• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.50-50
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• 2010

최근 InGaN 양자우물구조에 기초한 청색, 녹색 반도체 발광다이오드 (LED)는 장수명, 고효율, 친환경이라는 장점 때문에 다양한 응용에 사용되기 시작하고 있다. 이러한 가시광 LED들이 고휘도 조명용 광원으로 사용되기 위하여서는 많은 효율향상이 이루어 져야 한다. 이를 위하여서는 LED의 성능을 나타내는 각종 효율들을 상호 분리하여 측정할 수 있어야 한다. 그러나, 아직 이러한 LED 효율을 상호 분리하여 측정할 수 있는 기술들이 아직 정립되어 있지 않은 관계로, 대부분은 실험적으로 찾아 가는 경험론걱인 방법에 의존하고 있다. 한양대학교에서는 LED의 각종 효율들을 상온에서 상호 분리 측정할 수 있는 기술을 세계에서 처음으로 개발하였다. 본 논문에서는 효율분리 측정 기술을 소개하고, 이를 토대로 가시광 LED의 각종 효율들을 증대 시킬 수 있는 방안에 대하여 소개한다. LED의 효율은 주입된 전자 가운데 몇%가 광자로 변환되는가를 나타내는 내부양자효율(IQE)과 활성층에서 생성된 광자 가운데 몇 %가 LED chip 외부로 나오는 가를 나타내는 광추출효율(LEE)에 의하여 정하여 진다. IQE는 주로 결정성장상태에 의하여, LEE는 주로 소자구조에 의하여 정하여 진다. 한편 LED의 광출력 및 신뢰성 향상을 위하여서는 LED 췹내에서의 전류 분포 및 전계분포를 매우 균일 하게 유지하는 것이 중요하다. 그러나, 실제 제작된 LED에서는 공간적인 비대칭으로 인하여 전류가 국부적으로 집중되어 흐르는 현상, 즉 전류집중현상이 발생하게 된다. 본 발표에서는 IQE와 LEE를 순수 실험적으로 분리 측정할 수 있는 방법, 전류집중현상을 측정하고 제어 할 수 있는 방법등을 소개한다.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.275-286
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• 2005

The performance of the InGaN LED's in terms of the photon extraction efficiency has been analyzed by the Monte Carlo photon simulation method. Simulation results show that the sidewall slanting scheme, which works well for the AlInGaP or InGaN/SiC LED, plays a very minimal role in InGaN/sapphire LED's. In contrast to InGaN/SiC LED's, the lower refractive index sapphire substrate restricts the generated photons to enter the substrate, minimizing the chances for the photons to be deflected by the slanted sidewalls of the epitaxial semiconductor layers that are usually very thin. The limited photon transmission to the sapphire substrate also degrades the. photon extraction efficiency especially in the epitaxial-side down mount. One approach to exploit the photon extraction potential of the epitaxial-side down mount may be to texture the substrate-epitaxy interface. In this case, randomized photon deflection off the textured interface directly increases the number of the photons entering the sapphire substrate, from which they easily couple out of the chip and thereby improving the photon extraction efficiency drastically.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.7-13
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.02a
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• pp.156-157
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• 2005

Monte Carlo photon simulation 기법을 사용하여 광추출효율 관점에서 InGaN LED를 분석하였다. InGaN/sapphire 칩의 경우, AlInGaP나 InGaN/SiC 칩에서와는 달리, 칩의 측벽면을 기울여 주는데서 오는 광추출효율 개선 효과는 매우 미미하였다. 이는 InGaN/sapphire 칩의 경우 사파이어 기판의 굴절률 상대적으로 작아서 활성층으로부터 생성된 광자들의 상당량이 기판으로 넘어갈 때 전반사현상으로 말미암아 기판으로 넘어가지 못하고 상대적으로 두께가 매우 얇은 에피택시 층에 갇히기 때문으로 파악되었다. 이와 같은 효과는 epitaxial side down mount의 광추출효율이 크게 개선되지 못하는 원인으로도 작용하게 되는데, epitaxial side down mount의 잠재력을 살릴 수 있는 방안의 하나는 texture된 기판위에 결정층을 성장시키는 것이라고 할 수 있다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.53 no.5
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• pp.620-626
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• 2015

