• 제목/요약/키워드: Radiation-hardened

검색결과 26건 처리시간 0.023초

전기로 산화슬래그 골재를 활용한 중량 콘크리트의 단위 용적 중량 변화에 따른 X-선 차폐 성능 비교 (Comparison of X-ray Shielding Performance according to the Weight of unit volume of Heavy Weight Concrete Utilizing Electric Arc Furnace Oxidizing Slag.)

  • 임희섭;이한승;최재석
    • 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국건축시공학회 2013년도 춘계 학술논문 발표대회
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    • pp.35-36
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    • 2013
  • Electric arc furnace oxidizing slag from massively produced steel slag has been used in road bases and subbases, hot mix asphalt, and landfill. Electric arc furnace oxidizing slag contains iron (15%~30%) and has a high density of 3.0~3.7 ton/m3. Depending on the type and amount of concrete aggregates, the radiation-shielding characteristics can vary. Therefore, aggregates of electric arc furnace oxidizing slag can be considered for the production of radiation-shielding concrete. The experimental design of this study is experiments on Compressive strength experiments, X-ray irradiation experiments, and experiments related to the unit volume weight were carried out on hardened concrete. This experiment compared the performance evaluation of radiation shielding of concrete using electric arc furnace oxidizing slag.

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Using machine learning for anomaly detection on a system-on-chip under gamma radiation

  • Eduardo Weber Wachter ;Server Kasap ;Sefki Kolozali ;Xiaojun Zhai ;Shoaib Ehsan;Klaus D. McDonald-Maier
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제54권11호
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    • pp.3985-3995
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    • 2022
  • The emergence of new nanoscale technologies has imposed significant challenges to designing reliable electronic systems in radiation environments. A few types of radiation like Total Ionizing Dose (TID) can cause permanent damages on such nanoscale electronic devices, and current state-of-the-art technologies to tackle TID make use of expensive radiation-hardened devices. This paper focuses on a novel and different approach: using machine learning algorithms on consumer electronic level Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to tackle TID effects and monitor them to replace before they stop working. This condition has a research challenge to anticipate when the board results in a total failure due to TID effects. We observed internal measurements of FPGA boards under gamma radiation and used three different anomaly detection machine learning (ML) algorithms to detect anomalies in the sensor measurements in a gamma-radiated environment. The statistical results show a highly significant relationship between the gamma radiation exposure levels and the board measurements. Moreover, our anomaly detection results have shown that a One-Class SVM with Radial Basis Function Kernel has an average recall score of 0.95. Also, all anomalies can be detected before the boards are entirely inoperative, i.e. voltages drop to zero and confirmed with a sanity check.

펄스방사선을 이용한 내방사선 연구 DB 구축 (DataBase system construction for the study of radiation hardened electronic devices using pulse radiation)

  • 고성곤;오승찬;황영관;정상훈;이남호
    • 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보통신학회 2012년도 춘계학술대회
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    • pp.778-781
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    • 2012
  • 전자소자는 방사선 피폭으로 손상이 발생하므로 인공위성이나 우주선에 적용하기 위해서는 방사선 내성을 가진 내방사선 전자소자의 사용이 필수적이다. 국내에서 처음 수행한 과도방사선 시험평가 자료를 데이터베이스(DB)로 구축하였다. 이 DB는 웹기반으로 자료검색과 갱신이 가능하도록 설계되었고, 기존 외국 (NASA, ESA)의 공개 자료를 포함하여 총 695종의 데이터가 입력되어 있다. 기존 외국의 DB보다 검색이 효율적이고 실용적인 DB이다.

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Impact of gamma radiation on 8051 microcontroller performance

  • Charu Sharma;Puspalata Rajesh;R.P. Behera;S. Amirthapandian
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제54권12호
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    • pp.4422-4430
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    • 2022
  • Studying the effects of gamma radiation on the instrumentation and control (I&C) system of a nuclear power plant is critical to the successful and reliable operation of the plant. In the accidental scenario, the adverse environment of ionizing radiation affects the performance of the I&C system and it leads to inaccurate and incomprehensible results. This paper reports the effects of gamma radiation on the AT89C51RD2, a commercial-off-the-shelf 8-bit high-performance flash microcontroller. The microcontroller, selected for the device under test for this study is used in the remote terminal unit for a nuclear power plant. The custom circuits were made to test the microcontroller under different gamma doses using a 60Co gamma source in both ex-situ and in-situ modes. The device was exposed to a maximum dose of 1.5 kGy. Under this hostile environment, the performance of the microcontroller was studied in terms of device current and voltage changes. It was observed that the microcontroller device can operate up to a total absorbed dose of approximately 0.6 kGy without any failure or degradation in its performance.

