• International Journal of Safety
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.27-30
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• 2008

In the 21st century, safety issues in the strained silicon industry, such as dislocation injection, should be carefully considered. This is because a microelectronic device usually contains sharp features (e.g., edges and corners) that may intensify stresses, inject dislocations into silicon, and ultimately cause the failure of the device. In this paper, critical residual stresses in various strained structures are calculated. It is confirmed that this model correctly predicts trends and the order of magnitude of critical residual stresses.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.97-100
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• 2018

$NF_3$ Plasma etching of silicon was conducted by injecting only $NF_3$ gas into reactive ion etching. $NF_3$ Plasma etching was done in intermediate pressure. Silicon etching by $NF_3$ plasma in reactive ion etching was diagnosed through residual gas analyzer and optical emission spectroscopy. In plasma etching, optical emission spectroscopy is generally used to know what kinds of species in plasma. Also, residual gas analyzer is mainly to know the byproducts of etching process. Through experiments, the results of optical emission spectroscopy during silicon etching by $NF_3$ plasma was analyzed with connecting the results of etch rate of silicon and residual gas analyzer. It was confirmed that $NF_3$ plasma etching of silicon in reactive ion etching accords with the characteristic of reactive ion etching.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기물성,응용부문
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• pp.245-247
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• 2002

The paper represents the effects of the drive-in process parameters on the residual stress profile of the p+ silicon film. For the quantitative determination of the residual stress profiles, the test samples are doped via the fixed boron diffusion process and four types of the thermal oxidation processes and consecutively etched by the improved process. The residual stress measurement structures with the different thickness are simultaneously fabricated on the same silicon wafer. Since the residual stress profile is not uniform along the direction normal to the surface, the residual stress is assumed to be a polynomial function of the depth. All of the coefficients of the polynomial are determined from the deflections of cantilevers and the displacement of a rotating beam structure. As the drive-in temperature or the drive-in time increases, the boron concentration decreases and the magnitude of the average residual tensile stress decreases. Also, near the surface of the p+ film the residual tensile stress is transformed into the residual compressive stress and its magnitude increases.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 G
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• pp.2533-2535
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• 1998

In this paper, an effect of drive-in process temperature on the residual stress profile of the p+ silicon film has been investigated. The residual stress profile has been calculated as the fourth-order polynomials. All coefficients of the polynomials have been determined from the measurement of the vertical deflections of the p+ silicon cantilevers with various thickness and the tip displacement of the p+ silicon rotating beam. From the determination results of the residual stress profile, the average stress of the film thermally oxidized at 1000 $^{\circ}C$ is 15 MPa and that of the film oxidized at 1100 $^{\circ}C$ is 25 MPa. The profile of the residual stress through the high temperature drive-in process has a steeper gradient than the other case.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제48권9호
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• pp.665-671
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• 1999

The paper represents the effects of the drive-in process parameters on the residual stress profile of the $p^+$ silicon film. Since the residual stress profile is notuniform along the direction normal to the surface, the residual stress is assumed to be a polynomial function of the depth. All the coefficients of the polynomial can be determined by measuring of the thicknesses and the deflections of cantilevers and the deflection of a rotating beam with a surface profiler meter and a microscope. As the drive-in temperature or the drive-in time increases, the boron concentration decreases and the magnitude of the average residual tensile stress decreases. Then, near the surface of the $p^+$ film the residual tensile stress is transformed into the residual compressive stress and its magnitude increases.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1995년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.593-595
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• 1995

X-Ray Diffraction method that gives direct information about the deformation of crystal lattice is used for the determination of profiles of the residual stress along the depth of heavily boron doped silicon. The residual stress distribution is obtained by XRD method as measuring the deformation of the front surface of the $p^+$ silicon layer fabricated through different etch time. It is determined that the compressive residual stress exists in the most region except the font surface.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.127-134
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• 1996

