• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.136-136
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• 2001

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.3796-3798
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• 2011

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.227-234
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• 1997

The stabilities of ITO, AZO, and SZO have been studied in hydrogen plasma. We used the ITO films produced from Corning LTD, and AZO, SZO films made by rf magnetron sputtering methods. These films were loaded in PECVD chamber and exposed to hydrogen plasma. For ITO, the optical transmittance was decreased as sample surface temperature and exposure time were increased during hydrogen plasma treatment. The transmittance of ITO dropped to 10~20% and its conductivity disappeared completely after exposing to hydrogen plasma for 30 minutes at $300^{\circ}C$. For AZO and SZO, there was no optical loss but the optical gap was widened due to the hydrogen incorporation into the film, indicating Burstein-Moss effect. Also the surface morphology of AZO and SZO was stable in hydrogen ambient but ITO showed rough surface due to the reduction of metal elements.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.299-299
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• 2013

Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) has widely been used as a transparent conductive oxide (TCE) for photovoltaic devices. Lately, flexibility of ITO becomes an issue as demand of flexible device increases. Several scientists have tried to substitute ITO to different materials such as conductive polymer, graphene, CNT, and metal nanowire because of ITO brittleness. Among the substitute materials, PEDOT:PSS has mostly paid attention because PEDOT:PSS has excellent flexibility and good conductivity. The conductivity of PEDOT:PSS increases up to 1000 S/cm with additives such as DMSO, EG, sorbitol, and so on. In our research group, we introduce a conductive polymer PEDOT:PSS as a buffer layer to improve not only flexibility but also conductivity. As PEDOT:PSS layer forms beneath ITO thin film (20 nm), sheet resistance decreases from $230{\Omega}$/${\Box}$ to $85{\Omega}$/${\Box}$ and crack initiation decreases from 4.5 mm to 3.5 mm as well. We have fabricated organic photovoltaic device and power conversion efficiencies using conventional ITO electrode and ITO/PEDOT:PSS hybrid electrode. The photovoltaic property such as power conversion efficiency for ITO/PEDOT:PSS hybrid electrode is comparable to the value obtained using conventional ITO electrode on glass substrate.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.353-358
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• 2016

In this paper, we have studied about the optimum fabrication condition of the printed Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) layers for the electrical resistance-type sensor application. We have investigated on the substrates surface treatments, mixing ratio of organic binder/ITO powder, and viscosity of the printing paste to determine the optimum condition of the screen printed ITO layer. Also, we found that the printing condition is closely related with the sensor performance. To know the feasibility of printed ITO layer as an electrical resistance-type sensor, we have fabricated the ITO sensors with a printed and sputtered ITO layers. The printed ITO films revealed $10^2$ times higher sensitivity than the sputtered ITO layer. Also, the sputtered ITO layer exhibited an operating temperature of $127^{\circ}C$ at the operating voltage of 5 V. While, in case of the printed ITO layer showed the operating temperature of $27.6^{\circ}C$ in high operating voltage of 30 V. We found that the printed ITO layer is suitable for the various sensor applications.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.5 no.8
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• pp.1045-1049
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• 1995

Thin films of Indium tin oxie (ITO) were prepared by the process of metal organic decomposition. Light transmittance and electrical transport properties of the films were studied with varying the firing temperature and SnO$_2$content. XRD study showed that tin substituted indium in the In$_2$O$_3$lattice. The resistivity had the minimum value of 2.5 ${\times}$ 10$\^$-3/$\Omega$-cm when the content of SnO$_2$was 9wt.%. This value was higher by a factor of 10 than the previously reported results. This difference was attributed to the low mobilities presumably caused by the fine grain size. The transmittance of ITO films in the visible range was over 90%, and the optical energy gap calculated from the absorption edge was in the range of 4.51 and 4.96eV.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.808-812
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• 2015

Highly optical transparent photoelectric devices were realized by using a transparent metal-oxide semiconductor heterojunction of p-type NiO and n-type ZnO. A functional template of ITO nanowires (NWs) was applied to this transparent heterojunction device to enlarge the light-reactive surface. The ITO NWs/n-ZnO/p-NiO heterojunction device provided a significant high rectification ratio of 275 with a considerably low reverse saturation current of 0.2 nA. The optical transparency was about 80% for visible wavelengths, however showed an excellent blocking UV light. The nanostructured transparent heterojunction devices were applied for UV photodetectors to show ultra fast photoresponses with a rise time of 8.3 mS and a fall time of 20 ms, respectively. We suggest this transparent and super-performing UV responser can practically applied in transparent electronics and smart window applications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.158-158
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• 2016

