• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.849-853
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• 2021

PET images used in medical diagnoses are created using positron emitting radionuclides. The radiation used for imaging is generated at 0.511 MeV by p-annihilation. The CSDA range is the distance the particle radiation flew physically, and it is different from the range shown in PET images. This study proposes a novel method that uses radiological criteria to measure this range. The experiment was conducted by applying the MCNP6 simulation to positron emitting nuclides ¹⁸F, ¹¹C, ¹³N, and ¹⁵O. Radiological criteria were based on the location of the p-annihilation event, which is also the image signal. Results showed the radiological range of positrons to be 2.3, 3.9, 5.0, and 7.9 mm for ¹⁸F, ¹¹C, ¹³N, and ¹⁵O, respectively. The higher the positron energy, the larger its difference from the CSDA range. Positron emitting nuclide is being developed and studied as a nuclide for dosimetry or radiotherapy. Further research needs to be conducted into various positron ranges.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.08a
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• pp.320-320
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• 2011

차세대 디스플레이로 각광 받고 있는 유기발광소자는 빠른 응답속도, 넓은 시야각 및 얇은 두께로 제작이 가능한 장점들을 가지고 있으나, 고효율 유기발광소자를 제작하기 위하여 엑시톤 형성 효율을 증가시키고 형성된 엑시톤의 소멸을 감소시켜 발광 효율을 증진하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 유기발광소자의 발광 효율을 증진하기 위하여 소자의 구조에 대한 구조적 연구와 발광 물질에 대한 재료적 연구 등이 진행되고 있으며, 그 중에서 발광층에 사용하는 인광 물질은 삼중항 상태의 엑시톤을 광자로 천이할 수 있는 특성이 있어서 높은 발광 효율의 유기발광소자 제작이 가능하기 때문에 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 그러나 인광 물질을 사용한 유기발광소자의 엑시톤 수명이 형광 물질을 사용한 유기발광소자의 엑시톤 수명보다 길기 때문에, 인광 물질을 사용한 유기발광소자에서 형성된 삼중항 엑시톤끼리 서로 충돌하여 소멸될 확률이 높아지는 문제점이 있다. 또한, 인광물질을 사용한 유기발광소자 동작시에 높은 전류 영역에서 삼중항 엑시톤 형성 양이 많아서 삼중항 엑시톤 소멸 확률이 증가하는 문제점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 고효율 유기발광소자를 제작하기 위하여 유기발광소자의 발광층으로 인광 호스트 물질에 iridium을 포함한 중금속 착화합물 계열의 녹색 인광 도펀트 물질인 tris(2-phenylpyridine) iridium(III) ($Ir(ppy)_3$)를 도핑하였다. 제작된 유기발광소자는 전류 증가에 따른 삼중항 엑시톤 충돌로 인한 발광 효율 감소를 억제하기 위하여 인광 도펀트인 $Ir(ppy)_3$와 같은 lowest unoccupied molecular orbital 준위를 가지는 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline 전자 수송층을 사용하였다. 전기적 및 광학적 특성 분석 결과 제작된 유기발광소자에서 삼중항 엑시톤 소멸을 최소화하여 발광 효율이 증가한 것을 확인하였다. 본 실험의 결과는 $Ir(ppy)_3$을 도핑한 녹색 인광 유기발광소자의 삼중항 엑시톤 충돌을 억제하여 유기발광소자의 발광 효율을 증진하는 메커니즘을 이해하는데 중요하다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1584-1585
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• 2011

