• E2M - 전기 전자와 첨단 소재
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.619-625
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• 1995

Polycrystalline CdTe thin film has been studied for photovoltaic application due to the 1.45 eV band gap energy ideal for solar energy conversion and high absorption coefficient. The formation of low resistance contact to p-CdTe is difficult because of large work function(>5.5eV). Common methods for ohmic contact to p-CdTe are to form a p+ region under the contact by in-diffusion of contact material to reduce the barrier height and modify a p-CdTe surface layer using chemical treatment. In this study, the surface chemical treatment of p CdTe was carried out by H$\_$3/PO$\_$4/+HNO$\_$3/ or K$\_$2/Cr$\_$2/O$\_$7/+H$\_$2/SO$\_$4/ solution to provide a Te-rich surface. And various thin film contact materials such as Cu, Au, and Cu/Au were deposited by E-beam evaporation to form ohmic contact to p-CdTe. After the metallization, post annealing was performed by oven heat treatment at 150.deg. C or by RTA(Rapid Thermal Annealing) at 250-350.deg. C. Surface chemical treatments of p-CdTe thin film improved metal/p-CdTe interface properties and post heat treatment resulted in low contact resistivity to p-CdTe.Of the various contact metal, Cu/Au and Cu show low contact resistance after oven and RTA post-heat treatments, respectively.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.230-234
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• 2003

GaAs (001) 기판과 완충층을 사용한 ZnTe/GaAs(001) 기판 위에 고농도의 Zn 조성을 가지는 $Cd_xZn_{1-x}$Te/GaAs, $Cd_xZn_{1-x}$Te/ZnTe/GaAs 에피층 구조를 성장시켰다. 이때 $Cd_xZn_{1-x}$Te 에피층에서의 CuPt형의 규칙상 형성, 미세구조적 특성과 광발광특성을 X-선회절과 전자회절상, 고분해능 투과전자현미경, 그리고 저온 광발광 측정 장치를 이용하여 연구하였다.

• E2M - 전기 전자와 첨단 소재
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.930-937
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• 1997

Polycrystalline CdTe thin films have been studied for photovoltaic application because of their high absorption coefficient and optimal band energy(1.45 eV) for solar energy conversion. In this study CdTe thin films were deposited on CdS(chemical bath deposition)/ITO(indium tin oxide) substrate by rf-magnetron sputtering under various conditions. Structural optical and electrical properties are investigated with XRD UV-Visible spectrophotometer SEM and solar simulator respectively. The fabricated CdTe/CdS solar cell exhibited open circuit voltage( $V_{oc}$ ) of 610 mV short circuit current density( $J_{sc}$ ) of 17.2 mA/c $m^2$and conversion efficiency of about 5% at optimal sputtering conditions.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2020

Doping or incorporation with exotic elements are two manners to regulate the optoelectronic properties of transparent conducting (TCO) cadmium oxide (CdO). Nevertheless, the method of doping host CdO by CdTe semiconductor is of high importance. The structural, optical, and electrical properties of CdTe-doped CdO films are studied for the sake of promoting their conducting parameters (CPs), including their conductivity, carrier concentration, and carrier mobility, along with transparency in the NIR spectral region; these are then compared with the influence of doping the host CdO by pure Te ions. X-ray fluorescence (XRF), X-ray diffraction (XRD), optical absorption spectroscopy, and electrical measurements are used to characterise the deposited films prepared by thermal evaporation. Numerous results are presented and discussed in this work; among these results, the optical properties are studied through a merging of concurrent BGN (redshift) and BGW (blue shift) effects as a consequence of doping processes. The impact of hydrogenation on the characterisations of the prepared films is investigated; it has no qualitative effect on the crystalline structure. However, it is found that TCO-CPs are improved by the process of CdTe doping followed by hydrogenation. The utmost TCO-CP improvements are found with host CdO film including ~ 1 %Te, in which the resistivity decreases by ~ 750 %, carrier concentration increases by 355 %, and mobility increases by ~ 90 % due to the increase of N_carr. The improvement of TCO-CPs by hydrogenation is attributed to the creation of O-vacancies because of H₂ molecule dissociation in the presence of Te ions. These results reflect the potential of using semiconductor CdTe -doped CdO thin films in TCO applications. Nevertheless, improvements of the host CdO CPs with CdTe dopant are of a lesser degree compared with the case of doping the host CdO with pure Te ions.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.77.1-77.1
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• 2010

