• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.409-409
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• 2014

Recently hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), III-V compound of boron and nitrogen with strong covalent $sp^2$ bond, is a 2 dimensional insulating material with a large direct band gap up to 6 eV. Its outstanding properties such as strong mechanical strength, high thermal conductivity, and chemical stability have been reported to be similar or superior to graphene. Because of these excellent properties, h-BN can potentially be used for variety of applications such as dielectric layer, deep UV optoelectronic device, and protective transparent substrate. Ultra flat and charge impurity-free surface of h-BN is also an ideal substrate to maintain electrical properties of 2 dimensional materials such as graphene. To synthesize a single or a few layered h-BN, chemical vapor deposition method (CVD) has been widely used by using an ammonia borane as a precursor. Ammonia borane decomposes into hydrogen (gas), monomeric aminoborane (solid), and borazine (gas) that is used for growing h-BN layer. However, very active monomeric aminoborane forms polymeric aminoborane nanoparticles that are white non-crystalline BN nanoparticles of 50~100 nm in diameter. The presence of these BN nanoparticles following the synthesis has been hampering the implementation of h-BN to various applications. Therefore, it is quite important to grow a clean and high quality h-BN layer free of BN particles without having to introduce complicated process steps. We have demonstrated a synthesis of a high quality h-BN monolayer free of BN nanoparticles in wafer-scale size of $7{\times}7cm^2$ by using CVD method incorporating a simple filter system. The measured results have shown that the filter can effectively remove BN nanoparticles by restricting them from reaching to Cu substrate. Layer thickness of about 0.48 nm measured by AFM, a Raman shift of $1,371{\sim}1,372cm^{-1}$ measured by micro Raman spectroscopy along with optical band gap of 6.06 eV estimated from UV-Vis Spectrophotometer confirm the formation of monolayer h-BN. Quantitative XPS analysis for the ratio of boron and nitrogen and CS-corrected HRTEM image of atomic resolution hexagonal lattices indicate a high quality stoichiometric h-BN. The method presented here provides a promising technique for the synthesis of high quality monolayer h-BN free of BN nanoparticles.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.493-493
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• 2014

The manufacturing cost of thin-film photovoltics can potentially be lowered by minimizing the amount of a semiconductor material used to fabricate devices. Thin-film solar cells are typically only a few micrometers thick, whereas crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafer solar cells are $180{\sim}300\mu}m$ thick. As such, thin-film layers do not fully absorb incident light and their energy conversion efficiency is lower compared with that of c-Si wafer solar cells. Therefore, effective light trapping is required to realize commercially viable thin-film cells, particularly for indirect-band-gap semiconductors such as c-Si. An emerging method for light trapping in thin film solar cells is the use of metallic nanostructures that support surface plasmons. Plasmon-enhanced light absorption is shown to increase the cell photocurrent in many types of solar cells, specifically, in c-Si thin-film solar cells and in poly-Si thin film solar cell. By proper engineering of these structures, light can be concentrated and coupled into a thin semiconductor layer to increase light absorption. In many cases, silver (Ag) nanoparticles (NP) are formed either on the front surface or on the rear surface on the cells. In case of poly-Si thin film solar cells, Ag NPs are formed on the rear surface of the cells due to longer wavelengths are not perfectly absorbed in the active layer on the first path. In our cells, shorter wavelengths typically 300~500 nm are also not effectively absorbed. For this reason, a new concept of plasmonic nanostructure which is NPs formed both the front - and the rear - surface is worth testing. In this simulation Al NPs were located onto glass because Al has much lower parasitic absorption than other metal NPs. In case of Ag NP, it features parasitic absorption in the optical frequency range. On the other hand, Al NP, which is non-resonant metal NP, is characterized with a higher density of conduction electrons, resulting in highly negative dielectric permittivity. It makes them more suitable for the forward scattering configuration. In addition to this, Ag NP is located on the rear surface of the cell. Ag NPs showed good performance enhancement when they are located on the rear surface of our cells. In this simulation, Al NPs are located on glass and Ag NP is located on the rear Si surface. The structure for the simulation is shown in figure 1. Figure 2 shows FDTD-simulated absorption graphs of the proposed and reference structures. In the simulation, the front of the cell has Al NPs with 70 nm radius and 12.5% coverage; and the rear of the cell has Ag NPs with 157 nm in radius and 41.5% coverage. Such a structure shows better light absorption in 300~550 nm than that of the reference cell without any NPs and the structure with Ag NP on rear only. Therefore, it can be expected that enhanced light absorption of the structure with Al NP on front at 300~550 nm can contribute to the photocurrent enhancement.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.175-182
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• 2008

