• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.12 no.4 s.37
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• pp.359-363
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• 2005

The organic insulation devices with MIM (metal-insulator-metal) structures as PVP gate insulation films were prepared for the application of organic thin film transistors (OTFT). The co-polymer organic insulation films were synthesized by using PVP(poly-4-vinylphenol) as solute and PGMEA (propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate) as solvent. The cross-linked PVP insulation films were also prepared by addition of poly (melamine-co-formaldehyde) as thermal hardener. The leakage current of the cross-linked PVP films was found to be about 300 pA with low current noise. and showed better property in electrical properties as compared with the co-polymer PVP insulation films. In addition, cross-linked PVP insulation films showed better surface morphology (roughness), showing about 0.11${\~}$0.18 nF in capacitance for all PVP film samples.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.24 no.8
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• pp.434-442
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• 2014

Serious environmental problems have been caused by the greenhouse effect due to carbon dioxide($CO_2$) or nitrogen oxides($NO_x$) generated by the use of fossil fuels, including oil and liquefied natural gas. Many countries, including our own, the United States, those of the European Union and other developed countries around the world; have shown growing interest in clean energy, and have been concentrating on the development of new energy-saving materials and devices. Typical non-fossil-fuel sources include solar cells, wind power, tidal power, nuclear power, and fuel cells. In particular, organic solar cells(OSCs) have relatively low power-conversion efficiency(PCE) in comparison with inorganic(silicon) based solar cells, compound semiconductor solar cells and the CIGS [$Cu(In_{1-x}Ga_x)Se_2$] thin film solar cells. Recently, organic cell efficiencies greater than 10 % have been obtained by means of the development of new organic semiconducting materials, which feature improvements in crystalline properties, as well as in the quantum-dot nano-structure of the active layers. In this paper, a brief overview of solar cells in general is presented. In particular, the current development status of the next-generation OSCs including their operation principle, device-manufacturing processes, and improvements in the PCE are described.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07d
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• pp.1563-1565
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• 1997

Electroluminescence(EL)devices based on organic thin layers have attracted lot of interests because of their possible application as large-area light-emitting display. One of the problems of such devices is lifetime of the cell, where the degradation of the cell is partially due to the crystalliyzation of organic layers. In large part, this problem can be solved by using a multilayer device structure prepared by vapor deposition technique. In this study, blue lightemitting multilayer organic electroluminescence devices were fabricated using Poly (9-vinyl-carbazole) (PVK) and 2-(4'-tert-butylpheny])-5-(4"-bis-phenyl)1,3,4-oxadiazole (PBD) as hole trasport and electron transport material, respectively, where tris(8-hydroxyquinolinate) aluminum (Alq3) was used as a luminescenct material. A cell structure of glass substrate/indume-tin-oxide(ITO)/PVK/$Alq_3$/PBD/Mg:In was employed.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.64-72
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• 2006

We demonstrated organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) based on the organic thin-film materials such as tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum $(Alq_3)$. The structure of OLEDs was vacuum deposited upon transparent and thin glass substrates pre-coated with a transparent, conducting indium tin oxide thin film. The luminance characteristics, current, capacitance, and dispersion factor for degraded OLEDs, which were made by various bias currents $(0.5mA\;{\leq}\;I_{Bias}\;{\leq}9mA)$, are studied. The current dependences of lifetime were divided at approximately 2mA, and they represented nearly linear behaviors but had different slopes in a logarithmic plot of lifetime versus bias current. With lighting OLEDs, the anomaly of capacitance, as shown in the CV curve, occurred because of two factors, polarization in the bulk of organic materials and the interface between the metal and organic layers. In decayed OLEDs that had lower bias currents of less than 2mA, it was found that the degradation of luminance was related to both the decrease of polarization and to the lowering of the injection barrier.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.996-998
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• 2004

In this study, we tested parylene as the passivation layer for flexible organic light emitting diodes (FOLEDs).Parylene as passivtion layer has several advantages which are good optical transparent and low moisture penetration. For more an effective passivation of FOLEDs, we suggest hybrid passivation layer with parylene and silicon oxide. We compared electrical properties and stability of the device with and without passivation layer. The lifetime of FOLED with hybrid passivation layer was increased over three times than that of non-passivated of FOLED.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.177-178
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• 2008

열처리 조건이 이종접합 유기태양전제(heterojunction organic photovoltaics)의 power conversion efficiency(PCE)에 미치는 영향에 대해 살펴보았다. 본 연구에서는 열처리 온도와 열처리 시간을 변수로 다양한 조건하에서 유기태양전지를 제작하고 AM1.5G 조건에서의 효율 변화를 관찰하였다. 열처리 온도는 $90^{\circ}C$에서 $170^{\circ}C$까지 변화시키며 태양전지의 특성변주를 측정하였으며, 유리 기판 상에 제작된 태양전지의 경우에 $150^{\circ}C$의 열처리 온도에서 가장 우수한 효율을 나타내었다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.998-1001
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• 2006

Highly stable organic electroluminescent devices have been achieved by treatment of thermal and electrical annealing. We investigate here the performance of theses devices at temperatures and pulse aging. We also demonstrate improved device stability due to thermal and electrical treatment, and the brightness decays at no treatment, thermal only, electrical only and thermal/electrical treatment were 86.6%, 89.5%, 93.0%, and 96.7%, respectively, in the after 150 h of operation driven with an initial luminance of $1,000\;cd/m^2$.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.1135-1138
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• 2006

By ink-jet printing method, organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) having soluble 6,13-bis (triisopropylsilylethynyl) pentacene (TIPS pentacene) as an active material were fabricated. The TIPS pentacene solution was made with chlorobenzene and anisole. The solutions were printed on poly (4-vinylphenol) (PVP) dielectric layers and source/drain electrodes by piezo-type heads for bottom contact OTFTs. The dielectric layers had untreated or HMDS-treated conditions. The chlorobenzene device showed the highest field effect mobility of $0.016\;cm^2/Vs$ and the anisole HMDS-treated device shows the highest $I_{on}/I_{off}$ ratio of $10^5$.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.1150-1153
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• 2006

In this paper, we investigated the effect of solvent on electrical properties of triisopropylsilyl (TIPS) pentacene organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). The TIPS pentacene was spin coated by using chlorobenzene, p-xylene, chloroform and toluene as solvent. Fabricated OTFT with chlorobenzene showed field-effect mobility of $0.01\;cm^2/V{\cdot}s$, on/off ratio $4.3{\times}10^3$ and threshold voltage of 5.5 V. In contrast, with chloroform the mobility was $5.8{\times}10^{-7}\;cm^2/Vs$, on/off ratio $1.1{\times}10^2$ and threshold voltage of 1.7 V.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.557-558
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• 2006

In this paper, the hysteresis characteristics by bias stress in organic thin film transistors using inkjet printing were investigated. Electron trapping increased threshold voltage for positive gate bias stress and hole trapping decreased threshold voltage for negative gate bias stress. From these phenomena, highly reproducible measurement method which minimized threshold voltage shift by choosing the proper range of gate voltage was suggested. Using this measurement method, we found that electron trapping as well as hole trapping had important influence on hysteresis characteristics.