Abstract: Provided is an analysis apparatus for a high energy particle and an analysis method for a high energy particle. The analysis apparatus for the high energy particle includes a scintillator generating photons with each unique wavelength by the impinging with a plurality of kinds of accelerated high energy particles, a parallel beam converting unit making the photons proceed in parallel to one another, a diffraction grating panel making the photons proceeding in parallel to one another enter at a certain angle, and refracting the photons at different angles depending on each unique wavelength, and a plurality of sensing units arranged on positions where the photons refracted at different angles from the diffraction grating panel reach in a state of being spatially separated, and detecting each of the photons.

Abstract: Disclosed is a high power ultra-short pulsed laser device increasing pulse energy by using resonators. A pulsed laser device may comprise a first resonator making a pump beam resonate primarily and passing the pump beam which resonated through a first output mirror; and a second resonator comprising a first multiple reflection mirror and a second multiple reflection mirror. Also, the first multiple reflection mirror includes at least one first small area mirror, and the second multiple reflection mirror includes at least one second small area mirror, and the second resonator makes the laser beam delivered from the first resonator resonate by reflecting the laser beam repetitively. Therefore, the pulsed laser device may increase pulse energy without using a multi-stage amplifier so that a high power ultra-short pulsed laser beam can be generated.

Abstract: Provided are a vibration transducer and an implantable hearing aid device. In one embodiment, the implantable hearing aid device includes a signal processing part implantable in a subject, the signal processing part processing a signal from a microphone to output a sound signal, a sound transmission tube configured for transmitting the sound signal to a round window of the subject, and a bellows member disposed at an end side of the sound transmission tube to transmit vibration due to the sound signal to the round window. In other embodiment, the implantable hearing aid device includes a signal processing part implantable in a subject, the signal processing part processing a signal from a microphone to output an electrical signal, a vibration generation part configured for receiving the electrical signal to generate vibration, and a bellows member disposed at an end side of the vibration generation part to transmit the vibration to a round window of the subject.

Abstract: There is provided a device for generating a heavy-ion beam. The device includes a laser beam generating unit configured to generate a laser beam; a target configured to generate a heavy-ion beam by the laser beam; a laser optical system configured to focus the laser beam on the front of the target; and a plasma treating unit disposed at a rear surface of the target and configured to remove impurities within the target by plasma surface treatment that is performed by radiating cationic plasma onto the rear surface of the target.

Abstract: In an apparatus for laser alignment and a method of aligning laser using the same, the apparatus for laser alignment is used in a radiation therapy system. The radiation therapy system includes a rotatable gantry having a radiation source generating radiation, a radiation shaping unit and a crosshair indicating a radiation field center, a couch on which a patient is disposed and a laser device disposed adjacent to the gantry to irradiate a laser for aiming. A light source irradiates light being mounted in the gantry. The couch is disposed adjacent to the gantry. Position and direction of the couch are controllable. The apparatus for laser alignment includes the plural alignment marks spaced apart from each other to be projected, thereby simultaneously checking alignment status by the irradiation of the light in at least one direction; and a level and a level adjusting part.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fiber-optic sensor system for measuring the relative dose of a therapeutic proton beam by measuring Cerenkov radiation and a method of measuring using the same, and more particularly to a fiber-optic sensor system for precisely and economically measuring a proton beam by measuring the Cerenkov radiation generated from a fiber-optic sensor and a method of measuring using the same. The present invention comprises a proton beam source, a fiber-optic sensor for measuring the Bragg peak of the proton beam and SOBP, an optical detector for measuring the Cerenkov radiation, and a pair of optical fibers connecting the fiber-optic sensor and the optical detector, wherein the fiber-optic sensor being irradiated with a proton beam, the Cerenkov radiation generated in the optical fibers themselves is delivered through the optical detector to an amplifier system, and the resulting signal is transferred to a computer.

Abstract: There is provided a device for generating a heavy-ion beam. The device includes a laser beam generating unit configured to generate a laser beam; a target configured to generate a heavy-ion beam by the laser beam; a laser optical system configured to focus the laser beam on the front of the target; and a plasma treating unit disposed at a rear surface of the target and configured to remove impurities within the target by plasma surface treatment that is performed by radiating cationic plasma onto the rear surface of the target.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate; a gate line, a data line, and a common voltage line formed on the first substrate; a first passivation layer formed on the gate line, the data line, and the common voltage line; and a pixel electrode and a common electrode formed on the first passivation layer and overlapping each other with a second passivation layer therebetween, and the common electrode is connected to the common voltage line through a common contact hole, and the common contact hole is disposed for every two or more dots.

Abstract: Provided is an ion beam treatment apparatus including the target. The ion beam treatment apparatus includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposed to the first surface, and including a cone type hole decreasing in width from the first surface to the second surface to pass through the substrate, wherein an inner wall of the substrate defining the cone type hole is formed of a metal, an ion generation thin film attached to the second surface to generate ions by a laser beam incident into the cone type hole through the first surface and strengthen, and a laser that emits a laser beam to generate ions from the ion generation thin film and project the ions onto a tumor portion of a patient. The laser beam incident into the cone type hole is focused by the cone type hole and is strengthened.

