• The Optical Journal
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• s.135
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• pp.31-34
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• 2011

광학 속성을 가진 폴리머 소재는 새롭고 정교한 전자광학 장치를 가능하게 해주고, 커머셜 마켓과 의학 용품, 바코드 인식, 보안과 지문 추출기, 동작 인식 센서, CCD 카메라 및 레이저 collimation 장치들을 가능하게 한다. 현재의 발전된 폴리머 기술과 인젝션 몰딩 기술은 높은 생산성과 정밀도를 향상시켜 왔다. 본 고는 이러한 폴리머-하이브리드 옵틱 기술에 관한 최신 동향으로서 Optronics 340호에서 발췌, 정리한 것이다.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.224-228
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• 2008

A highly sensitive integrated photonic temperature sensor was proposed and developed incorporating a polymeric microring resonator. The change in the ambient temperature was estimated by observing the shift in the resonant wavelength of the resonator induced via the thermooptic effect. For the purpose of enhancing its sensitivity, the sensor was built by implementing a polymeric resonator exhibiting a high thermooptic coefficient on a silicon substrate with a small coefficient of thermal expansion. For the range of from $20^{\circ}C$ to $30^{\circ}C$ near the room temperature, the fabricated sensor yielded a sensitivity of as high as 165 ${\pm}/^{\circ}C$ and a resolution of better than $0.1^{\circ}C$. And its performance was found to be hardly affected by the variation in the refractive index of the target analyte, which was applied to the surface of the sensor. It is hence expected that the sensor could be integrated with other refractormetric optical sensors, thereby compensating for the fatal error caused by the change in the ambient temperature.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.68-72
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• 2015

Ultrasonic inspection robot systems have been widely researched and developed for the real-time monitoring of structures such as power plants. However, an inspection robot that is operated in a simple pattern has limitations in its application to various structures in a plant facility because of the diverse and complicated shapes of the inspection objects. Therefore, accurate control of the robot is required to inspect complicated objects with high-precision results. This paper presents the idea that the shape and movement information of an ultrasonic inspector's hand could be profitably utilized for the accurate control of robot. In this study, a polymer flex sensor was applied to monitor the shape of a human hand. This application was designed to intuitively control an ultrasonic inspection robot. The movement and shape of the hand were estimated by applying multiple sensors. Moreover, it was successfully shown that a test robot could be intuitively controlled based on the shape of a human hand estimated using polymer flex sensors.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1698-1699
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• 2011

본 연구는 압전 마이크로캔틸레버 및 생체물질 리셉터를 이용한 인공 후각 장치에 대한 연구이다. 기존의 인공 후각 장치는 폴리머 리셉터를 이용하여 선택적인 감별이 어려웠으나, 본 연구에서 적용된 펩타이드 바이오폴리머 리셉터의 적용을 통해 DNT가스에만 선택적으로 결합하는 후각센서의 개발이 가능하였으며, 이를 통해 인공후각 시스템의 응용가능성에 대해 논하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.57-62
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• 2004

We report the fiber-optic current sensors composed of a side-polished single-mode fiber with the thermo-optic Polymer layer and the metal wire as a heater. The index change of polymer layers caused by the resistant heat of the metal wires induces the optical attenuation through the evanescent field of the side-polished single-mode fiber. Two types of the sensors are proposed and their characteristics as a current sensor are investigated.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.9-14
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• 2023

In this work, we developed a Nafion polymer-coated impedance sensor with two gold electrode configurations to measure the ion concentration in solution samples. The gold electrodes were fabricated through the sputtering process, followed by surface modification using Nafion polymer. The resulting sensors enable the prevention of the polarization phenomenon on the electrode surface, resulting in stable measurement of electrochemical signals. Spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy measurements revealed that the thin film of Nafion was coated uniformly onto the surface of the gold electrode. The Nafion-coated sensor exhibited more stable impedance signals than the conventional gold electrode. It showed a highly reliable calibration curve (R² = 0.983) of the impedance sensor using a standard sodium chloride solution. In addition, a comparison experiment between the impedance sensor and a commercial conductivity sensor was performed to measure the ion concentration of artificial tears, showing similar results for the two sensors.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.127-131
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• 2008