반도체 나노 결정은 크기와 모양에 따라 다른 광학적 전기적 성질을 보이는 독특한 특성 때문에 태양전지, 발광 다이오드, 레이저, 바이오메디컬 레이블링 등에 응용될 수 있는 저가격의 차세대 광전기 재료의 개발을 위한 구조체로 각광받고 있다. 최근에는 하나의 나노 결정에 type-II band offset을 가지는 두 개의 물질을 결합한 이종접합 나노 결정체의 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있는데, 이는 나노 결정 내에서 빛에 의해 생성된 전하들을 공간적으로 분리해 낼 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있기 때문에 태양전지나 광촉매로의 응용에 매우 유용하다. 우리는 나노 결정과 고분자 하이브리드 태양전지의 제작에 있어서 성분과 type-II 이종접합 반도체 나노 결정의 영향을 조사하기 위하여 CdSe, CdTe, type-II CdTe/CdSe tetrapod을 합성하였다. CdSe tetrapod과 P3HT의 블렌딩에 의해 만들어진 태양전지는 AM 1.5, 100mW/$cm^2$ 조건에서 1.03%의 가장 높은 변환 효율, 그리고 415nm에서 43%의 IPCE를 나타내었다. 그리고 CdTe/CdSe type-II tetrapod 이종접합과 P3HT 블렌딩으로 만들어진 태양전지는 CdTe를 이용하여 만든 태양전지에 비해 4.4배의 변환효율과 3.9배의 단락전류를 나타내었다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.451-451
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• 2009

CdTe는 에너지밴드갭이 1.45eV인 직접천이헝 II-VI 화합물 반도체로서 높은 광홉수율과 가시광 영역의 에너지밴드캡으로 태양전지, x-선 검출기 등에 널리 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD)으로 Si 기판위에 CdTe 에피 박막을 성장 하고자 하였다. Cd, Te의 금속유기 화합물로는 Dimethylcadmium(DmCd)과 Diisopropyltellurium(DIPTe)을 사용하였다. 기판으로는 Si 을 사용하였으며 박막성장 온도를 $360^{\circ}C\;{\sim}\;500^{\circ}C$로 제어하여 에피박막이 형성되는 조건을 얻고자 하였다. $360^{\circ}C$, $450^{\circ}C$에서 성장된 CdTe박막은 다양한 방향이 존재하는 다결정 구조 였으며 $500^{\circ}C$의 경우 단결정 에피 박막 성장이 이루어졌음을 확인하였다. 본 연구를 통한 CdTe 에피박막은 기존의 열증착 등으로 제조되는 다결정 CdTe 박막과 비교하여 높은 에너지변환 효율을 얻을 것으로 기대된다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.273-281
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• 2003

