• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.527-532
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• 2001

Dry etching of copper film using $O_2$ plasma and H(hfac) has been investigated. A one-step process consisting of copper film oxidation with an $O_2$ plasma and the removal of surface copper oxide by the reaction with H(hfac) to form volatile Cu(hfac)$_2$ and $H_2O$ was carried but. The etching rate of Cu in the range from 50 to 700 /min was obtained depending on the substrate temperature, the H(hfac)/O$_2$ flow rate ratio, and the plasma power. The copper film etch rate increased with increasing RF power at the temperatures higher than 215$^{\circ}C$. The optimum H(hfac)/O$_2$ flow rate ratio was 1:1, suggesting that the oxidation process and the reaction with H(hfac) should be in balance. Cu patterning using a Ti mask was performed at a flow rate ratio of 1:1 on 25$0^{\circ}C$\ulcorner and an isotropic etching profile with a taper slope of 30$^{\circ}$was obtained. Cu dry patterning with a tapered angle which is necessary for the advanced high resolution large area thin film transistor liquid-crystal displays was thus successfully obtained from one step process by manipulating the substrate temperature, RF power, and flow rate ratio.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.222-227
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• 2010

$BiFeO_3$ (BFO) thin films were deposited on Pt/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si(100) substrates by RF magnetron sputtering method at room temperature. The influence of the flow rate of $O_2$ gas on the preparation of $BiFeO_3$ thin films was studied. XRD results indicate that the $BiFeO_3$ thin films were crystallized to the perovskite structure with the presence of small amount of impurity phases. The flow rate of $O_2$ gas has great affect on the microstructures and magnetic properties of $BiFeO_3$ thin films. As flow rate of $O_2$ gas increased, roughness and grain size of the thin films increased. $BiFeO_3$ thin films exhibited weak ferromagnetic behavior at room temperature. The PFM images revealed correlation between the surface morphology and the piezoresponse, indicating that the piezoelectric coefficient is related to microstructure.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.45-51
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• 2005

We have developed surface micromachined Infrared ray (IR) focal plane array (FPA), in which single $SiO_{2}$ layer works as an IR absorbing plate and $Pb(Zr_{0.3}Ti_{0.7})O_{2}$ thin film served as a thermally sensitive material. There are some advantages of applying $SiO_{2}$ layer as an IR absorbing layer. First of all, the $SiO_{2}$ has good IR absorbance within $8{\sim}12{\mu}m$ spectrum range. Measured value showed about 60% absorbance of incident IR spectrum in the range. $SiO_{2}$ layer has another important merit when applied to the top of Pt/PZT/Pt stack because it works also as a supporting membrane. Consequently, the IR absorbing layer forms one body with membrane structure, which simplifies the whole MEMS process and gives robustness Ito the structure.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.298-304
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• 2009

The effect of the surface treatments on the high temperature properties of the Inconel 617, one of the promising candidate alloys for high temperature heat-transport system, has been studied. Various surface modification methods including a rapid thermal process(RTP), a hydrothermal treatment, and a physical vapor deposition($2{\mu}m$ thick TiAlN film by an arc discharge) were applied to the Inconel 617. The morphological and the structural properties of the surface-modified Inconel 617 samples after heat treatment at $1000^{\circ}C$ in the air were compared to find out whether inhomogeneous formation of $Cr_2O_3$ crust at the surface region was suppressed or not. TiAlN-coated Inconel 617 showed homogeneous microstructure and the lowest wear loss compared to bare, RTP- and hydrothermally-treated Inconel 617 by suppressing the $Cr_2O_3$ crust formation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.368-369
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• 2006

Ferroelectric thin films have attracted much attention for applications in nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memories(NVFeRAM) from the view points of high speed operation, low power consumption, and large scale Integration[1,2]. Among the FRAM, BLT is of particular interest. as it is not only crystallized at relatively low processing temperature, but also shows highly fatigue resistance and large remanent polarization Meanwhile, these submicron ferroelectric capacitors were fabricated by a damascene process using Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP). BLT capacitors were practicable by a damascene process using CMP. The P-E hysteresis were measured under an applied bias of ${\pm}5V$ by using an RT66A measurement system. The electric properties such as I-V were determined by using HP4155A analysers.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.17-21
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• 2000

