• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.570-574
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• 2010

A diamond-like carbon (DLC) film deposited on a WC disk was investigated to improve disk wear resistance for injection molding of zirconia optical ferrule. The deposition of DLC films was performed using the filtered vacuum arc ion plating (FV-AIP) system with a graphite target. The coating processing was controlled with different deposition times and the other conditions for coating, such as input power, working pressure, substrate temperature, gas flow, and bias voltage, were fixed. The coating layers of DLC were characterized using FE-SEM, AFM, and Raman spectrometry; the mechanical properties were investigated with a scratch tester and a nano-indenter. The friction coefficient of the DLC coated on the WC was obtained using a pin-on-disk, according to the ASTM G163-99. The thickness of DLC films coated for 20 min. and 60 min. was about 750 nm and 300 nm, respectively. The surface roughness of DLC films coated for 60 min. was 5.9 nm. The Raman spectrum revealed that the G peak of DLC film was composed of $sp^3$ amorphous carbon bonds. The critical load (Lc) of DLC film obtained with the scratch tester was 14.6 N. The hardness and elastic modulus of DLC measured with the nano-indenter were 36.9 GPa and 585.5 GPa, respectively. The friction coefficient of DLC coated on WC decreased from 0.2 to 0.01. The wear property of DLC coated on WC was enhanced by a factor of 20.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.38.1-38.1
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• 2011

최근 중동정세의 변화와 유류 소비의 증가에 따른 유가의 급등과, 일본 지진사태로 일어난 원자력 발전의 안정성에 대한 문제로 인하여 안전하고 깨끗하게 에너지를 생산할 수 있는, 저탄소 녹색성장을 구현할 수 있는 신재생 에너지에 관련된 연구에 많은 관심이 모아지고 있다. 특히 태양광 에너지를 전기로 변환하여 사용하는 것은 최근 가장 큰 관심사 중 하나이다. 나노결정 Si (nc-Si) 박막은 이러한 광전자 산업 및 태양 에너지 분야에서의 폭넓은 응용 가능성으로 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 이러한 nc-Si 박막의 발광 특성은 비정질 박막내 Si 나노결정에 기인한 양자제한효과(quantum confinement effect)에 의한 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 증착시 기판에 AC (alternating current) Bias를 인가하여 PE CVD 기법으로 nc-Si:H 박막을 증착하였다. H2와 SiH4를 각기 45, 20 sccm으로, 100 W의 RF 전압을 주어 플라즈마를 생성하였으며, 60~900 Hz의 주파수 범위에서 60 V의 Bias를 인가하여 박막을 증착하였다. 이들 박막의 결정 크기, 결정화도, 나노 구조 및 광학적, 화학적, 기계적 특성을 XRD, FT-IR, Raman spectroscopey, AFM, PL, Nano indenter 등을 사용하여 조사하였으며, 기판에 인가된 전압과 주파수에 따른 결정크기와 박막의 광학적 특성과 상관관계를 고찰하였다. Bias 전압에 따라 ~1에서 ~4 nm의 크기를 갖는 나노 크리스탈이 생성 되었으며, 최고 10%의 나노결정 분율을 가지는 박막을 증착하였다. 이는 광학적 특성에도 영향을 주어 PL (photoluminescence)의 피크는 470~710 nm의 영역에서 관찰되었다. 또한 AC-Bias의 영향으로 박막 내 응력 해소에도 영향을 주어 박막내 존재하는 응력이 결정에 미치는 영향도 알 수 있었다. 이번 발표에선 증착 조건에 따른 박막의 나노구조 및 광학적 특성의 변화와 이들 간의 상관관계를 발표하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.21-27
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• 2007

Nickel bumps for ACF(anisotropic conductive film) flip chip application were fabricated by electroless and electro plating and their mechanical properties and impact reliability were examined through the compressive test, bump shear test and drop test. Stress-displacement curves were obtained from the load-displacement data in the compressive test using nano-indenter. Electroplated nickel bumps showed much lower elastic stress limits (70MPa) and elastic moduli ($7.8{\times}10^{-4}MPa/nm$) than electroless plated nickel bumps ($600-800MPa,\;9.7{\times}10^{-3}MPa/nm$). In the bump shear test, the electroless plated nickel bumps were deformed little by the test blade and bounded off from the pad at a low shear load, whereas the electroplated nickel bumps allowed large amount of plastic deformation and higher shear load. Both electroless and electro plated nickel bumps bonded by ACF flip chip method showed high impact reliability in the drop impact test.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.1321-1325
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• 2003

Nickel thin film is one of the most important materials used in micromachined structure. To measure the mechanical properties of electroplated nickel thin film, two techniques are adopted and compared quantitatively with. One is nano-indentation test to measure the elastic modulus. The other is tensile test to measure not only elastic modulus but also yield strength and plastic deformation, ultimate strength. To perform the tensile test, the test apparatus was constructed with linear guided servo motor for actuation, load cell for force measurement and dual microscope for strain measurement.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.47-54
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• 2003

