• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2016

Background: For positron emission tomography (PET) application, cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) has been investigated by several institutes to replace detectors from a conventional system using photomultipliers or Silicon-photomultipliers (SiPMs). The spatial and energy resolution in using CZT can be superior to current scintillator-based state-of-the-art PET detectors. CZT has been under development for several years at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) to provide a high performance gamma ray detection, which needs a single crystallinity, a good uniformity, a high stopping power, and a wide band gap. Materials and Methods: Before applying our own grown CZT detectors in the prototype PET system, we investigated preliminary research with a developed discrete type data acquisition (DAQ) system for coincident events at 128 anode pixels and two common cathodes of two CZT detectors from Redlen. Each detector has a $19.4{\times}19.4{\times}6mm^3$ volume size with a 2.2 mm anode pixel pitch. Discrete amplifiers consist of a preamplifier with a gain of $8mV{\cdot}fC^{-1}$ and noise of 55 equivalent noise charge (ENC), a $CR-RC^4$ shaping amplifier with a $5{\mu}s$ peak time, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) driver. The DAQ system has 65 mega-sample per second flash ADC, a self and external trigger, and a USB 3.0 interface. Results and Discussion: Characteristics such as the current-to-voltage curve, energy resolution, and electron mobility life-time products for CZT detectors are investigated. In addition, preliminary results of gamma ray imaging using 511 keV of a $^{22}Na$ gamma ray source were obtained. Conclusion: In this study, the DAQ system with a CZT radiation sensor was successfully developed and a PET image was acquired by two sets of the developed DAQ system.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권11호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 mixed driving 방식을 이용하고 이미지 개선을 위해 $\gamma$-correction을 수행하는 QVGA급 TFT-LCD driver IC의 Source Driver를 설계한다. 240 RGB ${\times}$ 320 dots resolution을 가진 source driver는 720개의 채널을 통해 TFT-LCD 패널을 구동하고 18-bit의 RGB 데이터를 사용하여 26만 color를 수행한다. Mixed driving 방식은 종전의 좋은 구동력을 가진 channel amp. driving 방식에 저면적이 가능한 gray amp. driving 방식을 혼합한 방식으로서, 영상이 동일 색상을 가지는 worst case를 감지하여 구동력을 높여주는 방식을 사용함으로써 적절한 구동력과 저면적을 구현하는 설계방식이다. 본 Source Driver는 $0.35{\mu}m$ Magnachip embedded DRAM 공정을 사용하여 설계하였으며 Hspice를 사용하여 시뮬레이션을 하였다. 실험결과, 기존의 gayscale driving 방식에서는 hsync time을 만족시키지 못하는데 비해 $17{\mu}s$의 channel 구동시간으로 충분한 timing margin을 가지고 액정 channel 을 구동할 수 있으면서, 구동 앰프 78개와 제어회로를 갖는 저면적으로 설계되었다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.70-79
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• 2016

This paper proposes a low-power range-scaled 14b 30 MS/s pipeline-SAR composite ADC for high-performance CIS applications. The SAR ADC is employed in the first stage to alleviate a sampling-time mismatch as observed in the conventional SHA-free architecture. A range-scaling technique processes a wide input range of 3.0VP-P without thick-gate-oxide transistors under a 1.8 V supply voltage. The first- and second-stage MDACs share a single amplifier to reduce power consumption and chip area. Moreover, two separate reference voltage drivers for the first-stage SAR ADC and the remaining pipeline stages reduce a reference voltage disturbance caused by the high-speed switching noise from the SAR ADC. The measured DNL and INL of the prototype ADC in a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS are within 0.88 LSB and 3.28 LSB, respectively. The ADC shows a maximum SNDR of 65.4 dB and SFDR of 78.9 dB at 30 MS/s, respectively. The ADC with an active die area of $1.43mm^2$ consumes 20.5 mW at a 1.8 V supply voltage and 30 MS/s, which corresponds to a figure-of-merit (FOM) of 0.45 pJ/conversion-step.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.369-377
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• 1999

