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System of a Selenium Based X-ray Detector for Radiography (일반촬영을 위한 셀레늄 기반의 엑스선 검출기 시스템)

  • Lee, D.G.;Park, J.K.;Choi, J.Y.;Ahn, S.H.;Nam, S.H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.07b
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    • pp.817-820
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    • 2002
  • Amorphous selenium based flat panel detectors convert incident x-ray to electric signal directly. Flat panel detectors gain more interest real time medical x-ray imaging. TFT array and electric readout circuits are used in this paper offered by LG.Philips.LCD. Detector is based on a $1536{\times}1280$ array of a-Si TFT pixels. X-ray conversion layer(a-Se) is deposited upper TFT array with a $400{\mu}m$ by thermal deposition technology. Thickness uniformity of this layer is made of thickness control system technology$({\leq}5%)$. Each $139{\mu}m{\times}139{\mu}m$ pixel is made of thin film transistor technology, a storage capacitor and collecting electrode having geometrical fill factor of 86%. This system show dynamic performance. Imaging performance is suited for digital radiography imaging substitute by conventional radiography film system.

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Oxygen Permeability Characteristics of the Multi-Cathode Type Dissolved Oxygen Sensor Using the Low Noise Measuring Circuit (저잡음화 계측회로에 의한 다음극형 용존산소센서의 산소투과특성)

  • Rhie, Dong-Hee;Kim, T.J.;Kim, Y.H.;Sung, Yung-Kwon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.11c
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    • pp.764-766
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    • 1998
  • An evaluation method for oxygen permeable characteristics of the membrane covering to each cathode of multiple cathode - single anode type dissolved oxygen sensor, which has high reproducibility and is capable of measuring multiple components in solutions. For this purpose, a measuring circuit for the multiple cathode type DO sensor was designed to lower the noise signal by adapting a digital LPF to readout the sensor output accurately. Digital LPF is designed by setting up the transfer function to set the cutoff frequency to 10Hz, and the transfer function is programmed by C language, and then the filtering characteristics are evaluated with the simulation and experiments. Using this LPF added measuring circuit for the multiple cathode type DO sensor, we have obtained the calibration factor for each cathode to calibrate the variation of the output signals. The calibration factor was obtained by measuring the sensor output signal followed by oxygen partial pressure, using the same oxygen permeable membrane at each cathode of the multiple cathode type DO sensor.

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Construction and Operation of a 40-channel SQUID System for Neuromagnetic Measurements (40-채널 SQUID 시스템의 제작 및 뇌자도 측정)

  • Lee, Yong-Ho;Kim, Jin-Mok;Kwon, Hyuk-Chan;Lee, Sang-Kil;Lim, Cheong-Moo;Park, Yong-Ki;Park, Jong-Chul
    • 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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    • v.9
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 1999
  • We developed a 40-channel superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) system for neuromagnetic measurements. The main features of the system are use of double relaxation oscillation SQUID (DROS), and planar gradiometer for measuring tangential field components. The DROSS with high flux-to-voltage transfers enabled direct readout of the SQUID output by room-temperature electronics and simple flux-locked loop circuits could be used for SQUID operation. The pickup coil is an integrated first-order planar gradiometer with a baseline of 40 mm. The average noise of the 40 channels is around 1.2 fT/cm/${\sqrt{Hz}}$ at 100 Hz, corresponding to the field noise of 5 fT/${\sqrt{Hz}}$ at 100 Hz, operated inside a magnetically shielded room. The 40-Channel system was applied to measure auditory-evoked neuromagnetic fields.

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Fully Room Temperature fabricated $TaO_x$ Thin Film for Non-volatile Memory

  • Choi, Sun-Young;Kim, Sang-Sig;Lee, Jeon-Kook
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.28.2-28.2
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    • 2011
  • Resistance random access memory (ReRAM) is a promising candidate for next-generation nonvolatile memory because of its advantageous qualities such as simple structure, superior scalability, fast switching speed, low-power operation, and nondestructive readout. We investigated the resistive switching behavior of tantalum oxide that has been widely used in dynamic random access memories (DRAM) in the present semiconductor industry. As a result, it possesses full compatibility with the entrenched complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor processes. According to previous studies, TiN is a good oxygen reservoir. The TiN top electrode possesses the specific properties to control and modulate oxygen ion reproductively, which results in excellent resistive switching characteristics. This study presents fully room temperature fabricated the TiN/$TaO_x$/Pt devices and their electrical properties for nonvolatile memory application. In addition, we investigated the TiN electrode dependence of the electrical properties in $TaO_x$ memory devices. The devices exhibited a low operation voltage of 0.6 V as well as good endurance up to $10^5$ cycles. Moreover, the benefits of high devise yield multilevel storage possibility make them promising in the next generation nonvolatile memory applications.

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Development of a position sensitive CsI(Tl) crystal array

  • Shi, Guo-Zhu;Chen, Ruo-Fu;Chen, Kun;Shen, Ai-Hua;Zhang, Xiu-Ling;Chen, Jin-Da;Du, Cheng-Ming;Hu, Zheng-Guo;Fan, Guang-Wei
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.4
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    • pp.835-840
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    • 2020
  • A position-sensitive CsI(Tl) crystal array coupled with the multi-anode position sensitive photomultiplier tube (PS-PMT), Hamamatsu H8500C, has been developed at the Institute of Modern Physics. An effective, fast, and economical readout circuit based on discretized positioning circuit (DPC) bridge was designed for the 64-channel multi-anode flat panel PSPMT. The horizontal and vertical position resolutions are 0.58 mm and 0.63 mm respectively for the 1.0 × 1.0 × 5.0 ㎣ CsI(Tl) array, and the horizontal and vertical position resolutions are 0.86 mm and 0.80 mm respectively for the 2.0 × 2.0 × 10.0 ㎣ CsI(Tl) array. These results show that the CsI(Tl) crystal array with low cost could be applied in the fields of medical imaging and high-resolution gamma camera.

