• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.582-587
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• 2023

The effects of the annealing temperature on the structural, morphological, and luminescent properties of SrWO₄:Sm³⁺ thin films grown on quartz substrates by radio-frequency magnetron sputtering were investigated. The thin films were annealed at various annealing temperatures for 20 min in a rapid thermal annealer after growing the thin films. The experimental results showed that the annealing temperature has a significant effect on the properties of the SrWO₄:Sm³⁺ thin films. The crystal structure of the as-grown SrWO₄:Sm³⁺ thin films was transformed from amorphous to crystalline after annealing at 800℃. The preferred orientation along (112) plane and a significant increase in average grain size by 820 nm were observed with increasing the annealing temperature. The average optical transmittance in the wavelength range of 500~1,100 nm was decreased from 72.0% at 800℃ to 44.2% at an annealing temperature of 1,000℃, where the highest value in the photoluminescence intensity was obtained. In addition to the red-shift of absorption edge, a higher annealing temperature caused the optical band gap energy of the SrWO₄:Sm³⁺ thin films to fall rapidly. These results suggest that the structural, morphological, and luminescent properties of SrWO₄:Sm³⁺ thin films can be controlled by varying annealing temperature.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1067-1072
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 본 연구에서는 펄스 레이저 증착법으로 기판온도에 따른 AZO(Al₂O₃ : 3 wt %)박막을 제작하여, 구조적 특성과 전기적 및 광학적 특성을 조사하였다. 기판온도 400℃ 에서 증착한 AZO박막에서 가장 우수한 (002) 배향성을 나타내었으며, 이때의 반가폭은 0.42° 였다. 전기적 특성을 조사한 결과, 기판온도가 상승함에 따라 캐리어 농도와 이동도는 증가하였고 비저항은 감소하였다. 가시광 영역에서의 평균 투과도는 기판온도에 상관없이 85% 이상의 높은 값을 나타내었고, 기판온도에 상승함에 따라 캐리어 농도가 증가하고 이로 인해 에너지 밴드갭이 넓어지는 Burstein-Moss효과도 관찰할 수 있었다. 기판온도 400℃ 에서 증착한 AZO박막의 비저항과 재료평가지수는 각각 6.77 × 10^-4 Ω·cm 과 1.02 × 10⁴ Ω^-1·cm^-1 로 가장 우수한 값을 나타내었다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2024

본 연구에서는 고주파 마그네트론 스퍼터링 법으로 공정압력을 1에서 7mTorr 로 변화시켜 가며 GTZO (Ga-Ti-Zn-O)박막을 제작하여, 구조적 특성과 전기적 및 광학적 특성을 조사하였다. XRD측정을 통해 공정압력에 무관하게 모든 GTZO박막이 c-축으로 우선 성장함을 확인할 수 있었고, 1mTorr 에서 제작한 GTZO 박막이 반가폭 0.38˚ 로 가장 우수한 결정성을 나타내었다. 가시광 영역(400~800 nm)에서의 평균 투과도는 공정압력에 상관없이 80% 이상의 값을 나타내었고, 공정압력이 증가함에 따라 캐리어 농도가 감소하고 이로 인해 에너지 밴드갭이 좁아지는 Burstein - Moss 효과도 관찰할 수 있었다. 공정압력 1mTorr 에서 증착한 GTZO박막의 재료 평가 지수는 9.08 × 10³ Ω^-1·cm^-1 로 가장 우수한 값을 나타내었고 이때 비저항과 가시광 영역에서의 평균 투과도는 각각 5.12 × 10^-4 Ω·cm 과 80.64 % 이었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2011