Abstract: Provided is an ion beam treatment apparatus. The treatment apparatus includes a target for generating positive ions including a thin film for generating positive ions and nanowires disposed on at least one side of the thin film for generating positive ions, and a laser for emitting a laser beam incident on nanowires to project positive ions to a tumor region of a patient by generating the positive ions from the thin film for generating positive ions. Each of the nanowires may include a metal nanocore and a polymer shell surrounding the metal nanocore. The laser beam incident on the nanowires forms surface plasmon resonance, a near field having an intensity enhanced more than an intensity of the laser beam is formed by the surface plasmon resonance, and the positive ions are emitted from the thin film for generating positive ions by the near field.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for generating a proton beam, which includes a laser system providing a laser pulse, a target generating a proton beam by using the laser pulse, and a phase conversion plate disposed between the laser system as a light source and the target to convert the laser pulse into a circularly polarized laser pulse having a spiral shape.

Abstract: A display substrate has first and second conductive layers separated from one another by an insulation layer. The first and second conductive layers are used to integrally form on the display substrate, pixel units in a relatively central display area of the substrate and integrated gate driving circuitry as well as associated wirings thereof in one or more peripheral areas. The first and second conductive layers are covered by a first protection layer made of a first electrically insulative material. A second and supplementing protection layer is provided on top of the first protection layer. The supplementing protection layer (buffer layer) is formed of a material different from that of the first protection layer so as to provide supplemental resistance against corrosive chemical agents and supplemental resistance against formation of cracks.

Abstract: Provided is an ion beam treatment apparatus. The treatment apparatus includes a target for generating positive ions including a thin film for generating positive ions and nanowires disposed on at least one side of the thin film for generating positive ions, and a laser for emitting a laser beam incident on nanowires to project positive ions to a tumor region of a patient by generating the positive ions from the thin film for generating positive ions. Each of the nanowires may include a metal nanocore and a polymer shell surrounding the metal nanocore. The laser beam incident on the nanowires forms surface plasmon resonance, a near field having an intensity enhanced more than an intensity of the laser beam is formed by the surface plasmon resonance, and the positive ions are emitted from the thin film for generating positive ions by the near field.

Abstract: A display substrate has first and second conductive layers separated from one another by an insulation layer. The first and second conductive layers are used to integrally form on the display substrate, pixel units in a relatively central display area of the substrate and integrated gate driving circuitry as well as associated wirings thereof in one or more peripheral areas. The first and second conductive layers are covered by a first protection layer made of a first electrically insulative material. A second and supplementing protection layer is provided on top of the first protection layer. The supplementing protection layer (buffer layer) is formed of a material different from that of the first protection layer so as to provide supplemental resistance against corrosive chemical agents and supplemental resistance against formation of cracks.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of tracking the movement of an eyeball in eyeball tumor treatment. The method includes a calibration step of storing an actual length for each pixel of an image in a storage unit, a template image generation step of storing a patient's eyeball image as a template image of the patient's eyeball in the storage unit, an eyeball location tracking step of, during the treatment of the patient's eyeball, determining whether movement of the treatment image has occurred by comparing treatment images of the patient's eyeball in real time with the template image, and a control step of stopping the operation of the proton beam output device if the movement of the treatment image deviates from a preset tolerance range, and keeping operation of the proton beam output device normal if the movement of the treatment image is within the tolerance range.

Abstract: Provided is an analysis apparatus for a high energy particle and an analysis method for a high energy particle. The analysis apparatus for the high energy particle includes a scintillator generating photons with each unique wavelength by the impinging with a plurality of kinds of accelerated high energy particles, a parallel beam converting unit making the photons proceed in parallel to one another, a diffraction grating panel making the photons proceeding in parallel to one another enter at a certain angle, and refracting the photons at different angles depending on each unique wavelength, and a plurality of sensing units arranged on positions where the photons refracted at different angles from the diffraction grating panel reach in a state of being spatially separated, and detecting each of the photons.

Abstract: Provided are an ion generation target and a treatment apparatus using the same. The treatment apparatus includes an ion generation material generating the ions by incident laser beam, the ion generation material generating a bubble having a hemispheric shape, a support supporting the bubble having the hemispheric shape, a bubble generation member for generating the bubble having the hemispheric shape on the support by using the ion generation material, and a laser radiating laser beam onto a surface of the bubble to generate ions from the ion generation material, thereby projecting the ions onto a tumor portion of a patient.

Abstract: Provided is a method for modifying a surface of a cyclic olefin copolymer, comprising: coating a compound of the following Chemical Formula 1 on the surface of a cyclic olefin copolymer substrate, irradiating UV light on the cyclic olefin copolymer substrate, and polymerizing a monomer on the cyclic olefin where X is H or F, and n is an integer of 1 to 6.