Abstract: Provided are a low power micro semiconductor gas sensor and a method of manufacturing the same. The micro semiconductor gas sensor includes a substrate having an air gap, a peripheral portion provided on the substrate and comprising electrode pads, a sensor portion comprising sensing electrodes connected from the electrode pads and a sensing film on the sensing electrodes and floating on the air gap, and a connection portion comprising conductive wires electrically connecting the electrode pads and the sensing electrodes to each other, and connecting the peripheral portion and the sensor portion to one another. In this case, the air gap penetrates the substrate, and a thermal isolation area extended from the air gap to a space between the peripheral portion and the sensor portion is provided.

Abstract: Provided are a carbon ion generation target and a treatment apparatus including the same. The treatment apparatus includes a support member, a carbon ion generation target fixed to the support member, and a laser for irradiating laser beam into the carbon ion generation target to generate carbon ions from the carbon ion generation target, thereby projecting the carbon ions onto a tumor portion of a patient. Here, the carbon ion generation target includes a substrate and carbon thin films disposed on the substrate.

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: In the present invention, a nanoporous membrane having a columnar structure is manufactured through a deposition technology used in a semiconductor process, and the size of a nanopore is adjusted by etching the lower surface of the manufactured nanoporous membrane or using a seed layer and a nanobead layer so that scaling up is available at a lowered process temperature and the size of the nanopore can be easily adjusted when manufacturing the nanoporous membrane having a columnar structure.

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: The present invention relates to a portable digital reader for reading an analysis target chip including a plurality of test areas. The reader comprises: a light emitting section having light emitting elements for radiating light; an integral optical splitter for uniformly distributing the light from the light emitting section to each test area of the analysis target chip; a light receiving section for receiving light reflected from each test area so as to convert the same into electric signals; and a measuring section for measuring concentration according to the electric signals obtained from the light receiving section. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the generation of errors in signal measurement due to optical distribution failure by assembling branch sections of the optical splitter under the control of the number of the branch sections according to the number of test items in a test strip.

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: Provided are an analysis device and an analysis method. According to the device and the method, a giant magnetoresistance (GMR) sensor unit is formed to be the same as the size of one cancer cell or smaller and magnetic resistance according to the number of magnetic nano particles coupled with the one cancer cell by using the GMR sensor unit, thereby not only diagnosing cancer but also simply and cheaply distinguishing the type of the cancer.

Abstract: A method for measuring the size of microparticles includes: measuring an extinction spectrum of a medium having microparticles dispersed therein; and calculating average size of the microparticles based on the measured extinction spectrum and the Mie scattering theory.

Abstract: Provided is a solar cell including a first electrode, a first semiconductor layer on the first electrode, a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a second electrode on the second semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer may include a nano wire that may be formed along a grain boundary of a top surface thereof to have a mesh-shaped structure.

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 a proton beam generation apparatus. The apparatus includes a laser system providing a laser pulse, a phase shift plate polarizing the laser pulse to be spirally radial to be transduced to be a spirally radial shape polarized laser pulse, and a target for generating a proton beam, generating a proton beam due to the spirally radial shape polarized laser pulse.

Abstract: A Positional Scanning-Synthetic Peptide Combinatorial Library (PS-SPC) searching apparatus and method using Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) are provided. The method includes spotting and fixing each of a plurality of peptide pools to a top of one thin metal film, inputting specific materials to the top of the thin metal film, applying a TM-mode light to a bottom of the thin metal film and exciting SPR for the thin metal film, and detecting a TM mode reflected light reflected from the thin metal film and displaying the detected light as a two-dimensional image.

Abstract: Provided are a multiple discrimination device and a method of manufacturing the same. According to the multiple discrimination device, a three-dimensional micro ferromagnetic pattern is optimally designed and arranged to allow a magnetic force applied to a discrimination-target particle to be discriminated to be well controlled to perform discrimination well. The method employs a semiconductor processing technology, thereby precisely manufacturing and allowing mass production.

Abstract: There is provided a magnetic microvalve using a metal ball and a method of manufacturing the same. A magnetic microvalve using a metal ball according to an aspect of the invention may include: an upper substrate having a microchannel serving as a passage through which a fluid moves, a fluid inlet through which the fluid flows into the microchannel, and a fluid outlet through which the fluid, having passed through the microchannel, flows out of the microchannel; a lower substrate having a trench locally provided therein; a PDMS/metal ball combination having a metal ball and PDMS surrounding the metal ball so that the metal ball is located in a central portion thereof, the PDMS/metal ball combination being inserted into the trench provided in the lower substrate; and a magnet located above the microchannel, provided in the upper substrate, and generating magnetic force.

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: The present inventive concept provides a multiple separation device and a method of separating a blood cancer cell using the same. In the device and the method, a blood sample is put in a fine channel and then cancer cells can be separated according to the type of cancer by controlling a flow velocity of the blood or a magnetic force of ferromagnetic pattern.

Abstract: Provided are a target structure used for generating a charged particle beam, a method of manufacturing the same, and a medical appliance using the same. The target structure includes a target layer and a support having a through hole used as a progressing path of a laser beam or a charged particle beam.

Abstract: Disclosed is a biochip analysis device which includes first and second spatial light modulators; and a spatial light modulation driver configured to drive the first and second spatial light modulators, wherein the first spatial light modulator varies a wavelength of light to be irradiated to a biochip in response to a control of the spatial light modulation driver and the spatial light modulator passes a fluorescence signal selected from fluorescence signals generated by the biochip in response to a control of the spatial light modulation driver.