Publication/Award

PATENT

12. Inyong Kwon and Minuk Seung, “Preamplifier with Active Deadtime Control Circuit and Method for Operating The Same,” 10-2855882, South Korea, September 2025.

11. Inyong Kwon, Yonseok Lee, Jungyeol Yeom, and Changhwoi Kim, "Digital register component and analog-digital converter detecting signal distortion in high-radiation environments", 102018112635, Germany, January 2025.

10. Eunju Jo and  Inyong Kwon , "Radiation-hardened memory cell and memory cell array including the same," 10-2717769, South Korea, October 2024.

9. Jungyeol Yeom, Seop Hur, Inyong Kwon, and Chanho Kim, "Apparatus for detecting position of radiation source," 11675093, USA, June 2023.

8. Inyong Kwon, Dongseong Shin, Jinsuk Oh, Hyeonmin Kim, and Changhwoi Kim, “Method and Apparatus For Training Nuclide Identification Model,” 10-2494533, South Korea, January 2023.

7. Minuk Seung, Inyong Kwon, and Seop Hur, “Bandgap Reference Voltage Circuit,” 10-2409226, South Korea, June 2022.

6.  Changyeop Lee, Inyong Kwon, Gyuseong Cho, Seungho Jhung, and Hyuntak Jeon, "Self-Compensated Amplifier," 10-2314780, South Korea, October 2021.

5.  Changyeop Lee, Youngsoo Choi, and Inyong Kwon, "Apparatus and Method for Image Compensation," 10-2259845, South Korea, May 2021.

4. Inyong Kwon, Hyuntak Jeon, Minkyu Je, Duckhyun Kim, and Dongseong Shin, "Apparatus For Providing Sensor Interface And Apparatus For Detecting Radiation Including The Same", 10-2173007, South Korea, October 2020.

3. Jungyeol Yeom, Seop Hur, Inyong Kwon, and Chanho Kim, "Apparatus for detecting position of radiation source," 10-2158821, South Korea, September 2020.

2. Inyong Kwon, Yonseok Lee, Jungyeol Yeom, and Changhwoi Kim, "Digital register component and analog-digital converter detecting signal distortion in high-radiation environments", 049266-513001US, USA, April 2019.

1. Inyong Kwon, Yonseok Lee, Jungyeol Yeom, and Changhwoi Kim, "Digital register component and analog-digital converter detecting signal distortion in high-radiation environments", 10-1938551, South Korea, January 2019.

AWARD

23. Best Paper Award,  Muhammad Adeel Anwar and Inyong Kwon, "Radiation Hardened by Design of LC-VCO in 28 nm FDSOI Process with Auxiliary Varactor Pair," Korea Nuclear Society, 2026 Spring Conference.

22. Best Poster Presentation Award, Seungwon Park and Inyong Kwon, "Application-Specific SRAM for On-Chip Pixelized Histogramming in Multi-Channel Radiation Detect," Korea Nuclear Society, 2026 Spring Conference.

21. Best Poster Presentation Award, Il hyung Cho  and Inyong Kwon, "Ring Oscillator Design for 20 MHz HIFU Ultra Sound Sensor," Korea Society of Radiation Industry, 2025 Young Researcher Conference.

20. Best Presentation Award, Habin Kim and Inyong Kwon, "Low Noise Charge Sensitive Amplifier Design," Korea Society of Radiation Industry, 2025 Young Researcher Conference.

19. Special Award, Muhammad Adeel Anwar, UST-KAERI  in Dec. 2025

18. Best Poster Presentation Award, Jinseok Oh, Chanho Kim, Min Sun Lee, and Inyong Kwon, "Design of High Speed Digital Silicon Photo-Multiplier (SiPM) Using Common 180 nm CMOS Process," Korea Nuclear Society, 2025 Spring Conference.

17. Best Oral Presentation Award,  Minwook Seong and Inyong Kwon, "Radiation Effects Mitigation Technique for Pulse-Train Time Amplifier Used in Time-to-Digital Converter: A Skew Error Perspective," Korea Society of Radiation Industry, 2024 Young Researcher Conference.

16. Best Poster Presentation Award, Sundo Kim,  Dongsuk Jeon, Jinseok Oh and Inyong Kwon, "High Speed Active  Quenching for Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes Using Digital Radiation Detection," Korea Nuclear Society, 2024 Spring Conference.

15. Best Presentation Award, Sungkwon Bae and Inyong Kwon, "Health Care Circuit Design for High Intensity Frequency Ultrasound," The Korean Society of Radiological Imaging Technology, 2024 Spring Conference.

14. Best Presentation Award, Minuk Seung and Inyong Kwon, "Radiation Hardened Preamplifier Design using Active Dead-time Control Technique," Korea Society of Radiation Industry, 2023 Autumn Conference.

13. Best Presentation Award, Jinseok Oh, Minsun Lee , and Inyong Kwon, "Design and Characterization of the Single Photon Avalanche Diode for Radiation Sensor Network System," Korea Society of Radiation Industry, 2023 Autumn Conference.

12.  Trainee Grant, Jinseok Oh, IEEE NSS MIC RTSD,  2023.

11.  Trainee Grant, Sundo Kim, IEEE NSS MIC RTSD,  2023.

10.  Trainee Grant, Minuk Seung, IEEE NSS MIC RTSD,  2023. 

9. Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Technology (NET), December 2022.

8. Best Poster Award, Jinseok Oh, Jungyeol Yeom, and Inyong Kwon, "Low Operating Voltage and Small Size SPAD Design for Radiation Monitoring System in Nuclear Power Plants," Korea Nuclear Society, 2022 Spring Conference.

7. Best Teaching Award, Digital Circuit Design for Measured Signal Processing (2021 Spring), University of Science and Technology, December 2021.

6. Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Technology (NET), December 2021.

5. Best Research Idea Award, Inyong Kwon, Changyeop Lee, and Seungho Jhung, "Saturation Compensation Circuit for Radiation Hardened CMOS Image Sensor," Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, May 2019.

4. Best Poster Award, Duckhyun Kim, Inyong Kwon, and Chang Hwoi Kim, "A 10-bit Radiation-Hardened R-2R Digital-to-Analog Converter for Nuclear Power Plant Applications," Korea Nuclear Society, 2019 Spring Conference.

3. Best Poster Award, Yongseok Lee, Inyong Kwon, Geehyun Kim, Youngtaek Kim, Seongju Kim, Wassem Muhammad, Jung-Yeol Yeom, 2018 ISOCC Chip Design Contest, 2018

2. Best Poster Award, Duckhyun Kim, Inyong Kwon, and Chang Hwoi Kim, "Overcoming High Capacitance of SiPMs by Using a Bootstrap technique," Korea Nuclear Society, 2018 Spring Conference.

1. Best Poster Award, Changyeop Lee, Gyuseong Cho, and Inyong Kwon, "Radiation Hardening Techniques for Preamplifier with Layout Strategy and Size Optimization," Korea Nuclear Society, 2017 Autumn Conference.