분자의 전리(ionization)작용과 이온의 해리(dissociation)작용에 의한 유전체 내 방전해석을 위해서 전자, 양이온, 음이온의 생성과 소멸, 전자부착, 재결합 과정을 포함한 전하연속방정식, 전계에 의한 푸아송 방정식, 유전체 온도에 관한 열확산 방정식을 결합하여 해석하였다. 전계 방출 조건과 열전자 방출 조건이 경계조건으로 부여되었고 에너지 최소화 정류조건을 따르는 유한요소법(finite element method)을 이용하여 해석하였다. 비교적 작은 값을 가지는 확산성을 무시하고 대류성에 역점을 두어 발생하는 수치적 불안정은 인공확산항(artificial diffusion technique)을 도입하여 안정화하였다. 본 논문에서는 IEC standard 60897의 표준규격에 따른 2차원 축대칭 침-구 전극에 적용하여 제안된 다중물리해석기법의 타당성을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.08a
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• pp.122-122
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• 2011

HgCdTe는 고성능 적외선 센서 재료로 널리 사용되고 있다. 현재 상용화된 HgCdTe 소재는 통상적으로 액상 에피 성장법으로 제조 되고 있다. 액상 에피 성장법에 의해 제조된 HgCdTe는 갓 성장 상태에서 많은 양의 Hg-공공(vacancy)을 함유하게 되며 적외선 소자의 응용을 위해서는 이러한 Hg-공공을 채우기 위한 Hg-분위기 열처리 공정을 거치게 된다. 열처리 혹은 성장 공정 시 HgCdTe 소재 내에 발생하는 마이크로 혹은 나노스케일의 조성의 변화는 응력의 집중을 가져오며 이는 전자, 혹은 정공의 응집을 가져와 소자 동작의 불균일성을 야기한다. 본 연구에서는 액상 에피 성장법으로 성장 된 HgCdTe 박막내에 존재하는 응력의 분포와 Hg-공공을 채우기 위한 열처리 과정에서 생성 또는 소멸되는 응력의 변화를 Geometric phase strain 분석법으로 관찰하였다. 분석결과, 응력의 집중된 부분은 주로 성장 시 석출된 Te 및 Hg-공공으로 부터 기인함을 확인하였다. Hg-분위기 열처리를 통하여 석출된 Te 제거 및 Hg-공공의 감소를 확인하였고 이에 따른 응력의 집중 부분도 해소됨을 알 수 있었다.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.307-311
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• 2010

Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy is applied to BaSrFBr : Eu film which is used for the phosphore layer, and afterwards the reliability and self-consistency of source corrections in the positron lifetime spectroscopy is investigated using a $^{22}Na$ positron emitter covered by thin foils. The positron lifetime showed no significant change through the various proton irradiation energies. It is unusual that the measurements of the defects indicate that most of the defects were likely to have been generated by X-ray radiation. This may have resulted from the Bragg peaks of the proton characteristics. The Bragg peak does not affect the defect signals enough to distinguish the lifetimes and intensities in a material that is includes multi-grains. The lifetime ($\tau_1$) associated with positron annihilations in the Ba, Br, and Eu of the sample was about 250 ps, and due to the annihilations at F-centers or defects from the irradiated protons in sample, the lifetime ($\tau_2$) was about 500 ps.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.455-459
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• 2006

Coincidence Doppler Broadening (CDB) of positron annihilation spectroscopy was applied to analyze defects in the chemical state of Department of Physics, $Gd_2O_2S$:Tb intensifying screens. The screen samples were irradiated by 80 MV X-rays in hospital and were used for 0, 2, 4, and 6 years respectively. There was a positive relationship between the S-parameter values and time of exposure to X-rays. Most of the defects were indicated to have been generated by X-rays. A 1D CDB was developed in order to reduce the background noise, and the S-parameter values of the $Gd_2O_2S$:Tb intensifying screens, using the 1D CDB, varied between 0.4974 and 0.4991.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.105-112
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• 2002

