• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.977-980
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 저가 고효율 태양전지를 제작하기 위하여 p형 다결정 실리콘 기판을 사용하여 수산화 칼륨(KOH)이 포함된 용액에 Saw damage 과정 후 불산이 함유된 용액에 전기화학적 양극산화 과정으로 실리콘 웨이퍼 표면에 요철을 형성하여 다공성 실리콘을 형성 하였다. 본 논문은 전기화학적 에칭방법으로 기존의 진공장비로 제작된 반사방지막의 반사율만큼 감소된 다공성 실리콘 반사방지막을 형성하였다. 전자빔 증착기(e-beam evaporator)로 단층으로 형성된 $TiO_2$의 반사방지막은 400-1000 nm의 파장 범위에서 4.1 %의 평균 반사율을 가졌으며, 양극산화과정으로 형성된 다공성 실리콘은 400-1000 nm의 파장의 범위에서 4.4 %의 평균 반사율을 가졌다. 본 연구는 태양전지의 반사방지막 형성을 기존의 제작 방법보다 간단하고 저렴한 방법으로 접근하여 태양전지의 변환효율을 상승하는데 목적을 두었다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.11.2-11.2
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• 2009

Au-Ag 합금 박막에서 화학적으로 덜 안정한 Ag를 선택적으로 에칭하는 dealloying 기법을 통하여 crack-free 나노기공 gold 박막을 Si 기판에 제조하였다. Au-Ag 합금 박막은 두 가지 방법을 이용하였다: 1) thermal 또는 electron beam 증착법을 이용하여 Au 와 Ag 다층 박막을 Si 기판에 증착시킨 후 열처리를 통한 합금 박막제조; 2) co-thermal 증착법을 이용하여 Au-Ag 합금박막을 Si 기판에 직접 증착. Crack-free 나노기공 gold 박막 제조에 적합한 합금조성을 얻기 위하여 증착 속도, 열처리조건, dealloying 조건등을 조절하였다. Perchloric acid, HClO4 전해질을 이용한 전기화학적 dealloying을 통하여 crack-free 나노기공 gold 박막을 제조하였고, 기공크기를 조절할 수 있었다. 이에 더하여, electrophoretic 방법을 이용하여 나노기공 gold와 semiconductive 양자점 (CdTe 또는 CdSe)의 나노복합박막을 형성시킨 후 특성을 분석하였다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.218-223
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• 2014

This paper presents a method of controlling the stiffness of a tungsten probe for an atomic force microscope (AFM) in order to provide high-quality phase contrast images in accordance with sample characteristics. While inducing sufficient deformation on sample surfaces with commercial Si or $Si_3N_4$ probes is difficult because of their low stiffness, a tungsten probe fabricated by electrochemical etching with appropriately high stiffness can generate relatively large elastic deformation without damaging sample surfaces. The fabrication of the tungsten probe involves two separate procedures. The first procedure involves immersing a tungsten wire with both ends bent parallel to the surface of an electrolyte and controlling the stiffness of the tungsten cantilever by decreasing its diameter using electrochemical etching in the direction of the central axis. The second procedure involves immersing the end of the etched tungsten cantilever in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the electrolyte and fabricating a tungsten tip with a tip radius of 20-50 nm via the necking phenomenon. The latter etching process applies pulse waves every 0.25 seconds to the manufactured tip to improve its yield. Finite element analysis (FEA) of the stiffness of the tungsten probe as a function of its diameter showed that the stiffness of the tungsten probes greatly varies from 56 N/m to 3501 N/m according to the cantilever diameters from $30{\mu}m$ to $100{\mu}m$, respectively. Thus, the proposed etching method is effective for producing a tungsten probe having specific stiffness for optimal use with an AFM and certain samples.

• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.59-63
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• 2006

The study is coated tin(IV) oxide coated on the titanium substrate electrodes by electrodepositon and dip-coating method and studied about that physical and electrochemical characterization by coating methods. After titanium substrate is etched in HCl, electrodespotion is coated $SnCl_2{\cdot}2H_2O$ in nitrate solution by pulse technique, dip-coating method is also used $SnCl_2{\cdot}2H_2O$ in 1;1V% HCl and coated by dipping and annealing process. tin(IV) oxide coated on titanium substrate electrodes by two coating methods are studied x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to compare physical characterization of electrode and potential window by cyclic voltammetry (CV) to observe electrochemical characterization.

• Clean Technology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.183-190
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• 2012

Electrochemical regeneration of the iron chloride waste solution from PCB etching reduces environmental contamination and produces copper as by-product, so the economic feasibility is high. But iron chloride waste solution contains iron and copper and the reactions occurring in the electrolytic cell are complicated. In this work, the oxidation of iron chloride and copper deposition were examined through batch electrolysis and the optimum conditions of the process parameters were found. The oxidation of ferrous chloride was achieved easily to the desired level. The copper deposition efficiency was high in the reaction using the carbon cathode when the copper density was 12 g/L with the electric current density of $350mA/cm^2$, and the ratio of the $Fe^{2+}$ ion was high. In addition, the possibility of the scale-up was confirmed in continuous operation of bench reactor using the optimum conditions obtained.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.593-600
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• 2000

