• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.98-99
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• 2003

PIN photodiode has been used in solid-state detector for x-ray detection as a photosensor of visible light from scintillator. Since the light from CWO is short wavelength having peak at 490nm, the light is absorbed within a very shallow layer near the surface of the photodiode before arriving at the depletion layer and does not contribute to the signal. In designing the PIN photodiode, it is important to make the p-layer as shallow as possible. (omitted)

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1407-1412
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• 2014

In order to improve spectrum sensitivity of photodiode for detection of the laser at 850 nm ~ 1000 nm of near-infrared wavelength band, this study has produced silicon-based fast film PIN photodiode and analyzed electrical and optical properties. The manufactured device is packaged in TO-18 type. The electrical properties of the dark currents both Anode 1 and Anode 2 have valued of approximately 0.055 nA for 5 V reverse bias, while the capacitance showed 19.5 pF at frequency range of 1 kHz and about 19.8 pF at the range of 200 kHz for 0 V. In addition, the rising time of output signal was verified to have fast response time of about 30 ns for 10 V. For the optical properties, the best spectrum sensitivity was 0.66 A/W for 880 nm, while it was relatively excellent value of 0.45 A/W for 1,000 nm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2353-2355
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 고정도의 방사선 측정이 가능한 능동형 전자선량계를 제작하기 위해 필수적으로 요구되는 반도체 방사선 검출기를 ASIC으로 구현하였다. 이는 전자선량계의 소형화와 저소비전력을 실현할 수 있도록 전치증폭기와 성형증폭기를 일체화한 것으로 방사선과 방사선 검출 소자인 상용 핀 포토다이오드의 상호작용으로 생성된 수 [nA]의 전류펄스를 측정할 수 있다. MOSIS 공정을 통하여 ASIC으로 구현된 방사선검출기는 $10{\mu}Ci$의 ${\gamma}$-선 Ba-133, Cs-137 및 Co-60의 세 핵종에 대하여 방사선 조사시험을 수행하여 구현된 방사선 검출기의 유용성을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07d
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• pp.2285-2288
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• 2002

Recently, electronic personal dosimeters based upon silicon PIN photodiode or miniature GM tube were developed and have attracted a lot of attention because of the advantages of their nature such as indication of dose rate and the cumulative dose, and facilitation of record keeping. In this paper, we have developed a high-sensitivity electronic personal dosimeter with silicon PIN photodiode. The electronic personal dosimeter is constructed with silicon PIN photodiode, preamplifier, and shaping amplifier. To show the effectiveness of electronic personal dosimeter, we conducted nuclear radiation experiments using $\gamma$-ray Ba-133, Cs-137, and Co-60. The electronic personal dosimeter have a good linearity on $\gamma$-ray energy and activity.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.296-303
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• 2003

A personal portable type electronic dosimeter using silicon PIN photodiode and small GM tube is recently attracting much attention due to its advantages such as an immediate indication function of dose and dose rate, alerting function, and efficient management of radiation exposure history and dose data. We designed and manufactured a semiconductor radiation detector aimed to directly measure X-ray and v-ray irradiated in silicon PIN photodiode, without using high-priced scintillation materials. Using this semiconductor radiation detector, we developed an active electronic dosimeter, which measures the exposure dose using pulse counting method. In this case, it has a shortcoming of over-evaluating the dose that shows the difference between the dose measured with electronic dosimeter and the dose exposed to the human body in a low energy area. We proposed an energy compensation filter and developed a dose conversion algorithm to make both doses indicated on the detector and exposed to the human body proportional to each other, thus enabling a high-precision dose measurement. In order to prove its reliability in conducting personal dose measurement, crucial for protecting against radiation, the implemented electronic dosimeter was evaluated to successfully meet the IEC's criteria, as the KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) conducted test on dose indication accuracy, and linearity, energy and angular dependences.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.11
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• pp.99-106
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• 2016

When radon is staying at alveoli and bronchial tubes, the collapse of radon creates progeny nuclides (alpha ray, beta ray, gamma ray, etc.). They emit radiation causing a mutation in the chromosome of the cell, resulting in lung cancer. In other words, the main cause of lung cancer is radiation emitting as the result of radon collapse rather than radon gas. The 82% of radiation exposed to people is the natural radiation. Most of the natural radiation is radon. If we properly control the concentration of radon indoors, the probability of occurrence of lung cancer could be decreases to be 70%. Until now, to measure the indoor radon concentration, imported radon sensors are needed. So, DB construction of indoor radon emission and popular radon measuring apparatus should be developed. In this paper, we propose the radon detecting method using PIN photodiode. Also, we confirmed the PIN photodiode could be used as radon sensor module through some experimental studies.