• Journal of Surface Science and Engineering
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.122-128
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• 2002

This study was conducted to synthesize the diamond like carbon films by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The effects of gas composition on growth and mechanical properties of the films were investigated. A little amount of hydrogen or oxygen were added to base gas mixture of methane and argon. Methane dissociation and diamond like carbon nucleation were enhanced by installing negatively bias grid near substrate. The deposited films were indentified as hard diamond like carbon films by micro-Raman spectroscopy. The surface and fractured cross section of the films which were observed by scanning electron microscopy showed that film growth is very slow as about 0.3$\mu\textrm{m}$/hour, and relatively uniform with hydrogen addition. Vickers hardness of tungsten carbide (WC) cutting tool increased from about 1000 to 1600~1800 by deposition of DLC film, that of commercial TiN coated tool was about 1270. In cutting test of aluminum 6061 alloy, DLC coated cutting tool showed 1/3 or lower crater and flank wear than TiN coated or non-coated WC cutting tools.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.113-113
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• 2012

플라즈마 내에서 발생하는 입자는 플라즈마 내 전기적 및 화학적 특성으로 인해 응집이 적고 균일한 특성을 가진다. 이에 따라 도포성이 좋으며 낮은 응력을 가지는 박막의 형성이 가능하다. 이러한 특성을 가지는 나노입자는 메모리, 고효율 박막형 태양전지 등에 이용될 수 있다. 특히, PECVD (Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition) 공정 중 플라즈마가 켜져있는 동안 수소 가스를 펄스형태로 추가 주입하는 방법은 실리콘 이온 사이의 결합을 통한 표면 성장을 일부 방해하여 이를 통해 최종적으로 생성되는 실리콘 입자의 크기제어를 가능하게 한다. 이러한 과정으로 PECVD내에서 생성된 입자의 입경 분포는 기존의 경우 공정 중 포집을 한 후 전자현미경을 이용하였지만 실시간 측정이 불가능한 한계가 있었고, 레이저를 이용한 실시간 측정은 그 측정범위의 한계로 인해 적용에 어려움이 있었다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 저압에서 실시간으로 나노입자 크기분포 측정이 가능한 PBMS (particle beam mass spectrometer)를 이용하여 PECVD 내에서 수소가스 펄스를 이용하여 발생되는 실리콘 입자를 공정 변수별로 측정하여 각 변수에 따른 입자 생성 경향을 분석하였다. 실리콘 나노 입자의 측정은 PBMS 장비의 전단 부분을 PECVD 장치 내부에 연결하여 진행하였다. 수소 가스 펄스를 이용한 실리콘 입자 생성의 주요 변수는 RF pulse, $H_2$ pulse, 가스 유량 (Ar, $SiH_4$, $H_2$), Plasma power, 공정 압력 등이 있다. 이와 같이 주어진 변수들의 제어를 통해 생성된 나노입자의 입경분포를 PBMS에서 실시간으로 측정하고, 동일한 조건에서 포집한 입자를 TEM 분석 결과와 비교하였다. 측정 결과 각각의 변수에 대하여 생성되는 입자의 크기분포 경향을 얻을 수 있었으며, 이는 추후 생성 입자의 응용 분야에 적합한 크기 분포 특성을 가지는 실리콘 입자를 제조하기 위한 조건을 정립하는데 중요한 역할을 할 것을 기대할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.11-17
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• 2013

Silicon nitride($SiN_x:H$) deposited by radio frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition(RF-PECVD) is commonly used for anti-reflection coating and passivation in crystalline silicon solar cell fabrication. In this paper, characteristics of the deposited silicon nitride was studied with change of working pressure, deposition temperature, gas ratio of $NH_3$ and $SiH_4$, and RF power during deposition. The deposition rate, refractive index and effective lifetime were analyzed. The (100) p-type silicon wafers with one-side polished, $660-690{\mu}m$, and resistivity $1-10{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ were used. As a result, when the working pressure increased, the deposition rate of SiNx was increased while the effective life time for the $SiN_x$-deposited wafer was decreased. The result regarding deposition temperature, gas ratio and RF power changes would be explained in detail below. In this paper, the optimized condition in silicon nitride deposition for silicon solar cell was obtained as 1.0 Torr for the working pressure, $400^{\circ}C$ for deposition temperature, 500 W for RF power and 0.88 for $NH_3/SiH_4$ gas ratio. The silicon nitride layer deposited in this condition showed the effective life time of > $1400{\mu}s$ and the surface recombination rate of 25 cm/s. The crystalline silicon solar cell fabricated with this SiNx coating showed 18.1% conversion efficiency.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.38 no.11
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• pp.1037-1041
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• 2001

Silicon diosixde thick film using silica optical waveguide cladding was fabricated by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) method, at a low temperature (32$0^{\circ}C$) and from (SiH$_4$+$N_2$O) gas mixtures. The effects of deposition parameters on properties of SiO$_2$thick films were investigated by variation of $N_2$O/SiH$_4$flow ratio and RF power. As the $N_2$O/SiH$_4$flow ratio decreased, deposition rate increased from 2.9${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$/h to maximum 10.1${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$/h. As the RF power increased from 60 W to 120 W, deposition rate increased (5.2~6.7 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$/h) and refractive index approached at thermally grown silicon dioxide (n=1.46).

