• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.429-436
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• 2010

최근에는 T-ray(terahertz ray)를 이용한 비파괴기술이 새로운 분야로 주목을 받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 FRP 복합재료의 내재결함이나 레이업(lay-up) 특성을 검사 및 평가하기 위한 T-ray 시간영역 분광기(time-domain spectroscopy)를 활용하였으며 또한 이 T-ray 분광기의 일반적인 반사 및 투과모드를 이용하여 T-ray 이미지를 구현하였다. 특히, 2개의 톱날 인공결함이 내재한 GFRP 복합재의 평가방법을 제시하였다. CFRP 복합재료에 대해서는 T-ray 전파는 탄소섬유로 인해 진행 장해를 받는다. 이에 따라 T-ray의 전기장(E-field)의 방향과 탄소섬유 방향의 의존성을 분석하였다. 한편 인공결함인 알루미늄 테이프, 박리, 충격손상, 이물혼입 등을 T-ray를 이용하여 비파괴 검사 및 평가하였다. 이를 통해 FRP 복합재료의 T-ray비파괴평가의 적용 가능성 및 한계 등을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• 보존과학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.237-244
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 우리나라 근대시기 유화 작품 3점('소년', '소녀', '혜화동풍경')에 테라헤르츠 이미징 기법을 활용하여 추출 가능한 작품 내부 정보의 종류와 이를 추출하기 위한 분석 조건을 연구하였다. 또한 테라헤르츠 스캔 적용 시 대상 작품의 굴곡에 따라 분석 대상 표면과 검출부 사이의 거리가 변화되어 발생하는 이미지 왜곡이 주된 문제점임을 파악하고, 이를 보완하기 위한 방법으로 '작동 거리 유지 장치'를 고안하였다. 연구 결과, 테라헤르츠 이미징 기법을 이용하여 유화의 바탕재 특성과 내부의 손상형태를 파악할 수 있음을 확인하였고 각 특성을 확인할 수 있는 최적의 조건을 제시하였다. 바탕재의 특성과 하부층 확인에는 테라헤르츠 주파수 분해 이미지를 활용하는 것이 유용하였으며 붓터치 등 채색기법을 파악하는 것에는 최대 반사피크 이미지와 단면 이미지가 효과적이었다. 또한 표면에서 관찰할 수 없는 작품 내부 손상 정보는 단면 이미지와 주파수 분해 이미지를 비교하는 것이 유용하였다. 회화작품에 적용한 결과, '소년'과 '소녀'에서는 내부의 구조적 손상 자국을, '혜화동풍경'에서는 작가의 채색 방식을 확인하였다. 이상의 결과는 우리나라 근대기 유화의 예방보존 및 보존처리를 위한 상태분석 및 진단에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한방사성의약품학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.120-128
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• 2019

Radiopharmaceuticals include therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals and diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals. Therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals are administered to the body and ingested at specific organs to detect radiation emitted from the site and to construct an image to diagnose the disease. Diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals are used to treat diseases by killing cells with radiation emitted from radiopharmaceuticals, such as cancer cells, vascular endothelial cells, arthritis, and Alzheimer's disease. The application possibilities of terahertz imaging technology for the combination of radiopharmaceuticals and molecular imaging medicine are discussed and experimental methods are presented. Terahertz imaging is expected to be a powerful technique because of the effective piercing feasibility, which enables to perform safe and high resolutive imaging. To investigate the response of cell to the terahertz wave, both the pulsed and CW THz wave systems are employed. THz imaging of a rat's paraffin-embedded epithelial cell with tumor is studied in advance.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.60-64
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• 2014

We report the generation of 3.3-mW single-cycle terahertz (THz) pulses at 1-kHz repetition rate via optical rectification in MgO-doped prism-cut stoichiometric LiNbO3. Efficient pulse-front tilting of 800-nm pulses was realized by an optimized single-lens focusing scheme for radially-symmetric propagation of THz beams. In this geometry, nearly-diffraction-limited THz Gaussian beams with electric field strength as high as 350 kV/cm were generated. The pump-to-THz energy conversion efficiency of $1.36{\times}10^{-3}$ and the extremely high signal-to-noise ratio of ~1:15000 achieved are among the best results for 1-kHz single-cycle terahertz pulse generation ever demonstrated in room temperature operation.

