• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.1013-1019
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• 2007

[ $150^{\circ}C$ ]의 저온에서 플라즈마 화학기상증착 (PECVD) 방법으로 비정질 규소 및 질화규소 박막을 성막 하였다. 비정질 질화규소 박막은 소스 가스의 수소 분율을 증가시킴에 따라 굴절률이 1.9에 접근하고 질소-수소 결합이 주도적이 되어 고온성막한 박막에 버금가는 특성을 보였다. 비정질 규소 박막은 소스 가스의 수소 분율을 높임에 따라 굴절률과 광학적 금지대역의 크기가 고온 성막된 박막의 값인 4.2와 1.8 eV에 근접한 값을 가지게 되었으며, $[Si-H]/([Si-H]+[Si-H_2])$의 값이 증가하여 양질의 박막특성을 얻을 수 있었다. RF 전력 및 증착 압력에 대해서 낮은 전력과 작은 압력에서 양질의 박막을 얻을 수 있었으며, 박막 특성은 RF 전력 보다는 증착 압력의 변화에 대해서 좀더 큰 의존성을 보였다. 박막트랜지스터 제작에 적용 가능한 양질의 비정질 규소 및 질화규소 박막을 저온에서 얻기 위해서는 소스 가스의 수소 분율을 높게 하는 것이 중요한 공통 인자로 파악되었다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권10호
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• pp.1694-1696
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• 2016

Present thin film solar cells with hydrogenated amorphous silicon oxide (a-SiO:H) as an absorber suffer from low fill factor(FF) of 61~64 [%] in spite of its benefits related to high open circuit voltage ($V_{oc}$). Since degraded quality of a-SiO:H absorber by alloying with oxygen can affect the FF, we aimed to achieve high photosensitivity by minimizing $CO_2$ gas addition. Improving optical gap($E_{opt}$) has been attained by strong hydrogen dilution combined with lowering substrate temperature down to 100 [$^{\circ}C$]. Small amount of the $CO_2$ was added in order to disturb microcrystalline formation by high hydrogen dilution. The developed a-SiO:H has high photosensitivity (${\sim}2{\times}10^5$) and high $E_{opt}$ of 1.85 [eV], which contributed to attain remarkable FF of 74 [%] and high $V_{oc}$ (>1 [V]). As a result, high power conversion efficiency of 7.18 [%] was demonstrated by using very thin absorber layer of only 100 [nm], even though we processed all experiment at extremely low temperature of 100 [$^{\circ}C$].

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.476-479
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• 2000

In this study, mesh-type PECVD system was suggested to minimize the hydrogen concentration. The main structural difference between the triode system and a conventional system is that a mesh was attached to the substrate holding electrode. We investigated several conditions to compare with conventional PECVD. The main effect of mesh was to minimize the substrate damage by ion bombardment and to enhance the surface reaction to induce hydrogen desorption. It was also found that hydrogen concentration decreased but deposition rate increased as increasing applied dias. Applied DC bias enhanced sputtering process. Intense ion bombardment causes the weakly bonded hydrogen or hydrogen-containing species to leave the growing film and increased adatom mobility. Furthermore, addition of hydrogen gas enhance the surface diffusion of adatom. The structural properties of poly-Si films were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy(SEM).

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2005년도 International Meeting on Information Displayvol.II
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• pp.1116-1118
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• 2005

We studied laser crystallization of amorphous silicon films prepared at ultra low temperatures ($<150^{\circ}C$). Amorphous silicon films having a low content of hydrogen were deposited by using catalytic chemical vapor deposition method. Influence of process parameters on the hydrogen content was investigated. Laser crystallization was performed dispensing with the preliminary dehydrogenation process. Crystallization took place at a laser energy density value as low as $70\;mJ/cm^2$, and the grain size increased with increasing the laser energy. The ELA crystallization of Catalytic CVD a-Si film is a promising candidate for Poly-Si TFT in active-matrix flexible display on plastic substrates.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2000

poly-Si TR는 LCD의 고해상도화, 고집적화에 따라 그 요구가 점점 필요해지고 있다. 그러나 poly-Si의 제조를 위해 주로 사용하는 레이저 결정화 방법은 박막 내에 함유된 수소 때문에 별도의 탈수소 공정을 행하는 실정이다. 막내의 수소는 결정화 시 eruption과 void등의 생성으로 poly Si의 막 특성뿐 아니라 소자 특성에도 나쁜 영향을 미치게 된다. 본 연구에서는 전술한 문제점을 제어하기 위해 mesh-type PECVD를 제안하고 저수소화 박막 증착에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 증착된 비정질 Si 박막은 $300^{\circ}C$ 이하의 온도에서도 $1 at\%$ 이하의 낮은 수소 함유량을 가진 것으로 조사되었다. mesh에 의한 이런 결과는 막내에 함유되는 수소를 효과적으로 제어하고 별도의 탈수소 공정을 배제하여 공정 감소의 효과를 갖는 장점이 있다. 또한 제조된 비정질 Si을 이용하여 XeCl 레이저 결정화하여 그 거동을 조사하였는데 일반적인 거동과 달리 매우 넓은 공정 영역을 갖고 있는 것을 확인할 수 있었다 또한, 수소에 의한 표면 거칠기 문제는 발견되지 않았으며 비교적 조대하고 균일한 결정립 분포를 하는 것으로 조사되었다 본 결과는 레이저 결정화 공정의 안정성에 기여하고 소자 특성 향상에도 기여할 것으로 기대된다

