• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2015년도 제49회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.204.2-204.2
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• 2015

산화물 반도체는 비정질임에도 불구하고 높은 이동도를 나타내며, 적은 누설 전류, 낮은 소비전력, 저온 공정 가능, 가시광선 영역에서 투명한 성질을 가지고 있다. 이와 같은 다양한 장점들로 인해 산화물 반도체를 이용한 트랜지스터는 차세대 플랫 패널 디스플레이 적용에 있어서 핵심 기술로 각광받고 있다. 한편, 소자의 크기가 점점 더 작아짐에 따라 고집적화에 따른 scaling down은 항상 언급되는 이슈이다. 이와 관련하여 소자의 높은 on current는 트랜지스터를 더 작게 구현할 수 있다는 가능성을 보여준다. 따라서 현재 소자의 on current를 높이기 위해서 소자의 구조를 변형하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 소자의 on current를 높이기 위한 방법으로 ITO buried layer를 이용한 산화물 반도체 pseudo 트랜지스터를 제작하였다. 먼저 채널을 형성하기 전에 ITO buried layer를 형성시켜준 후, 채널 영역으로서 InGaZnO (2:1:1)를 용액 공정을 이용하여 형성시켰다. 이어서 소자의 전기적 특성 향상을 위해 마이크로웨이브 열처리를 1800 W에서 2분간 실시하였다. 또한 대조군으로 ITO buried layer를 갖지 않는 소자를 같은 방법으로 제작하여 평가하였다. 그 결과 ITO buried later를 갖는 소자에서 대조군과 비교하여 높은 on current를 나타냄을 확인하였다. 이와 같은 결과는 낮은 저항의 ITO buried layer가 current path를 제공함과 동시에 더 두꺼운 채널 층을 형성시켜 높은 on current에 기여하기 때문이다. 결과적으로 ITO buried layer를 갖는 소자 구조를 이용함으로써 고성능 트랜지스터를 제작하여 소자를 집적화 함에 있어서 유망한 소자가 될 것으로 예상된다.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.5-10
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• 2011

A novel architecture and proprietary electronic inks were developed to provide disruptive digital-media solutions based on an electrokinetic technology platform. The flexible reflective electronic media (eMedia) was fabricated by imprinting three-dimensional microscale structures with a roll-to-roll manufacturing platform. The HP technologies enable the required attributes for eMedia, such as low power, transparency, print-quality color, continuous levels of gray, and lowcost scalability. Pixelation was also demonstrated by integrating with the prototype oxide thin-film transistor backplane, and the system architecture was further developed by stacking primary-colorant layers for color reflective-display application. The innovations described in this paper are currently being developed further for the eSkins, eSignage, and ePaper applications.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.115-116
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• 2012

