• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 D
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• pp.638-640
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• 2000

Reactor Noise is defined as the fluctuations of measured instrumentation signals during full-power operation of reactor which have informations on reactor system dynamics such as neutron kinetics, thermal-hydraulics, and structural dynamics. Reactor noise analyses of ex-core neutron detector internals such as fuel assembly and Core Support Barrel in Nuclear Power Plant. A real time mode separation technique have been developed and applied for the analyses. The analyses data base have been constructed for the continuous monitoring and diagnose of the reactor internals. Detailed design of diagnostic system reactor internal structures using neutron noise(RIDS).

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제36C권5호
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• pp.27-37
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• 1999

비냉각 열상장비의 핵심 부품으로 사용되는 InfraRed Focal Plane Array(IRFPA)용 CMOS ReadOut IC (ROIC)를 설계하였다. 설계된 ROIC는 64×64 배열의 Barium Strontium Titanate(BST) 적외선 검출기에서 검출되는 신호를 받아 이를 적절히 증폭하고 잡음제거 필터링을 거쳐 pixel 단위로 순차적으로 출력하는 기능을 수행하며, 검출기 소자와의 임피던스 매칭, 저잡음 및 저전력 소모, 검출기 소자의 pitch 등의 사양을 만족하도록 설계되었다. 검출기 소자와 전치 증폭기 사이의 임피던스 매칭을 위해 MOS 다이오드 구조를 기본으로 하는 새로운 회로를 고안하여 적용함으로써 표준 CMOS 공정으로 구현이 가능하도록 하였다. 또한, tunable 저역통과 필터를 채용하여 신호대역 이상의 고주파 잡음이 제거되도록 하였으며, 단위 셀 내부에 클램프 회로를 삽입하여 출력신호의 신호 대 잡음비가 개선되도록 하였다. 64×64 IREPA ROIC는 0.65-㎛ 2P3M (double poly, tripple metal) N-Well CMOS 공정으로 설계되었으며, 트랜지스터, 커패시터 및 저항을 포함하여 약 62,000여개의 소자로 구성되는 코어 부분의 면적은 약 6.3-{{{{ { mm}_{ } }}}}×6.7-{{{{ { mm}_{ } }}}}이다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.781-789
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• 2022

KHNP had licensed Dynamic Control rod Reactivity Measurement (DCRM) method using detector current signals of PWRs in 2006. The method has been applied to all PWRs in Korea for about 15 years successfully. However, the original method was inapplicable to PWRs using low-sensitivity integral fission chamber as ex-core detectors because of their pulse pile-up and the nonlinearity of the mean-square voltage at low power region. Therefore, to overcome this disadvantage, a modified method, DCRM-EK, was developed using kinetics behavior after equilibrium condition where the pulse counts maintain the maximum value before pulse pile-up. Overall measurement, analysis procedure, and related computer codes were changed slightly to reflect the site test condition. The new method was applied to a total of 15 control rods of 1000 MWe and 1400 MWe PWRs in Korea with worths in the range of 200 pcm -1200 pcm. The results show the average difference of -0.4% and the maximum difference of 7.1% compared to the design values. Therefore, the new DCRM-EK will be applied to PWRs using low sensitivity integral fission chambers, and also can replace the original DCRM when the evaluation fails by big noises present in current or voltage signals of uncompensated/compensated ion chambers.

• 한국레이저가공학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.26-30
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• 2009

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) includes high voltage generator, electron gun, column, secondary electron detector, scan coil system and image grabber. Column includes electron lenses (condenser lens and objective lens). Condenser lens generates fringe field, makes focal length and control spot size. Focal length represents property of lens. Objective lens control focus. Most of the electrons emitted from the filament, are captured by the anode. The portion of the electron current that leaves the gun through the hole in the anode is called the beam current. Electron beam probe is called the focused beam on the specimen. Because of the lens and aperture, the probe current becomes smaller than the beam current. It generate various signals(backscattered electron, secondary electron) in an interaction with the specimen atoms. In this paper, we describe the result of research to develop the core elements for low-resolution SEM.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.316-320
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• 1991