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.34-41
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• 1979

도푸안된 n- 또는 P-형 규소표적으로부터 알곤과 사이렌(S1H4) 혼합기체 속에서 스펏터한 결과를 보고한다. 도푸된 박막이 생성되었다. 그러나 도푸효율을 극히 낮았다. 이것은 도판트 원자가 그들 본래의 가(가)에 만족하고 전기적으로 활성이 아니라고 할 수 있겠다. 적외선흡수분광법으로 박막내에 수소가 결합되어 있음을 알 수 있었다. 박막내에서 수소의 결합과 전기적성질사이에 어떤 관계가 있다고는 밝혀지지 않았다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2005년도 International Meeting on Information Displayvol.I
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• pp.785-789
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• 2005

Low temperature deposition of silicon and silicon nitride films by catalytic CVD technique was studied for application to thin film transistors on plastic substrates for flexible AMOLEDs. The substrate temperature initially held at room temperature, and was controlled successfully below $150^{\circ}C$ during the entire deposition process. Amorphous silicon films having good adhesion, good surface morphology and sufficiently low content of atomic hydrogen were obtained and could be successfully crystallized using excimer laser without a prior dehydrogenation step. $SiN_x$ films showed a good refractive index, a high deposition rate, a moderate breakdown field and a dielectric constant. The Cat-CVD silicon and silicon nitride films can be good candidates for fabricating thin films transistors on plastic substrates to drive active-matrix organic light emitting display.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제4권S1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 1995

Various silicon films were prepared by thermal- and UV photo-CVD processes. The reactants were SiH4, Si2H6, SiH2F2, SIF4, and H2. Silicon films grown at temperatures below $500 ^{\circ}C$ were either amorphous or crystalline depending on the process conditions, and the growth rates ranged between 5 and $80\AA$min. Crystallinity of the film was improved even at $250^{\circ}C$ when the film was grown by photo-CVD using fluoro-silanes as the reactants. Analysis of the film by RBS, SIMS, XRD, and ex-situ IR indicated that substrate surface was contaminated by oxygen and other impurities when the reactants contained neither hydrogen nor fluoro-silnanes, but when fluoro-silanes were used as reactants the silicon film was highly crystalline.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2015년도 제49회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.236.1-236.1
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• 2015

The surface morphology of front transparent conductive oxide (TCO) films is very important to achieve high current density in amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin film solar cells since it can scatter the light in a better way. In this study, we present the low cost hydrothermal deposited uniform zinc oxide (ZnO) nano-flower structure with various aspect ratios for a-Si thin film solar cells. The ZnO nano-flower structures with various aspect ratios were grown on the RF magnetron sputtered AZO films. The diameters and length of the ZnO nano-flowers was controlled by varying the annealing time. The length of ZnO nano-flowers were varied from 400 nm to $2{\mu}m$ while diameter was kept higher than 200 nm to obtain different aspect ratios. The ZnO nano-flowers with higher surface area as compared to conventional ZnO nano structure are preferred for the better light scattering. The conductivity and crystallinity of ZnO nano-flowers can be enhanced by annealing in hydrogen atmosphere at 350 oC. The vertical aligned ZnO nano-flowers showed higher haze ratio as compared to the commercially available FTO films. We also observed that the scattering in the longer wavelength region was favored for the high aspect ratio of ZnO nano-flowers. Therefore, we proposed low cost and vertically aligned ZnO nano-flowers for the high performance of thin film solar cells.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 유기절연재료 전자세라믹 방전플라즈마 일렉트렛트 및 응용기술
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• pp.83-87
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• 2002

Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposited (PECVD) silicon nitride ($SiN_X$) is widely used as a gate dielectric material for the hydrogenated amorphous silicon(a-Si:H) thin film transistors (TFT's). We investigated $SiN_X$ films were deposited PECVD at low temperature ($300^{\circ}C$). The reaction gases were used pure nitrogen and a helium diluted of silane gas(20% $SiH_4$, 80% He). Experimental investigations were carried out with the variation of $N_2/SiH_4$ flow ratios from 3 to 50 and the rf power of 200 W. This article presents the $SiN_X$ gate dielectric studies in terms of deposition rate, hydrogen content, etch rate and C-V, leakage current density characteristics for the gate dielectric layer of thin film transistor applications. Electrical properties were analyzed through high frequency (1MHz) C-V and current-voltage (I-V) measurements. The thickness and the refractive index on the films were measured by ellipsometry and chemical bonds were determined by using an FT-IR equipment.