• 한국결정학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.93-104
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• 2003

The crystals of group-Ⅲ nitride semiconductors with wurtzite structure exhibit a strong polarity. Especially, GaN has characteristics of different growth rate, anisotropic electrical and optical properties due to the polarity. In this work, GaN epilayer was grown and the polarities of the crystals were observed by the chemical wet etching and SP-EFM. GaN thin films were deposited on c-plane A1₂O₃ substrate under the variations of growth conditions by HVPE such as the deposition temperature of the buffer layer, the deposition time, the ratio of Group-V and Ⅲ and the deposition temperature of the film. The adquate results were obtained under the conditions of 500℃, 90 seconds, 1333 and 1080℃, respectively. It is observed that the GaN layer grown without the buffer layer has N-polarity and the GaN layer grown on the buffer layer has Ga-polarity. Fine crystal single particles were grown on c-plane A1₂O₃ and SiO₂, layer. The external shape of the crystal shows ｛10-11｝｛10-10｝(000-1) planes as expected in the PBC theory and anisotropic behavior along c-axis is obvious. As a result of etching on each plane, (000-1) and ｛10-11｝planes were etched strongly due to the N-polarity and ｛10-10｝ plane was not affected due to the non-polarity. In the case of the crystal grown on c-plane A1₂O₃, two types of crystals were grown. They were hexagonal pyramidal-shape with ｛10-11｝plane and hexagonal prism with basal plane. The latter might be grown by twin plane reentrant edge (TPRE) growth.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.154-158
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• 2001

The steps for the generation of very thin GaN films on ultrathin AlN/6H-SiC surface by alternating a pulsative supply (APS) of trimethyl gallium and NH3 gases have been examined by ASED-MO calculations. We postulate that the gallium cul ster was formed with the evaporation of CH4 gases via the decomposition of trimethyl gallium (TMG), dimethyl gallium (DMG), and monomethyl galluim (MMG). During the injection of NH3 gas into the reactor, the atomic hydrogens were produced from the thermal decomposition of NH3 molecule. These hydrogen gases activated the Ga-C bond cleavage. An energetically stable GaN nucleation site was formed via nitrogen incorporation into the layer of gallium cluster. The nitrogen atoms produced from the thermal degradation of NH3 were expected to incorporate into the edge of the gallium cluster since the galliums bind weakly to each other (0.19 eV). The structure was stabilized by 2.08 eV, as an adsorbed N atom incorporated into a tetrahedral site of the Ga cluster. This suggests that the adhesion of the initial layer can be reinforced by the incorporation of nitrogen atom through the formation of large grain boundary GaN crystals at the early stage of GaN film growth.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.526-531
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• 1998

HVPE(hydride vapor phase epitaxy)법으로 (111) $MgAl_2O_4$기판 위에 $10~240\mu{m}$두께의 GaN를 성장하고, GaN의 두께에 따 광학적 성질을 조사하였다. $MgAl_2O_4$기판 위에 성장된 GaN의 PL 특성은 결정성장온도에서 기판으로부터 Mg이 out-diffusion하여 auto-doping 됨으로써 불순물이 첨가된 GaN의 PL 특성을 나타내었다. 10K의 온도데서 측정된 PL 스펙트럼은 자유여기자와 속박여기자의 재결합천이에 의한 피크들과 불순물과 관련된 도너-억셉터 쌍 사이의 재결합 및 이의 포논 복제에 의한 발광으로 구성되었으며, 깊은 준위로부터의 발광은 나타나지 않았다. 중성 도너에 속박된 여기자 발광 에너지와 라만 $E_2$모드 주파수는 GaN의 두께가 증가함에 따라 지수 함수적으로 감소하였으며, GaN 내의 잔류 응력에 대하여 라만 E2 모드 주파수는$\Delta$$\omega$=3.93$\sigma$($cm^{-1}$/GPa)의 관계로 변화하였다.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제40권7호
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• pp.652-656
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• 2003

녹색발광을 하는 스피넬 구조의 ZnGa$_2$O$_4$:Mn 형광체박막을 산소분압비를 증착변수로 이용하여 rf 마그네트론 스퍼터링법으로 증착하였으며, 증착된 박막을 산화, 진공+질소 분위기에서 각각 열처리를 하였다. 증착시 산소분압비 및 열처리시 산소분위기가 형광체 박막의 성장 및 발광특성에 미치는 영향을 관찰하였다. 열처리시 박막의 산화를 막을수록 발광특성이 향상되는 것으로 나타났다.

• Current Applied Physics
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.1558-1563
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• 2018

We demonstrate improved surface pit and phase separation in thick InGaN grown on a GaN/Si (111) substrate, using plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy with an indium modulation technique. The formation of surface pit and compositional inhomogeneity in the InGaN epilayer are investigated using atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and temperature-dependent photoluminescence. Indium elemental mapping directly reveals that poor compositional homogeneity occurs near the pits. The indium-modulation epitaxy of InGaN minimizes the surface indium segregation, leading to the reduction in pit density and size. The phase separation in InGaN with a higher pit density is significantly suppressed, suggesting that the pit formation and the phase separation are correlated. We propose an indium migration model for the correlation between surface pit and phase separation in InGaN.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(2)
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• pp.213-216
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• 2001

