• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.29-34
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• 1992

Phase transition, dielectric properties, and leakage current characteristics of Ta2O5 thin film fabricated by sol-gel process with tantalum penta-n-butoxide were studied as a function of annealing temperature in O2 atmoshpere. Although Ta2O5 thin film annealed at temperatures below 700$^{\circ}C$ for 1 hr was amorphous, it was crystallized to ${\beta}$-Ta2O5 of orthorhombic phase by annealing at temperatures higher than 750$^{\circ}C$. With increasing annealing temperature from 500$^{\circ}C$ to 900$^{\circ}C$, dielectric constant of sol-gel processed Ta2O5 thin film was changed from 17.6 to 15.3 due to the increase of SiO2 thickness at Ta2O5/Si interface. For Ta2O5 thin film annealed at 500$^{\circ}C$ to 800$^{\circ}C$ for 1 hr in O2 atmosphere, leakage current was remarkably reduced and breakdown strength was increased with higher annealing temperature. For Ta2O5 film annealed at 800$^{\circ}C$, breakdown did not occur even at electric field strength of 30${\times}$105V/cm and leakage current was maintained lower than 10-8A/$\textrm{cm}^2$.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제4권7호
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• pp.759-766
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• 1994

본 연구에서는 Ta 박막 밑에 $SnO_{2}$박막층을 입혀서 $Ta/SnO_2$이중박막이 산화될 때 산소의 공급원을 2원화 함으로써 $Ta_2O_5$의 stoichiomitry를 향상시켜 $Ta_2O_5$박막 커패시터의 주설전류를 줄이고자 하였다. Tantalum을 실리콘 웨이퍼 위에 기판온도를 변화시켜 가면서 전자빔증착이나 스퍼터링 방밥으로 입히고 $500^{\circ}C$~$900^{\circ}C$에서 산화시켜 Al/$Ta_2O_5$p-Si/Al또는Al/$Ta_2O_5$/p-Si/Al과 같은 MIS형 커패시터를 만들어 유전상수 및 누설전류를 측정하였으며 XRD, AES, ESCA등을 이용하여 박막의 결정성 및 특성을 분석하였다. $SnO_{2}$박막층을 입힌 커패시터는$SnO_{2}$층을 입히지 않은 커패시터보다 10배 이상 큰 200정도의 유전상수 값을 나타내었다. 그리고 산화온도가 높으면 박막의 결정화로 인하여 유전상수는 증가하지아는 누설전류도 약간 증가하는 것이 확인되었다. 또한 높은 증착온도는 일반적으로 누설전류를 낮추는 것으로 나타났다. 특히 $SnO_{2}$층을 입힌 경우에 기판온도를 $200^{\circ}C$로 하고 $800^{\circ}C$에서 산화시켜 만든 커패스터의 경우에 $4 \times 10^{5}$V/cm의 전장강도에서 $10^{-7}A/\textrm{cm}^2$의 낮은 누설전류 값을 나타내었다. $Ta_2O_5$박막은 $700^{\circ}C$ 이상에서 박막이 결정되고, Ta /$SnO_{2}$ 이중박막을 산화시키면 처음에는 Ta박막과 $SnO_{2}$박막 계면에서 $SnO_{2}$로부터 Ta박막에 산소가 공급되지마는 점차 Sn이 Ta박막쪽으로 확산되어 결국에는 Ta-Sn-O계의 새로운 ternary oxide가 생성되는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국결정성장학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국결정성장학회 1998년도 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH KACG TECHNICAL MEETING-PACIFIC RIM 3 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM SESSION 4, HOTEL HYUNDAI, KYONGJU, SEPTEMBER 20-23, 1998
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• pp.85-90
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• 1998

Reactive ion etching (RIE) of Ta-Al alloy thin film and SiO2 thin films was observed during the etching with the CF4 gas and the could be used effectively to etch the Ta-Al alloy thin film. The etching rate of the thin film at a Ta content of 50 mol% was about 67$\AA$/min. No selectivity between the Ta-Al alloy thin film and SiO2 thin films was observed during the etching with the CF4 gas and the etching rate of the SiO2 layer was 12 times faster than that of the Ta-Al alloy thin film. In addition, it was observed that photoresist of AZ5214 was more useful than Shiepley 1400-2 in RIE with the CF4 gas.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 1993년도 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.69-69
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• 1993

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제42회 동계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.334-334
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• 2012