수평 전기로에서 $CdIn_2Te_4$ 다결정을 합성하여 Bridgeman 법으로 3단 수직 전기로에서 $CdIn_2Te_4$ 단결정을 성장하였다. 성장된 결정의 특성은 x선 회절과 광발광 측정으로 조사하였다. $CdIn_2Te_4$ 단결정 시료는 Laue에 배면 반사법에 의해서 (001)면으로 성장되었음을 확인하였다. Hall 효과는 van der Pauw 방법에 의해 측정되었으며, 온도에 의존하는 운반자 농도와 이동도는 293K에서 각각 $8.61{\times}10^{16}/cm^3$, $242\;cm^2/V{\codt}s$였다. $CdIn_2Te_4$ 단결정의 광흡수와 광전류 spectra를 293K에서 10K까지 측정하였다. 광흡수 스펙트럼으로부터 band gap $E_g(T)$는 Varshni공식에 따라 계산한 결과 1.4750eV - $(7.69{\times}10^{-3}\;eV/K)T^2$/(T+2147 K)임을 확인하였다. 막 성장된(as-grown) $CdIn_2Te_4$ 단결정 시료를 Cd-, In-, Te 분위기에서 열처리하여 10K에서 Photoluminescence(PL) spectra를 측정하여 점 결함의 기원을 알아보았다. $CdIn_2Te_4$ 단결정내에서 내재된 결함들의 기원을 10 K에서 광발광을 측정하여 연구되었다. PL 측정으로 부터 얻어진 $V_{Te}$, $Cd_{int}$, $V_{Cd}$, 그리고 $Te_{int}$는 주개와 받개로 분류되어졌다. $CdIn_2Te_4$ 단결정 시료를 Cd 분위기에서 열처리하면 n형으로 변환됨을 악 수 있었고, In 분위기에서 열처리하면 열처리 이전의 PL spectra를 보이고 있어서 $I_2$, $I_1$ 및 S.A emission에 의한 PL peak에는 영향을 주지 않는다고 보았다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1996년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1645-1647
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• 1996

Polycrystalline CdTe thin films -have been studied for photovoltaic application because of their high absorption coefficient and optimal band gap energy (1.54 eV) for solar energy conversion. In this study, we prepared CdTe films using RF-magnetron sputtering method and investigated structural, optical and electrical properties with spectrophotometer, XRD, EDX, and resistivity meter. CdTe films at $200\;^{\circ}C$ showed a mixture of zinc blend (Cubic) and wurtzite (hexagonal) phase. On the other hand, the films at $400\;^{\circ}C$ showed highly oriented structure having hexagonal structure. The resistivity of CdTe films deposited on $SiO_2$ substrates was about $10_7\;{\Omega}cm$. The value of resistivity decreased with the increase of the substrate temperature. CdTe were sputtered on CdS thin films prepared by chemical bath deposition for the formation of the heterojunction. I-V characteristics of these cells were measured at a light density of $100mw/cm^2$, AM. 1.0. The present thin film solar cells showed a conversion efficiency of about 5%.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.257-261
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• 2014

Multilayered CdTe/PSS films were prepared by the electrostatic self-assembly method in an aqueous medium. Positively-charged cadmium telluride (CdTe) nanoparticles and anionic polyelectrolyte, poly (sodium 4-styrene sulfonate) (PSS) were assembled alternately in order to build up a multilayered film structure. A linear proportion of absorbance to the number of bilayers suggests that an equal amount of CdTe was adsorbed after each dipping cycle, which resulted in the buildup of a homogenous film. The binding energies of elements (Cd and Te) in multilayered CdTe/PSS film shifted from those of the CdTe nanoparticles in the pure state. This result indicates that the interfacial electron densities were redistributed by the strong electrostatic interaction between the oppositely-charged CdTe and PSS. Electrochemical properties of the multilayered CdTe/PSS films were studied in detail by cyclic voltammetry (CV).

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.1146-1150
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• 2009

Cadmium telluride (CdTe) is one of the most attractive photovoltaic materials due to its low cost, high efficiency and stable performance in physical, optical and electronic properties. Few researches on the influences of uniform surface on the photovoltaic characteristics in large-area CdTe solar cell were not reported. As the preceding study of the effects of thickness-uniformity on the photovoltaic characteristics for the large-area CdTe thin film solar cell, chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process was investigated for an enhancement of thickness-uniformity. Removal rate of CdTe thin film was 3160 nm/min of the maximum value at the 200 $gf/cm^2$ of down force (pressure) and 60 rpm of table speed (velocity). The removal rate of CdTe thin film was more affected by the down force than the table speed which is the two main factors directly influencing on the removal rate in CMP process. RMS roughness and peak-to-valley roughness of CdTe thin film after CMP process were improved to 96.68% and 85.55%, respectively. The optimum process condition was estimated by 100 $gf/cm^2$ of down force and 60 rpm of table speed with the consideration of good removal uniformity about 5.0% as well as excellent surface roughness for the large-area CdTe solar cell.