• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.35-42
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• 2009

Among the next generation memory, MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory) is worthy of notice for substituting the preexisting memory thanks to its non-volatile property and other advantages. Recently perpendicular MRAM and spin transfer torque MRAM techniques are under active investigation to realize a high density and low power consumption. As a result, there are increasing of patents applications for high density, low current density for magnetization switching and high thermal stability. In this paper, we analyze the trend of patent applications and registrations about MRAM and propose a direction of future investigation.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.83-90
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• 1998

LPCVD를 이용하여 증착한 SiN과 ECR plasma CVD를 이용하여 증착한 SiC의 물 성과 적용가능성을 시험하였다. LPCVD로 증착된 SiN은 열처리 없이 저 응력의 박막형성이 가능했으며 가시광투과도 표면 평활도 역시 우수하였다. 탄성계수 값이 크지 않아 자성센서 의 지지구조로 사용할 경우 자기공명에 의한 진동을 크게 구속하지 않아 유리할것으로 기대 된다. 반면 ECR plasma CVD로 증착된 SiC는 SiN보다는 못하지만 다른 방법에 의해 증착 된 SiC에 비해서는 가시광 투과도 및 표면 평활도가 후수하므로 X-선 조사에 대한 안정성 과 더불어 X-선 마스크용 membrane으로서 사용이 적절할 것으로생각된다.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.76-80
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• 2016

CoSiB is the amorphous ferromagnetic material and multilayer consisting of CoSiB and Pd has perpendicular magnetic anisotropic property. PMA has strong advantages for STT-MRAM. Moreover, amorphous materials have two advantages more than crystalline materials: no grain boundary and good thermal stability. Therefore, we studied the magnetic properties of multilayers consisting of the $Co_{75}Si_{15}B_{10}$ with PMA. In this study, we investigated the magnetic property of the [CoSiB (3, 4, 5, and 6) ${\AA}$/Pd(11, 13, 15, 17, 19,and $24{\AA})]_5$ multilayers and found the annealing temperature dependence of the magnetic property. The annealing temperature range is from room temperature to $500^{\circ}C$. The coercivity and the saturation magnetization of the CoSiB/Pd multilayer system have a close association with the annealing temperature. Moreover, the coercivity especially shows a sudden increasing at the specific annealing temperature.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.145-151
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• 2006

The molecular assembly of p-iodo-phenyl octadecyl ether (I-POE), p-iodo-phenyl docosyl ether (I-PDE) and a binary mixture of these two molecules on graphite has been studied using a scanning tunneling microscope. Each molecular system self-assembles on the graphite surface to form a stable monolayer with a head-to-tail configuration. For the binary system, the I-POE and I-PDE molecules do not mix on the surface, preferring instead to form isolated monolayer domains. Here, the I-POE molecules are preferentially adsorbed on the graphite surface, due to the effects of alkyl chain length and the functional group on the monolayer structure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.282.2-282.2
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• 2014

Cr의 함량과 주입 가스의 유량 비율을 변화하여 ZnCrO 박막의 구조적 특성에 미치는 영향과 그것이 자기적 특성에 관여하는 상관관계 등에 관하여 조사하였다. ZnCrO 박막을 Pt/Ti/Al2O3 기판 위에 Sputter법으로 증착하였으며, 이 때 양질의 ZnCrO 박막을 제작하기 위하여 산소 분압 변화에 따른 박막의 표면 및 구조적 특성을 관찰하였다. 아르곤과 산소 분압이 1 : 1 (Ar : O2=15 sccm : 15 sccm) 이었을 경우, 가장 매끄러운 표면을 갖고 또한 구조적으로도 안정된 ZnCrO 박막을 얻을 수 있었다. 동일한 조건에서 Cr 함량을 변화시켜 본 결과, Cr 함량이 작아질수록 자기적 특성이 향상되는 것이 관측되었다. 즉, Cr의 함량이 감소할수록 Cr 입자 1개 당 유효 자화도가 증가하는 것이 관측되었는데, 이러한 결과는 Cr 함량 변화에 따는 ZnCrO 박막의 결정 자기이방성 변화에 따른 것이다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.1C
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• pp.62-67
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• 2008