투명 산화물 반도체 (Transparent Oxide-TFT)를 활성층과 소스/드레인, 게이트 전극층으로 동시에 사용한 비결정 indium zinc oxide (a-IZO), 절연층으로 co-sputtered $HfO_2-Al_2O_3$ (HfAIO)을 적용하여 실온에서 RF-magnetron 스퍼터 공정에 의해 제작하였다. TFT의 게이트 절연막으로써 $HfO_2$ 는 그 높은 유전상수( > 20)에도 불구하고 미세결정구조와 작은 에너지 밴드갭 (5.31eV) 으로 부터 기인한 거친계면특성, 높은 누설전류의 단점을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는, 어떠한 추가적인 열처리 공정 없이 co-sputtering에 의해 $HfO_2$와 $Al_2O_3$를 동시에 증착함으로써 구조적, 전기적 특성이 TFT 의 절연막으로 더욱 적합하게 향상되어진 $HfO_2$ 박막의 변화를 x-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and spectroscopic ellipsometer (SE)를 통해 분석하였다. XRD 분석은 기존 $HfO_2$ 의 미세결정 구조가 $Al_2O_3$와의 co-sputter에 의해 비결정 구조로 변한 것을 확인 시켜 주었고, AFM 분석을 통해 $HfO_2$ 의 표면 거칠기를 비교할 수 있는 RMS 값이 2.979 nm 인 것에 반해 HfAIO의 경우 0.490 nm로 향상된 것을 확인하였다. 또한 SE 분석을 통해 $HfO_2$ 의 에너지 밴드 갭 5.17 eV 이 HfAIO 의 에너지 밴드 갭 5.42 eV 로 향상 되어진 것을 알 수 있었다. 자유 전자 농도와 그에 따른 비저항도를 적절하게 조절한 활성층/전극층 으로써의 IZO 물질과 게이트 절연층으로써 co-sputtered HfAIO를 적용하여 제작한 Oxide-TFT 의 전기적 특성은 이동도 $10cm^2/V{\cdot}s$이상, 문턱전압 2 V 이하, 전류점멸비 $10^5$ 이상, 최대 전류량 2 mA 이상을 보여주었다.

• 공업화학
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.162-168
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• 2010

최근에 염료감응형 태양전지(dye-sensitized solar cells, DSSCs)의 에너지 변환 효율을 증가시키기 위한 방법으로 흡착된 염료에서 발생되는 광전자가 전해질 속의 산화/환원되는 요오드 이온($I_3^-/I^-$)과의 재결합(recombination)을 방지하기 위하여 발생된 광전자를 효율적으로 $TiO_{2}$ 전극을 통해 이동시키는 방법에 관한 연구가 활발히 연구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 재결합을 방지하기 위하여, 졸-겔(sol-gel)법으로 합성한 보헤마이트(bohemite) 졸을 이용하여 $TiO_{2}$ 전극에 비해 높은 에너지 밴드갭(band-gap)을 가지고 있는 $Al_2O_3$가 코팅된 이중층의 다공질 나노 $TiO_{2}$ 전극을 제조하고 염료감응형 태양전지에 응용하였다. 특히, 다양한 입자의 크기가 조절된 보헤마이트 졸을 통해 최고의 에너지 변환 효율을 가진 $Al_2O_3$가 코팅된 $TiO_{2}$ 광전극 제조 조건을 조사하였다. 입자 크기 100 nm 보헤마이트 졸로부터 제조한 $Al_2O_3$가 코팅된 $TiO_{2}$ 전극이 순수 $TiO_{2}$로 제조한 광전극 층(7.5%)에 비해 높은 에너지 변환 효율(9.0%)을 보였다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.115-116
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• 2012