본 연구는 다중박막(multi-layer) 구조 모델에 대한 초음파신호처리 적용으로 접합경계면의 결함검출에 관한 연구이다. 이를 위해서 먼저 반도체 검사법에 의하여 박리(delamination). 다이 균열(die crack) 기포(void)의 유무를 확인할 수 있었고, 각 접합계면에서의 단위 cm당 결함 오차율을 모집군 25%이하에서 0.003%까지 측정 가능하였다. 또한 초음파 화상처리를 이용하여 결함 판독 프로그램을 위한 각 패키지별 화상을 8단계에서 16단계까지 데이터 베이스화할 수 있었고, 최종 결과 화면에서는 결함정도를 확률로 표현 가능하도록 하였으며 기포의 가능성도 추론해 볼 수 있다. 그리고, 박리검사 프로그램(delamination inspection program)에 의하여 결함의 크기와 결함의 원인을 16단계로 추론하고. S.A.T 장치에 귀환(feedback)시킬 수 있는 매개변수를 찾을 수 있었다. 특히, 반도체 결함추출 알고리즘 개발로 반도체 결함검사자동화의 기틀을 마련하였고, 향후 결함을 세분화하고 다양한 반도체 패키지별로 데이터베이스를 구축한다면, 온라인 상태에서 보다 많은 검사를 수행 할 수 있는 인공지능형 자동검사 시스템 구현이 가능할 수 있도록 하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.156-161
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• 2011

We fabricated a schottky barrier metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor(SB-MOSFET) by applying indium-tin-oxide(ITO) to the source/drain on a highly resistive GaN layer grown on a silicon substrate. The MOSFET, with 10 ${\mu}M$ gate length and 100 ${\mu}M$ gate width, exhibits a threshold gate voltage of 2.7 V, and has a sub-threshold slope of 240 mV/dec taken from the $I_{DS}-V_{GS}$ characteristics at a low drain voltage of 0.05 V. The maximum drain current is 18 mA/mm and the maximum transconductance is 6 mS/mm at $V_{DS}$=3 V. We observed that the spectral photo-response characterization exhibits that the cutoff wavelength was 365 nm, and the UV/visible rejection ratio was about 130 at $V_{DS}$ = 5 V. The MOSFET-type UV detector using ITO, has a high UV photo-responsivity and so is highly applicable to the UV image sensors.

• 실천공학교육논문지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.37-42
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• 2014

자동 시각 검사 장비는 전 세계적으로 제조업 기반의 기업들의 공장 자동화 시스템의 주요 장비로 자리 잡고 있다. 반도체, LCD, 철강, 제지 등 다양한 분야에서 품질관리의 자동화를 위하여 필수적으로 활용되고 있다. 그러나 대학, 직업전문학교 등의 교육기관에서는 이에 대한 교육이 거의 이뤄지지 못하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 자동 시각 검사 시스템의 기술훈련을 위하여 라인스캔 카메라 기반의 자동 시각 검사 장비 교육을 위한 실습 장비에 대해서 다루고 있다. 제작된 시스템은 산업현장에 널리 사용되고 있는 X-Y stage 기반으로 구성되었으며, 영상의 픽셀해상도는 $10-30{\mu}m$의 범위에서 가변적으로 조절 가능하다. 또한 조명구조에 따른 영상효과를 확인하기 위하여, 측면 직사조명과 동축조명을 장착하여 활용할 수 있도록 구성되어 있다. 이는 훈련자가 실습환경에서 다양한 조건들을 변경시키며 실습을 수행할 수 있음을 의미하며, 실제 제조 현장에서 활용되는 라인스캔 카메라 기반의 머신비전 시스템과 거의 동일한 기능을 수행하도록 제작되었다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.330-338
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• 2017