$Ho^{3+}$ doped $SrAl_2O_4$ upconversion phosphor powders were synthesized by spray pyrolysis, and the crystallographic properties and luminescence characteristics were examined by varying activator concentrations and heattreatment temperatures. The effect of organic additives on the crystal structure and luminescent properties was also investigated. $SrAl_2O_4:Ho^{3+}$ powders showed intensive green emission due to the $^5F_4/^5S_2{\rightarrow}^5I_8$ transition of $Ho^{3+}$. The optimal $Ho^{3+}$ concentration in order to achieve the highest luminescence was 0.1%. Over this concentration, emission intensities were largely diminished via a concentration quenching due to dipole-dipole interaction between activator ions. According to the dependence of emission intensity on the pumping power of a laser diode, it was clear that the upconversion of $SrAl_2O_4:Ho^{3+}$ occurred via the ground state absorption-excited state absorption processes involving two near-IR photons. Synthesized powders were monoclinic as a major phase, having some hexagonal phase. The increase of heat-treatment temperatures from $1000^{\circ}C$ to $1350^{\circ}C$ led to crystallinity enhancement of monoclinic phase, reducing hexagonal phase. The hexagonal phase, however, did not disappear even at $1350^{\circ}C$. When both citric acid (CA) and ethylene glycol (EG) were added to the spray solution, the resulting powders had pure monoclinic phase without forming hexagonal phase, and led to largely enhancement of crystallinity. Also, N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) addition to the spray solution containing both CA and EG made it possible to effectively reduce the surface area of $SrAl_2O_4:Ho^{3+}$ powders. Consequently, the $SrAl_2O_4:Ho^{3+}$ powders prepared by using the spray solution containing CA/EG/DMF mixture as the organic additives showed about 168% improved luminescence compared to the phosphor prepared without organic additives. It was concluded that both the increased crystallinity of high-purity monoclinic phase and the decrease of surface area were attributed to the large enhancement of upconversion luminescence.

• Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.325-331
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• 2015

Skin is exposed to sunlight or artificial indoor light on a daily. The reached solar light on the earth surface consist of 50% visible light and 45% infrared (IR) except for ultra violet (UV). The negative effects of UV including UVB and UVA have been steadily investigated within the last decades. However, little is known about the effects of visible or IR light. In this study, we irradiated human dermal fibroblasts using light emitting diode (LED) to investigate the optimal parameter for enhancing cell growth and collagen synthesis. We found that red of 630 nm and green of 520 nm enhance the cell proliferation, but irradiation with purple and blue light exerts toxic effects. To examine the response of irradiation time and light intensity on the fibroblasts, cells were exposed to red or green light with intensities from 0.05 to $0.75mW/cm^2$. Procollagen secretion was increased of 1.4 fold by 10 min irradiation, while 30 min treatment decreased the collagen synthesis of dermal fibroblasts. Treatment with red of $0.3mW/cm^2$ and green of 0.15 and $0.3mW/cm^2$ resulted in enhancement of collagen mRNA. Lastly, we investigated the combinatorial effect of red and green light on dermal fibroblasts. The sequential irradiation of red and green light is an efficient way for the purpose of the increase in the number of fibroblasts than single light treatment. On the other hand, the exposure of red light alone was more effective method for enhancing of collagen secretion. Our study showed that specific light parameters accelerated cell proliferation, gene expression and collagen secretion on human dermal fibroblasts. In conclusion, we demonstrate that light exposure with specific parameter has beneficial effects on the function of dermal fibroblasts, and suggests the possibility of its cosmetically and clinical application.