• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.94-94
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• 2013

The Cr-Zr-N films have much improved mechanical properties and very smooth surface roughness. However, in spite of their outstanding properties, the Cr-Zr-N coatings revealed their mechanical properties deteriorated severely with increasing Zr content at $500^{\circ}C$ ecause of very rapid oxidation. Recently oxynitride films have been widely studied due to their excellent unique mechanical properties and oxidation resistance. In this work, CrZr-O-N films with various O contents were synthesized by unbalanced magnetron sputtering with Cr-Zr segment targets (Cr:Zr volume ratios is 1：1) and all films were prepared in a nitrogen rich mixture of N2 and O2. Characteristics such as crystalline structure, hardness and chemical composition as a function of the O content were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), microhardness testing system and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). Results showed that the thin films had dense and compact microstructure as O content in the films increases. The microstructure of the thin films consisted of mainly crystalline Cr (Zr)N phase and Cr2O3 phase. The maximum hardness and elastic modulus of the films was measured to be approximately 33.2 GPa and 280.6 GPa from the films with low content of O elements. Detailed experimental results will be presented.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.38 no.12
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• pp.1150-1154
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• 2001

Silicon oxynitride (SiON) thick films using the core layer of silica optical waveguide have been deposited on Si wafer by PECVD at low temperature (32$0^{\circ}C$) were obtained by decomposition of appropriate mixture of (SiH$_4$+$N_2$O+$N_2$) gaseous mixtures under RF power and SiH$_4$/($N_2$O+$N_2$) ratio deposition condition. Prism coupler measurements show that the refractive indices of SiON layers range from 1.4663 to 1.5496. A high SiH$_4$/($N_2$O+$N_2$) of 0.33 and deposition power of 150 W leads to deposition rates of up to 8.67 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$/h. With decreasing SiH$_4$/($N_2$O+$N_2$) ratio, the SiON layer become smooth from 41$\AA$ to 6$\AA$.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.740-748
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• 2001

출발원료 Si 분말의 입자크기를 다양하게 하여 질화반응 및 가스압 소결시 입자크기에 따른 산소함량의 차이에서 나타나는 상변화와 그로 인한 치밀화 거동, 미세구조 발달 및 기계적 특성에 대하여 고찰하였다. 145$0^{\circ}C$의 질화반응에서는 조대분말을 사용한 경우가 미세분말을 사용한 경우보다 높은 질화율을 나타냈으며, 각 분말크기에 따른 native oxide의 함량차에 따라 각기 다른 2차 결정상들이 검출되었다. 조대분말을 사용한 경우에는 제 2상의 석출로 인한 액상량의 부족으로 고온의 소결온도에서도 치밀화를 이루지 못해 낮은 강도값을 나타내었다. 한편, 미세분말을 사용한 경우에는 질화반응 후 석출된 제 2상이 소결온도가 증가함에 따라 용융되면서 치밀화를 이루어 높은 강도값을 나타내었다. 높은 강도값은 미세분말을 사용한 시편들에서 얻어졌으나 높은 파괴인성값은 상대적으로 큰 분말을 사용한 시편들에서 얻어졌는데, 이는 미세한 입자들로 구성된 기지상 내에 잘 발달된 주상정 입자들을 갖는 미세구조에 기인된 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.205-209
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• 2010

In the last (fourth) section, the discussion will entail a silicon-nitride/silicon-carbide nanocomposite, produced by pyrolysis of liquid polymer precursors, demonstrating one of the lowest creep rates reported so far in ceramics at the comparable temperature of $1400^{\circ}C$. This was first achieved by avoiding the oxynitride glass phase at the intergrain boundaries. One important factor in the processing of these nanocomposites was the use of the electrical field assisted sintering method.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.27-29
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• 2005

Using a generalized regression neural network, etch microtrenching was modeled. All neurons in the pattern layer were equipped with multi-factored spreads and their complex effects on the prediction performance were optimized by means of a genetic algorithm. For comparison, GRNN model was constructed in a conventional way. Comparison result revealed that GA-GRNN model was more accurate than GRNN model by about 30%. The microtrenching data were collected during the etching of silicon oxynitride film and the etch process was characterized by a statistical experimental design.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.31 no.11
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• pp.1362-1368
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• 1994

The hydrolysis of aluminum nitride was increased gradually with increasing reaction time from 1 hrs to 24 hrs and/or with decreasing the addition of the reaction water from 100 mι 100mι. Amorphous aluminum hydrate, formed in the beginning of the reaction, was transformed to bayerite and to pseudoboehmite at below and above 8$0^{\circ}C$, respectively. Aluminum oxynitride was synthesized by heating the partially hydrolyzed aluminum nitride at 1$700^{\circ}C$ for 4 hrs or at 175$0^{\circ}C$ for 30 min. AlON specimen with 1 wt% of Y2O3 that was molded and then sintered pressurelessly at 190$0^{\circ}C$, exhibits 98% of the theoretical density and a translucency of 68% in the visible ray zone.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1989.07a
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• pp.383-385
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• 1989

Nitrided oxides have been recently investigated for the application as a replacement of thermally grown $SiO_2$in the MIS devices. In this paper, thin oxides were nitrided in the $N_2$plasma ambient. After B - T stress is performed on the sample, it was noticed that the current density is increased. From the I - V measurement, dominant conduction mechanism of oxynitride films appeared to be Fowler - Nordheim emission. And also its breakdown strength is increased about 2.2 MV/cm compared with the oxide films.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.321-326
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• 2001

In the present study, $Si_3N_4-SiC$ ceramic composites that contained up to 20 wt% of dispersed SiC particles were fabricated via hot-pressing with an oxynitride glass. The microstructure, the mechanical properties, and the cutting performance of resulting ceramic composites were investigated. By fixing the composition as $Si_3N_4-20$ wt% SiC, the effect of sintering time on the microstructure, the mechanical properties, and the cutting performance were also investigated. For machining of gray cast i개n, the tool life increases with increasing the amount of SiC content in the composites; The tool life also increased with increasing the sintering time. The tool life of the home-made cutting tools was very close to that of commercial $Si_3N_4$ cutting tool. The superior cutting performance of $Si_3N_4-SiC$ ceramic cutting tools suggests the possibility to be a new ceramic tool material.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.44 no.4 s.299
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• pp.189-193
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• 2007

Effect of additive composition on fracture toughness of in situ-toughened $SiC-Si_3N_4$ composites was investigated for five different additive compositions. The highest toughness $(6.4MPa{\cdot}m^{1/2})\;in\;SiC-Si_3N_4$ composites investigated herein was obtained when an Y-Mg-Si-Al-O-N oxynitride glass was used as a sintering additive. The improvement in fracture toughness was produced by enhanced bridging and deflection by $Si_3N_4$ grains.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1988.07a
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• pp.785-787
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• 1988

The capacitance-voltage (C-V) chracteristics of thin nitrided thermal oxides prepared by rapid termal nitridation(RTN) have been studied. The threshold voltages were calculated using C-V measurement and found to vary as the concentration of acceptor and the thickness of oxynitride. When the Si02 films were annealed in NH3 a decrease in the positive oxide charge due to Si-N bond was observed. In the case applied frequency is high and low, the high frequency depletion capacitance was higher than that of low frequency, which is indicative of high frequency surface conduction by mobile surface charge.