• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.341-358
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• 1998

The X-ray astronomy team of the Korea Astronomy Observatory(KAO) is planning to develop a multi-cell proportional counter, adopting an anti-coincidence method to reduce its internal background. We have developed a Monte Carlo code to determine the X-ray detection efficiency of the counter. As a check of our code, we successfully reproduced the detection efficiency of Ginga/LAC. In this paper, we report the simulation results for the counter being considered in KAO.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.69-73
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• 2004

TSEE and TSL phenomena have been measured for ${\alpha}-Al_2O_3$ single crystals by the use of the $2{\pi}$ proportional counter. The ${\alpha}-Al_2O_3$ crystals irradiated to X-ray and UV for the temperature range from room temperature to about 500k degree. Three peaks of TSEE and three peaks of TSL were observed after X-ray irradiation. Also, two peaks of TSEE and three TSL peaks were observed after UV irradiation. TSEE and TSL glow curves of ${\alpha}-Al_2O_3$ single crystals showed very similar to the peaks position regardless of excitation sorts. Form this work, we knew that the $2{\pi}$ proportional counter is useful to not only the energy spectrum analysis device of ${\alpha}$-particle, but also the measurement instrument of TSEE and TSL.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.262-269
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• 1996

The muiltiwire proportional counter for the measurement of low-level and environmental $\alpha$ particles emitting nuclides was developed. External dimension of the devloped multiwire proportional counter is $350{\times}290{\times}30mm$ and the sensitivity area is $250{\times}200mm$. The wall material of the detector was selected the stainless steel to prevent the deformation by external impact and to obtain minimum background. The anode and cathode wires were used the stainless steel material of diameter $50{\mu}m$. The spacing of each wires are 10.0mm, 5.0mm and the numbers of total wire are 21, 42 lines, respectively. The multiwire proportional counter was designed that the measurement source is placed within the detector to prevent the wall absorption effect and the efficiency variation by various source heights. The characteristics of the developed detector have been investigated to obtain the plateau, operating voltage, background, counting efficiency, position sensitivity and energy resolution etc. For the $^{241}Am$ nuclide, the calculated LLD(Lower Limit of Detection) is 5.0mBq/L which is lower than 40mBq/L of recommended LLD value by ISO(International Organization for Standardization).

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.354-354
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• 2005

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.44.2-44
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• 1998

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.431-436
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• 2001

The effect of decorrelation on the coincidence is investigated with correlated photons produced by parametric down-conversion process. The degree of correlation between photon pairs is adjusted by changing the polarization dependent transmissivities of thin glass plate\ulcorner in front of two detectors. It was found that the single counts of each detectors are proportional to the transmissivity and the coincidence is proportional to the product of transmissivities of the glasses in front of two detectors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.381-382
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• 2010

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.139-143
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• 1996

A multi-wire proportional counter with large sensitive area was designed and constructed considering diameter of anode wire. its material and space. A preamplifier connecting detector to main amplifier or counter was also designed and constructed for measurement output pulse from multi-wire proportional counter. The preamplifier was composed of charge-sensitive differential circuit. clipping circuit and amplification circuit. To test the performance of this equipment, terminal output pulse from the preamplifier was measured and compared with noise For these tests $^{239}Pu(360 Bq)\;and\; ^{90}Sr/^{90}Y(250 Bq)$ were used as radiation sources. The noise ingredient contributing to the maximum amplitude(180mV from $^{239}Pu$ and 200 mV from $^{90}Sr/^{90}Y$) was found to be very small(8 mV) Piled up pulse occurring at the output pulse of charge-sensitive differential circuit was measured as an independent pulse since this affected the amplification in the clipping circuit and amplification circuit. This information can be used to improve the loss of measurement due to piled up pulse.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 1993.04a
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• pp.22-22
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• 1993

천체 B-선 관측용으로 많이 이용되고 있는 X-선 비례계수관을 실험실형으로 재작하고 그 특성을 조사하였다. X-선 검출기의 구조는 10 $\times$ 20 $\times$ 2cm3 인 검출체적내에 10개의 전극선이 설치되어있는 다중선 비례계수관이며, 검출가스로서 Argon(90%) + CH4 (10%)인 g혼합가스를 사용하였다. 이러한 구조에서 5.9 keV에 대한 에너지 분해능은 16%를 얻었으나, 정상적인 전극연결방법에서는 검출기 끝측에 위치한 전극에서 생기는 electric field 변형매문에, 양극선 배열방향에서 조정된 이득의 군일성이 나쁘게 나타났다. 따라서 다중선들의 각 전극선에 전압보상법(voltage compansation method)을 적용하여 검출기 전반에 걸친 이득의 균일성을 2 % (rms 값) 이내로 보정할 수 있었다. 아울러 신호처리회로 중 에너지분석을 위한 파고분석기, 비 X-선 재거를 위한 상승시간선별기(rise-time discriminator)등을 제작하였으며 이들을 이용한 전반적인 신호처리회로의 구성에 대하여 논하고자 한다.

• The Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.90-95
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• 1997

In designing a resonant circuit of the inverter which puts induction heating with high frequency to the load, an inductance L of the circuit, the coupling coefficient of a transformer transfering the output power to load, and the coupling coefficient of load circuit heating with coil affect to the output power of a resonant circuit, the circuit Q and the frequency. Those characteristics of the circuit are analyzed through Thevenan's equivalent circuit of the coupling coefficient type which is derived from the T-type equivalent circuit of a transformer. On this equivalent circuit, the impedance of a transformer referred to its primary side is not only proportional the square of turn ratio, nZ, but also the square of coupling coefficient, K2 This paper proposed a more accurate fundamental method to design a resonant circuit of the inverter by using the Thevenan's equivalent circuit.