In this paper, wavelet based blind watermarking using self-reference method is proposed. First, we process wavelet transform of original image. Then, we set all domain except for the low-frequency domain to zero and make self-reference image after wavelet reverse transformation. By choosing specific domain according to the pixel value difference between original image and self-reference image, we make random sequence, use as watermark and embed. The experimental results of the watermark embedding and extraction on various images show that the proposed scheme not only has good image quality, but also has stability on JPEG lossy compression, filtering, sharpening, blurring and noise.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.246-249
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• 2005

The blue-color emitting phosphor powder, $CaMgSi_{2}O_6:Eu^{2+}(CMS:Eu^{2+})$ was synthesized by the solid-state reaction method. The synthesized powder was annealed from room temperature to $1,100^{\circ}C$ in air. Its PL property and valence state of Eu atoms was measured by the photoluminescence (PL) and the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrometers, respectively. The PL intensity was stable to $700^{\circ}C$, but drastically decreased to $1,100^{\circ}C$. The behavior of EPR intensity was very similar to the PL intensity. The EPR measurement showed that decreased intensity of the PL was caused to the oxidation from the ion $Eu^{2+}$ to $Eu^{3+}$ ions. The EPR spectrometer was powerful as a tool that could distinguish between the valence states of Eu atom as a dopant in various phosphors.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.64-67
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• 2002

IrMn pinned spin valve (SV) films with stacks of Ta/NiFe/IrMn/CoFe/Cu/CoFe/NiFe/Ta were prepared by dc sputtering onto thermally oxidized Si (111) substrates at room temperature under a magnetic field of about 100 Oe. The annealing cycle number and temperature dependence of exchange coupling field (H$_{ex}$), magnetoresistance (MR) ratio, and coercivity (H$_{c}$) were investigated. By optimizing the process of deposition and post thermal annealing condition, we obtained the IrMn based SV films with MR ratio of 3.6%, H$_{ex}$ of 1180 Oe for the pinned layer. The H$_{ex}$ is stabilized after the second annealing cycle and it is thought that this SV reveals high thermal stability. The H$_{ex}$ maintained its strength of 600 Oe in operation up to 24$0^{\circ}C$ and decreased monotonically to zero at 27$0^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.317-322
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• 1996

Thin films of Fe-Zr-N were fabricated by rf magnetron reactive sputtering method. The saturation magnetization and coercivity as functions of annealing temperature and partial pressure of nitrogen gas, effective permeability at high frequencies, and thermal stability were investigated. Magnetic softness was exhibited in the composition range of $Fe_{72-78}Zr_{7-10}N_{15-18}$ which was boundary between polycrystalline and amorphous structure. These films exhibited magnetic softness with saturation magentic flux density of 1.55 T and effective permeability of about 3000 at 1 MHz. These films also exhibited thermal stability by sustaining effective permeability of 2500 or above as the temperature was raised to $550^{\circ}C$. It is asswned that good magnetic softness is obtained because grain growth of $\alpha-Fe$ is prohibited due to the precipitation of ZrN nanocrystals. The grain sizes of $\alpha-Fe$ films were $40~50\AA$ and the grain sizes of ZrN nanocrystals were $10~15\AA$.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.162-166
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• 2012

V-I characteristics of Fe(100)/MgO(100)/Cu-phthalocyanine (CuPc)/Co hybrid magnetic tunnel junctions were investigated at different temperatures. Fe(100) and Co ferromagnetic layers were separated by an organic-inorganic hybrid barrier consisting of different thickness of CuPc thin film grown on a 2 nm thick epitaxial MgO(100) layer. As the CuPc thickness increases from 0 to 10 nm, a bistable switching behavior due to strong charging effects was observed, while a very large magenetoresistance was shown at 77 K for the junctions without the CuPc barrier. This switching behavior decreases with the increase in temperature, and finally disappears beyond 240 K. In this work, high-potential future applications of the MgO(100)/CuPc bilayer were discussed for hybrid spintronic devices as well as polymer random access memories (PoRAMs).