Transparent oxide semiconductors have recently attracted much attention as channel layer materials due to advantageous electrical and optical characteristics such as high mobility, high stability, and good transparency. In addition, transparent oxide semiconductor can be fabricated at low temperature with a low production cost and it permits highly uniform devices such as large area displays. A variety of thin film transistors (TFTs) have been studied including ZnO, InZnO, and InGaZnO as the channel layer. Recently, there are many studies for substitution of Ga in InGaZnO TFTs due to their problem, such as stability of devices. In this work, new quaternary compound materials, tantalum-indium-tin oxide (TaInSnO) thin films were fabricated by using co-sputtering and used for the active channel layer in thin film transistors (TFTs). We deposited TaInSnO films in a mixed gas (O2+Ar) atmosphere by co-sputtering from Ta and ITO targets, respectively. The electric characteristics of TaInSnO TFTs and thin films were investigated according to the RF power applied to the $Ta_2O_5$ target. The addition of Ta elements could suppress the formation of oxygen vacancies because of the stronger oxidation tendency of Ta relative to that of In or Sn. Therefore the free carrier density decreased with increasing RF power of $Ta_2O_5$ in TaInSnO thin film. The optimized characteristics of TaInSnO TFT showed an on/off current ratio of $1.4{\times}108$, a threshold voltage of 2.91 V, a field-effect mobility of 2.37 cm2/Vs, and a subthreshold swing of 0.48 V/dec.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 1992년도 추계학술발표강연 및 논문개요집
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• pp.39-39
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• 1992

• 산업기술연구
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• 제19권
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• pp.101-105
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• 1999

Ultra thin $Ta_2O_5$ gate dielectrics were prepared by RTMOCVD (rapid thermal metal organic chemical vapor deposition) using Ta source $TaC_{12}H_{30}O_5N$ and $O_2$ gaseous mixtures. As a result, $Ta_2O_5$ thin films showed significantly low leakage current compared to $SiO_2$ of identical thickness, which was due to the stabilization of the interfacial layer by NO ($SiO_xN_y$) passivation layer. The conduction of leakage current in $Ta_2O_5$ thin films was described by the hopping mechanism of Poole-Frenkel (PF) type.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2000년도 제1회 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.157-158
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• 2000

In this study, to get the larger drain current of the device under the same operation condition as the conventional gate dielectric SiNx thin film transistor devices, we introduced new gate dielectric $Ta_2O_5$ thin film which has high dielectric constant $({\sim}25)$ and good electrical reliabilities. For the application for the TFT device, we fabricated the $Ta_2O_5$ gate dielectric TFT on the low-temperature-transformed polycrystalline silicon thin film using the self-aligned implantation processing technology for source/drain and gate doping. The $Ta_2O_5$ gate dielectric TFT showed better electrical performance than SiNx gate dielectric TFT because of the higher dielectric constant.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.231-238
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• 1997

Tantalum oxide thin filme has an amorphous structure and a high resistivity. Its stoichiometric structure was $Ta_2O_{5.3}$ and the transmission ratio was 80%. The high resistivity of $Ta_2O_{5.3}$ thin film electrolyte made an EC windows without electrical shottness, but the bleached/colored cur rent was very low because of the low ion conductivith. Upon adding moisture into the system, the $\Delta$T increased upto 25 %. proton concentration increase was the main cases to improve optical property. The influence of adding precious or transition metal film(~100 $\AA$ thickness) in $Ta_2O_5$layer on the color change performance was observed. The metal insertion layers had formed hydroxide and they behaved as a stable proton source. The transmission diffrnece and cycle life were greatly enhanced in the case of Ti inssertion.The $\Delta$T was 50% and the cycle life was 18, 000.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.60-63
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• 1999

Ta-Al 합금 박막의 건식식각에 대하여 조사하였다. $CF_{4}$ 기체를 이용한 반응성 이온 식각(Reactive Ion Etching, RIE)이 1:1 조성의 Ta-Al 합금 박막의 식각에 적용될 수 있음을 확인하였으며, 식각속도는 $67{\AA}/min$으로 측정되었다. 그리고 $CF_{4}$ 기체는 Ta-Al 합금 박막과 $SiO_{2}$ 층간에 선택성이 없다는 것이 확인되었으며, $SiO_{2}$ 층의 식각속도는 Ta-Al 박막의 경우보다 약 12배 빠른 $800{\AA}/min$으로 측정되었다. 그 외에 $CF_{4}$ 기체를 이용한 반응성 이온 식각에서는 Shiepley 1400-27 Photo Resist 보다 AZ 5214 Photo Resist가 더 안정적이라는 것이 조사되었다.