The demand for flexible electronic systems such as wearable computers, E-paper, and flexible displays has increased due to their advantages of excellent portability, conformal contact with curved surfaces, light weight, and human friendly interfaces over present rigid electronic systems. This seminar introduces three recent progresses that can extend the application of high performance flexible inorganic electronics. The first part of this seminar will introduce a RRAM with a one transistor-one memristor (1T-1M) arrays on flexible substrates. Flexible memory is an essential part of electronics for data processing, storage, and radio frequency (RF) communication and thus a key element to realize such flexible electronic systems. Although several emerging memory technologies, including resistive switching memory, have been proposed, the cell-to-cell interference issue has to be overcome for flexible and high performance nonvolatile memory applications. The cell-to-cell interference between neighbouring memory cells occurs due to leakage current paths through adjacent low resistance state cells and induces not only unnecessary power consumption but also a misreading problem, a fatal obstacle in memory operation. To fabricate a fully functional flexible memory and prevent these unwanted effects, we integrated high performance flexible single crystal silicon transistors with an amorphous titanium oxide (a-TiO2) based memristor to control the logic state of memory. The $8{\times}8$ NOR type 1T-1M RRAM demonstrated the first random access memory operation on flexible substrates by controlling each memory unit cell independently. The second part of the seminar will discuss the flexible GaN LED on LCP substrates for implantable biosensor. Inorganic III-V light emitting diodes (LEDs) have superior characteristics, such as long-term stability, high efficiency, and strong brightness compared to conventional incandescent lamps and OLED. However, due to the brittle property of bulk inorganic semiconductor materials, III-V LED limits its applications in the field of high performance flexible electronics. This seminar introduces the first flexible and implantable GaN LED on plastic substrates that is transferred from bulk GaN on Si substrates. The superb properties of the flexible GaN thin film in terms of its wide band gap and high efficiency enable the dramatic extension of not only consumer electronic applications but also the biosensing scale. The flexible white LEDs are demonstrated for the feasibility of using a white light source for future flexible BLU devices. Finally a water-resist and a biocompatible PTFE-coated flexible LED biosensor can detect PSA at a detection limit of 1 ng/mL. These results show that the nitride-based flexible LED can be used as the future flexible display technology and a type of implantable LED biosensor for a therapy tool. The final part of this seminar will introduce a highly efficient and printable BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator on plastic substrates. Energy harvesting technologies converting external biomechanical energy sources (such as heart beat, blood flow, muscle stretching and animal movements) into electrical energy is recently a highly demanding issue in the materials science community. Herein, we describe procedure suitable for generating and printing a lead-free microstructured BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator on plastic substrates to overcome limitations appeared in conventional flexible ferroelectric devices. Flexible BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator was fabricated and the piezoelectric properties and mechanically stability of ferroelectric devices were characterized. From the results, we demonstrate the highly efficient and stable performance of BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.59-70
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• 2003

A stoichiometric mixture of evaporating materials for $CuGaSe_2$ single crystal thin films was prepared from horizontal electric furnace. Using extrapolation method of X-ray diffraction patterns for the polycrystal $CuGaSe_2$, it was found tetragonal structure whose lattice constant $a_0$ and $c_0$ were $5.615{\AA}$ and $11.025{\AA}$, respectively. To obtain the single crystal thin films, $CuGaSe_2$ mixed crystal was deposited on thoroughly etched semi-insulating GaAs(100) substrate by the hot wall epitaxy (HWE) system. The source and substrate temperatures were $610^{\circ}C$ and $450^{\circ}C$, respectively. The crystalline structure of the single crystal thin films was investigated by the photoluminescence and double crystal X-ray diffraction (DCXD). The carrier density and mobility of $CuGaSe_2$ single crystal thin films measured with Hall effect by van der Pauw method are $5.01\times10^{17}cm^{-3}$ and $245cm^2/V{\cdot}s$ at 293K. respectively. The temperature dependence of the energy band gap of the $CuGaSe_2$ obtained from the absorption spectra was well described by the Varshni's relation, $E_g$(T)=1.7998 eV-($8.7489\times10^{-4}$ eV/K)$T^2$/(T+335K). After the as-grown $CuGaSe_2$ single crystal thin films was annealed in Cu-, Se-, and Ga-atmospheres, the origin of point defects of $CuGaSe_2$ single crystal thin films has been investigated by the photoluminescence(PL) at 10 K. The native defects of $V_{CU},\;V_{Se},\;Cu_{int}$ and $Se_{int}$ obtained by PL measurements were classified as a donors or acceptors type. And we concluded that the heat-treatment in the Cu-atmosphere converted $CuGaSe_2$ single crystal thin films to an optical n-type. Also, we confirmed that Ga in $CuGaSe_2$/GaAs did not form the native defects because Ga in $CuGaSe_2$ single crystal thin films existed in the form of stable bonds.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.327-327
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• 2009