Design of DC-DC converter controller implemented with analog memory (아날로그 메모리를 이용한 DC-DC컨버터 제어기 설계)

  • Chai, Yong-Yoong;Do, Wang-Lok
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.357-364
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    • 2015
  • This research presents a DC-DC converter controller implemented with an analog memory. The structure of the converter will contribute to solve the stability problem unavoidable in a conventional closed loop converter. The analog memory will be used for realizing CAM(Contents Addressable Memory) which contains the output of the converter and the relevant duty ratio, respectively. The operation for reading in the memory is executed with an absolute differencing circuit and a WTA(Winner-Take-All) circuit suitable for a nearest-match function of the CAM. We also present a system architecture that enables highly-paralleled fast writing and quick readout as well as high integration density.

The Study to Find Causes for Measuring Differences of Hydrogen Fillings in Hydrogen Refueling Station (수소충전소의 연료 계량 방법에 따른 계량 오차가 발생하는 원인 고찰)

  • LEE, TAECK HONG;KANG, BYOUNG WOO;LEE, EUN WOUNG;CHUNG, JIN BAE;HONG, SUK JIN
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.32-40
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    • 2018
  • There has been an measuring errors between state of charge (SOC; kg) value and mass flow meter (MFM) value in dispenser for hydrogen refueling station. Finally, we observed average 15.5% weight difference between these two values and the MFM readings show a 15.5% higher readout of the SOC readings. Each car was charged with average 2.66 kg of hydrogen fuel during this period. In the initial charging of the day shows less measuring value than the final charging with the maximum 0.038 kg times number of filling. There is no effects of atmosphere temperature change for the hydrogen filled weight during one full year such as January's cold winters and August's hot summers.

The etching properties of MgO thin films in $Cl_2/Ar$ gas chemistry (유도 결합 플라즈마를 이용한 MgO 박막의 식각특성)

  • Koo, Seong-Mo;Kim, Chang-Il
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.07b
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    • pp.734-737
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    • 2004
  • The metal-ferroelectric-semiconductor (MFS) structure is widely studied for nondestructive readout (NDRO) memory devices, but conventional MFS structure has a critical problem. It is difficult to obtain ferroelectric films like PZT on Si substrate without interdiffusion of impurities such as Pb, Ti and other elements. In order to solve these problems, the metal-ferroelectric-insulator-semiconductor (MFIS) structure has been proposed with a buffer layer of high dielectric constant such as MgO, $Y_2O_3$, and $CeO_2$. In this study, the etching characteristics (etch rate, selectivity) of MgO thin films were etched using $Cl_2/Ar$ plasma. The maximum etch rate of 85 nm/min for MgO thin films was obtained at $Cl_2$(30%)/Ar(70%) gas mixing ratio. Also, the etch rate was measured by varying the etching parameters such as ICP rf power, dc-bias voltage, and chamber pressure. Plasma diagnostics was performed by Langmuir probe (LP) and optical emission spectroscopy (OES).

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Affinity chromatography and capillary electrophoresis for analysis of the yeast ribosomal proteins

  • Goyder, Miriam S.;Willison, Keith R.;Klug, David R.;DeMello, Andrew J.;Ces, Oscar
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.233-238
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    • 2012
  • We present a top down separation platform for yeast ribosomal proteins using affinity chromatography and capillary electrophoresis which is designed to allow deposition of proteins onto a substrate. FLAG tagged ribosomes were affinity purified, and rRNA acid precipitation was performed on the ribosomes followed by capillary electrophoresis to separate the ribosomal proteins. Over 26 peaks were detected with excellent reproducibility (<0.5% RSD migration time). This is the first reported separation of eukaryotic ribosomal proteins using capillary electrophoresis. The two stages in this workflow, affinity chromatography and capillary electrophoresis, share the advantages that they are fast, flexible and have small sample requirements in comparison to more commonly used techniques. This method is a remarkably quick route from cell to separation that has the potential to be coupled to high throughput readout platforms for studies of the ribosomal proteome.

Application of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon(a-Si : H) Radiation Detectors in Nuclear Medicine

  • Lee, Hyoung-Koo;Mendez, Victor-Perez;Shinn, Kyung-Sub
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.65-77
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    • 1995
  • A new gamma camera using a-Si : H photodetectors has been designed for the imaging of heart and other small organs. In this new design the photomultiplier tubes and the position sensing circuitry are replaced by 2-D array of a-Si : H p-i-n pixel photode tectors and readout circuitry which are built on a substrate. Without the photomultiplier tubes this camera is light weight, hence can be made portable. To predict the characteristics and the performance of this new gamma camera we did Monte Carlo simulations. In the simulations 128${\times}$128 imaging array of various pixel sixes were used. $\^$99m/Tc(140keV)and $\^$201/Tl(70keV) were used as radiation sources. From the simulations we could obtain the resolution of the camera and ther overall system, and the blurring effects due to scattering in the phantom. Using the Wiener filter for image processing, restoration of the blurred image could be achieved. Simulation results of a-Si : H based gamma camera were compared with those of a conwentional gamma camera.

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