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Radiation protective qualities of some selected lead and bismuth salts in the wide gamma energy region

  • Sayyed, M.I.;Akman, F.;Kacal, M.R.;Kumar, A.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제51권3호
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    • pp.860-866
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    • 2019
  • The lead element or its salts are good radiation shielding materials. However, their toxic effects are high. Due to less toxicity of bismuth salts, the radiation shielding properties of the bismuth salts have been investigated and compared to that of lead salts to establish them as a better alternative to radiation shielding material to the lead element or its salts. The transmission geometry was utilized to measure the mass attenuation coefficient (${\mu}/{\rho}$) of different salts containing lead and bismuth using a high-resolution HPGe detector and different energies (between 81 and 1333 keV) emitted from point sources of $^{133}Ba$, $^{57}Co$, $^{22}Na$, $^{54}Mn$, $^{137}Cs$, and $^{60}Co$. The experimental ${\mu}/{\rho}$ results are compared with the theoretical values obtained through WinXCOM program. The theoretical calculations are in good agreement with their experimental ones. The radiation protection efficiencies, mean free paths, effective atomic numbers and electron densities for the present compounds were determined. The bismuth fluoride ($BiF_3$) is found to have maximum radiation protection efficiency among the selected salts. The results showed that present salts are more effective for reducing the intensity of gamma photons at low energy region.

Study of Plasma Process Induced Damages on Metal Oxides as Buffer Layer for Inverted Top Emission Organic Light Emitting Diodes

  • Kim, Joo-Hyung;Lee, You-Jong;Jang, Jin-Nyoung;Song, Byoung-Chul;Hong, Mun-Pyo
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보디스플레이학회 2008년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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    • pp.543-544
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    • 2008
  • In the fabrication of inverted top emission organic light emitting diodes (ITOLEDs), the organic layers are damaged by high-energy plasma sputtering process for transparent top anode. In this study, the plasma process induced damages on metal oxide hole injection layers (HILs) including $WO_3$, $MoO_3$, and $V_2O_5$ as buffer layer are examined. With the result of IV characteristic of hole-only devices, we propose that $MoO_3$ and $V_2O_5$ are stable materials against plasma sputtering process.

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신명 레이저와 X-선 발생 연구 (Simmyung Laser System and Study on the X-ray Generation)

  • Kong, Hong-Jin;Han, Ki-Gwan;Kim, Nam-Seong;Kim, Hyun-Soo;Um, Ki-Young;Park, Jong-Rak;Lee, Jae-Youg;Shin, Yun-Sup;Han, Ki-Ho
    • 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국광학회 1995년도 광학 및 양자전자학 워크샵 논문집
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    • pp.185-189
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    • 1995
  • A high-power Nb:glass laser system(Simmyung I) has been contructed and tested. In this system, we used a Nb:YLF laser as a master oscillator, a 4-pass amplifier for pre-amplification, 5 stages of rod amplifiers, and spatial filtering and image reaying usits. The system has demonstrated in excess of 80J(2TW) with 40 psec(FWHM) pulse duration. Output energy, gain and spatial were measured at each amplification stage. With this laser system a preliminary X-ray generation experiment was performed. Pinhole images, X-ray diode signals and X-ray speriment were obtained for the irradiated target of copper. Detailed descriptions of the system performance and the X-tay generation experiment are presented.

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Heavy concrete shielding properties for carbon therapy

  • Jin-Long Wang;Jiade J Lu;Da-Jun Ding;Wen-Hua Jiang;Ya-Dong Li;Rui Qiu;Hui Zhang;Xiao-Zhong Wang;Huo-Sheng Ruan;Yan-Bing Teng;Xiao-Guang Wu;Yun Zheng;Zi-Hao Zhao;Kai-Zhong Liao;Huan-Cheng Mai;Xiao-Dong Wang;Ke Peng;Wei Wang;Zhan Tang;Zhao-Yan Yu;Zhen Wu;Hong-Hu Song;Shuo-Yang Wei;Sen-Lin Mao;Jun Xu;Jing Tao;Min-Qiang Zhang;Xi-Qiang Xue;Ming Wang
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제55권6호
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    • pp.2335-2347
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    • 2023
  • As medical facilities are usually built at urban areas, special concrete aggregates and evaluation methods are needed to optimize the design of concrete walls by balancing density, thickness, material composition, cost, and other factors. Carbon treatment rooms require a high radiation shielding requirement, as the neutron yield from carbon therapy is much higher than the neutron yield of protons. In this case study, the maximum carbon energy is 430 MeV/u and the maximum current is 0.27 nA from a hybrid particle therapy system. Hospital or facility construction should consider this requirement to design a special heavy concrete. In this work, magnetite is adopted as the major aggregate. Density is determined mainly by the major aggregate content of magnetite, and a heavy concrete test block was constructed for structural tests. The compressive strength is 35.7 MPa. The density ranges from 3.65 g/cm3 to 4.14 g/cm3, and the iron mass content ranges from 53.78% to 60.38% from the 12 cored sample measurements. It was found that there is a linear relationship between density and iron content, and mixing impurities should be the major reason leading to the nonuniform element and density distribution. The effect of this nonuniformity on radiation shielding properties for a carbon treatment room is investigated by three groups of Monte Carlo simulations. Higher density dominates to reduce shielding thickness. However, a higher content of high-Z elements will weaken the shielding strength, especially at a lower dose rate threshold and vice versa. The weakened side effect of a high iron content on the shielding property is obvious at 2.5 µSv=h. Therefore, we should not blindly pursue high Z content in engineering. If the thickness is constrained to 2 m, then the density can be reduced to 3.3 g/cm3, which will save cost by reducing the magnetite composition with 50.44% iron content. If a higher density of 3.9 g/cm3 with 57.65% iron content is selected for construction, then the thickness of the wall can be reduced to 174.2 cm, which will save space for equipment installation.