In this study, to achieve the optimal conditions for mechanical hyper-fine pattern fabrication process, deformation behavior of the materials during indentation was studied with numerical method by ABAQUS S/W. Polymer (PMMA) and brittle materials (Si, Pyrex glass) were used as specimens, and forming conditions to reduce the elastic re cover and pile-up were proposed. The indenter was modeled a rigid surface. Minimum mesh sizes of specimens are 1 -l0nm. Comparison between the experimental data and numerical result demonstrated that the finite element approach is capable of reproducing the loading-unloading behavior of a nanoindentation test. The result of the investigation will be applied to the fabrication of the hyper-fine pattern.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.31-37
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• 2003

This paper presents a measurement system of mechanical property using dual servo system. There are many kinds of method to measure material properties such as tensile test, indention and bending test. It is highly required to measure the properties of nano-sized material and structure. However, It is need more accurate measurement system, more stable and frequency response than conventional test. In this paper, we designed the dual servo system for a measuring instrument The dual servo system consisting of a coarse stage and a fine motion stage with VCM and PZT is proposed. Mechanical mechanism is designed with the leaf spring type of flexure hinge joint. Lead compensator is applied to this control system, and is designed by PQ method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.182-185
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• 2005

Indentation pattern and line pattern were machined on borosilicate(Pyrex 7740 glass) surface using the combination of mechanical machining by $Nanoi-indenter\circledR$ XP and HF wet etching, and a etch-mask effect of the affected layer of the nano-scratched and indented Pyrex 7740 glass surface was investigated. In this study, effects of indentation and scratch process with etching time on the morphologies of the indented and scratched surfaces after isotropic etching were investigated from an angle of deformation energies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.344-345
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• 2015

Various concentration of copper was dopped in Fe-35%Ni thin sheet by electroforming and their electromagnetic, surface properties were determined. Microstructure observation by scanning electron microscopy revealed that the thin sheet had columnar grains with about 150 nm long. Phase analysis by X-ray diffractometry revealed that the alloy thin sheets were fine crystalline. The average surface roughnesses measured by atomic force microscopy (AFM) were about 14.38 nm. Nano hardnesses determined by tribo-nano indenter were 4.13 GPa. The surface resistances were 2.28 ohm/sq. The maximum magnetization, residual magnetization and coercive force depended on the copper concentration.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.57-62
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• 2003

Nano-bending method is presented to measure the Poisson's ratio of thinfilms for MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) applicaiton. The douvle-ring specimen is designed and fabricated based on the surface micromachining process to facilitate the measurement of the Poisson's ratio. The Poisson's ratio can be obtained through analyzing the linear load-displacement relationship of the double ring specimen subjected to nano-indenter loading. The Present nano-bending mehod is an in-situ measurement approach due to the compatibility to the surface micromachining process. The Poisson's ratio is locally obtained at the location of the double ring specimen with micro dimension. To validate the nano-bending method, the Poisson's ratio of LPCVD (Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition) poly-silicon with thickness of 2.3㎛ is investigated. Experimental results reveal that the Poisson's ratio of the poly-silicon film is 0.2569. The standard deviation of the nano-bending measurement for the stiffness of double ring specimens is 2.66%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.506-506
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• 2013

Ag (Silver) 박막은 낮은 전기 저항과 높은 가시광대의 반사율을 가져 T-OLED (Top Emission-Organic Light Emitting Diode)의 Anode로 각광 받고 있지만, 일반적인 Ag 박막의 일함수는 4.3 eV 이하로 T-OLED의 Anode로 사용하기에는 낮은 단점이 있다. 따라서 이를 극복하기 위한 방법으로 Ag 박막 표면을 산화시켜 일함수를 증가시키기 위한 연구가 진행중에 있다. 하지만 연구는 단순히 일함수를 증가시키는 것에 한정되어 있을 뿐 UV 처리된 박막의 nano-mechanics 특성에 대한 연구는 현재 전무하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 순도 99.9%의 Ag 타겟을 이용하여 rf magnetron sputter 장비를 통해 Ag 박막을 증착 하였고, 이후 UV (Ultra-Violet) 램프를 통해 시료 표면을 산화시켰다. 특히, 이 논문의 주요 관심사인 박막의 nano mechanics 특성 분석을 위하여 nano indenter와 SPM (Scanning Probe microscope) 장치를 활용 하였다. 실험 결과 후처리 시간이 3분 이하인 경우 박막이 비결정질의 silver oxide로 성장하는 것을 확인하였으며, 이때 박막의 면저항은 $0.16{\Omega}$/sq.에서 $0.55{\Omega}$/sq.로 증가하는 것을 관찰할 수 있었고, 3분 이후, 비결정질의 silver oxide가 conducting 특성을 갖는 silver oxide 결정을 이루면서 면저항이 $0.55{\Omega}$/sq.에서 $0.21{\Omega}$/sq.로 감소하는 것을 보았다. 또한 결정질의 박막이 자라는 3분이상의 박막에서 surface hardness는 급격하게 증가($3.57{\rightarrow}9.47$ GPa)했으며, 6분 이후에는 감소하는($9.47{\rightarrow}3.46$ GPa) 경향을 보였다. 이러한 경향은 silver oxide의 결정 크기가 Ag 결정 보다 크므로 상대적인 압축응력을 받아 표면 경도가 증가됐다. 처리시간 6분 이후, 경도 감소는 박막의 표면 물성이 불안정해졌기 때문이다.