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.516-516
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• 2013

Flexible Display를 제작하기 위해서는 유기소자를 보호하는 보호막이 필요하다. 유기소자는 산소 및 수분에 매우 취약하기 때문에 장수명을 확보하기 위해서는 추가적인 보호층이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 이를 위해 Encapsulation 중 한 방법인 Barrier Film을 제작하고 그에 따른 광학적인 특성 및 수분 투습율을 조사하였다. Barrier film의 광학적 분석 방법으로는 XPS, SEM, AFM, Transmittance를 측정하였으며, XPS는 박막내의 화학적인 결합을 알기 위해서 사용되었고, SEM은 박막의 두께 및 박막내의 결함을 파악하고자 하였다. SEM을 통해 증착속도가 32.6 nm/m이라는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다. AFM을 통해 증착된 박막의 표면 거칠기를 파악하였다. Transmittance는 PET 기판을 사용하여 가시광 영역에서 80%이상의 투과도를 나타내었다. PECVD 장비를 사용하여 SiH4, NH3, N2가스를 사용하여 PET 필름 위에 박막을 증착하였으며, 유량을 10~400 sccm 내에서 변화시키고, RF Power는 각각 30~300 W 15분간 증착하였다. 제작된 보호막의 수분투습율은 $2{\times}10{_2}^{-2}g/m^2/day$ 이하의 값을 나타내었다.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.462-467
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• 1993

ECR PECVD(Electron Cyclotron Resonance Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition )장치를 이용하여 (100) 실리콘 기판 위에 실리콘 산화막을 상온에서 증착하였다. 기체 유량비(SiH4/O2)가 막의 성질에 미치는 영향을 고찰하여 최적의 증착 조건을 도출하였다. 기체 유량비가 0.071일 때 비가역 파괴 전장은 9~10MV/cm 이었고, 4~5MV/cmm의 전장하에서 누설 전류는 ~10-11 A/$ extrm{cm}^2$이었다. 이러한 수치들은 액정 표시 소자용 박막 트랜지스터와 같이 저온의 제조공정이 요구되는 소자를 만들기에 충분하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.14-15
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• 2007

MAHA PECVD(Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition) 설비는 반도체 소자업체의 200mm와 300mm 생산 라인에서 실리콘 산화막 및 실리콘 질화막을 증착하고 있는 (주)아토의 주력 반도체 전공정 설비이다. MAHA PECVD 설비는 2002년 소자업체에서 TEOS 산화막 공정에 대한 양산검증을 확보한 이후 현재까지 64 시스템이 제작되어 소자업체의 생산 라인에서 가동 중에 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.2340-2348
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• 1992

Recently, various film coated insert tools have been used in order to improve tool life by several different vapor deposition or chemical vapor deposition. Especially, TiN coated drills have been broadly studied because of improving drill performance in terms of drill life, work quality and its brilliant color. Nevertheless, because of the poor adhesion between TiN film and drill, it was difficult to attain the better drill performance. Therefore, to improve adhesion of TiN films, we sputtered titanium as interlayer prior to TiN deposition on drill by PECVD(Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition). The results indicate that Ti/TiN coated drills achieve about 2.6 times life improvement, while TiN coated drills only 2 times. Wear characteristics of tested drills were examined using SEM, and the results were correlated with drill life and roughness of drilled holes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.147.1-147.1
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• 2016

Hydrophobic thin films are variously applicable for encapsulation of organic devices and water repulsive glass, etc. In this work, the stability of hydrophobic characteristics of plasma polymerized tetrakis (trimethylsilyloxy) silane (ppTTMSS) thin films were investigated. The films were deposited with plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) on the glass. The deposition plasma power and deposition pressure was 70 W and 600 mTorr, respectively. Thereafter, deposited films were treated by 248nm KrF excimer laser. Stability of hydrophobic properties of plasma polymerized tetrakis(trimethylsilyloxy)silane film surface was tested by excimer laser irradiation, which is thought to simulate severe outdoor conditions. Excimer laser irradiation cycles changed from 10 to 200 cycles. The chemical structure and hydrophobicity of ppTTMSS films were analyzed by using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and water contact angle (WCA) measurement, respectively. Absorption spectra peaks and WCA of excimer laser treated ppTTMSS films did not change notably. These results show that our ppTTMSS films possess stable hydrophobic properties.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.1475-1480
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• 2004

Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) process uses unique property of plasma to modify surfaces and to achieve the high deposition rates. In this study, a vertical thermal RF-PECVD (Radio Frequency-PECVD) reactor is modeled to investigate thermal flow and the deposition rates with various shapes of the showerhead. The showerhead in the CVD reactor has the shape of a ring and gases are injected in parallel with the susceptor, which is a rotating disk. In order to achieve the high deposition rates, we have simulated the thermal flow fields in the reactor with several showerhead models. Especially the effects of the number of injection holes and the rotating speed of the susceptor are studied. Using a commercial code, CFDACE, which uses FVM (Finite Volume Method) and SIMPLE algorithm, governing equations have been solved for the pressure, mass-flow rates and temperature distributions in the CVD reactor. With the help of the Nusselt number and Sherwood number, the heat and mass transfers on the susceptor are investigated. In order to characteristics of measure the flatness of the layer, furthermore, the relative growth rate (RGR) is considered.