새로운 대기압 플라즈마 소스를 이용한 결정질 실리콘 태양전지 인(P) 페이스트 도핑에 관한 연구 (A Study on Feasibility of the Phosphoric Paste Doping for Solar Cell using Newly Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Source)

  • 조이현;윤명수;조태훈;노준형;전부일;김인태;최은하;조광섭;권기청
    • 신재생에너지
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.23-29
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    • 2013
  • Furnace and laser is currently the most important doping process. However furnace is typically difficult appling for selective emitters. Laser requires an expensive equipment and induces a structural damage due to high temperature using laser. This study has developed a new atmospheric pressure plasma source and research atmospheric pressure plasma doping. Atmospheric pressure plasma source injected Ar gas is applied a low frequency (a few 10 kHz) and discharged the plasma. We used P type silicon wafers of solar cell. We set the doping parameter that plasma treatment time was 6s and 30s, and the current of making the plasma is 70 mA and 120 mA. As result of experiment, prolonged plasma process time and highly plasma current occur deeper doping depth and improve sheet resistance. We investigated doping profile of phosphorus paste by SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy) and obtained the sheet resistance using generally formula. Additionally, grasped the wafer surface image with SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) to investigate surface damage of doped wafer. Therefore we confirm the possibility making the selective emitter of solar cell applied atmospheric pressure plasma doping with phosphorus paste.

Fourier 변환을 이용한 ZnCdSe 전이점 연구 (Study on critical point of ZnCdSe by using Fourier analysis)

  • 윤재진;공태호;김영동
    • 한국진공학회지
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    • 제16권6호
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    • pp.458-462
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    • 2007
  • 타원편광분석법은 반도체 물질의 광 특성과 전이점 연구에 유용하게 쓰이는 기술이다. 측정된 유전율 함수로부터 전이점을 구하기 위해서 전통적으로 이차 미분스펙트럼을 이용하여 분석하는데, 이 방법은 high frequency 의 잡음을 크게 증폭시키는 단점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 역 공간 푸리에 변환 (Fourier transform)을 이용하여 low-, medium-, high-index 의 푸리에 계수로부터 baseline, 정보, high frequency 잡음을 분리하는 방법을 소개하고자 한다. 이 방법을 이용하여 광전자소자에 폭넓게 사용되는 ZnCdSe 화합물 반도체의 $E_1,\;E_1+{\Delta}_1$ 전이점에 대한 연구를 하여 전통적인 이차 미분법과 비교해 보았다.

STRONG INFLUENCE OF THE GALACTIC MAGNETIC FIELD ON THE PROPAGATION OF ULTRA-HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS

  • KIM, JIHYUN;KIM, HANG BAE;RYU, DONGSU
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제30권2호
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    • pp.549-552
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    • 2015
  • The galactic magnetic field (GMF) and the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) affect the propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) from the source to us. Here we examine the influences of the GMF/IGFM and the dependence of their sky distribution on galactic latitude, b. We analyze the correlation between the arrival direction (AD) of UHECRs observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the large-scale structure of the universe in regions of sky divided by b. Specifically, we compare the AD distribution of observed UHECRs to that of mock UHECRs generated from a source model constructed with active galactic nuclei. Our source model has the smearing angle as a free parameter that reflects the deflection angle of UHECRs from the source. The results show that larger smearing angles are required for the observed distribution of UHECRs in lower galactic latitude regions. We obtain, for instance, a $1{\sigma}$ credible interval for smearing angle of $0^{\circ}{\leq}{\theta}_s{\leq}72^{\circ}$ at high galactic latitudes, $60^{\circ}$ < $\left|{b}\right|{\leq}90^{\circ}$, and of $75^{\circ}{\leq}{\theta}_s{\leq}180^{\circ}$, $-30^{\circ}{\leq}b{\leq}30^{\circ}$, at low galactic latitudes, respectively. The results show that the influence of the GMF is stronger than that of the IGMF. In addition, we can estimate the strength of GMFs by these values; if we assume that UHECRs would have heavier nuclei, the estimated strengths of GMF are consistent with the observational value of a few ${\mu}G$. More data from the future experiments may make UHECR astronomy possible.

산업용 선형가속기 시스템 적용을 위한 30-MW 클라이스트론용 고 평균전력 펄스 트랜스포머의 설계 (Design of High Average Power Pulse Transformer for 30-MW Klystron of L-Band Linac Application)

  • 장성덕;손윤규;권세진;오종석;;;문성익;김상호;조무현;남궁원
    • 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한전기학회 2006년도 제37회 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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    • pp.1550-1551
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    • 2006
  • An L-band linear accelerator system for e-beam sterilization is under design for bio-technology application. The klystron-modulator system as RF microwave source has an important role as major components to offer the system reliability for long time steady state operation. A PFN line type pulse generator with a peak power of 71.5-MW, $7{\mu}s$, 285 pps is required to drive a high-power klystron. The high power pulse transformer has a function of transferring pulse energy from a pulsed power source to a high power load. The pulse transformer producing a pulse with a peak voltage of 275 kV is required to produce 30-MW peak and 60 kW average RF output power at the frequency of 1.3-GHz. We have designed the high power pulse transformer with 1:13 step-up ratio. The peak and average power capability is 71.5-MW (275 kV, 260 A at load side with $7{\mu}s$ pulse width) and 130 kW, respectively. In this paper, we present a system overview and initial design results of the high power pulse transformer.

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