Purpose: The smartphone is actively being used in many research fields, primarily in medical and diagnostic applications. However, there are cases in which smartphone-based systems have been developed for agriculture, environment, and food applications. The purpose of this review is to summarize the research cases using smartphone cameras in agriculture, environment, and food. Methods: This review introduces seventeen research cases which used smartphone cameras in agriculture, food, water, and soil applications. These were classified as systems involving "smartphone-camera-alone" and "smartphone camera with optical accessories". Results: Detecting food-borne pathogens, analyzing the quality of foods, monitoring water quality and safety, gathering information regarding plant growth or damage, identifying weeds, and measuring soil loss after rain were presented for the smartphone-camera-alone system. Measuring food and water quality and safety, phenotyping seeds, and soil classifications were presented for the smartphone camera with optical accessories. Conclusions: Smartphone cameras were applied in various areas for several purposes. The use of smartphone cameras has advantages regarding high-resolution imaging, manual or auto exposure and focus control, ease of use, portability, image storage, and most importantly, programmability. The studies discussed were achieved by sensitivity improvements of CCDs (charge-coupled devices) and CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) on smartphone cameras and improved computing power of the smartphone, respectively. A smartphone camera-based system can be used with ease, low cost, in near-real-time, and on-site. This review article presents the applications and potential of the smartphone and the smartphone camera used for various purposes in agriculture, environment, and food.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.741-752
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• 2008

The purposes of this study are to review the status of dress material in the contemporary fashion design by examining the intertextuality of many materials other than textiles used in the contemporary fashion and to show that the development of new fashion materials is a factor for designing competitiveness. The results of this study are summarized as follows: First, foods and natural objects are used as fashion materials to reveal natural beauty, and at the same time new formative elements are expressed in combinations of life and fashion. Second, common paper and luxurious jewelry are presented as a formative element symbolic of an aspect of the contemporary society or embodied in elaborate handicraft techniques. Those materials boost the luxuriousness of costume and create a strong futuristic image according to how they are expressed. Third, plastics available for a variety of objects in different shapes and colors offer such formative features that could be shaped with textiles, as high-end technology is introduced to fashion. Fourth, metallic materials have added freedom to design formality due to their qualities of convergence and displacement and by the introduction of brand-new technology, suggesting a new future for the fashion industry. Fifth, using a variety of anti-fashion materials including semiconductor chips, mirrors, vinyl, wires, and rubber makes a change in the existing points of view regarding the formality of things and helps create a special aesthetic effect in a visual respect to develop a strong intertextuality of materials.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.80-87
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 열상장비의 광 검출기에서 검출된 미약한 전기적 신호를 영상신호처리를 하기 위한 신호로 증폭을 해 주는 전단 증폭부의 성능 검사용 ATE(Automatic Test Equipment)를 개발하였다. 기존 ATE 장비는 주로 반도체 소자 양품검사 분야에서 활발히 개발되고 있었으나 최근에는 장비의 성능검사 분야에서도 연구되고 있다. 그러나 열상장비 성능검사 분야의 ATE 에 대한 연구는 다른 분야에 비해 미진하여 우리군의 핵심적인 감시 장비인 열상장비는 정비가 제한되었다. 이에 따라 본 논문에서는 새로운 열상장비 분야의 ATE 연구가 필요하여 전단증폭부 및 열상장비의 다른 회로카드의 범용적인 개발이 가능하도록 Matrix Relay를 개발하였다. 개발된 ATE로 전단증폭부의 증폭도를 측정한 결과 증폭 전압은 평균 2.71 Vpp로써 이론적인 분석 범위 내에 있음이 확인되어 개발된 ATE가 우수한 성능임이 검증되었다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.57-62
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to find dangerous factors of a water purifier when water leaks due to inappropriate use and analyze the patterns of damaged parts in order to provide data for the examination of the cause of the problem. If the water purifier is inspected and managed by a non-specialist, when the FLC(Float Level Controller) at the top is inclined, water leakage may occur to the water purifier. The leaked water flows onto the cables and hoses and enters the thermostat terminal, heater, PCB, power supply connection connector, etc., becoming a dangerous factor that may cause a system failure, fire, etc. Due to the water that entered the input terminal, low noise and white smoke were generated at first. However, the flame gradually propagated due to the continuous inflow of moisture. It was found that when moisture reached the PCB, a carbonized conductive path was formed at the varistor terminal, input terminal, semiconductor device terminal, etc., and the flame became larger, which might result in a fire. From the metal microscope analysis of a damaged condenser terminal, it was found that the amorphous structure unique to copper cable disappeared, and voids, boundary surface and disorderly fine particles occurred. Also, in the case of the connector into which moisture penetrated, fusion and deformation occurred at the cable connection clips. The result of analysis of the power supply cable connector using a thermal image camera showed that most of the heat was generated from the cable connection clips and the temperature at the connection center was normal.