• 한국재료학회지
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• 제27권11호
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• pp.624-630
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• 2017

In this study, we investigated the overpotential of precipitation related to the catalytic activity of electrodes on the initial process of electrodeposition of Co and Co-Ni alloys on polycrystalline Cu substrates. In the case of Co electrodeposition, the surface morphology and the magnetic property change depending on the film thickness, and the relationship with the electrode potential fluctuation was shown. Initially, the deposition potential(-170 mV) of the Cu electrode as a substrate was shown, the electrode potential($E_{dep}$) at the $T_{on}$ of electrodeposition and the deposition potential(-600 mV) of the surface of the electrodeposited Co film after $T_{off}$ and when the pulse current was completed were shown. No significant change in the electrode potential value was observed when the pulse current was energized. However, in a range of number of pulses up to 5, there was a small fluctuation in the values of $E_{dep}$ and $E_{imm}$. In addition, in the Co-Ni alloy electrodeposition, the deposition potential(-280 mV) of the Cu electrode as the substrate exhibited the deposition potential(-615 mV) of the electrodeposited Co-Ni alloy after pulsed current application, the $E_{dep}$ of electrodeposition at the $T_{on}$ of each pulse and the $E_{imm}$ at the $T_{off}$ varied greatly each time the pulse current was applied. From 20 % to less than 90 % of the Co content of the thin film was continuously changed, and the value was constant at a pulse number of 100 or more. In any case, it was found that the shape of the substrate had a great influence.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.673-676
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• 2003

We have investigated $Al_{x}$ $Ga_{l-x}$ N/GaN epilayers (x = 0.08, 0.15) grown by metal organic vapor phase epitaxy on sapphire with photoluminescence(PL), and persistent photoconductivity(PPC) experiments. An anomalous S-shaped shift behavior of temperature dependencies of PL peak energy is observed for the x = 0.15 sample. In PPC measurement, showed that the dark current recovery time of $Al_{x}$$Ga_{l-x}$ N/GaN epilayers mainly depends on the Al content. These behaviors are usually attributed to the presence of carrier localization states. All these phenomena are explained based on the alloy compositional fluctuations in the $Al_{x}$ /$Ga_{l-x}$ N/ epilayers. The photocurrent quenching observed in PPC measurements for $Al_{x}$ $Ga_{l-x}$ N/ epilayers less than 0.2 $\mu\textrm{m}$ thickness indicates that the presence of metastable state in the bandgap of GaN layer, and that the excess holes in the valence band recombine with free electrons.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.436-441
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• 2011

각종 전자 방출원 및 디스플레이 응용 분야에서 뛰어난 가능성을 보이고 있는 탄소나노튜브의 전계 방출 특성을 개선하고 전자방출의 신뢰성을 개선하기 위해 탄소나노튜브의 표면에 수 nm 두께의 금속 코팅을 적용하였다. 탄소나노튜브는 실리콘 기판위에 2 nm 두께의 Invar (52% Fe, 42% Ni, 6% Co alloy) 촉매를 사용하여 $450^{\circ}C$의 온도에서 플라즈마 화학기상 증착법으로 성장시켰다. 성장된 탄소나노튜브의 밀도 제어를 위해 성장 후 질소 플라즈마로 일부를 식각한 후 티타늄(Ti) 금속을 탄소나노튜브 표면에 5~150 nm 두께로 스퍼터링 증착하였다. 5 nm로 티타늄을 탄소나노튜브 표면에 코팅한 경우, 코팅 전에 비해 6 V/${\mu}m$의 전계에서 전류밀도가 4배 이상 증가되었으며, 전계 방출 전류의 요동(fluctuation) 또한 40% 이상 감소됨을 확인할 수 있었다. 이는 티타늄의 일함수가 4.3 eV로 탄소나노튜브의 5 eV에 비해 작을 뿐만 아니라, 탄소나노튜브의 약점으로 지적되는 기판과의 접착성과 접촉저항이 티타늄의 표면 코팅으로 인해 크게 개선된 결과로 판단된다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.293-293
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• 2014

