• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.208.1-208.1
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• 2014

반도체 공정이나 디스플레이 공정에는 세라믹 부품이나 금속 부품이 많이 포함되어 있는데 이들 부품이 공정중에 발생하는 플라즈마 또는 여러가지 부산물에 의하여 부품의 표면에 다양한 코팅층이 형성된다. 그리고 이러한 공정에 들어가는 부품은 플라즈마 또는 각종 산에 취약한 특성을 나타내는데 이에 대하여 해결하기 위하여 세라믹 부품의 표면에 용사코팅이나 각종 물리, 화학적 방법을 이용하여 표면에 코팅층을 형성한다. 이렇게 형성된 코팅층중 특히 용사코팅에 의하여 형성된 코팅층은 플라즈마 공정이나 각종 부식성 산에 의하여 박리 또는 크랙이 발생하게 된다. 이러한 특성은 용사코팅층의 특성상 발생하고 있는 물리적 흡착에 의하여 흡착된 계면에서 박리가 발생할 가능성이 크게 된다. 이러한 현상을 줄이기 위하여 고열원을 통하여 열처리 실험을 실시한다. 특히 전자빔이나 레이저 열원은 고온 급속 가열에 의하여 고융점인 세라믹 용사코팅층 및 금속 코팅층을 재용융 및 응고과정을 통하여 미세구조를 변화시킨다. 특히 전자빔 열처리는 진공중에서 코팅층의 열처리를 행함으로써 코팅층 내에 있는 기공을 제거하거나 불순물을 제거하기에 용이하다. 본 연구에서 수행된 열처리는 기 코팅된 세라믹이나 금속재의 표면을 다량의 Electron의 Flux를 통하여 표면의 온도를 Melting point 직하 온도까지 상승하였다가 응고시킴으로써 코팅층의 특성을 변화시켰다. 이렇게 열처리된 시험편의 XRD를 통해 결정구조를 파악하고, SEM, OM을 통하여 기공의 제거, 결함의 제거 등을 확인하였으며 경도 변화를 통하여 물리적 특성의 변화를 함께 확인하였다. 평가 결과 결정구조의 변화와 더불어 경도등의 상승효과가 발생하였으며 코팅층 내에 존재하는 결함이 감소함을 확인하였다.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 2018

$SnO_2$ films were annealed in a vaccum atmosphere conditions to research the temperature dependency of current-voltage characteristics in according to the bonding structures. The $SnO_2$ film annealed in a vacuum became an amorphous structure but films annealed in an atmosphere condition had a crystal structure. The defects or depletion layer were formed by the electron-hole combination after annealing processes, and the electrical properties were changed depending on the crystal structure, binding energy and the variation of carriers. $SnO_2$ became more crystal-structural with increasing the annealing temperature, and the current increased at $SnO_2$ film annealed at $150^{\circ}C$ with Schottky current.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.13-17
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• 2016

ZTO films were annealed in a vaccum atmosphere conditions to research the temperature dependency of current-voltage characteristics. The ZTO film annealed in a vacuum became an amorphous structure but films annealed in an atmosphere condition had a crystal structure. The defects or depletion layer were formed by the electron-hole combination after annealing processes, and the electrical properties were changed depending on the crystal structure, binding energy and the variation of carriers. ZTO became more crystal-structural with increasing the annealing temperature, and the current increased at ZTO film annealed at $150^{\circ}C$ with Schottky contact.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.562-567
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• 2000

Many pressure vessels for power and industrial plant are fabricated from low alloy carbon steels. The inner sides of pressure vessels are commonly weld-cladded with austenitic stainless steels to minimize problems of corrosive attack. Disbonding cracks are often detected at the transition region of welding interlayer, which is serious problem to reliability of pressure vessels. We have developed C-scan system to high speed inspection of overlay weld using DSP(digital signal processor). This system consists of signal processing parts (oscilloscope, pulser/receiver, digitizer, DSP), scanner, program and position controller. The developed system has been applied to a practical ultrasonic testing in overlay weld, and demonstrated high speed with precision

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.61-67
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• 1996

The growth and characterization of heteroepitaxial $Si_{1-x}Ge_{x}$ films grown by the RTCVD (Rapid Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition) method were described. For the growth of $Si_{1-x}Ge_{x}$ heteroepitaxial layers, $SiH_{4}$ / $GeH_{4}$ / $H_{2}$ gas mixtures were used. The growth conditions were varied to investigate their effects on the Si / Ge composition ratios, the interface abruptness and crystalline properties. The experimental data shows that the misfit threading dislocation in $Si_{1-x}Ge_{x}$ / Si heteroepitaxial film of about $400\;{\AA}$ thickness was not observed at the growth temperature of as low as $650^{\circ}C$, and the composition ratios of Si / Ge changed linearly with $SiH_{4}$ / $GeH_{4}$ gas mixing ratios in our experimental ranges. In the in-situ boron doping experiments, the doping abruptness would be controlled within several hundreds ${\AA}$/decade.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.620-624
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• 2014