The thermal residual stresses were estimated for brazed Si3N4/S.S.316 joints with Cu/Mo multi-interlayers using FEM, and their bending strengths at room temperature were measured for various interlayer configura-tions. The Cu, Mo multi-interlayer decreased the maximum residual stress in Si3N4 and caused the residual stress redistribution rsulting in the high residual stress at Mo interlayer. The stress distribution in the joints as well as the maximum residual stress in silicon nitride were found to be main factors for determining bending strengths and Weibull modulous of the joints. The bending strength of the brazed Si3N4/S.S.316 joints with specific Cu, Mo multi-interlayer system were found to be above 400 MPa.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제40권8호
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• pp.770-776
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• 2003

(111) 및 (100) 단결정 실리콘 웨이퍼에 대하여 #140 mesh와 #600 mesh의 연삭숫돌을 사용하여 연삭가공을 행하고 가공에 의한 표면품위의 변화를 관찰하였다. 이를 위하여 Atomic Force Microscope(Am)을 사용하여 미세거칠기를 분석하고 라만 분광법(Raman spectroscopy)을 통하여 결정구조, 상변화 및 잔류응력을 분석하였다. 그 결과 연삭가공 후에 (111) 면에서 미세거칠기가 더 크게 나타났으며 실리콘이 다이아몬드구조의 Si-I에서 Si-III(body centered tetragonal) 및 Si-XII(rhombohedral)로 전이하는 현상을 라만스펙트럼 분석을 통해 확인하였다. 또한 연삭가공에 의하여 패인 구덩이에서는 일반적인 가공표면과 다른 라만스펙트럼이 관찰되어, 표면에 인가된 잔류응력이 새로운 표면생성으로 해소되었음을 알수 있었다. 또한 열처리에 의한 재료의 표면품위개선효과를 분석하기 위하여 대기 중에서 열처리를 시행한 결과 열처리는 잔류응력의 해소와 상전이의 회복에 효과적인 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.301-307
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• 2012

SiAlON glasses are silicates or alumino-silicates, containing Mg, Ca, Y or rare earth (RE) ions as modifiers, in which nitrogen atoms substitute for oxygen atoms in the glass network. These glasses are found as intergranular films and at triple point junctions in silicon nitride ceramics and these grain boundary phases affect their fracture behaviour. This paper provides an overview of the preparation of M-SiAlON glasses and outlines the effects of composition on properties. As nitrogen substitutes for oxygen in SiAlON glasses, increases are observed in glass transition temperatures, viscosities, elastic moduli and microhardness. These property changes are compared with known effects of grain boundary glass chemistry in silicon nitride ceramics. Oxide sintering additives provide conditions for liquid phase sintering, reacting with surface silica on the $Si_3N_4$ particles and some of the nitride to form SiAlON liquid phases which on cooling remain as intergranular glasses. Thermal expansion mismatch between the grain boundary glass and the silicon nitride causes residual stresses in the material which can be determined from bulk SiAlON glass properties. The tensile residual stresses in the glass phase increase with increasing Y:Al ratio and this correlates with increasing fracture toughness as a result of easier debonding at the glass/${\beta}-Si_3N_4$ interface.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.190-195
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• 2014

방향성 응고법으로 잉곳을 성장시킬 때 발생하는 온도 구배에 의해 잉곳 내에 결함이 생성되고 잔류 응력이 남게 된다. 이 결함과 잔류 응력은 잉곳의 성장 조건에 따라 달라지며, 웨이퍼의 특성에 큰 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 성장 속도의 변화에 상관 없이 대부분의 잉곳에서는 하부 영역에 비해 상부 영역에서 결정립과 쌍정경계의 크기가 작았으며, 결정립계뿐만 아니라 결정립 내에도 전위 밀도가 높았다. 이것은 상부 영역에서 성장 중에 받는 열 응력이 하부 영역보다 크다는 것을 암시한다. 두 잉곳 간의 차이를 보았을 때에는 성장 속도가 느린 잉곳에서 전위 밀도가 감소하였으며, 웨이퍼의 평탄도, 뒤틀림, 휨, 절단자국이 낮게 측정되었다. 따라서 다결정 성장 공정에서는 냉각 속도가 결함이나 잔류 응력의 발생에 미치는 영향이 크며, 그로 인하여 웨이퍼의 특성이 달라지는 것을 알 수 있었다.