반도체 장비용 진공코팅부품의 공정영향에 의한 내부식 성능 평가방법을 연구개발 하였다. 평가기준을 마련하기 위해 반도체 공정에서 교체된 코팅부품의 특성을 분석 평가하였다. 코팅부품의 성능을 정량적으로 측정하기 위하여 부품의 코팅막으로 많이 사용되고 있는 $Al_2O_3$ 막의 건식부식실험을 실시하였고 표면모폴로지, 누설전류 및 내전압측정 등을 수행하였다. 실험결과 건식부식처리 후 샘플의 누설전류량이 증가하였고, 절연내력이 크게 줄어 전기적 특성이 하향된 결과를 보였으며, 표면 모폴로지의 경우 부식시간 증가에 따라 표면 손상정도가 증가하는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다. 부식공정에 의한 이들 특성 값 변화를 이용하여 코팅부품의 공정영향에 의한 성능평가 방법을 개발할 수 있었다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.151-157
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 모바일 장치의 T-DMB 안테나로 사용될 수 있는 급전 반대편에 open stub를 가지는 소형 two-wire helical 안테나를 제안하였다. Open stub의 길이를 조절하거나 open stub에 유전 물질을 발라 T-DMB 대역인 200 MHz에서 높이가 8 cm(200 MHz에서 0.053 $\lambda$임)인 안테나의 입력 임피던스를 쉽게 매칭시킬 수 있다. 이 안테나의 unbalanced 모드와 balanced 모드의 등가 회로를 이용하여 이 안테나의 등가 회로를 나타내고, 동작 원리를 설명하였다. 등가 회로의 해석을 토대로 open stub의 영향을 검증했다. 몇 가지 다른 파라미터 값을 가지는 안테나를 제작하였으며, 이 안테나의 $S_{11}$ 및 $S_{21}$을 측정하였다. 제작된 안테나의 임력 임피던스 대역폭($S_{11}{\leq}-10dB$)은 $196{\sim}204$ MHz(8 MHz)로 T-DMB의 한 채널(6 MHz)을 만족한다. 이 안테나의 측정된 $S_{21}$은 -38.6 dB로 동일한 높이의 모노폴 안테나와 open stub를 가지지 않은 two-wire helical 안테나의 $S_{21}$보다 약 17 dB 높다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.169-174
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• 2008

The structural and electrical properties of amorphous $BaSm_2Ti_4O_{12}$ (BSmT) films on a $TiN/SiO_2/Si$ substrate deposited using a RF magnetron sputtering method were investigated. The deposition of BSmT films was carried out at $300^{\circ}C$ in a mixed oxygen and argon ($O_2$ : Ar = 1 : 4) atmosphere with a total pressure of 8.0 mTorr. In particular, a 45 nm-thick amorphous BSmT film exhibited a high capacitance density and low dissipation factor of $7.60\;fF/{\mu}m2$ and 1.3%, respectively, with a dielectric constant of 38 at 100 kHz. Its capacitance showed very little change, even in GHz ranges from 1.0 GHz to 6.0 GHz. The quality factor of the BSmT film was as high as 67 at 6 GHz. The leakage current density of the BSmT film was also very low, at approximately $5.11\;nA/cm^2$ at 2 V; its conduction mechanism was explained by the the Poole-Frenkel emission. The quadratic voltage coefficient of capacitance of the BSmT film was approximately $698\;ppm/V^2$, which is higher than the required value (<$100\;ppm/V^2$) for RF application. This could be reduced by improving the process condition. The temperature coefficient of capacitance of the film was low at nearly $296\;ppm/^{\circ}C$ at 100 kHz. Therefore, amorphous BSmT grown on a TiN substrate is a viable candidate material for a metal-insulator-metal capacitor.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.284-284
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• 2016

