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Growth of $CuGaSe_2$ single crystal thin film for solar cell development and its solar cell application (태양 전지용 $CuGaSe_2$ 단결정 박막 성장과 태양전지로의 응용)

  • Yun, Suk-Jin;Hong, Kwang-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.252-259
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    • 2005
  • Single crystal $CuGaSe_2$ layers were grown on thoroughly etched semi-insulating CaAs(100) substrate at $450^{\circ}C$ with hot wall epitaxy (HWE) system by evaporating $CuGaSe_2$ source at $610^{\circ}C$. The crystalline structure of the single crystal thin films was investigated by the photoluminescence (PL) and double crystal X-ray diffraction (DCXD). The carrier density and mobility of single crystal $CuGaSe_2$ thin films measured with Hall effect by Van der Pauw method are $4.87{\times}10^{17}cm^{-3}$ and $129cm^2/V{\cdot}s$ at 293 K, respectively. The temperature dependence of the energy band gap of the $CuGaSe_2$ obtained from the absorption spectra was well described by the Varshni's relation, $E_g(T)=1.7998eV-(8.7489{\times}10^{-4}eV/K)T^2/(T+335K)$. The voltage, current density of maxiumun power, fill factor, and conversion, efficiency of $n-CdS/p-CuGaSe_2$, heterojunction solar cells under $80mW/cm^2$ illumination were found to be 0.41 V, $21.8mA/cm^2$, 0.75 and 11.17%, respectively.

Fabrication and Electrical Properties of GaN M IS Structures using Aluminum Oxide Thin Film (산화알루미늄 박막을 이용한 GaN MIS 구조의 제작 및 전기적 특성)

  • Yun, Hyeong-Seon;Jeong, Sang-Hyun;Kwak, No-Won;Kim, Ka-Lam;Lee, Woo-Seok;Kim, Kwang-Ho;Seo, Ju-Ok
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.329-334
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    • 2008
  • Aluminum oxide films were deposited on n-type GaN substrates by RF magnetron sputtering technique for MIS devices applications using optimized conditions, Well-behaved C - V characteristics were obtained measured in MIS capacitors structures. The calculated interface trap density measured at $300^{\circ}C$ was about $9\times10^{10}/cm^2$ eV in the upper bandgap. The gate leakage current densities of the MIS structures were about $10^{-9}A/cm^2$ and about $10^{-4}A/cm^2$ measured at room temperature and at $300^{\circ}C$ for $a{\pm}1MV/cm$, respectively. These results indicate that the interface property of this structure is enough quality to MIS devices applications.

Study of Localized Surface Plasmon Polariton Effect on Radiative Decay Rate of InGaN/GaN Pyramid Structures

  • Gong, Su-Hyun;Ko, Young-Ho;Kim, Je-Hyung;Jin, Li-Hua;Kim, Joo-Sung;Kim, Taek;Cho, Yong-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.08a
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    • pp.184-184
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    • 2012
  • Recently, InGaN/GaN multi-quantum well grown on GaN pyramid structures have attracted much attention due to their hybrid characteristics of quantum well, quantum wire, and quantum dot. This gives us broad band emission which will be useful for phosphor-free white light emitting diode. On the other hand, by using quantum dot emission on top of the pyramid, site selective single photon source could be realized. However, these structures still have several limitations for the single photon source. For instance, the quantum efficiency of quantum dot emission should be improved further. As detection systems have limited numerical aperture, collection efficiency is also important issue. It has been known that micro-cavities can be utilized to modify the radiative decay rate and to control the radiation pattern of quantum dot. Researchers have also been interested in nano-cavities using localized surface plasmon. Although the plasmonic cavities have small quality factor due to high loss of metal, it could have small mode volume because plasmonic wavelength is much smaller than the wavelength in the dielectric cavities. In this work, we used localized surface plasmon to improve efficiency of InGaN qunatum dot as a single photon emitter. We could easily get the localized surface plasmon mode after deposit the metal thin film because lnGaN/GaN multi quantum well has the pyramidal geometry. With numerical simulation (i.e., Finite Difference Time Domain method), we observed highly enhanced decay rate and modified radiation pattern. To confirm these localized surface plasmon effect experimentally, we deposited metal thin films on InGaN/GaN pyramid structures using e-beam deposition. Then, photoluminescence and time-resolved photoluminescence were carried out to measure the improvement of radiative decay rate (Purcell factor). By carrying out cathodoluminescence (CL) experiments, spatial-resolved CL images could also be obtained. As we mentioned before, collection efficiency is also important issue to make an efficient single photon emitter. To confirm the radiation pattern of quantum dot, Fourier optics system was used to capture the angular property of emission. We believe that highly focused localized surface plasmon around site-selective InGaN quantum dot could be a feasible single photon emitter.

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Polarity Control of Wurtzite Crystal by Interface Engineering (계면공학에 기초한 우르차이트 결정의 극성 조절)

  • Hong, Soon-Ku;Suzuki, Takuma;;Cho, Myung-Whan;Yao, Takafumi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.95-96
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    • 2005
  • The general method and mechanism for the polarity control of heteroepitaxial wurtzite films, such as ZnO and GaN, by interface engineering via plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy are addressed. We proposed the principle and method controlling the crystal polarity of ZnO on GaN and GaN on ZnO. The crystal polarity of the lower film was maintained by forming a heterointerfce without any interface layer between the upper and the lower layers. However the crystal polarity could be changed by forming the heterointerface with the interface layer having an inversion center. The principle and method suggested here give us a promising tool to fabricate polarity inverted heterostructures, which applicable to invent novel heterostructures and devices.

