp.1592-1598
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    • 2022
  • This paper proposes an improvement system for the marginalized digital underprivileged of these services due to the lack of intuition and usability for the recently increasing number of unmanned ordering devices' interfaces and device environments. The problem with kiosk service is that it lacks intuition among design principles and cannot be used by wheelchair passengers in environments that meet general standing standards. To solve this problem, we propose a service that can use kiosk-like environments on mobile devices by photographing QR codes with mobile devices. As a result of the experiment, people in their 20s did not experience difficulties in using the existing kiosk model, but in the case of the elderly, it was difficult to use the kiosk, so they asked for help. The improved kiosk model was carried out in their 20s without difficulty, and the results showed that it was carried out without difficulty even in the case of the elderly.

Analysis on DIBL of DGMOSFET for Device Parameters

  • Jung, Hak-Kee
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.738-742
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    • 2011
  • This paper has studied drain induced barrier lowering(DIBL) for Double Gate MOSFET(DGMOSFET) using analytical potential model. Two dimensional analytical potential model has been presented for symmetrical DGMOSFETs with process parameters. DIBL is very important short channel effects(SCEs) for nano structures since drain voltage has influenced on source potential distribution due to reduction of channel length. DIBL has to be small with decrease of channel length, but it increases with decrease of channel length due to SCEs. This potential model is used to obtain the change of DIBL for DGMOSFET correlated to channel doping profiles. Also device parameters including channel length, channel thickness, gate oxide thickness and doping intensity have been used to analyze DIBL.

Web Based Monitoring Systems for Multi-Axis Force/Torque Sensors Using Embedded Systems

  • Nam, Hyun-Do;Lim, Hong-Sik;Kang, Chul-Goo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1675-1678
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, web based monitoring systems are implemented for multi-axis force control systems of an intelligence robot. A brief review about the principle of multi-axis force sensors and a method that can reduce the effect of noise signal to sensor performance is presented. A web based monitoring system is implemented by porting Linux at embedded systems which include Xscale processors. A device driver is developed to receive data from multi-axis force sensors in Linux operation systems. To control this device driver, a socket program for web browser is also developed. The experiments are performed to investigate the effectiveness of proposed methods. The experimental results show that the values of force sensors can be monitored by remote PCs.

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