• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.12-16
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• 2018

The interest in perovskite solar cells has been skyrocketed owing to their rapid progress in efficiency in recent years. Here, we report the effect of non-stoichiometry in the methylammonium lead trihalide ($MAPbI_3$) precursors used in a solution process with different MAI : $PbI_2$ ratios of 1 : 0.96, 1 : 1.10, 1 : 1.15, and 1:1.20. With an increase in the $PbI_2$ content, the $PbI_2$ secondary phase was found to form at grain boundary region of perovskite thin films, as evidenced by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). In terms of device performance, open-circuit voltage in particular is significantly improved with increasing the molar ratio of $PbI_2$, which is possibly ascribed to the reduction in recombination sites at grain boundary of perovskite and hence the prolonged life time of light-generated carriers according to the reported. As a result, the $PbI_2-excess$ devices exhibited a higher power conversion efficiency compared to the MAI-excess ones.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.418-424
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• 2000

Effects of Ar ion damage prior to the phase transformation from pyrochlore to perovskite structure of PZT thin films have been investigated. As the degree of damage increased by increasing the acceleration voltage in the ion mass doping system, the phase transformation temperature decreased such that the temperature could be lowered down to 550$^{\circ}C$ when the film was damaged at 15 kV for 5 minutes. When the film was damaged prior to the heat treatment grain size of the perovskite thin films became less than 300${\AA}$. It turned out that relatively high value of the remanent polarization (about 30${\mu}$C/$\textrm{cm}^2$) as well as improvement of the fatigue characteristics to a large extent is closely related to the fine grain size of thus obtained PZT films.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.427-427
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• 2016

Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite have attracted significant attention as a new revolutionary light absorber for photovoltaic device due to its remarkable characteristics such as long charge diffusion lengths (100-1000nm), low recombination rate, and high extinction coefficient. Recently, power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cell is above 20% that is approached to crystalline silicon solar cells. Planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells have simple device structure and can be fabricated low temperature process due to absence of mesoporous scaffold that should be annealed over 500 oC. However, in the planar structure, controlling perovskite film qualities such as crystallinity and coverage is important for high performances. Those controlling methods in one-step deposition have been reported such as adding additive, solvent-engineering, using anti-solvent, for pin-hole free perovskite layer to reduce shunting paths connecting between electron transport layer and hole transport layer. Here, we studied the effect of alkali metal halide to control the fabrication process of perovskite film. During the morphology determination step, alkali metal halides can affect film morphologies by intercalating with PbI2 layer and reducing $CH3NH3PbI3{\cdot}DMF$ intermediate phase resulting in needle shape morphology. As types of alkali metal ions, the diverse grain sizes of film were observed due to different crystallization rate depending on the size of alkali metal ions. The pin-hole free perovskite film was obtained with this method, and the resulting perovskite solar cells showed higher performance as > 10% of power conversion efficiency in large size perovskite solar cell as $5{\times}5cm$. X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) are analyzed to prove the mechanism of perovskite film formation with alkali metal halides.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.365-372
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• 1993

Variation of dielectric constant in PMN-Pyrochlore diphasic mixtures were investigated with grain size of pyrochlore phase. Size of pyrochlore phase was controlled by the numbers of calcining and sedimentation method during powder processing. When grain size of pyrochlore phase is large in the sintered specimen, dielectric constant slowly decreased with increase of amount of pyrochlore phase. On the contary, grain size of pyrochlore phase is small, dielectric constant drastically decreased. It was thought that small sized pyrochlore grains more easily surrounded high dielectric phase (perovskite PMN) than large ones with addition of pyrochlore phase.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.26-32
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• 2021

카본 전극 페로브스카이트 태양전지의 광활성층을 형성하는데 열판, 오븐, 쾌속열처리로 방법을 달리하며 이때 광전기적 특성과 미세구조 변화를 확인하였다. Glass/FTO/compact TiO2/meso TiO2/meso ZrO2/perovskite/carbon electrode 구조의 페로브스카이트 태양전지 소자를 열판 공정, 오븐 공정, RTA(rapid thermal annealing) 공정을 이용하여 준비하였다. 이때 광전기적 특성과 미세구조를 solar simulator와 광학현미경, 장발산주사전자현미경을 이용하여 각 소자의 특성을 분석하였다. 광전기적 특성 분석 결과, RTA 공정을 이용하여 제작한 소자에서 가장 우수한 광전기적 특성을 확인할 수 있었다. 미세구조 분석 결과 열판 공정과 오븐 공정으로 제작한 시편은 카본 전극 상부에 과잉 페로브스카이트 상이 형성되고, RTA 공정으로 제작한 시편에서는 시편 상부에 과잉 페로브스카이트 상 없이, 균일한 페로브스카이트가 형성된 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 단면 미세구조에서는 RTA 공정으로 제작한 소자가 다공성 카본 전극 층에 고밀도의 페로브스카이트 층을 형성하여 우수한 광전기적 특성을 나타내었다. 따라서 대면적 소자 제작의 공정시간을 고려한 새로운 열처리방안으로 RTA 방법의 채용 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.286-291
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• 2023