In order to investigate the dependence of a content in lead lanthanum titanate (PLT) films and heat treatment, sol-gel process has been used. Four types of PLT thin films with the chemical formula, Pb$\_$1-x/ La$\_$x/Ti$\_$1-x/4/O$_3$(X=18, 21, 24 and 28 mole %) have been fabricated on Pt/Ti/SiO$_2$/Si multi-layers and ITO/glass substrates, The post-annealing temperature in the range of 400~700 $\^{C}$ is applied for the formation of perovskite structure in PLT films. The structureal, electrical and optical properties of PLT film with the addition of La content are estimated. The films orientation and surface structure of films are studied by XRD (X-ray diffraction) and SEM(scanning electron microscopy). The P-E hysteresis loop become narrower with increasing La content. The average transmittance of the films is about 80%.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.11 no.3 s.32
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• pp.91-97
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• 2004

PBT thin films were formed by rf-magnetron sputtering on $Pt/Ti/SiO_2/Si$ substrate. Bulk-PZT target containing $5\%$-excess PbO was used. After PZT thin films had been deposited at room temperature, remaining portion of the thin film was formed by in-situ process. The ferroelectric perovskite phase was formed at $650^{\circ}C$. The leakage current property was improved dramatically by 2-step sputtering, and in the sample containing optimum thickness of room temp.-layer very low leakage current of $2{\times}10^{-7}A/cm^2$ was shown. As a result of the investigation on the leakage current mechanism, the electrical conduction mechanism in all PZT thin films formed by several conditions was confirmed as bulk-limited mechanism.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.291-293
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• 1997

In this study, Sol-Gel derived $(Ba_{0.7}Sr_{0.3})TiO_3$ thin films were fabricated and investigated. The stock solution was synthesized and spin-coated on Pt/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si substrate at 4000(rpm] and then, annealed at $650{\sim}750[^{\circ}C]$. Crystallization condition, microstructural properties and interfacial structure were observed by XRD, AFM, SEM and TEM. It was found that the BST thin films were completely crystallized at 750[$^{\circ}C$] and showed nano-sized grains. The dielectric constant and loss of the BST thin films were 220, 0.01 at 1[kHz] respectively. Increasing the temperature, the dielectric constant and loss characteristics were not varied widely. At the applied voltage of 1.5[V], the leakage current density was under the $10^{-9}[A/cm^2]$.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.57 no.1
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• pp.111-117
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• 2019

This study proposed the fabrication and deposition of high purity crystalline $core-TiO_2/shell-Al_2O_3$ nanoparticles. Morphological properties of $core-TiO_2$ and coated $shell-Al_2O_3$ were confirmed by transmission electron microscope (TEM) and transmission electron microscope - energy dispersive spectroscopy (TEM-EDS). The electrical properties of the prepared $core-TiO_2/shell-Al_2O_3$ nanoparticles were evaluated by applying them to a working electrode of a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC). The particle size, growth rate and the main crystal structure of $core-TiO_2$ were analyzed through dynamic light scattering system (DLS), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The $core-TiO_2$, which has a particle size of 17.1 nm, a thin film thickness of $20.1{\mu}m$ and a main crystal structure of anatase, shows higher electrical efficiency than the conventional paste-based dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). In addition, the energy conversion efficiency (6.28%) of the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) using the $core-TiO_2/shell-Al_2O_3$ nanoparticles selectively controlled to the working electrode is 26.1% higher than the energy conversion efficiency (4.99%) of the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) using the conventional paste method.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07d
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• pp.1546-1548
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• 1998

Dual mode ring resonators(DMRR) have been fabricated using laser ablated $YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-x}$ superconducting thin films. The transition temperature of YBCO thin films were 85 - 88 K and the film thicknesses were about 5,000 $\AA$. Dual mode ring resonators were patterned by standard photolithography process and wet-etching. Then two-layer metal thin films (Ti/Ag) have been deposited for the ground plane on the back side of substrate by e-beam and thermal evaporation. The input/output feedline angles of each resonator were $60^{\circ}$, $100^{\circ}$, $180^{\circ}$. A network analyzer was used for testing the performance of the resonators in the frequency range of 6-13 GHz at 77 K.