ZnO with a large band gap (~3.37 eV) and exciton binding energy (~60 meV), is suitable for optoelectronic applications such as ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes (LEDs) and detectors. However, the ZnO-based p-n homojunction is not readily available because it is difficult to fabricate reproducible p-type ZnO with high hall concentration and mobility. In order to solve this problem, there have been numerous attempts to develop p-n heterojunction LEDs with ZnO as the n-type layer. The n-ZnO/p-GaN heterostructure is a good candidate for ZnO-based heterojunction LEDs because of their similar physical properties and the reproducible availability of p-type GaN. Especially, the reduced lattice mismatch (~1.8 %) and similar crystal structure result in the advantage of acquiring high performance LED devices. In particular, a number of ZnO films show UV band-edge emission with visible deep-level emission, which is originated from point defects such as oxygen vacancy, oxygen interstitial, zinc interstitial[1]. Thus, defect-related peak positions can be controlled by variation of growth or annealing conditions. In this work, the undoped ZnO film was grown on the p-GaN:Mg film using RF magnetron sputtering method. The undoped ZnO/p-GaN:Mg heterojunctions were annealed in a horizontal tube furnace. The annealing process was performed at $800^{\circ}C$ during 30 to 90 min in air ambient to observe the variation of the defect states in the ZnO film. Photoluminescence measurements were performed in order to confirm the deep-level position of the ZnO film. As a result, the deep-level emission showed orange-red color in the as-deposited film, while the defect-related peak positions of annealed films were shifted to greenish side as increasing annealing time. Furthermore, the electrical resistivity of the ZnO film was decreased after annealing process. The I-V characteristic of the LEDs showed nonlinear and rectifying behavior. The room-temperature electroluminescence (EL) was observed under forward bias. The EL showed a weak white and strong yellowish emission colors (~575 nm) in the undoped ZnO/p-GaN:Mg heterojunctions before and after annealing process, respectively.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제48권7호
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• pp.10-16
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 고효율 고출력 무분극 GaN LED의 구현을 위하여 Mg이 도핑된 GaN spacer층 및 GaN quantum barrier(QB)층을 삽입한 구조를 제안하였다. 제안한 구조에 대한 물리적 해석을 위하여 일반적인 무분극 LED 에피구조와 본 연구에서 제안한 p-GaN spacer층 및 p-GaN QB층이 삽입된 무분극 LED 에피구조에 대해 상용화된 $SimuLED^{TM}$ 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 전기적/광학적 특성을 비교 분석하였다. 실험 결과, 본 연구에서 제안한 무분극 LED는 20 mA의 전류주입 하에서 동작전압($V_f$)이 일반적인 무분극 LED에 비해 약 3.7% 감소된 3.67 V의 전기적 특성을 갖는 것을 확인하였고, 광출력은 약 7% 향상된 2.13 mW의 광학적 특성을 갖는 구조임을 확인하였다. 또한, 내부양자효율(Internal quantum efficiency, IQE)과 광방출세기(emission peak intensity) 역시 각각 9.1% 및 170% 향상된 우수한 특성을 갖는 에피구조임을 확인하였다.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.149-152
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• 2012

$Cu(In,Ga)Se_2$ (CIGS) is one of the most promising photovoltaic materials because of large conversion efficiency which has been achieved with an optimum Ga/(In+Ga) composition in $CuIn_{1-x}Ga_xSe_2$ (X~0.3). The Ga/(In+Ga) content is important to determine band gap, solar cell performances and carrier behaviors at grain boundary (GB). Effects of Ga/(In+Ga) content on physical properties of the CIGS layers have been extensively studied. In previous research, it is reported that GB is not recombination center of CIGS thin-film solar cells. However, GB recombination and electron-hole pair behavior studies are still lacking, especially influence of with different X on CIGS thin-films. We obtained the GB surface potential, local current and I-V characteristic of different X (00.7 while X~0.3 showed higher potential than 100 mV on GBs. Higher potential on GBs appears positive band bending. It can decrease recombination loss because of carrier separation. Therefore, we suggest recombination and electron-hole behaviors at GBs depending on composition of X.