This paper investigated the conduction path and conduction mechanism in undoped polycrystalline diamond thin films deposited by microwave chemical vapor deposition. The resistances measured by ac impedance spectroscopy with different directions can not be explained by the previously-known surface conduction model. The electrodeposition of Cu and electroetching of Ag experiments showed that the conduction path is the grain boundaries within the diamond films. The electodeposition of Cu with an insulating surface layer further proved that the main conduction path in polycrystalline films in the grain boundaries. The film with high electrical conductivity has low activation energy of 45meV and higher dangling bond density. By considering the results and surface C chemical bonds, the H-C-C-H bonds at surface and in grain boundaries might be the origin of high conductivity in undoped diamond films.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.562-565
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• 2013

The high purity Al foil, which has an enlarged surface area by electrochemical etching process, has been used as an anode for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor. Etch pits are randomly distributed on the surface because of the existence of surface irregularities such as impurity and random nucleation of pits. Even though a large surface area was formed on the tunnel-etched Al, its applications to various fields were limited due to non-uniform tunnel morphologies. In this work, the selective electrochemical etching of aluminum was carried out by using a patterned mask fabricated by photolithographic method. The formation of etch pits with uniform distribution has been demonstrated by the optimization of experimental conditions such as current density and etching solution temperature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.91-91
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• 2018

스마트폰 및 카메라 케이스 등에 널리 적용되고 있는 알루미늄은 내식성, 내마모성과 같은 물리적, 화학적 성질이 우수하지 못하여 이를 향상시키기 위해 양극산화법이 산업적으로 널리 이용되고 있다. 알루미늄에 양극산화법을 적용하면 강도, 내마모성 및 내식성이 향상될 뿐만 아니라 알루미늄 표면에 규칙적으로 배열된 30nm~100nm 크기의 pore에 염료를 흡착시켜 다양한 색상의 외관을 가지는 양극산화피막을 형성시킬 수 있다. Pore간의 간격은 수십 nm~수백 nm 정도이며, pore의 크기와 간격 및 깊이는 양극산화조건(양극산화 전압, 전해액의 종류와 농도 및 온도)에 의해 크게 변화한다. 본 연구에서는 CTSA를 통한 AA5052합금의 양극산화 착색처리와 내식성의 개선 여부를 조사하였다. 알루미늄은 Al5052에는 Mg 외에, 소량의 Si을 포함하고 있다. 이 Si는 알루미늄 표면에 석출물 형태로 존재한다. 이 Si 석출물은 양극산화 시 기지상의 알루미늄 표면의 pore 형성을 방해하는 원인이다. 이러한 Si 석출물의 존재가 균일한 pore 형성을 방해하게 되고, 불균일한 포어를 가지는 표면은 착색처리 시 색상의 편차를 크게하는 원인이 되어 불량률을 높인다. 이러한 요인을 개선하기 위해 CTSA의 처리조건을 최적화 하였다. Al5052 합금을 이용하여 에칭, 디스머트, CTSA처리를 실시하였다. $55^{\circ}C$ 100g/L NaOH 용액에서 에칭을, $25^{\circ}C$ 10 vol.% $HNO_3$ 용액에서 디스머트를 실시한 다음, CTSA의 조건을 다르게 하고 SEM을 통해 Si 석출물의 감소율을 비교하였다. CTSA조건으로는 시간(60s, 180s, 300s), 농도(10%, 20%, 30%, 40%) 및 온도($25^{\circ}C$, $40^{\circ}C$, $50^{\circ}C$, $60^{\circ}C$)를 변화시켰으며, CTSA 처리 전과 후의 시편의 위치를 동일하게 하여 비교하였다. 결과 적정 시간, 농도, 온도 조건하에 pore를 불균일하게 하는 Si 석출물들이 제거되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. CTSA 처리는 온도가 높을수록, 시간이 길수록, 농도가 적당히 진할수록 석출물이 잘 제거되는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 CTSA처리가 알루미늄의 내식성에 미치는 영향을 확인하기 위해서 침적시험에 의한 무게감소율 및 전기화학측정을 실시하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.182-188
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• 2004

Previous studies on the liquid Gallium ion sources used an electro-chemically etched tungsten wire with a coil-type heater. Such a structure requires excessive power consumption in the course of heating the liquid metal. In this work, a new structure is proposed that replaces the coil-type heater. It uses a Gallium reservoir made of six pre-etched 250$\mu\textrm{m}$ tungsten wires that surround the needle electrode. Gallium trading at the reservoir is observed to be much more stable, resulting in an improved beam stability.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1277-1281
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• 2007

A Nano-tip as a cold field emitter for inducing a field emission current has manufactured in many ways. In the paper, the electrochemical etching method is used. Thus, in order to optimize the final shape as the field emitter, the reliable fabrication system for electrochemical etching was constructed. In addition, the effective parameters such as applied voltage, submerged length, meniscus height, electrolyte concentration and environmental condition(vibration, humidity, cut-off time) have investigated in detail. By controlling the parameters, reliable tungsten tip for field emitter was fabricated. And the fabricated tungsten tip was evaluated optically. Finally, the very sharp apex of the tungsten tip was observed with scanning electron microscope.