방사선빔 조사를 이용한 질화갈륨 기반 트랜지스터의 내방사선 특성 연구 (Radiation Hardness Evaluation of GaN-based Transistors by Particle-beam Irradiation)

  • 금동민;김형탁
    • 전기학회논문지
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    • 제66권9호
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    • pp.1351-1358
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    • 2017
  • In this work, we investigated radiation hardness of GaN-based transistors which are strong candidates for next-generation power electronics. Field effect transistors with three types of gate structures including metal Schottky gate, recessed gate, and p-AlGaN layer gate were fabricated on AlGaN/GaN heterostructure on Si substrate. The devices were irradiated with energetic protons and alpha-particles. The irradiated transistors exhibited the reduction of on-current and the shift of threshold voltage which were attributed to displacement damage by incident energetic particles at high fluence. However, FET operation was still maintained and leakage characteristics were not degraded, suggesting that GaN-based FETs possess high potential for radiation-hardened electronics.

펨토초 레이저로 제작된 광섬유 브래그 격자 센서의 방사선 영향 (Radiation Effects on Fiber Bragg Gratings Written by Femtosecond Laser)

  • 김종열;이남호;정현규;임돈순
    • 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보통신학회 2015년도 추계학술대회
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    • pp.961-963
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    • 2015
  • 본 논문에서는 펨토초 레이저로 제작된 광섬유 브래그 격자 센서의 감마방사선 영향을 연구하였다. 제작된 광섬유 브래그 격자 센서는 $Co^{60}$ 감마선원을 이용하여 106 Gy/min의 선량률로 총선량 31.6 kGy 감마선을 조사하였다. 실험결과를 통하여 펨토초 레이저로 제작된 격자 센서가 고방사선 환경에서 뛰어난 내방사선 특성을 가짐을 확인하였다.

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Influence and analysis of a commercial ZigBee module induced by gamma rays

  • Shin, Dongseong;Kim, Chang-Hwoi;Park, Pangun;Kwon, Inyong
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제53권5호
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    • pp.1483-1490
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    • 2021
  • Many studies are undertaken into nuclear power plants (NPPs) in preparation for accidents exceeding design standards. In this paper, we analyze the applicability of various wireless communication technologies as accident countermeasures in different NPP environments. In particular, a commercial wireless communication module (WCM) is investigated by measuring leakage current and packet error rate (PER), which vary depending on the intensity of incident radiation on the module, by testing at a Co-60 gamma-ray irradiation facility. The experimental results show that the WCMs continued to operate after total doses of 940 and 1097 Gy, with PERs of 3.6% and 0.8%, when exposed to irradiation dose rates of 185 and 486 Gy/h, respectively. In short, the lower irradiation dose rate decreased the performance of WCMs more than the higher dose rate. In experiments comparing the two communication protocols of request/response and one-way, the WCMs survived up to 997 and 1177 Gy, with PERs of 2% and 0%, respectively. Since the request/response protocol uses both the transmitter and the receiver, while the one-way protocol uses only the transmitter, then the electronic system on the side of the receiver is more vulnerable to radiation effects. From our experiments, the tested module is expected to be used for design-based accidents (DBAs) of "Category A" type, and has confirmed the possibility of using wireless communication systems in NPPs.