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Optimization of TEM Sample Preparation for the Microstructural Analysis of Nitride Semiconductors (질화물 반도체의 미세구조 분석을 위한 최적의 TEM 시편 준비법)

  • Cho, Hyung-Koun;Kim, Dong-Chan
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.598-605
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    • 2003
  • The optimized conditions for the cross-sectional TEM sample preparation using tripod polisher and ion-beam miller was confirmed by AFM and TEM. For the TEM observation of interfaces including InGaN layers like InGaN/GaN MQW structures, the sample preparation by the only tripod polishing was useful due to the reduction of artifacts. On the other hand, in case of the thick nitride films like ELO, PE, and superlattice, both tripod polishing and controlled ion-beam milling were required to improve the reproducibility. As a result, the ion-beam milling with the $60^{\circ}$modulation showed the minimum height difference between film and sapphire interface and the ion-beam milling of the $80^{\circ}$modulation showed the broad observable width.

Effects of Film Thickness and Annealing Temperature on the Specific Contact Resistivity and the Transmittance of the IZO Layers Grown on p-GaN by Roll-to-Roll Sputtering (p-GaN 위에 Roll-to-Roll sputter로 성장된 IZO의 접촉 비저항 및 투과도에 대한 박막 두께와 열처리 온도의 영향)

  • Kim, Jun Young;Kim, Jae-Kwan;Han, Seung-Cheol;Kim, Han Ki;Lee, Ji-Myon
    • Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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    • v.48 no.6
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    • pp.565-569
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    • 2010
  • We report on the characteristics of indium-oxide-doped ZnO (IZO) ohmic contact to p-GaN. The IZO ohmic contact layer was deposited on p-GaN by a Roll-to-Roll (RTR) sputter method. IZO contact film with a thickness of 360, 230 and 100 nm yielded an ohmic contact resistance of $4.70{\times}10^{-4}$, $5.95{\times}10^{-2}$, $4.85{\times}10^{-1}\;{\Omega}cm^{2}$ on p-GaN when annealed at $600{^{\circ}C}$ for 1 min under a nitrogen ambient, respectively. While the transmittance of IZO film with a thickness of 360 nm slightly increased in the wavelength range of 380-800 nm after annealing, the transmittance rapidly increased up to 80% after annealing at $600{^{\circ}C}$ in the wavelength range of 380~430 nm because the crystallization of IZO film and created Ga vacancies near the p-GaN surface region were affected by the annealing. These results indicate that ohmic contact resistance and transmittance of the IZO films improved.

The Passivation of GaAs Surface by Laser CVD

  • Sung, Yung-Kwon;Song, Jeong-Myeon;Moon, Byung-Moo;Rhie, Dong-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.16 no.12S
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    • pp.1242-1247
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    • 2003
  • In order to passivate the GaAs surface, silicon-nitride films were fabricated by using laser CVD method. SiH$_4$ and NH$_3$ were used to obtain SiN films in the range of 100∼300$^{\circ}C$ on p-type (100) GaAs substrate. To determine interface characteristics of the metal-insulator-GaAs structure, electrical measurements were performed such as C-V curves and deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS). The results show that the hysteresis was reduced and interface trap density was lowered to 1,012 ∼ 1,013 at 100 ∼ 200$^{\circ}C$. According to the study of surface leakage current, the passivated CaAs has less leakage current compared to non-passivated substrate.

The passivation of III-V compound semiconductor surface by laser CVD (Laser CVD법에 의한 III-V화합물 반도체 표면의 불활성화)

  • Lee, H.S.;Lee, K.S.;Cho, T.H.;Huh, Y.J.;Kim, S.J.;Sung, Y.K.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1993.07b
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    • pp.1274-1276
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    • 1993
  • The silicon-nitride films formed by laser CVD method are used for passivating GaAs surfaces. The electrical Properties of metal-insulator-GaAs structure are studied to determined the interfacial characteristics by C-V curves and deep level transient spectroscopy(DLTS). The SiN films are photolysisly deposited from $SiH_4\;and\;NH_3$ in the range of $100^{\circ}C-300^{\circ}C$ on P type, (100) GaAs. The hysteresis is reduced and interface trap density is lowered to $10^{12}-10^{13}$ at $100^{\circ}C-200^{\circ}C$. The surface leakage current is studied too. The passivated GaAs have a little leakage current compared to non passivated GaAs.

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Fabrication and Characteristics of NiO-AZO Thin Films Deposited by Co-sputtering System for GaN LED Transparent Contact Electrode (코스퍼터링법을 이용한 GaN LED 투명접촉전극용 NiO-AZO 박막의 제조 및 물성평가)

  • Park, Hee-Woo;Bang, Joon-Ho;Hui, Kwun Nam;Song, Pung-Keun
    • Journal of Surface Science and Engineering
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    • v.44 no.6
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    • pp.250-254
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    • 2011
  • NiO-AZO films were deposited on glass substrate by DC and RF magnetron co-sputtering system in pure $O_2$ gas without substrate heating during deposition. In order to control the chemical composition of the film, NiO target was supplied with constant RF power of 150 W and AZO target (doped with 2.98 at% aluminum) with DC power varied between 40 W to 80 W. Deposited NiO-AZO films were evaluated by structural and chemical analysis. With introducing AZO, XRD and XPS data reveal that NiO were supplied with more oxygen. these results could be strongly affected by the higher bond enthalpy of NiO compared to ZnO, which makes it possible for NiO to obtain excessive oxygen from ZnO.