COLSS는 정상 운전시 DNBR 및 LHR의 운전 제한 조건을 감시하는 디지탈 노심감시계통이다. 영광 3, 4호기 COLSS는 현재 노내 계측기 신호를 입력으로 하여 5차의 Fourier 합성법에 의해 노심의 축방향 출력분포를 계산한다. 그러나 5차의 Fourier 합성법은 특정의 축방향 출력 형태, 특히 말안장 모양의 출력분포에 대해서 그 정확성이 떨어져 노심의 운전 여유도를 감소시키는 요인이 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 축방향 출력분포 계산의 정확성을 증대 시키기 위해 COLSS에 Cubic Spline합성법을 적용하였다. 그 결과, Fourier합성법을 적용한 기존의 COLSS보다 RMS오차의 관점에서 최고 5%까지 그 정확도가 향상되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.661-673
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• 2020

The quarter-core simulation of BEAVRS Cycle 2 depletion benchmark has been conducted using the MCS/CTF coupling system. MCS/CTF is a cycle-wise Picard iteration based inner-coupling code system, which couples sub-channel T/H (thermal/hydraulic) code CTF as a T/H solver in Monte Carlo neutron transport code MCS. This coupling code system has been previously applied in the BEAVRS benchmark Cycle 1 full-core simulation. The Cycle 2 depletion has been performed with T/H feedback based on the spent fuel materials composition pre-generated by the Cycle 1 depletion simulation using refueling capability of MCS code. Meanwhile, the MCS internal one-dimension T/H solver (MCS/TH1D) has been also applied in the simulation as the reference. In this paper, an analysis of the detailed criticality boron concentration and the axially integrated assembly-wise detector signals will be presented and compared with measured data based on the real operating physical conditions. Moreover, the MCS/CTF simulated results for neutronics and T/H parameters will be also compared to MCS/TH1D to figure out their difference, which proves the practical application of MCS into the BEAVRS benchmark two-cycle depletion simulations.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.183-194
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• 2014

Recently, a CANDU digital reactivity computer system (CDRCS) to measure the worth of the liquid zone controller in a CANDU-6 was developed and successfully applied to a physics test of refurbished Wolsong Unit 1. In advance of using the CDRCS, its measureable reactivity range should be investigated and confirmed. There are two reasons for this investigation. First, the CANDU-6 has a larger reactor and smaller excore detectors than a general PWR and consequently the measured reactivity is likely to reflect the peripheral power variation only, not the whole core. The second reason is photo neutrons generated from the interaction of the moderator and gamma-rays, which are never considered in a PWR. To evaluate the limitations of the CDRCS, several tens of three-dimensional steady and transient simulations were performed. The simulated detector signals were used to obtain the dynamic reactivity. The difference between the dynamic reactivity and the static worth increases in line with the water level changes. The maximum allowable reactivity was determined to be 1.4 mk in the case of CANDU-6 by confining the difference to less than 1%.

• BioChip Journal
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.332-339
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• 2018

The future neuro-prosthetic devices would be required spikes data monitoring through sub-nanoscale transistors that enables to neuroscientists and clinicals for scalable, wireless and implantable applications. This research investigates the spikes monitoring through integrated CNT front-end amplifier for neuro-prosthetic diagnosis. The proposed carbon nanotube-based architecture consists of front-end amplifier (FEA), integrate fire neuron and pseudo resistor technique that observed high electrical performance through neural activity. A pseudo resistor technique ensures large input impedance for integrated FEA by compensating the input leakage current. While carbon nanotube based FEA provides low-voltage operation with directly impacts on the power consumption and also give detector size that demonstrates fidelity of the neural signals. The observed neural activity shows amplitude of spiking in terms of action potential up to $80{\mu}V$ while local field potentials up to 40 mV by using proposed architecture. This fully integrated architecture is implemented in Analog cadence virtuoso using design kit of CNT process. The fabricated chip consumes less power consumption of $2{\mu}W$ under the supply voltage of 0.7 V. The experimental and simulated results of the integrated FEA achieves $60G{\Omega}$ of input impedance and input referred noise of $8.5nv/{\sqrt{Hz}}$ over the wide bandwidth. Moreover, measured gain of the amplifier achieves 75 dB midband from range of 1 KHz to 35 KHz. The proposed research provides refreshing neural recording data through nanotube integrated circuit and which could be beneficial for the next generation neuroscientists.