Over last decade InGaN alloy structures have become the one of the most promising materials among the numerous compound semiconductors for high efficiency light sources because of their direct band-gap and a wide spectral region (ultraviolet to infrared). The primary cause for the high quantum efficiency of the InGaN alloy in spite of high threading dislocation density caused by lattice misfit between GaN and sapphire substrate and severe built-in electric field of a few MV/cm due to the spontaneous and piezoelectric polarizations is generally known as the strong exciton localization trapped by lattice-parameter-scale In-N clusters in the random InGaN alloy. Nonetheless, violet-emitting (390 nm) conventional low-In-content InGaN/GaN multi-quantum wells (MQWs) show the degradation in internal quantum efficiency compared to blue-emitting (450 nm) MQWs owing higher In-content due to the less localization of carrier and the smaller band offset. We expected that an improvement of internal quantum efficiency in the violet region can be achieved by replacing the conventional low-In-content InGaN/GaN MQWs with ultra-thin, high-In-content (UTHI) InGaN/GaN MQWs because of better localization of carriers and smaller quantum-confined Stark effect (QCSE). We successfully obtain the UTHI InGaN/GaN MQWs grown via employing the GI technique by using the metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. In this work, 1 the optical and structural properties of the violet-light-emitting UTHI InGaN/GaN MQWs grown by employing the GI technique in comparison with conventional low-In-content InGaN/GaN MQWs were investigated. Stronger localization of carriers and smaller QCSE were observed in UTHI MQWs as a result of enlarged potential fluctuation and thinner QW thickness compared to those in conventional low-In-content MQWs. We hope that these strong carrier localization and reduced QCSE can turn the UTHI InGaN/GaN MQWs into an attractive candidate for high efficient violet emitter. Detailed structural and optical characteristics of UTHI InGaN/GaN MQWs compared to the conventional InGaN/GaN MQWs will be given.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.126-131
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• 1999

Hot-wall epitaxy법으로 $Cd_{1-x}Mn_xTe$박막을 GaAs (100) 기판위에 성장시켰다. XRD 측정으로부터 CdTe/GaAs(100) 박막은 기판과 같은 (100)면의 단결정 박막으로, $Cd_{1-x}Mn_xTe$박막은 Mn의 조성비 x가 증가함에따라 다결정 박막으로 성장되었으며, 박막의 격자상수는 x의 증가에 따라 덩어리 결정의 경우와 비슷한 기울기로 감소함을 확인하였다. x의 변화에 대한 $Cd_{1-x}Mn_xTe$ 박막의 PL 측정으로부터 받개와 퍼텐셜 요동에 의하여 포획된 엑시톤의 재결합 피크인 $L_1$과 $L_2$를 관측하였으며, $L_1$피크는 x=0.09 시료에서만 관측되었고 x값이 증가하면 사라졌다. x $\ge$0.2의 경우에는 $L_2$피크가 강하게 나타나고 x$\ge$ 0.4에서는 $Mn^{2+}$이온의 intra 천이에 의한 2.0eV 근처의 피크가 강하게 나타났다. x>0.4에서 $Mn^{2+}$이온에 의한 2.0eV 피크는 pinning이 일어나 변화가 거의 없이 일정하였다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.174-175
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• 2012

(In, Ga) N-based III-nitride semiconductor materials have been viewed as the most promising materials for the applications of blue and green light emitting devices such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and laser diodes. Although the InGaN alloy can have wide range of visible wavelength by changing the In composition, it is very hard to grow high quality epilayers of In-rich InGaN because of the thermal instability as well as the large lattice and thermal mismatches. In order to avoid phase separation of InGaN, various kinds of structures of InGaN have been studied. If high-quality In-rich InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well (MQW) structures are available, it is expected to achieve highly efficient phosphor-free white LEDs. In this study, we proposed a novel InGaN double hetero-structure grown on GaN nano-pyramids to generate broad-band red-color emission with high quantum efficiency. In this work, we systematically studied the optical properties of the InGaN pyramid structures. The nano-sized hexagonal pyramid structures were grown on the n-type GaN template by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. SiNx mask was formed on the n-type GaN template with uniformly patterned circle pattern by laser holography. GaN pyramid structures were selectively grown on the opening area of mask by lateral over-growth followed by growth of InGaN/GaN double hetero-structure. The bird's eye-view scanning electron microscope (SEM) image shows that uniform hexagonal pyramid structures are well arranged. We showed that the pyramid structures have high crystal quality and the thickness of InGaN is varied along the height of pyramids via transmission electron microscope. Because the InGaN/GaN double hetero-structure was grown on the nano-pyramid GaN and on the planar GaN, simultaneously, we investigated the comparative study of the optical properties. Photoluminescence (PL) spectra of nano-pyramid sample and planar sample measured at 10 K. Although the growth condition were exactly the same for two samples, the nano-pyramid sample have much lower energy emission centered at 615 nm, compared to 438 nm for planar sample. Moreover, nano-pyramid sample shows broad-band spectrum, which is originate from structural properties of nano-pyramid structure. To study thermal activation energy and potential fluctuation, we measured PL with changing temperature from 10 K to 300 K. We also measured PL with changing the excitation power from 48 ${\mu}W$ to 48 mW. We can discriminate the origin of the broad-band spectra from the defect-related yellow luminescence of GaN by carrying out PL excitation experiments. The nano-pyramid structure provided highly efficient broad-band red-color emission for the future applications of phosphor-free white LEDs.