• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1934-1938
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• 2008

Formation of air bubble is the one of common defects in UV nano imprint lithography. Location of dispensing and volume of droplets are among the most important parameters in the process. ]n this study, UV curable resin droplets with different volumes were dispensed at different locations and pressed to investigate air bubble formation. By varying volume of droplet and dispensing location, process conditions were found for minimum air bubble area.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1847-1850
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• 2008

The process conditions during ultraviolet nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) process such as temperature, stamping pressure, UV irradiation, etc. are effective factors for successful imprinting of complex and fine patterns. In this study, the effects of aluminum mold on the thermal characteristics of UV-NIL process were investigated through imprinting experiments and numerical simulations. The temperature of polymer resin on mold was measured to study thermal characteristics during UV curing. From the experimental and numerical results, the importance of curing reaction control for UV-NIL process was discussed for deformation characteristics.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.827-831
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• 2008

In this paper, kinematic analysis for a planar 3-DOF redundant stage which has four actuators is presented by using SimMechanics software package. SimMechanics is a block sets of the Matlab/Simulink package. The SimMechanics enables a simplified model for a complex kinematic mechanism, since kinematic relationship between joints and linkages for the kinematic chains are expressed as line vectors and block diagrams. Here, positional error and limit values of movement ranges of the stage are evaluated by using the SimMechanics. The validity of the kinematic characteristics model was compared with theoretical kinematic analyses for the 3-DOF stage.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.27.1-27.1
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 박막형 태양전지의 효율 향상을 위한 한 가지 방법으로써 박막 태양전지의 기판으로 사용되는 유리 표면위에 반사방지 기능을 갖는 미세 구조물을 형성하였다. 형성된 미세구조물은 가시광선 영역의 빛의 파장보다 작고 원뿔형 구조를 가지고 있어서 빛의 점진적인 굴절률 변화를 야기하며, 이러한 구조적 굴절률 변화에 의한 반사억제 효과를 확인 할 수 있었다. 이러한 반사방지효과는 곧 태양전지의 효율 향상으로 나타났다. 미세구조물 형성을 위한 방법으로는 나노임프린트 리소그래피 기술과 니켈 재질의 금속 몰드를 사용하였으며, 반사방지구조를 형성하기 위해서 열경화 방식의 임프린트 레진이 사용되었다.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.331-334
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• 2008

The replica of highly ordered nano-sphere array patterns were fabricated using hot embossing method. First, silica nano-sphere array on Si substrate was transferred to PVC film at $130^{\circ}C$ and 7 bar using hot embossing process. Then, silica nano-sphere array on PVC template was removed by soaking the PVC film in buffered oxide etcher. In order to form anti-stiction layer, the PVC template was coated with silicon dioxide layer and self-assembled monolayer. Through UV nanoimprint lithography with the fabricated flexible PVC template, highly ordered nano-sphere array pattern was imprinted on curved substrates with high fidelity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.156-156
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• 2010

최근 휴대용전자기기의 급격한 수요증가로 인하여 고성능 저전력 비휘발성메모리에 대한 관심이 크게 증가되고 있다. 다양한 비휘발성 메모리중에 상변화메모리는 고집적성과 저전력등의 장점을 가져 현재 가장 유망한 차세대 비휘발성 메모리로 각광받고 있고 일부 상용화가 진행되고 있다. 현재 상변화 메모리의 주된 연구 방향은 sub-40nm 크기에서 물리적, 전기적, 열적 scaling down에 대한 내용이며 주로 새로운 상변화 물질을 개발하여 이러한 문제점을 극복하려고 연구가 진행되고 있다. 하지만 이러한 상변화 물질의 나노급 특성은 물리적, 전기적, 열적 특성이 복합적으로 나타나고 나노급 소자 제작이 어렵기때문에 많은 연구가 진행되지 못했다. 본 연구에서는 나노임프린트 리소그래피 기술과 c-AFM 기술을 통하여 다양한 나노급 상변화 물질의 물리적, 전기적, 열적 특성에 대해 연구를 진행하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.473-478
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• 2012

In this paper, the air bubble formation mechanism in the rectangular and triangular line-and-space pattern during dispensing UV Nanoimprint Lithography (UV-NIL) at an atmospheric condition is studied. To investigate the air bubble formation, an analytic model based on geometric approach and a numerical model based on CFD(computational fluid dynamics) were used in the analysis. It was found in the numerical analysis that every time the flow front passed through a corner of the pattern, it proceeded with a newly formed shape, occurring due to interface reconfiguration, since the flow fronts were formed such that they minimized the surface energy. Moreover, the conditions for the air bubble formation were investigated by applying the analytic analysis based on geometric approach and the numerical analysis. Good overall agreement was found between the analytic and numerical analysis.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.59-62
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• 2009

Antireflection pattern, moth-eye structure, was fabricated on lens using Ultra Violet nanoimprint lithography and flexible template. Ni template with conical shaped structure was used as a master template to molding. The flexible poly vinyl alcohol template was fabricated by molding. This poly vinyl alcohol template was used as an imprint template of imprint at lens. Using Ultra Violet nanoimprint lithography and poly vinyl alcohol template, polymer based moth-eye structure was formed on lens and its transmittance was increased up to 94% from 92% at 550 nm wavelength.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.89-94
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• 2011

In recent years there have been considerable attentions on nanoimprint lithography (NIL) by the display device and semiconductor industry due to its potential abilities that enable cost-effective and high-throughput nanofabrication. A major disadvantage of thermal NIL is the thermal cycle, that is, heating over glass transition temperature and then cooling below it, which requires a significant amount of processing time and limits the throughput. One of the methods to overcome this disadvantage is to improve the cooling performance in NIL process. In this paper, a numerical analysis model of cooling system in thermal NIL was development by CAD/CAE program and the performance of the cooling system was analyzed by the model. The calculated temperatures of nanoimprint device were verified by the measurements. By using the analysis model, the case that the cooling material is replaced by liquid nitrogen is investigated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.76-81
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• 2008

Nanoimprint lithography(NIL) is an emerging technology enabling cost-effective and high-throughput nanofabrication. Among NILs, significant efforts from both academia and industry have been put in UV NIL research and development because of its ability to pattern at room temperature and at low pressure. In UV NIL, there may be in-line set-up error of the stamp and the substrate. To compensate this error, the dummy blocks are put on the stamp and pressurized uniformly. Contact problems between the stamp and the photoresist layer on the substrate are often happened, which results in the non-uniform residual layer In this paper, the pressurization method on the dummy block is investigated by the finite element method. A new method is recommended and evaluated far the uniform stamp deformation.