• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.1-4
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• 2012

O- and Zn-polar ZnO films were grown by DC magnetron sputtering. Growth of high-quality, single-crystal ZnO thin films were confirmed by XRD and pole figure analysis. O-polar ZnO was grown on an $Al_2O_3$ substrate, which was confirmed by a slow growth rate (378 nm/hr), a fast etching rate (59 nm/min), and by the hillocks on the surface after etching. Zn-polar ZnO was grown on a GaN/$Al_2O_3$ substrate, which was confirmed by a fast growth rate (550 nm/hr), a slow etching rate (28 nm/min), and by pits on the surface after etching. Results from the present study show that it is possible to use DC-sputtering to grow ZnO film with the same polarity as other epitaxial growth methods.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.528-532
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• 1999

Y$_2$O$_3$films were grown on SiO$_2$-covered Si(111), and hydrogen-terminated Si(111), and hydrogen-terminated Si(111) substrates at 50$0^{\circ}C$ by ultrahigh vacuum ionized cluster beam deposition (UHV-ICB). The microstructures and growth behavior of these films have been investigated by transmission electron diffraction (TED) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy(HREM). The TED results show that the $Y_2$O$_3$grown on the SiO$_2$-Si has the epitaxial relationship of (11-1)Y$_2$O$_3$∥(111)Si and [-110]Y$_2$O$_3$∥[-110]Si. The film on the H-Si substrate contains YS\ulcorner and amorphous YSi\ulcornerO\ulcorner layers at the interface, having the orientation relationship each other. For the YSi\ulcorner and the Si substrate, the relationship is (0001)YSi\ulcorner∥(111)Si and [1-210]YSi\ulcorner∥∥[-110]Si. For the $Y_2$O$_3$and the YSi\ulcorner ; the relationship is as follows: (11-1)Y$_2$O$_3$∥(0001)YSi\ulcorner and [-110]Y$_2$O$_3$∥[1-210]YSi\ulcorner(111)Y$_2$O$_3$∥(0001)YSi\ulcorner and [-110]Y$_2$O$_3$∥[1-210]YSi\ulcorner. Explanation is given to describe the formation mechanisms of the interfacial phases of SiO\ulcorner, YSi\ulcornerO\ulcorner and YSi\ulcorner. It is shown that the crystallinity of the $Y_2$O$_3$film on the SiO$_2$-Si(111) is better than that of $Y_2$O$_3$on H-Si(111).

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.68-72
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• 2009

We report on the growth of $CuCrO_2$ films using pulsed laser deposition and their structural and electrical transport properties. $CuCrO_2$ thin films were doped with 5 at% Mg for p-type properties. Epitaxial films of $CuCr_{0.95}Mg_{0.05}O_2$ were grown on c-plane sapphire substrates. The effects of growth temperature and oxygen pressure on film properties were investigated. The main phase of delafossite $CuCr_{0.95}Mg_{0.05}O_2$ was appeared above the growth temperature of $600^{\circ}C$. The thin film grown at $500^{\circ}C$ showed the highest conductivity, reaching 19.6 S/cm while higher growth temperatures over $500^{\circ}C$ led to lower conductivity; the thin film grown at $700^{\circ}C$ showed 0.02 S/cm.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.81-89
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• 1994

전자빔 증착법을 사용하여 10nm두께의 Ti과 18nm두께의 Co를 Si(100)기판에 증착한 후, $N_{2}$분위기에서 $900^{\circ}C$, 20초 급속 열처리하여, Co/Ti 이중금속박막의 역전을 유도함으로서 $CoSi_{2}$박막을 형성하였다. 4점 탐침기로 측정한 면저항은 3.9Ω/ㅁ 었으며, 열처리 시간을 증가해도 이값은 유지하여 열적 안정성을 나타내었다. XRD 결과는 형성된 실리사이드는 기판과 에피관계를 갖는 $CoSi_{2}$상 임을 보였으며, SEM 사진은 평탄한 표면을 나타내었다. 단면 TEM 사진은 기판위에 형성된 박막층은 70nm 두께의 $CoSi_{2}$ 에피박막과 그위에 두개의 C0-Ri-Si합금층등 세개의 층으로 되어 있음을 보였다. AES 분석은, 기판상의 자연산화막을 형성할 수 있었음을 보여주었다. AES분석은, 기판상의 잔연산화막이 열처리초기, Ti에 의해 제거된후 Co가 원자적으로 깨끗한 Si기판에 확산하여 $CoSi_{2}$에피박막을 형성할 수 있었음을 보여주었다. $700^{\circ}C$, 20초 + $900^{\circ}C$, 20초 이중 열처리를 한 경우, $CoSi_{2}$결정성장으로 면저항값은 약간 낮아졌으나, 박막의 표면과 계면이 거칠었다. 이 $CoSi_{2}$에피박막의 실제 소자에의 적용방안과 막의 역전을 통한 에피박막형성의 기제를 열역학 및 kinetics 관점에서 고찰하였다.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.108-113
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• 2016

