In gamma-ray spectrometry for volume samples, the self-attenuation effect should be considered in the case of differences in chemical composition and density between the efficiency calibration source for quantitative analysis of sample and the sample actually measured. In particular, the lower the gamma-ray energy, the greater the gamma-ray attenuation due to the self-attenuation effect of the sample. So, the attenuation effect of low-energy gamma-rays in the sample should be corrected to avoid over- or under-estimation of its radioactivity. One of the most important factors in correcting the self-attenuation effect of the sample is the linear attenuation coefficient for the sample, which can be directly calculated using a collimator. The larger the size of the collimator, the more advantageous it is to calculate the linear attenuation coefficient of the sample, but excessive size may limit the use of the collimator in a typical environmental laboratory due to its heavy weight. Therefore, it is necessary to optimize the collimator size and structure according to the measurement environment and purpose. This study is to optimize a collimator that can determine the effective linear attenuation coefficient of low-energy gamma-rays, and verify its applicability. The overall structure of the designed collimator was optimized for gamma-ray energy of less than 100 keV and cylindrical plastic bottle with diameter of 60 mm and a height of 40 mm. The materials of optimized collimator consisted of tungsten. Acryl and acetal were used to form the housing of the collimator, which fixes the central axis of the bottle, collimator and point-like source. In addition, using the housing, the height of the tungsten is adjusted according to the height of the sample. For applicability evaluation of the optimized collimator, IAEA reference material in solid form were used. The sample was filled in the bottle with heights of 1, 2, 3 and 4 cm respectively. Using the collimator and point-like source of 210Pb (46.5 keV), 241Am (59.5 keV), and 57Co (121.1 keV), the linear attenuation coefficient and the radioactivity for the samples were calculated. As a result, to calculate the linear attenuation coefficient using the optimized collimator, a relatively high sample height is required. However, the optimized collimator can be used to determine the linear attenuation coefficients of low-energy gamma-rays for the self-attenuation correction regardless of the sample height. It is concluded that the optimized collimator can be useful to correct the sample selfattenuation effect.

소형 핑거의 크기를 좌우하는 것은 진동자의 크기이며, 진동자의 크기는 주로 사용 주파수와 진동모드에 의하여 정해진다. 이 연구에서는 핑거에 자주 이용되고 있는 링형 진동자와는 진동 모드가 다른 바이모르프형 진동자를 이용하므로써 소형 진동자의 개발이 가능하였으며, 이 진동자를 이용하여 핑거의 소형화를 이룩할 수 있었다. 개발된 진동자의 크기는 50KHz 공진에서 직경 7.3mm, 두께 0.7mm이었으며, 소형화된 핑거는 직경 8.0mm, 길이 30mm의 크기이고, 공기중에서의 중량이 3.5g, 수중중량이 1.8g이었다. 음향 출력 레벨은 3V의 전지를 사용하여 147dB(re lμPa a at 1m)이었고, 약 3일간 사용 가능하였다.

Modified compact combline bandpass filters are proposed based on the miniaturized quarter-wave transmission line which is composed of the parallel coupled line and lumped capacitors. The electrical length of the parallel coupled line in a resonator, which determines the size of combline bandpass filters, is just 5˚ or 7˚, resulting in a compact circuit area. The designed combline bandpass filter also has a wide upper stopband by suppressing the spurious passbands, not moving. Measured results of two fabricated filters centered at 400MHz show good agreement with the theoretical predications.

본 논문은 910 MHz 대역에서 동작하는 RFID (radio Frequency identification) 태그 안테나의 소형화 설계 기법을 제안한다. folded-dipole 구조와 미앤더 선로 구조를 적용하여 태그 안테나의 소형화 설계를 행하였다. 최대 전력 전달을 위해서 테그 안테나와 칩의 임피던스의 허수부는 공액 정합되었다. 최적화된 안테나의 크기는 50 nm × 40 nm × 1.6 nm로, 참고문헌 [4]와 비교하여 크기가 62 % 줄었다. 제작된 태그 안테나의 측정결과들은 예상과 잘 일치하는 것으로 확인되었다. 칩이 내장된 태그 안테나의 인식거리는 약 5 m로 관측되었다.