We studied the optical and structural properties of conventional and ion-beam-assisted-deposition (IBAD) Nb$_2$O$_{5}$ films which were evaporated by an electron beam gun. The vacuum-to-air spectral shift and the cross sectional SEM images of the Nb$_2$O$_{5}$ films were investigated. The results show that the IBAD Nb$_2$O$_{5}$ films have a higher packing density than the conventional Nb$_2$O$_{5}$ films. The average refractive index of IBAD Nb$_2$O$_{5}$ films was increased, while the extinction coefficient was decreased compared with the conventional films. As the oxygen flow was increased, the average refractive index and extinction coefficient of the conventional and IBAD films decreased. Both the conventional and IBAD Nb$_2$O$_{5}$ films showed inhomogeneity in refractive index, and the degree of inhomogeneity of the IBAD Nb$_2$O$_{5}$ films became larger as the ion current density was increased. All Nb$_2$O$_{5}$ films were found to be amorphous by x-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, and hence the crystal structure of Nb$_2$O$_{5}$ films was not changed by IBAD.

• Applied Microscopy
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.125-133
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• 2008

Cytochrome-c-oxidase in mitochondria membrane is one of the most important factors for energy generation in the cell. As well as it is electron transfer enzyme, it is also heavily related to the apoptosis and other pathologic conditions. Meanwhile, porin is a protein located in inner and outer membranes of mitochondria, which is assumed to be functionally correlated with cytochrome-c-oxidase. It functions as forming electron transfer chain and conveying ATP. Therefore, using the immune-microscopy, It compared the distribution of cytochrome-c-oxidase and porin to figure out the formation and changes on cytochrome-c-oxidase in mitochondrial cristae. The sarcroplasm of cardic muscle tissue has many mitochondria. They are classified into two groups: the mitochondria with many cytochrome-c-oxidase and the mitochondria with only porins. The mitochondria with porins had few cytochrome-c-oxidases in their membrane; in contrast, the other mitochondria with rich cytochrome-c-oxidase had few porins in their walls. In addition, according to the location of the tissue in bovine heart, distribution of those kind of mitochondria had been clearly separated. As a result, it could be assumed that immature mitochondria has many porins to transfer the protein materials from sarcroplasm through the porins, and they made cytochrome-c-oxidase until it is enough, and then they decreased the porin and maintained minimum number of the porin.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.499-504
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• 2022

Positron emission tomography (PET) uses a very small scintillator to achieve exellent spatial resolution. Therefore, in this study, a PET system using a scintillator to 0.8 mm size was designed and the performance was evaluated. Anihilation radiation was generated from the center of the field of view (FOV) to the outskirts at intervals of 10 mm, and counted simultaneously. The image was reconstructed using the coincidence data, and the spatial resolution was calculated by acquiring the full width at half maximum through the profile. The spatial resolution at the center of the FOV was 1.02 mm, showing a very good result, and the spatial resolution decreased as it was located at the outer edge. To evaluate the phantom image, the Derenzo phantom was constructed to acquire the image, and the degree of classification between radiation sources was evaluated through profile analysis. The result showed that the distance between the radiation sources was larger than the spatial resolution of the radiation sources at each location, and it was confirmed that the radiation sources were distinguished through this. When the PET system designed in this study is applied to PET for small animals, it is considered that excellent performance can be secured through the characteristic of very good spatial resolution.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.957-964
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• 2021

Fluorine-18 used in PET/CT scans is a radioactive isotope that emits positrons, and high energy annihilation gamma rays and beta rays cause exposure to radiation workers. In this study, as part of a plan to reduce the exposure dose of radiation workers working in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, the cause of the low shielding efficiency of Apron for F-18 was identified, and the effectiveness of the Apron double-shielded with acrylic was evaluated. L-Block, Apron+acrylic, Apron, Acrylic+Apron, and Acrylic five shields are used to measure the dose, and the tendencies were compared by performing a Monte Carlo simulation. As a result, it was found that the shielding rate of Apron double shielded with acrylic was about 4 to 8% higher than that of Apron single shielded. To the extent that it does not significantly affect the user's activity, double-shielded personal protective clothing with an appropriate acrylic thickness could help reduce radiation workers' exposure.