• 공학기술논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.245-251
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• 2018

Terahertz waves (T-ray) was extensively studied for the NDE (nondestructive evaluation) of characterization of trailing edges for a use of turbines composed with composite materials. The used NDE system were consisted of both CW(Continuous wave) and TDS (Time domain spectroscopy). The FRP composites were utilized for two kinds of both trailing edges of wind energy (non-conducting polymeric composites) and carbon fiber composites with conducting properties. The signals of T-ray in the TDS (Time domain spectroscopy) mode resembles almost that of ultrasound waves; however, a terahertz pulse could not penetrate a material with conductivity unlike ultrasound. Also, a method was suggested to obtain the "n" in the materials, which is called the refractive index (n). The data of refractive index (n) could be solved for the trailing edges. The trailing edges were scanned for characterization and inspection. C-scan and B-scan images were obtained and best optimal NDE techniques were suggested for complicated geometry samples by terahertz radiation. Especially, it is found that the defect image of T-ray corresponded with defect locations for the trailing edges of wind mill.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.263-268
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• 2016

Broadband metal-dielectric-metal terahertz filters composed of complementary rings are designed and demonstrated. Four samples with different parameters were fabricated. Results measured using THz time-domain spectroscopy system show excellent agreement with simulations. Compared with the broadband filters reported before, the complementary ring structure in our design is insensitive to any polarization at normal incidence due to symmetry of the ring. Furthermore, the influence of structure parameters (such as period, radius, slot width, thickness and incidence angles) on the transmission characteristics has been investigated theoretically. The encouraging results afforded by designing of the filters could find applications in broadband sensors, terahertz communication systems, and other emerging terahertz technologies.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.11-13
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• 2013

We have developed a terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system for transmission and reflection measurements of metallic thin films. Using our THz-TDS system, we studied the conventional superconductor niobium (Nb) in the normal state in the spectral range from 5 to $50cm^{-1}$. Both the real and imaginary parts of the conductivity are acquired without Kramers-Kronig analysis. Nb exhibits a nearly frequency independent real conductivity spectrum in the terahertz range, with a very small imaginary part.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.282-285
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• 2010

We printed a one-dimensional array of metallic wires and a two-dimensional array of metallic split ring resonators on a photo-paper by using a high-dots-per-inch resolution printer and an ink with silver nano-particles. The printed sample sizes are $1.0{\times}1.0cm^2$. The transmission measured by a terahertz time domain spectroscopy system shows that the arrays of wires and split ring resonators could act as polarizers and band-stop filters, respectively, in a terahertz frequency region.

• 한국분말야금학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국분말야금학회 2006년도 Extended Abstracts of 2006 POWDER METALLURGY World Congress Part 1
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• pp.374-375
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• 2006

Three-dimensional artificial crystals with periodicity corresponding to terahertz wave lengths were fabricated by self-assembling monosized metal spherical particles. The metal crystals were weakly sintered to utilize them as templates. The metal templates were inverted to air spheres crystal embedded in dielectric resin though infiltration and etching. The resulting resin inverted crystals clearly presented the photonic stop gaps within terahertz wave region and the frequencies of the gaps were confirmed to agree well with calculation by plane wave expansion method.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.106-109
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• 2017

Recently, ancient documents are actively studied and discussed. However, ancient documents has a few problems on interpretation. The antique documents are too fragile to hand over. So, some studies have been carried out using terahertz to read ancient documents without damaging them. Three techniques are necessary to read letters using terahertz. First, PPEX algorithm, which distinguishes pages. Second, TGSI technique, which distinguishes text from paper on a page. Third, CCSC algorithm, which transforms signals to letters. In this paper, we will describe the preprocessing process to facilitate the recognition of letters before applying the post processing as we mentioned above. Histogram equalization, Histogram stretching and the Sobel filter were applied to the preprocessing.