• 한국재료학회지
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• 제30권11호
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• pp.615-620
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• 2020

Oxide semiconductor, represented by a-IGZO, has been commercialized in the market as active layer of TFTs of display backplanes due to its various advantages over a-Si. a-IGZO can be deposited at room temperature by RF magnetron sputtering process; however, additional thermal annealing above 300℃ is required to obtain good semiconducting properties and stability. These temperature are too high for common flexible substrates like PET, PEN, and PI. In this work, effects of microwave annealing time on IGZO thin film and associated thin-film transistors are demonstrated. As the microwave annealing time increases, the electrical properties of a-IGZO TFT improve to a degree similar to that during thermal annealing. Optimal microwave annealed IGZO TFT exhibits mobility, SS, V_th, and V_H of 6.45 ㎠/Vs, 0.17 V/dec, 1.53 V, and 0.47 V, respectively. PBS and NBS stability tests confirm that microwave annealing can effectively improve the interface between the dielectric and the active layer.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1333-1334
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• 2007

Al thin film was the most popular electrode in semiconductor and flat panel display world, because of its electrical conductivity, selectivity and easy to apply to thin film. However, Al thin films were not good to use on the bottom electrode about the crystalline growth of inorganic compound materials such as ZnO, AlN and GaN, because of its surface roughness and melting points. In this paper, we investigated Ar plasma surface treatment of Al thin film to enhance the surface roughness and electrical conductivity using the reactive ion etching system. Several process conditions such as RF power, working pressure and process time were controlled. In results, the surface roughness showed $15.53\;{\AA}$ when RF power was 100 W, working pressure was 50 mTorr and process time was 10 min. Also, we tried to deposit ZnO thin films on the each Al thin films, the upper conditions showed the best crystalline characteristics by x-ray diffraction.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.108-109
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• 2009

In this study we investigated the characteristics of GZOB thin film on $O_2$ plasma treated Polycarbonate substrate using DC magnetron sputtering method. In our experiments results, GZOB thin film on $O_2$ plasma treated Polycarbonate substrate showed low resistivity than As-grown GZOB thin film, and visible transmission of 85% with a thickness 400 nm. Compared with As-Grown the electrical properties of GZOB were relatively improved by $O_2$ plasma treated substrate. From these results, we could confirm the suitable GZOB thin films for transparent electrode.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제27권10호
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• pp.648-652
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• 2014

We have investigated the effect of electrical properties of amorphous InGaZnO thin film transistors (a-IGZO TFTs) by post thermal annealing in $O_2$ ambient. The post-annealed in $O_2$ ambient a-IGZOTFT is found to be more stable to be used for oxide-based TFT devices, and has better performance, such as the on/off current ratios, sub-threshold voltage gate swing, and, as well as reasonable threshold voltage, than others do. The interface trap density is controlled to achieve the optimum value of TFT transfer and output characteristics. The device performance is significantly affected by adjusting the annealing condition. This effect is closely related with the modulation annealing method by reducing the localized trapping carriers and defect centers at the interface or in the channel layer.

• 열처리공학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.140-143
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• 2011

In this work, Ga doped ZnO (GZO) films were prepared by radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering without intentional substrate heating on glass substrate and then the effect of the intense electron irradiation on structural and electrical properties and the NOx gas sensitivity were investigated. Although as deposited GZO films showed a diffraction peak for ZnO (002) in the XRD pattern, GZO films that electron irradiated at electron energy of 900 eV showed the higher intense diffraction peaks than that of the as deposited GZO films. The electrical property of the films are also influenced with electron's energy. As deposited GZO films showed the three times higher resistivity than that of the films irradiated at 900 eV In addition, the sensitivity for NOx gas is also increased with electron irradiation energy and the film sensor showed the proportionally increased gas sensitivity with NOx concentration. This approach is promising in gaining improvement in the performance of thin film gas sensors used for the detection of hazard gas phase.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.287.1-287.1
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• 2016

Three-dimensional (3-D) semiconductor nanoarchitectures, including nano- and micro- rods, pyramids, and disks, are emerging as one of the most promising elements for future optoelectronic devices. Since these 3-D semiconductor nanoarchitectures have many interesting unconventional properties, including the use of large light-emitting surface area and semipolar/nonpolar nano- or micro-facets, numerous studies reported on novel device applications of these 3-D nanoarchitectures. In particular, 3-D nanoarchitecture devices can have noticeably different current spreading characteristics compared with conventional thin film devices, due to their elaborate 3-D geometry. Utilizing this feature in a highly controlled manner, color-tunable light-emitting diodes (LEDs) were demonstrated by controlling the spatial distribution of current density over the multifaceted GaN LEDs. Meanwhile, for the fabrication of high brightness, single color emitting LEDs or laser diodes, uniform and high density of electrical current must be injected into the entire active layers of the nanoarchitecture devices. Here, we report on a new device structure to inject uniform and high density of electrical current through the 3-D semiconductor nanoarchitecture LEDs using metal core inside microtube LEDs. In this work, we report the fabrications and characteristics of metal-cored coaxial $GaN/In_xGa_{1-x}N$ microtube LEDs. For the fabrication of metal-cored microtube LEDs, $GaN/In_xGa_{1-x}N/ZnO$ coaxial microtube LED arrays grown on an n-GaN/c-Al2O3 substrate were lifted-off from the substrate by wet chemical etching of sacrificial ZnO microtubes and $SiO_2$ layer. The chemically lifted-off layer of LEDs were then stamped upside down on another supporting substrates. Subsequently, Ti/Au and indium tin oxide were deposited on the inner shells of microtubes, forming n-type electrodes of the metal-cored LEDs. The device characteristics were investigated measuring electroluminescence and current-voltage characteristic curves and analyzed by computational modeling of current spreading characteristics.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제39권10호
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• pp.935-942
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• 2002