The demand for flexible electronic systems such as wearable computers, E-paper, and flexible displays has increased due to their advantages of excellent portability, conformal contact with curved surfaces, light weight, and human friendly interfaces over present rigid electronic systems. This seminar introduces three recent progresses that can extend the application of high performance flexible inorganic electronics. The first part of this seminar will introduce a RRAM with a one transistor-one memristor (1T-1M) arrays on flexible substrates. Flexible memory is an essential part of electronics for data processing, storage, and radio frequency (RF) communication and thus a key element to realize such flexible electronic systems. Although several emerging memory technologies, including resistive switching memory, have been proposed, the cell-to-cell interference issue has to be overcome for flexible and high performance nonvolatile memory applications. The cell-to-cell interference between neighbouring memory cells occurs due to leakage current paths through adjacent low resistance state cells and induces not only unnecessary power consumption but also a misreading problem, a fatal obstacle in memory operation. To fabricate a fully functional flexible memory and prevent these unwanted effects, we integrated high performance flexible single crystal silicon transistors with an amorphous titanium oxide (a-TiO2) based memristor to control the logic state of memory. The $8{\times}8$ NOR type 1T-1M RRAM demonstrated the first random access memory operation on flexible substrates by controlling each memory unit cell independently. The second part of the seminar will discuss the flexible GaN LED on LCP substrates for implantable biosensor. Inorganic III-V light emitting diodes (LEDs) have superior characteristics, such as long-term stability, high efficiency, and strong brightness compared to conventional incandescent lamps and OLED. However, due to the brittle property of bulk inorganic semiconductor materials, III-V LED limits its applications in the field of high performance flexible electronics. This seminar introduces the first flexible and implantable GaN LED on plastic substrates that is transferred from bulk GaN on Si substrates. The superb properties of the flexible GaN thin film in terms of its wide band gap and high efficiency enable the dramatic extension of not only consumer electronic applications but also the biosensing scale. The flexible white LEDs are demonstrated for the feasibility of using a white light source for future flexible BLU devices. Finally a water-resist and a biocompatible PTFE-coated flexible LED biosensor can detect PSA at a detection limit of 1 ng/mL. These results show that the nitride-based flexible LED can be used as the future flexible display technology and a type of implantable LED biosensor for a therapy tool. The final part of this seminar will introduce a highly efficient and printable BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator on plastic substrates. Energy harvesting technologies converting external biomechanical energy sources (such as heart beat, blood flow, muscle stretching and animal movements) into electrical energy is recently a highly demanding issue in the materials science community. Herein, we describe procedure suitable for generating and printing a lead-free microstructured BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator on plastic substrates to overcome limitations appeared in conventional flexible ferroelectric devices. Flexible BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator was fabricated and the piezoelectric properties and mechanically stability of ferroelectric devices were characterized. From the results, we demonstrate the highly efficient and stable performance of BaTiO3 thin film nanogenerator.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.449-454
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• 2002

The use of a thin film of indium between the ITO and the $n^+-lnP$ contact layers for InP/InGaAs HPTs was studied without degrading its excellent optical transmittance properties. $ITO/n^+-lnP$ ohmic contact was successfully achieved by the deposition of indium and annealing. The specific contact resistance of about $6.6{\times}10^{-4}\Omega\textrm{cm}^2$ was measured by use of the transmission line method (TLM). However, as the thermal annealing was just performed to $ITO/n^+-lnP$ contact without the deposition of indium between ITO and $n^+-lnP$, it exhibited Schottky characteristics. In the applications, the DC characteristics of InP/InGaAs HPTs with ITO emitter contacts was compared with those of InP/InGaAs HBTs with the opaque emitter contacts.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2009년도 제38회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.151-151
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• 2010

In this paper, the electrically properties of nonvolatile memory (NVM) using multi-stacks gate insulators of oxide-nitride-oxynitride (ONOn) and active layer of the low temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) were investigated. From hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H), the LTPS thin films with high crystalline fraction of 96% and low surface's roughness of 1.28 nm were fabricated by the metal induced crystallization (MIC) with annealing conditions of $650^{\circ}C$ for 5 hours on glass substrates. The LTPS thin film transistor (TFT) or the NVM obtains a field effect mobility of ($\mu_{FE}$) $10\;cm^2/V{\cdot}s$, threshold voltage ($V_{TH}$) of -3.5V. The results demonstrated that the NVM has a memory window of 1.6 V with a programming and erasing (P/E) voltage of -14 V and 14 V in 1 ms. Moreover, retention properties of the memory was determined exceed 80% after 10 years. Therefore, the LTPS fabricated by the MIC became a potential material for NVM application which employed for the system integration of the panel display.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.24-29
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• 2000

We propose a simple method to control the crystallization depth of amorphous silicon (a-Si) deposited by PECVD or LPCVD during the excimer laser annealing (ELA). Employing the new method, we have formed poly-Si/a-Si double film and fabricated a new poly-Si TFT with vertical a-Si offsets between the poly-Si channel and the source/drain of TFT without any additional photo-lithography process. The maximum leakage current of the new poly-Si TFT decreased about 80% due to the highly resistive vertical a-Si offsets which reduce the peak electric field in drain depletion region and suppress electron-hole pair generation. In ON state, current flows spreading down through broad a-Si cross-section in the vertical a-Si offsets and the current density in the drain depletion region where large electric field is applied is reduced. The stability of poly-Si TFT has been improved noticeably by suppressing trap state generation in drain region which is caused by high current density and large electric field. For example, ON current of the new TFT decreased only 7% at a stress condition where ON current of conventional TFT decreased 89%.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제40회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.89-89
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• 2011