최근 유연정보전자소자의 개발이 대두되고 있다. 이러한 개발 동향에 맞춰 정보전자소자의 각 소재를 유연화하는 연구가 진행되고 있다. 이 중 ITO 기반의 기존 투명전극은 투명전극으로써는 매우 높은 성능을 보이지만, 유연성이 매우 낮기 때문에 대체 투명전극에 대한 연구가 필수적이다. 그래핀, 전도성 고분자, Oxide/metal/oxide, 금속나노와이어 등 다양한 유연 투명전극에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있으나 ITO 급의 면저항/투과도를 얻지 못하고 있다. 은나노와이어는 ITO 대체로 주목받는 투명전극 중에 면저항/투과도가 가장 ITO에 유사하면서, 유연성까지 지니고 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 반면 약 100 nm 직경의 1차원 나노와이어가 랜덤하게 분포되어 있기 때문에, 위치별로 균일성에 대한 이슈가 존재하고, 표면 조도가 매우 높기 때문에 (ITO ~ 1 nm, AgNW > 20 nm) OLED에 적용하기 어려운 문제가 존재한다. 또한 대면적 OLED에 적용하기에는 여전히 저항이 높은 문제가 존재한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 은나노와이어의 높은 저항 문제를 해결하기 위해, 마이크로 급의 미세금속배선을 보조배선으로 도입하였다. 이러한 보조배선을 통해 대면적 소자에도 전류가 잘 흐를 수 있고, 이러한 전류가 은 나노와이어를 통해 소자 전면적에 균일하게 도달하여, 대면적에서 균일한 발광을 하게 된다. 본 은나노와이어/금속보조배선 구조는 면저항 4 ohm/sqr., 투과도 90%를 달성하였고 이는 기존 ITO보다 우수한 수치이다. 더욱이, 유연성까지 함께 확보하고 있어 유연 전극으로써의 활용도 충분히 가능하다. 이를 활용해 OLED를 제작한 결과 밝기와 발광균일도가 기존의 ITO를 활용한 것보다 훨씬 높아짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.8
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• pp.12-16
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• 2002

It is confirmed that the ITO(Indium Tin Oxide) thin films can be etched by low-temperature plasma at atmospheric pressure. The etching happened deepest at a hydrogen flow rate of 4 sccm, and the etch rate was 120 /min. The etching speed corresponded to the H$\alpha$* emission intensity The etching mechanism of the ITO thin films is as follows; thin films were reduced by H$\alpha$*, and the metal compound residues were detached from the substrate by reacting on the CH* The etching was started after etching time of initial 50 sec and above the threshold temperature of 145$^{\circ}C$. The activation energy of 0.16 eV(3.75 Kcal/mole) was obtained from the Arrehenius plots.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.162-165
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• 2000

To investigate the effect of metal electrode in electroluminescent[EL] devices, we fabricated EL devices of ITO/P3HT/Al, ITO/P3HT/LiF/Al and ITO/P3HT/Mg:In structure. In current-voltage-light power characteristics, turn-on voltage of EL devices using LiF insulating layer and Mg:In(2.8V) metal electrode is lower than EL device using Al(4.2V). Besides the external quantum efficiency is improved also. The reason is related to carrier mobility and carrier injection, which would affect the hole-electron balance. In the device with Al electrode, holes injected from indium-tin-oxide[ITO] to poly(3-hexylthiophene)[P3HT] might reach the Al electrode without interacting with injected electrons, because the electron injection efficiency was very low for this electrode. Besides oxidation of the Al electrode is likely due to holes reaching the cathode without meeting injected electrons. Another possible reason for the higher EL efficiency may be the insulating layer playing the role of a tunneling barrier for holes to the Al electrode. In all EL devices, the orange-red light was clearly visible in a dark room. Maximum peak wavelength of EL spectrum emitted at 640nm in accordance with photon energy 1.9eV