Preliminary Study on Rapid Measurement of Gross Alpha/Beta and 90Sr Activities in Surface Soil by Mobile ZnS(Ag)/PTV Array and Handheld PVT Rod with Gated Energy Channels

  • Lee, Chanki;Kim, Hee Reyoung
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제46권4호
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    • pp.194-203
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    • 2021
  • Background: Surface soil radiation monitoring around nuclear facilities is important to classify and characterize the contaminated areas. A scanning and direct measurement technique can survey the sites rapidly before starting sampling analysis. Materials and Methods: Regarding this, we test and suggest a measurement technique for gross alpha/beta and 90Sr activities in surface soil based on a mobile ZnS(Ag)/PVT (polyvinyltoluene) array and a handheld PVT rod, respectively. To detect 90Sr selectively in soil mixed with naturally occurring radioactive materials, chosen energy channel counts from the multichannel analyzers were used instead of whole channel counts. Soil samples contaminated with exempt liquid 90Sr with 1 Bq·g-1, 3 Bq·g-1, and 10 Bq·g-1 were prepared and hardened by flocculation. Results and Discussion: The mobile ZnS(Ag)/PVT array could discriminate gross alpha, gross beta, and gamma radiation by the different pulse-shaped signal features of each sensor material. If the array is deployed on a vehicle, the scan minimum detectable concentration (MDC) range will be about 0.11-0.17 Bq·g-1 at 18 km·h-1 speed, highly sensitive to actual sites. The handheld PVT rod with 12 mm (Φ) × 20 mm (H) size can directly measure 90Sr selectively if channels on which energies are from 1,470 and 2,279 keV are gated, minimizing crossdetection of other radionuclides. These methods were verified by measuring soil samples fabricated with homogeneous 90Sr concentrations, showing static MDC of 2.16 Bq·g-1 at a measurement time of 300 seconds. Conclusion: Based on the results, comprehensive procedures using these detectors are suggested to optimize soil sites survey.

Effects of heat and gamma radiation on the degradation behaviour of fluoroelastomer in a simulated severe accident environment

  • Inyoung Song ;Taehyun Lee ;Kyungha Ryu ;Yong Jin Kim ;Myung Sung Kim ;Jong Won Park;Ji Hyun Kim
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제54권12호
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    • pp.4514-4521
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    • 2022
  • In this study, the effects of heat and radiation on the degradation behaviour of fluoroelastomer under simulated normal operation and a severe accident environment were investigated using sequential testing of gamma irradiation and thermal degradation. Tensile properties and Shore A hardness were measured, and thermogravimetric analysis was used to evaluate the degradation behaviour of fluoroelastomer. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy were used to characterize the structural changes of the fluoroelastomer. Heat and radiation generated in nuclear power plant break and deform the chemical bonds, and fluoroelastomer exposed to these environments have decreased C-H and functional groups that contain oxygen and double bonds such as C-O, C=O and C=C were generated. These functional groups were formed by auto oxidation by reacting free radicals generated from the cleaved bond with oxygen in the atmosphere. In this auto oxidation reaction, crosslinks were generated where bonded to each other, and the mobility of molecules was decreased, and as a result, the fluoroelastomer was hardened. This hardening behaviour occurred more significantly in the severe accident environment than in the normal operation condition, and it was found that thermal stability decreased with the generation of unstable structures by crosslinking.

초고집적 회로를 위한 SIMOX SOI 기술

  • 조남인
    • 전자통신동향분석
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.55-70
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    • 1990
  • SIMOX SOI is known to be one of the most useful technologies for fabrications of new generation ULSI devices. This paper describes the current status of SIMOX SOI technology for ULSI applications. The SIMOX wafer is vertically composed of buried oxide layer and silicon epitaxial layer on top of the silicon substrate. The buried oxide layer is used for the vertical isolation of devices The oxide layer is formed by high energy ion implantation of high dose oxygen into the silicon wafer, followed by high temperature annealing. SIMOX-based CMOS fabrication is transparent to the conventional IC processing steps without well formation. Furthermore, thin film CMOX/SIMOX can overcome the technological limitations which encountered in submicron bulk-based CMOS devices, i.e., soft-error rate, subthreshold slope, threshold voltage roll-off, and hot electron degradation can be improved. SIMOX-based bipolar devices are expected to have high density which comparable to the CMOX circuits. Radiation hardness properties of SIMOX SOI extend its application fields to space and military devices, since military ICs should be operational in radiation-hardened and harsh environments. The cost of SIMOX wafer preparation is high at present, but it is expected to reduce as volume increases. Recent studies about SIMOX SOI technology have demonstrated that the performance of the SIMOX-based submicron devices is superior to the circuits using the bulk silicon.