Topological insulator (TI) is a bulk-insulating material with topologically protected Dirac surface states in the band gap. In particular, $Bi_2Se_3$ attracted great attention as a model three-dimensional TI due to its simple electronic structure of the surface states in a relatively large band gap (~0.3 eV). However, experimental efforts using $Bi_2Se_3$ have been difficult due to the abundance of structural defects, which frequently results in the bulk conduction being dominant over the surface conduction in transport due to the bulk doping effects of the defect sites. One promising approach in avoiding this problem is to reduce the structural defects by heteroepitaxially grow $Bi_2Se_3$ on a substrate with a compatible lattice structure, while also preventing surface degradation by encapsulating the pristine interface between $Bi_2Se_3$ and the substrate in a clean growth environment. A particularly promising choice of substrate for the heteroepitaxial growth is hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), which has the same two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) layered structure and hexagonal lattice symmetry as $Bi_2Se_3$. Moreover, since h-BN is a dielectric insulator with a large bandgap energy of 5.97 eV and chemically inert surfaces, it is well suited as a substrate for high mobility electronic transport studies of vdW material systems. Here we report the heteroepitaxial growth and characterization of high quality topological insulator $Bi_2Se_3$ thin films prepared on h-BN layers. Especially, we used molecular beam epitaxy to achieve high quality TI thin films with extremely low defect concentrations and an ideal interface between the films and substrates. To optimize the morphology and microstructural quality of the films, a two-step growth was performed on h-BN layers transferred on transmission electron microscopy (TEM) compatible substrates. The resulting $Bi_2Se_3$ thin films were highly crystalline with atomically smooth terraces over a large area, and the $Bi_2Se_3$ and h-BN exhibited a clear heteroepitaxial relationship with an atomically abrupt and clean interface, as examined by high-resolution TEM. Magnetotransport characterizations revealed that this interface supports a high quality topological surface state devoid of bulk contribution, as evidenced by Hall, Shubnikov-de Haas, and weak anti-localization measurements. We believe that the experimental scheme demonstrated in this talk can serve as a promising method for the preparation of high quality TI thin films as well as many other heterostructures based on 2D vdW layered materials.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.60-68
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• 2015

폐활성슬러지의 감량화 및 혐기성소화 효율 향상을 위한 가용화 기술로 microwave (MW)에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. MW에 의한 가용화는 유전가열에 의해 가열적, 비가열적 효과 및 이온성 전도를 유도하여 매우 짧은 시간에 반응이 일어나므로 폐활성슬러지의 가용화에 효과적으로 적용될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 폐활성슬러지 가용화에 대해 전도 가열대비 MW의 우수성을 평가하였고, 고출력 조건에서 수행된 기존 연구들과 달리 저출력 조건에서 MW의 효율 향상을 위해 강산인 $H_2SO_4$ 및 이온성 물질인 $CaCl_2$, NaCl을 촉매로 이용하였다. 전도 가열 대비 MW를 이용한 폐활성슬러지의 가용화 효율은 $50^{\circ}C$ 조건에서 6.2배, $100^{\circ}C$ 조건에서 1.4배 높게 나타났으며, 본 연구의 MW 저출력 조건에서 최대 COD 가용화율은 10.0%로 나타났다. 동일한 MW 출력 및 반응시간 조건에서 촉매물질인 $H_2SO_4$ 및 NaCl의 첨가를 통해 폐활성슬러지의 COD 가용화율이 18.1%, 12.7%로 증가하였으며, $CaCl_2$를 첨가하였을 경우에는 COD 가용화율이 10.7%로 MW의 효율에 향상에 효과가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 가용화 효율을 향상시킬 것으로 예상된 $Ca^{2+}$가 슬러지 가용화에 따라 발생하는 ${PO_4}^{3-}$와 반응하여 침전물 형성에 소모되었기 때문으로 판단된다. 본 연구에서 MW 효율 향상을 위한 가장 적합한 촉매물질은 $H_2SO_4$인 것으로 나타났으며, 0.2 M의 $H_2SO_4$를 첨가한 MW 조건이 폐활성슬러지의 가용화에 가장 효과적인 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.83-90
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• 2023

최근 전력반도체 소재로 관심을 가지는 Ga₂O₃의 β-상은 열역학적으로 가장 안정한 상을 가지며 4.8~4.9 eV의 넓은 밴드갭과 8 MV/cm의 높은 절연파괴전압을 갖는다. 이러한 우수한 물리적 특성으로 인해 전력반도체 소재로 많은 주목을 받고 있다. β-Ga₂O₃는 SiC 및 GaN의 소재와는 다르게 액상이 존재하기 때문에 액상 성장법으로 단결정 성장이 가능하다. 하지만 성장한 순수 β-Ga₂O₃ 단결정은 전력 소자에 적용하기에는 낮은 전도성으로 인해 의도적으로 제어된 도핑 기술이 필요하며 도핑 특성에 관한 연구가 매우 중요하다. 이 연구에서는 Ga₂O₃ 분말과 SnO₂ 분말의 몰 비율을 다르게 첨가하여 Un-doped, Sn 0.05 mol%, Sn 0.1mol%, Sn 1.5 mol%, Sn 2 mol%, Sn 3 mol%의 혼합분말을 제조하여 EFG(Edge-defined Film-fed Growth) 방법으로 β-Ga₂O₃ 단결정을 성장시켰다. 성장된 β-Ga₂O₃ 단결정의 Sn dopant 함량에 따른 결정 품질 및 광학적, 전기적 특성 변화를 분석하였으며 Sn 도핑에 따른 특성 변화를 광범위하게 연구하였다.