III-V compound semiconductor based thin film solar cells promise relatively higher power conversion efficiencies and better device reliability. In general, the thin film III-V solar cells are fabricated by an epitaxial lift-off process, which requires an $Al_xGa_{1-x}As$ ($x{\geq}0.8$) sacrificial layer and an inverted solar cell structure. However, the device performance of the inversely grown solar cell could be degraded due to the different internal diffusion conditions. In this study, InGaP/GaAs double-junction solar cells are inversely grown by MOCVD on GaAs (100) substrates. The thickness of the GaAs base layer is reduced to minimize the thermal budget during the growth. A wide band gap p-AlGaAs/n-InGaP tunnel junction structure is employed to connect the two subcells with minimal electrical loss. The solar cell structures are transferred on to thin metal films formed by Au electroplating. An AlAs layer with a thickness of 20 nm is used as a sacrificial layer, which is removed by a HF:Acetone (1:1) solution during the epitaxial lift-off process. As a result, the flexible InGaP/GaAs solar cell was fabricated successfully with an efficiency of 27.79% under AM1.5G illumination. The efficiency was kept at almost the same value after bending tests of 1,000 cycles with a radius of curvature of 10 mm.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2015년도 제49회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.188.2-188.2
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• 2015

The presence of the conduction interface in epitaxial $LaAlO_3/SrTiO_3$ thin films has opened up challenging applications which can be expanded to next-generation nano-electronics. The metallic conduction path is associated with two adjacent insulating materials. Such device structure is applicable to frequency-dependent impedance spectroscopy. Impedance spectroscopy allows for simultaneous measurement of resistivity and dielectric constants, systematic identification of the underlying electrical origins, and the estimation of the electrical homogeneity in the corresponding electrical origins. Such unique capability is combined with the intentional control on the interface composition composed of $SrTiO_3$ and $CaTiO_3$, which can be denoted by $SrxCa1-_xTiO_3$. The underlying $Sr_xCa1-_xTiO_3$ interface was deposited using pulsed-laser deposition, followed by the epitaxial $LaAlO_3$ thin films. The platinum electrodes were constructed using metal shadow masks, in order to accommodate 2-point electrode configuration. Impedance spectroscopy was performed as the function of the relative ratio of Sr to Ca. The respective impedance spectra were analyzed in terms of the equivalent circuit models. Furthermore, the impedance spectra were monitored as a function of temperature. The ac-based characterization in the 2-dimensional conduction path supplements the dc-based electrical analysis. The artificial manipulation of the interface composition will be discussed towards the electrical application of 2-dimensional materials to the semiconductor devices in replacement for the current Si-based devices.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.809-815
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• 1996

$Y_2O_3$-based metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) structure on p-Si(100) has been studied. Films were prepared by UHV reactive ionized cluster beam deposition (r-ICBD) system. The base pressure of the system was about $1 \times 10^{-9}$ -9/ Torr and the process pressure $2 \times 10^{-5}$ Torr in oxygen ambience. Glancing X-ray diffraction(GXRD) and in-situ reflection high energy electron diffracton(RHEED) analyses were performed to investigate the crystallinity of the films. The results show phase change from amorphous state to crystalline one with increasingqr acceleration voltage and substrate temperature. It is also found that the phase transformation from $Y_2O_3$(111)//Si(100) to $Y_2O_3$(110)//Si(100) in growing directions takes place between $500^{\circ}C$ and $700^{\circ}C$. Especially as acceleration voltage is increased, preferentially oriented crystallinity was increased. Finally under the condition of above substrate temperature $700^{\circ}C$ and acceleration voltage 5kV, the $Y_2O_3$films are found to be grown epitaxially in direction of $Y_2O_3$(1l0)//Si(100) by observation of transmission electron microscope(TEM). Capacitance-voltage and current-voltage measurements were conducted to characterize Al/$Y_2O_3$/Si MIS structure with varying acceleration voltage and substrate temperature. Deposited $Y_2O_3$ films of thickness of nearly 300$\AA$ show that the breakdown field increases to 7~8MV /cm at the same conditon of epitaxial growing. These results also coincide with XPS spectra which indicate better stoichiometric characteristic in the condition of better crystalline one. After oxidation the breakdown field increases to 13MV /cm because the MIS structure contains interface silicon oxide of about 30$\AA$. In this case the dielectric constant of only $Y_2O_3$ layer is found to be $\in$15.6. These results have demonstrated the potential of using yttrium oxide for future VLSI/ULSI gate insulator applications.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.68-73
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• 2008

