• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.113-118
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• 2002

We developed engineering methods to control gas flow in a plasma reactor in order to achieve good etch depth uniformity for large area GaAs etching. Finite difference numerical method was found quite useful for simulation of gas flow distribution in the reactor for dry etching of GaAs. The experimental results in $BCl_3/N_2/SF_6/He$ ICP plasmas confirmed that the simulated data fitted very well with real data. It is noticed that a focus ring could help improve both gas flow and etch uniformity for 150 mm diameter GaAs plasma etch processing. The simulation results showed that optimization of clamp configuration could decrease gas flow uniformity as low as $\pm$ 1.5% on an 100 mm(4 inch) GaAs wafer and $\pm$ 3% for a 150 m(6 inch) wafer with the fixed reactor and electrode, respectively. Comparison between simulated gas flow uniformity and real etch depth distribution data concluded that control of gas flow distribution in the chamber would be significantly important in order or achieve excellent dry etch uniformity of large area GaAs wafers.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.19-30
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• 1991

The surface properties such as energy gap, exciton, shallow trap level, deep trap level, type inversion with annealing and metastable state of $EL_2$ level of SI GaAs wafers and the conductivity distribution of 2 inch Cr doped GaAs wafer were investigated using nondestructive TAV(transverse acoustoelectric voltage) technique. The TAV is generated when SAW and semiconductor interact. We also have tried newly SAW oscillator technique to investigate the surface properties of semiconductor wafers and we have shown the validity of this technique.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.160-160
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• 2003

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.2085-2092
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• 2016

One of the most important properties of the IC substrate is that it should be uniform over large areas. Among the various physical approaches of wafer defect characterization, special attention is to be payed to the infrared techniques of inspection. In particular, a high spatial resolution, near infrared absorption method has been adopted to directly observe defects in semi-insulating GaAs. This technique, which relies on the mapping of infrared transmission, is both rapid and non-destructive. This method demonstrates in a direct way that the infrared images of GaAs crystals arise from defect absorption process. A new interpretation is presented for the observed reversal of contrast in the infrared absorption of nonuniformly distributed deep centers, related to EL2, in semi-insulating GaAs. The low temperature photoquenching experiment has demonstrated in a direct way that the contrast inverse images of GaAs wafers arise from both absorption and scattering mechanisms rather than charge re-distribution or local variation of bandgap.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.27 no.8
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• pp.1309-1316
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• 2003

The general dicing process cuts a semiconductor wafer to lengthwise and crosswise direction by using a rotating circular diamond blade. But products with inferior quality are produced under the influence of several parameters in dicing process such as blade, wafer, cutting water and cutting conditions. Moreover we can not apply this dicing method to GaN wafer, because the GaN wafer is harder than the other wafer such as SiO2, GaAs, GaAsP, and AlGaAs. In order to overcome this problem, development of a new dicing process and determination of dicing parameters are necessary. This paper describes a new wafer dicing method using fixed diamond scriber and precision servo mechanism and determination of several parameters - scribing depth, scribing force, scriber inclined angle, scribing speed, and factor for scriber replacement - for a new dicing machine using scriber.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.218-225
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• 2003

The general dicing process cuts a semiconductor wafer to lengthwise and crosswise direction by using a rotating circular diamond blade. However, inferior goods may be made under the influence of several parameters in dicing process such as blade, wafer, cutting water and cutting conditions. Moreover we can not apply this dicing method to a GaN wafer, because the GaN wafer is harder than other wafers such as SiO$_2$, GaAs, GaAsP, and AlGaAs. In order to overcome this problem, development of a new dicing process and determination of dicing parameters are necessary. This paper describes determination of several parameters - scribing depth, scribing force, scriber inclined angle, scribing speed, and factor for scriber replacement - for a new dicing machine using a scriber.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.02a
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• pp.170-171
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.184-185
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• 2004

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.427-431
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• 2018

This research was worked about $Ga_2O_3$ Epi wafer that was one of the mose wide band gap semiconductors to be used power semiconductor industry. This wafer was grown $5.3{\mu}m$ thickness on Sn doped $Ga_2O_3$ Substrate by HVPE(Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy). Generally, we can fabricate 600V class power semiconductor devices when the thickness of compoound power semiconductor is $5{\mu}m$. but in case of $Ga_2O_3$ Epi wafer, we can obtain over 1000V class. As a result of J-V measurment of the grown $Ga_2O_3$ Epi wafer, we obtain $2.9-7.7m{\Omega}{\cdot}cm^2$ on resistance. Specially, in case of reverse, we comfirmed a little leakage current when the reverse voltage is over 200V.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.164-167
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• 2002

The general dicing process cuts a semiconductor wafer to lengthwise and crosswise direction by using a rotating circular diamond blade. But inferior goods are made under the influence of several parameters in dicing process such as blade, wafer, cutting water and cutting conditions. Moreover we can not applicable this dicing method to GaN wafer, because the GaN wafer is harder than the other wafer such as SiO$_2$, GaAs, CaAsP, and AlCaAs. In order to overcome this problem, development of a new dicing process and determination of dicing parameters are necessary. This paper describes determination of several parameters - scribing depth, scribing force, scriber inclined angle, scribing speed, and factor for scriber replacement - for a new dicing machine using scriber.