Perovskite materials are promising candidates for next-generation optoelectronic devices owing to their outstanding external quantum efficiency, high color purity, and ability to tune the light emission wavelength. However, conventional thermal annealing processes caused the degradation of perovskite, resulting in poor optoelectronic properties and a short lifetime. Herein, we propose a laser-induced recrystallization of perovskite thin film to enhance its light-emitting properties. Laser-induced recrystallization process was performed using rapid and instantaneous laser heating, which successfully induced grain growth of the perovskite material. The laser processing conditions were thoroughly optimized based on theoretical calculations and various material analyses such as x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, and photoluminescence spectroscopy.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.60-66
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• 2001

($Ba_x$$Sr_{1-x}$)$TiO_3$ (x=0.9, 0.7, 0.5)박막을 졸-겔법으로 ITO-coated glass기판 위에 제조하였다. BST의 perov-skite상 생성온도는 $600^{\circ}C$ 이상이며 Sr함량이 증가할수록, $Ba^{2+}$ 이온보다 작은 $Sr^{2+}$ 이온에 의해 perovskite상들의 피크가 높은 회절 각도로 이동하였다. 그리고 온도가 증가할수록 결정립은 조대화 되었고, Sr 함량이 증가할수록 결정립은 미세화 되었다. BST(50/50)의 유전상수 값은 다른 두 조성보다 큰 값을 나타내고 유전손실 값은 더 낮았다. 1 kHz때의 BST(50/50)박막의 유전상수 및 유전손실 값은 각각 652와 0.042였다.

• The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.74-77
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• 2000

Ta-doped PZT thin films prepared by reactive co-sputtering method could be transformed into single grained perovskite structure utilizing physical etching of Pt bottom electrode. It is found that PZT perovskite phase on damaged (111) Pt electrode by IMD was more easily crystallized than random oriented Pt electrode and less crystallized than (111) Pt electrode. This shows that amorphized Pt electrode surface by IMD process has an effect on crystallization of PZT perovskite phase. 40$\mu\textrm{m}\times40\mu\textrm{m}$ square shape single grain PZT array could be obtained utilizing the difference of incubation time for nucleation of rosettes between ion damaged Pt and (111) oriented Pt electrode. Single grained PZT thin films show low leakage current density of $1\times10^{-7}$ A/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and high break down field of 440kV/cm. The loss of remanent polarization after $10^{11}$ cycles was less than 15% of initial value.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.530-536
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• 2000

During the grain growth of the PZT thin films by selective nucleation method using PZT seed, it was found that the grain size was saturated with the annealing temperature. The saturation of grain size was analyzed by the interfacial energy which appeared during the crystallization. The factors affecting the saturation of grain size were found to be the interfacial energy between perovskite phase and pyrochlore phase, and PZT thin film and the bottom Pt electrode. When the ion damage was introduced to the grain-size saturated PZT thin films, further lateral growth was observed. Pt bottom electrode thickness was changed to control the interfacial energy between the PZT thin film and the Pt bottom electrode. When Pt thickness was increased, the grain size was also increased, because the lattice parameter of Pt films was increased with the thickness of the Pt films. The incubation time of nucleation was increased with the amount of the ion damage on the Pt films.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.216-222
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• 1992

PLZT thin films were prepared using sol-gel spin coating. The films mainly consisted of perovskite phase when heat treated at 600$^{\circ}C$ and in O2 or air atmosphere for 2 hours after 7 coating cycles. Cracks were formed when smaller than after 9 coating cycles. When ITO interlayer existed between Corning 7059 glass substrate and the film, cracks were not formed after 9 coating cycles, but cracks were formed after 11 coating cycles because of large volume change of the film contracting on the substrate during the heat treatment. In the observation of microstructure, the thin films have perovskite phase of about 2 $\mu\textrm{m}$ grain size and pyrochlore phase of 100∼200${\AA}$ grain size.