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Applications of metamaterials: Cloaking, Photonics, and Energy Harvesting

  • Kim, Kyoungsik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2015.08a
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    • pp.77.2-77.2
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    • 2015
  • Recently, metamaterials attracted much attention because of the potential applications for superlens, cloaking and high precision sensors. We developed several dielectric metamaterials for enhancing antireflection or light trapping capability in solar energy harvesting devices. Colloidal lithography and electrochemical anodization process were employed to fabricate self-assembed nano- and microscale dielectric metamaterials in a simple and cost-effective manner. We improved broadband light absorption in c-Si, a-Si, and organic semiconductor layer by employing polystyrene (PS) islands integrated Si conical-frustum arrays, resonant PS nanosphere arrays, and diffusive alumina nanowire arrays, respectively. We also demonstrated thin metal coated alumina nanowire array which is utilized as an efficient light-to-heat conversion layer of solar steam generating devices. The scalable design and adaptable fabrication route to our light management nanostructures will be promising in applications of solar energy harvesting system. On the other hands, broadband invisible cloaks, which continuously work while elastically deforming, are developed using smart metamaterials made of photonic and elastic crystals. A self-adjustable, nearly lossless, and broadband (10-12GHz) smart meatamaterials have great potentials for applications in antenna system and military stealth technology.

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ARAS coating with a conducting polymer (전도성 고분자를 이용한 ARAS 코팅)

  • 김태영;이보현;김종은;서광석
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2001.07a
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    • pp.1039-1042
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    • 2001
  • A method for designing antireflection (AR) and antistatic (AS) films by the use of conducting polymer as an electrically conductive transparent layer is proposed. The conducting AR film is composed of four-layer with alternating high and low refractive index layer: silicon dioxide (n=1.44) and titanium dioxide (n=2.02) prepared at low temperature by sol-gel method are used as the low and high refractive index layer, respectively. The 3,4-polyethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT) which has the sheet resistance of 10$^4$$\Omega$/$\square$ is used as a conductive layer. Optical constant of ARAS film was measured by the spectroscopic ellipsometer and from the measured optical constants the spectral properties such as reflectance and transmittance were simulated in the visible region. The reflectance of ARAS films on glass substrate was below 0.8 %R and the transmittance was higher than 95 % in the visible wavelength (400-700 nm). The measured AR spectral properties was very similar to its simulated results.

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The thermal analysis of te-based media for the optical recording (광기록에 이용되는 Te-based media에 대한 열적 해석)

  • 이성준;천석표;이현용;정홍배
    • Electrical & Electronic Materials
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.64-70
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    • 1995
  • We discussed the thermal analysis for a recording media with the variation of the laser pulse duration, the laser power and the temperature distribution in order to optimize the Te-based antireflection structure from the computer calculations. In the case that the radial heat diffusion is negligible, we can calculate the maximum temperature of the recording layer at the center of the spot by the Simple Model. The temperature profile of the recording layer is obtained from the Numerical Model by considering the total specific heat and the latent heat. As a result, the effect of the heat sinking acting as a thermal loss for the hole formation could be minimized by introducing the pulse with the hole formation duration(.tau.) below the thermal time constant(.tau.$_{D}$) of a dielectric layer. These requirments can be satisfied by using the dielectric thickness of the 2nd ART(Anti-Reflection Trilayer) condition or the dielectric materials with a low thermal diffusivity.y.

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Fabrication of Two-layer Antireflection Coatings Using Absorbing layer (흡수층을 이용한 2층 무반사 박막의 제작)