It is very important that constitution of good hetero-junction interface with a high quality amorphous silicon thin films on very cleaned c-Si wafer for making high efficiency hetero-junction solar cells. For achieving the high efficiency solar cells, the inspection and management of c-Si wafer surface conditions are essential subjects. In this experiment, we analyzed the c-Si wafer surface very sensitively using Spectroscopic Ellipsometer for < ${\varepsilon}2$ > and u-PCD for effective carrier life time, so we accomplished < ${\varepsilon}2$ > value 43.02 at 4.25eV by optimizing the cleaning process which is representative of c-Si wafer surface conditions very well. We carried out that the deposition of high quality hydrogenated silicon amorphous thin films by RF-PECVD systems having high density and low crystallinity which are results of effective medium approximation modeling and fitting using spectroscopic ellipsometer. We reached the cell efficiency 12.67% and 14.30% on flat and textured CZ c-Si wafer each under AM1.5G irradiation, adopting the optimized cleaning and deposition conditions that we made. As a result, we confirmed that spectroscopic ellipsometry is very useful analyzing methode for hetero-junction solar cells which need to very thin and high quality multi layer structure.

• The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.20-25
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• 2001

PbTiO$_3$ thin films were prepared by low-pressure thermal plasma deposition on (100)Pt/(100)MgO substrates. Mist of source material in which metal alkoxides are dissolved in 2-methoxyethanol was introduced into plasma through heating furnace and deposited onto substrates at $600^{\circ}C$. As-deposited PbTiO$_3$/Pt/MgO thin film prepared at 1.33$\times$10$^4$ Pa was grown epitaxially, but was consisted of many rectangular shaped grains, with many grain boundaries and it was impossible to measure electric properties. As-deposited film prepared at 1.00$\times$10$^4$ Pa showed weak peaks of X-ray diffraction and the film was not grown epitaxially. On the other hand, the film after annealed at $700^{\circ}C$ showed strong diffraction peaks and epitaxial growth was also observed. For annealed film, moreover, no clear grain boundaries were observed. The value of ${\varepsilon}_r$, tan${\delta}$, Pr and Ec of annealed film were 160, 3.2%, 10.4${\mu}$C.cm$^-2$ and 51.2kV.cm$^-1$, respectively. Since the composition, Pb/Ti, measured by EDS attaching to SEM changed point by point, the distribution of composition in annealed film was investigated and found out several relations between composition and electric properties. At stoichiometric composition, Pr and Ec showed the lowest value and they gradually became large as composition deviated from stoichiometric one. Moreover, the value of ${\varepsilon}_r$ became gradually large as the ratio of Ti became high.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.190-194
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• 2008

FePd 합금박막을 스퍼터링법으로 초격자 박막의 형태로 제작하고 기판온도, 조성변화에 따른 미세구조 및 자기적 특성을 분석하였다. FePd 합금박막의 규칙화를 위한 열처리 온도를 FePt의 열처리 온도에 비해 $150^{\circ}C$ 낮추는데 성공하였다. 또한 FePd 규칙화 합금 박막은 화학양론적 조성일 때 장범위 규칙도는 가장 높은 값을 가졌으며(Fe조성 50 at.%, S = 0.79), 자기이방성 에너지는 Fe 조성이 약간 낮은 조성에서(Fe조성 48 at.%, $K_U=1.6{\times}10^7\;erg/cm^3$) 가장 높은 값을 나타내었다. 이것은 FePd 합금박막의 조성이 장범위 규칙도와 수직자기이방성에 직접적으로 영향을 미친다는 것을 나타낸다.