A refractometric glucose biosensor incorporating a vertically coupled microring resonator in polymers was proposed and realized. The ring was covered with a target analyte of glucose solution with a certain concentration, so that its effective refractive index could be altered and, as a result, the resonance wavelength of the sensor was shifted. Therefore the concentration of the glucose solution can be estimated by observing the shift in the resonance wavelength. Two schemes were exploited for enhancing the sensitivity of the sensor. First, the effective refractive index of the polymeric waveguide used for the resonator sensor was adjusted to approach that of the target analyte as best as possible. Second, the ring waveguide, which serves as a crucial sensing part, was appropriately over-etched to enlarge its contact area with the analyte. The proposed resonator sensor was designed with the beam propagation method. The refractive indices of the core and cladding polymer involved were 1.430 and 1.375 respectively, leading to the waveguide's effective refractive index of ${\sim}1.390$, which is faiirly close to that of the glucose solution of ${\sim}1.333$. The prepared ring resonator with the $400-{\mu}m$ radius exhibited the free spectral range of 0.66 nm, the bandwidth of 0.15 nm, and the quality factor of 10,000. For the sensor operating at 1,550 nm wavelength, the achieved sensitivity was as great as 0.28 pm/(mg/dL), which is equivalent to 200 nm/RIU.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.249-254
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• 2019

An optical current sensor device that measures electric current by the principle of the Faraday effect was designed and fabricated. The polarization-rotated reflection interferometer and the quadrature phase interferometer were introduced so as to improve the operational stability. Complex structures containing diverse optical components were integrated in a polymeric optical integrated circuit and manufactured in a small size. This structure allows sensing operation without extra bias feedback control, and reduces the phase change due to environmental temperature changes and vibration. However, the Verdet constant, which determines the Faraday effect, still exhibits an inherent temperature dependence. In this work, we tried to eliminate the residual temperature dependence of the optical current sensor based on polarization-rotated reflection interferometry. By varying the length of the fiber-optic wave plate, which is one of the optical components of the interferometer, we could compensate for the temperature dependence of the Verdet constant. The proposed optical current sensor exhibited measurement errors maintained within 0.2% over a temperature range, from 25℃ to 85℃.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.83-87
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• 2015

This study was focused on developing an optical sensor that monitors ultraviolet (UV) light. Recently, we proposed and demonstrated a novel, highly sensitive UV sensor based on a fiber Bragg grating (FBG). To ensure that the incident UV light is focused on the FBG surface, the sensor was coated with an azobenzene polymer material that acts as a UV-induced stretchable functional material, in combination with a cylindrical focal lens. In this study we have improved the sensitivity of the sensor by employing a cylindrical focal mirror as a curved reflector, to refocus the UV light passing through the FBG. We considered the performance of several different types of reflectors and chose the optimal radius of curvature for the reflector. Compared to the UV sensor without an auxiliary device, the sensitivity of the FBG sensor with a focal lens and a curved reflector was 15 times as high.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1221-1222
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 촉각 센서와 에너지 수확소자가 한 소자에 융합되어있는 구조를 제안한다. 이 소자는 압전 스트랩과 유연한 튜브, 폴리머 필름으로 구성되어있으며, 유연하며 잘 늘어나는 직물구조를 갖는다. 완성된 소자에 수평방향의 인장 및 수축 힘이 가해지면 전압이 발생하여 에너지 수확소자로 동작하며, 수직방향의 힘이 가해지면 정전용량이 변화하여 촉각센서로 동작한다. 제작한 소자가 에너지 수확소자로 동작할 때 최대 36.6 V의 출력 전압이 측정되었으며, 소자를 누르는 수직힘이 증가할수록 정전용량이 커지는 것을 확인하였다.