In this study, the electrical characteristics of Ni/CNT/$SiO_2$ structures were investigated in order to analyze the mechanism of carbon nanotubes in 4H-SiC MIS device structures. We fabricated 4H-SiC MIS capacitors with or without carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes were dispersed by isopropyl alcohol. The capacitance-voltage (C-V) is characterized at 300 to 500K. The experimental flat-band voltage ($V_{FB}$) shift was positive. Near-interface trapped charge density and oxide trapped charge density values of Ni/CNT/$SiO_2$ structure were less than values of reference samples. With increasing temperature, the flat-band voltage was negative. It has been found that its oxide quality is related to charge carriers or defect states in the interface of 4H-SiC MIS capacitors. Gate characteristics of 4H-SiC MIS capacitors can be controlled by carbon nanotubes between Ni and $SiO_2$.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.197-205
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• 1993

Blends of elemental Ni and 20 weight % Cr powder were milled for different period in a laboratory attritor. Powder size distribution, microstructure and X-ray diffraction characteristics were investigated as a function of processing period. Saturated magnetization, Ms and coercive force, Hc we also measured and compared with plasma melted ingot to confirm the mechanically alloyed states. Mechanical alloying occurred as a consequence of the partition of powders and the increase of interfacial area driving diffusing of Cr into Ni. However, magnetic properties of chemically homogeneous solid solution like melted ingot has not been observed even though steady state of submicron grain size has been achieved after milling over 15 hrs. Further mechanical alloying period gave refinement of grain size, which resulted in the increase of alloyed layer. It is concluded that homogenization should be controlled by the increase of interfacial area between constitutive powders caused by plastic particle deformation and by the diffusion of Cr within the alloyed phase into Ni-rich phase through lattice defects.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 1996

Silicon epitaxial films of submicron level were successfully grown by the RTCVD method. For the growth of silicon epitaxial layers, $SiH_{2}Cl_{2}\;/\;H_{2}$ gas mixtures and various process parameters including $H_{2}$ prebake process were used. The growth conditions were varied to investigate their effects on the interface abruptness of doping profile, the film growth rates and crystalline properties. The crystallinity of the undoped silicon was excellent at the growth temperature of $900^{\circ}C$. The doping profiles were measured by SIMS technique. The abruptness of doping profile would be controlled within about $200{\AA}/decade$ in the structure of undoped Si / $n^{+}-Si$ substrate.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.118-123
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• 2018

5 nm-thick $SiO_2$ layers formed by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) are densified to improve the electrical and interface properties by using nitric acid oxidation of Si (NAOS) method at a low temperature of $121^{\circ}C$. The physical and electrical properties are clearly investigated according to NAOS times and post-metallization annealing (PMA) at $250^{\circ}C$ for 10 min in 5 vol% hydrogen atmosphere. The leakage current density is significantly decreased about three orders of magnitude from $3.110{\times}10^{-5}A/cm^2$ after NAOS 5 hours with PMA treatment, although the $SiO_2$ layers are not changed. These dramatically decreases of leakage current density are resulted from improvement of the interface properties. Concentration of suboxide species ($Si^{1+}$, $Si^{2+}$ and $Si^{3+}$) in $SiO_x$ transition layers as well as the interface state density ($D_{it}$) in $SiO_2/Si$ interface region are critically decreased about 1/3 and one order of magnitude, respectively. The decrease in leakage current density is attributed to improvement of interface properties though chemical method of NAOS with PMA treatment which can perform the oxidation and remove the OH species and dangling bond.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.41-45
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• 2014

We have investigated the passivation property of $SiN_x$ and $SiO_2$ thin films formed using various process conditions for the application of crystalline Si solar cells. An increase in the thickness of $SiN_x$ deposited using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) led to the improvement of passivation quality. This could be associated with the passivation of Si dangling bonds by hydrogen atoms which were supplied during PECVD deposition. The $SiO_2$ thin films grown using dry oxidation process exhibited better passivation behavior than those using wet oxidation process, implying the dry oxidation process was more effective in the formation of high quality $SiO_2$ thin films. The relative effective life time gradually decreased with increasing dry oxidation temperature. Such a degradation of passivation behavior could be attributed to the increase in interface trap density caused by thermal damages.