The use of a thin film of indium between the ITO and the $n^{+}$-InP contact layers for InP/InGaAs HPTs was studied without degrading its excellent optical transmittance properties. ITO/$n^{+}$-InP ohmic contact was successfully achieved by the deposition of Indium and thermal annealing. The specific contact resistance of about 6.6$\times$$10^{-4}$$\Omega\textrm{cm}^2$ was measured by use of the transmission line method (TLM). However, as the thermal annealing was just performed to ITO/$n^{+}$-InP contact without the deposition of Indium between ITO and $n^{+}$-InP, it exhibited schottky characteristics. In the applications, the DC characteristics of InP/InGaAs HPTs with ITO emitter contacts was compared with that of InP/InGaAs HBTs with the opaque emitter contacts.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2010년도 제39회 하계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.157-157
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• 2010

Vertical-structure light-emitting diodes (V-LEDs) by laser lift-off (LLO) have been exploited for high-efficiency GaN-based LEDs of solid-state lightings. In V-LEDs, emitted light from active regions is reflected-up from reflective ohmic contacts on p-GaN. Therefore, silver (Ag) is very suitable for reflective contacts due to its high reflectance (>95%) and surface plasmon coupling to visible light emissions. In addition, low contact resistivity has been obtained from Ag-based ohmic contacts annealed in oxygen ambient. However, annealing in oxygen ambient causes Ag to be oxidized and/or agglomerated, leading to degradation in both electrical and optical properties. Therefore, preventing Ag from oxidation and/or agglomeration is a key aspect for high-performance V-LEDs. In this work, we demonstrate the enhanced thermal stability of Ag-based Ohmic contact to p-GaN by reducing the thermal compressive stress. The thermal compressive stress due to the large difference in CTE between GaN ($5.6{\times}10^{-6}/^{\circ}C$) and Ag ($18.9{\times}10^{-6}/^{\circ}C$) accelerate the diffusion of Ag atoms, leading to Ag agglomeration. Therefore, by increasing the additional residual tensile stress in Ag film, the thermal compressive stress could be reduced, resulting in the enhancement of Ag agglomeration resistance. We employ the thin Ni layer in Ag film to form Ni/Ag mutli-layer structure, because the lattice constant of NiO ($4.176\;{\AA}$ is larger than that of Ag ($4.086\;{\AA}$). High-resolution symmetric and asymmetric X-ray diffraction was used to measure the in-plane strain of Ag films. Due to the expansion of lattice constant by oxidation of Ni into NiO layer, Ag layer in Ni/Ag multi-layer structure was tensilely strained after annealing. Based on experimental results, it could be concluded that the reduction of thermal compressive stress by additional tensile stress in Ag film plays a critical role to enhance the thermal stability of Ag-based Ohmic contact to p-GaN.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권10호
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• pp.1306-1311
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 Ni cluster를 이용하여 제작된 나노 구조체를 반사방지막으로 활용하여 비가시광 UV 광통신용 신호 수신단에 적용 가능한 AlGaN 광다이오드의 성능을 개선하는 구조를 제안하였다. 반사방지막의 제작은 SiO2 위에 Ni cluster를 형성한 후 SiO2를 부분적으로 식각하는 방식으로 제조하였다. 반사방지막이 적용된 샘플은 반사방지막이 없는 구조의 샘플에 비해 상대적으로 작아진 반사도를 보였으며 나노구조체가 없는 SiO2 가 증착된 구조에 비해서 입사 광파장의 변화에 대해 균일한 반사도를 보였다. 최종적으로 2 nm 두께의 Ni 층을 열처리하여 제작된 Ni cluster를 이용한 반사방지막을 적용하여 UV 광다이오드를 제작하였고, 그 결과 SiO2 단일막을 가진 센서에 비해 240 nm에서 270 nm 파장영역에서 개선된 광반응도를 보였다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.37-41
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• 2010

The authors investigated the photoluminescence (PL) and the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) from an magnesium (Mg)-doped GaN thin film with a delta-doped layer. The regularly doped sample shows a PL peak at 2.776 eV for the as-grown sample, and the peak shifts to 2.904 eV and increases in intensity for the annealed sample. The delta-doped sample also shows the same PL peak as does the regularly doped sample. However, only the annealed delta-doped layer shows a sharp EPR with a small isotropic Lande g-factor, $g_{II}$, of 2.029. This resonance is attributed to the delta-doped layer, which forms a hole-bound Mg-N atomic structure instead of the $Mg_{Ga}-V_N$ defect complex, indicating that the delta-doped sample was not optically activated to form PL centers but was instead electrically activated to form a hole-bound state.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.691-697
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• 2000

자외선 검출소자로 응용될 수 있는 우수한 특성을 지진 $Al_xGa_{1-x}N$ 박막을 MOCVD 법으로 성장시킨 후 박막의 구조적인 특성을 조사하였다. 사파이어 기판 위에 성장된 $Al_xGa_{1-x}N$의 물리적인 특성을 평가하기 위해 Synchrotron Radiation XRD를 사용하였다. $Al_xGa_{1-x}N$의 두께가 커질수록 박막의 결정성은 증가하였으며 아래층은 Undoped GaN의 결정성과 성장된 $Al_xGa_{1-x}N$의 결정성이 서로 비례적인 상관관계를 가지고 있음을 알아내었다. Al 조성비는 막질에 크게 영향을 주었으며 조성비가 높아질수록 표면 형상은 매우 나빠졌다.