  • 손영배;황보창권;오정홍;김남영
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2000.02a
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    • pp.170-171
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    • 2000
  • 현재 사용하고 있는 디스플레이 장치에는 표면에 무반사(antireflection), 무정전(antistatic) 코팅이 되어 있다. 이것은 전기적으로 음극선관(CRT)에서 발생되는 전자에 의해 표면에 생기는 전하의 적층을 제거하여 정전기를 방지하고 인체에 유해한 전자기파를 차단하는 무정전 기능과, 광학적으로 디스플레이 장치 표면에서 외부의 조명등과 같은 빛의 반사를 줄여 내부에서 나오는 정보(빛)가 보다 더 눈에 선명하게 들어오도록 해준다. 무반사 무정전 코팅의 투과 전도층으로는 비저항값이 낮고 가시광선 영역에서 굴절률이 높고 흡수가 적어 투과율이 높은 indium tin oxide(ITO)가 널리 연구, 사용되어 왔다. 이러한 ITO 박막 대신에 TiN 박막을 사용하여 그 위에 유전체층을 증착하여 단 2층으로 무반사 무정전 코팅을 제작 할 수 있다. TiN 박막은 절삭공구 등의 표면에 마모방지용 코팅재료로서 사용되고 있고, 부착력이 우수하며 화학적 안정성이 뛰어나 수명이 긴 박막을 제작 할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 또한 가시광선 영역에서 흡수로 인해 투과율이 ITO에 비해 상대적으로 낮지만 이점이 오히려 명도대비(contrast)의 향상을 가져온다. (중략)

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Fabrication of Moth-Eye Pattern on a Lens Using Nano Imprint Lithography and PVA Template (나노임프린트 리소그래피와 유연 PVA 템플릿을 이용한 렌즈 표면 moth-eye 패턴 형성에 관한 연구)

  • Bae, B.J.;Hong, S.H.;Kwak, S.U.;Lee, H.
    • 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.

Titanium Dioxide Antireflection coating for Silicon Solar Cell by Spin Deposition (스핀도포법으로 제조한 규소 태양 전지의 티타늄 산화물 반사 방지막)

  • Choi, Byung-Ho;Song, Jin-Soo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1988.07a
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    • pp.792-795
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    • 1988
  • Titanium dioxide antireflection (AR) Coating, which is deposited on Si substrates using an organotitanium solution by the spinning technique, has been studied. The coated films on Si substrates were subsequently heated to $450^{\circ}C$. The thickness and index of refraction of films were varied continuousely from $740{\AA}$ to $1380{\AA}$ and from 1.7 to 2.1 respectively as a function of heat treatment temperature and time. Silicon solar cells AR-coated by the spinning technique showed as much as 31% improvement in conversion efficiency over the uncoated cell.

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Reflection Properties of SiO2/ITO Transparent and Conductive Thin Films for Display (디스플레이용 SiO2/ITO 투명전도막의 반사특성)

  • Shin, Yong-Wook;Kim, Sang-Woo;Yoon, Ki-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.233-239
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    • 2002
  • Reflection properties of $SiO_2$/ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) thin films coated for electromagnetic shielding, anti-static and anti-reflection on the front surface in CRT were studied. The behavior of reflectance as a function of thickness of $SiO_2$/ITO was investigated and applied to theoretical anti0reflection model of double layers and three layers. As the thickness of ITO layer increased, the deviation from theoretical value increased because uniformity of film deteriorated by pore. Because of the effect of mixed layer of $SiO_2$ and ITO, experimental reflectance showed better acceptance to the three layer antireflection model of $SiO_2$/$SiO_2$+ITO/ITO than the two layer model. Based on the theoretical antireflection design, the double layer whose thickness of $SiO_2$ and ITO were 90, 65 nm, respectively appear 2.5% in reflectance at standard wavelength, 550 nm. This phenomenon was similar to theoretical reflectance in visual range.

The Study on the Graded Index Antireflection(AR) Coating (구배형 굴절률 반사방지막 연구)

  • Kim, Chang-Bong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.565-570
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    • 2017
  • The various techniques proposed previously to obtain a good antireflection(AR) coating induce a scattering of incident light by nanoparticles or control the refractive index by using different materials. This paper compares a suggested graded index profile with the quintic index profile previously suggested for producing an index profile that gives good performance from an AR coating. We assume the structure of the AR coating has three, six, and nine layers with 180 nm total thickness. The wavelength of incident light ranges from 300 nm to 1100 nm. We use the transfer matrix theory for a single layer to obtain the reflectivity of three, six, and nine layers. The reflectivity of two different index profiles with three, six, and nine layers is compared. As a result, the suggested graded index profile shows lower reflectivity than the quintic index profile with three layers, especially in the wavelength range from about 600 nm to 1100 nm. Therefore, we expect that these results can be applied to optical devices and filters in the range from visible(red) to near infrared.