Ga 첨가된 ZnO(GZO) 박막을 5.7 wt%의 $Ga_2O_3$를 ZnO에 첨가된 세라믹 GZO 타켓을 사용하여 직류 마그넷 스퍼터에 의해 실온의 유리 기판위에 제작했다. 각각 질량이 서로 다른 Ne, Ar, Kr 가스의 다양한 전압(total gas pressure)에서 제작한 GZO 박막에 대하여, 타켓의 에로젼 영역(B영역)과 비에로젼 영역(A영역)에 대향하는 박막 영역의 전기적 특성을 조사했다. 가스 종류와 관계없이 B 영역의 대향부분은 비에로젼 영역과 비교해서, 홀 이동도와 캐리어 밀도의 감소에 의해 상대적으로 높은 비저항값을 보였다. Ne 가스를 사용한 경우, GZO 박막은 가장 높은 비저항값을 나타낸 반면, Kr 가스를 사용하여 제작한 GZO 박막은 상대적으로 가장 낮은 비저항값을 보였다. GZO 박막의 전기적 특성은 박막의 결정성에 크게 의존하고 있음을 알았으며 박막의 전기적 특성과 결정성의 저하를 일으키는 인자로서 성장중의 박막의 결정성에 크게 의존하고 있음을 알았으며 박막의 전기적 특성과 결정성의 저하를 일으키는 인자로서 성장중의 박막표면에 충돌하여 박막에 손상을 입히는 고에너지 입자를 들 수 있다. Ne, Ar, Kr 가스의 반사 중성 원자들의 에너지를 Monete Carlo simulation에 의한 계산한 결과는 실험 결과와 잘 일치함을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 유기절연재료 전자세라믹 방전플라즈마 일렉트렛트 및 응용기술
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• pp.108-111
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• 2002

CIGS film has been fabricated on soda-lime glass, which is coated with Mo film. by multi-source evaporation process. The films has been prepared with thickness of 1.0 ${\mu}m$, 1.75${\mu}m$, 2.0${\mu}m$, 2.3${\mu}m$, and 3.0${\mu}m$. X-ray diffraction analysis with film thickness shows that CIGS films exhibit a strong (112) preferred orientation. Furthermore. CIGS films exhibited distinctly decreasing the full width of half-maximum and (112) preferred peak with film thickness. Also, The film's microstructure, such as the preferred orientation, the full width at half-maximum(FWHM), and the interplanar spacing were examined by X-ray diffraction. The preparation condition and the characteristics of the unit layers were as followings ; Mo back contact DC sputter, CIGS absorber layer : three-stage coevaporation, CdS buffer layer : chemical bath deposition, ZnO window layer : RF sputtering, $MgF_2$ antireflectance : E-gun evaporation

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제48권6호
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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.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.797-802
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 펄스 레이저 증착법으로 기판 온도에 따른 GZO(Ga₂O₃ : 5 wt %, ZnO : 95 wt %) 박막을 유리 기판에 증착하여 전기적 및 광학적 특성을 조사하였다. XRD측정을 통해 기판 온도에 무관하게 모든 GZO 박막이 c 축으로 우선 성장함을 확인할 수 있었고, 300℃ 에서 증착한 GZO 박막이 반가폭 0.38° 로 가장 우수한 결정성을 나타내었다. 기판 온도가 150에서 300℃ 로 증가함에 따라 GZO 박막의 비저항은 감소하는 경향을 보인 반면에 가시광 영역에서의 평균 투과도는 크게 영향을 받지 않는 것으로 조사되었다. 300℃ 에서 증착한 GZO 박막의 재료 평가 지수가 2.05×10⁴ Ω^-1·cm^-1 로 가장 우수한 값을 나타내었고, 이때 비저항과 가시광 영역에서의 평균 투과도는 각각 3.72 × 10^-4 Ω·cm 과 87.71 % 이었다. 본 연구를 통해 GZO 박막이 매우 유망한 투명 전도막 재료라는 것을 알 수 있었다.