a-GIZO(비정질 Ga-In-Zn-O)박막은 유연하며 광학적으로 투명하고 높은 전자의 이동도를 갖는 반도체적 특성을 갖기 때문에 차세대 display분야에서 TFT(Thin-Film-Transistor)의 high speed active-matrix layer로써 각광을 받고 있다. 이 물질의 표면은 환경 및 표면처리에 매우 민감하며 [1,2], 이 표면에 metal이 증착되는 경우에도, 선행 연구에 의하면, 다양한 chemical state가 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 이것은 metal의 증착에 따라 metal과 a-GIZO 사이의 contact 저항이 달라짐을 의미한다. 우리는 a-GIZO 박막 위에 Au를 단계적으로 증착시키면서, Au coverage 증가에 따른 core-level과 valence에서의 x-ray photoelectron spectra의 변화를 살펴봄으로써 a-GIZO박막과 Au의 계면에서 일어나는 chemical state의 변화를 알 수 있었다. 특히, Au deposition의 전 처리과정으로써 Ne ion sputtering을 두 단계로 다르게 하여 a-GIZO의 표면환경에 따른 Au 증착의 영향을 살펴보았다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제40회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.72-72
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• 2011

Recently, Zinc oxide (ZnO) nano-structures have been received attractive attention because of their outstanding optical and electrical properties. It might be a promising material considered for applications to photonic and electronic devices such as ultraviolet light emitting diode, thin film transistor, and gas sensors. ZnO nano-structures can be typically synthesized by the VLS growth mode and self-assembly. In the VLS growth mode using various growth techniques, the noble metal catalysts such as Au and Sn were used. However, the growth of ZnO nano-structures on nano-crystalline Au seeds using radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering might be explained by the profile coating, i.e. the ZnO nano-structures were a morphological replica of Au seeds. Ga doped ZnO (ZnO:Ga) nano-structures using this concept were synthesized and characterized by XRD, AFM, SEM, and TEM. We found that surface morphology is drastically changed from initial islands to later sun-flower typed nano-structures. We will present the structural evolution of ZnO:Ga nano-structures with increasing the film thickness.

• 센서학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.173-179
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• 2001

현재 사용되어지는 반도체형 압력센서에는 압저항형과 용량형이 있다. 특히 반도체 마이크로 압력센서는 크기도 작고 신호처리회로를 동일칩 위에 집적화 할 수 있어 많은 관심을 모아왔다. 그러나 이러한 형태의 센서들은 제조공정이 복잡해서 생산성이 낮다. 기존의 센서들이 가지는 단점들을 극복하기 위해 새로운 형태의 FET형 압력센서(PSFET : pressure sensitive field effect transistor)를 제안하고 그 동작특성을 조사하였다. 압력 감지 물질은 PZT(Pb(Zr,Ti)$O_3$)를 사용하였다. RF 마그네트론 스퍼터링법을 사용하여 MOSFET의 게이트 절연막 위에 PZT 압전 박막을 증착하였다. PZT의 안정적 상태인 perovskite 구조를 형성하기 위하여 PbO 분위기에서 열처리하는 기법을 도입하였다. 제작된 PSFET의 감도는 0.38 mV/mmHg이다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.7-13
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• 1995

MOSFET의 전장효과와 압전물질의 압전효과를 결합한 새로운 FET형 반도체압력소자(PSFET : pressure sensitive field effect transistor)를 제조하고 동작 특성을 조사하였다. PSFET의 압전박막은 RF 마그네트론 스퍼터링으로 ZnO박막을 약 $5000{\AA}$ 게이트 위에 성막하였다. ZnO 압전박막의 최적 c-축 배향분극 구조를 얻기 위한 막 제조조건은 기판온도가 $300^{\circ}C$, RF 전력이 140W, 작업 분위기압은 5mtorr였으며, 플라즈마가스는 아르곤이었다. 제조된 PSFET는 적용된 압력범위($1{\times}10^{5}\;Pa{\sim}4{\times}10^{5}\;Pa$)에서 비록 감도는 낮으나 비교적 안정한 동작특성을 나타내었다.