• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.997-1000
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• 2001

Pb(Zr$\sub$0.52/Ti$\sub$0.48/)O$_3$(PZT) thin films have been prepared by rf-magnetron sputtering methods and investigated the structural and electrical properties. In order to investigate the effects of sputtering conditions, input power was controlled during deposition. Crystallization process and microstructure of PZT thin films were largely affected by input power. Highly crystallized PZT films with the perovskite structure were successfully obtained on Pt/Ti bottom electrode. The dielectric constants and polarization of PZT thin films were increased with increasing input power, and the coercive electric field was decreased with increasing input power . The dielectric constant of PZT thin films with input power 150 W was 966 at 1 kHz. we, authors, proposed that preferred orientation of PZT thin films were controlled by input power in sputtering methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.189-193
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• 1997

(S $r_{0.85}$/C $a_{0.15}$)Ti $O_3$(SCT) thin films at various deposition temperature and rf power were grown by rf magnetron sputtering method on optimized Pt-based electrodes (Pt/TiN/ $SiO_2$/Si). The crystallinity of the films increases with increasing deposition temperature. SCT thin film is depend on the surface morphology and crystallinity of Pt films for bottom electrode. Dielectric constant of (S $r_{0.85}$C $a_{0.15}$)Ti $O_3$ thin films deposited on Si wafer substrate are larger with the increase of deposition temperature and gain size.in size.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.299-305
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• 2010

Purposes: The purposes of this study were to investigate the optical, structural and electrical properties of the antimony doped tin oxide(ATO) thin films according to certain variable deposition conditions, such as RF input power and T-S (target-substrate) distance change, using transparent conducting oxide (TCO). Methods: ATO thin films of Sb concentration ratio with $SnO_2:Sb_2O_5$ = 95:5 wt% were deposited at room temperature by RF magnetron sputtering method. Results: ATO thin films were most sensitive to the RF input power: light transmittance was 78% at RF input power of 30W, and 0.56 nm for the surface roughness and 1007 $\Omega{\cdot}cm^{-2}$ for the sheet resistance as well. Conclusions: It was found that ATO thin films were showed the large change in its characteristics of structural, optical and electrical properties which were affected by T-S distance and RF input power.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.703-707
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• 2011

The electrochromic properties of tungsten oxide films grown by RF sputtering were investigated. Among the sputter parameters, first the $Ar:O_2$ ratios were controlled with division into only an $O_2$ environment, 1:1 and 4:1. The structure of each film prepared by these conditions was studied by X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy. The sputter-deposited tungsten oxide films had an amorphous structure regardless of the $Ar:O_2$ ratios. The chemical compositions, however, were different from each other. The stoichiometric structure and low-density film was obtained at higher $O_2$ contents. Electrochemical tests were performed by cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry at 0.05 M $H_2SO_4$ solutions. The current density and charge ratio was estimated during the continuous potential and pulse potential cycling at -0.5 V and 1.8 V, respectively. The film grown in a higher oxygen environment had a higher current density and a reversible charge reaction during intercalation and deintercalation. The in-situ transmittance tests were performed by He-Ne laser (633 nm). At higher oxygen contents, a big transmittance difference was observed but the response speed was too slow. This was likely caused by higher film resistivity. Furthermore, the effect of sputtering pressure was also investigated. The structure and surface morphology of each film was observed by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. A rough surface was observed at higher sputtering pressure, and this affected the higher transmittance difference and coloration efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.86-86
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• 2011

RF magnetron sputtering을 이용하여 RF파워 변화에 따라 GZO 박막을 제작하였다. 박막제작은 유리기판 위에 하였고, 전기적, 광학적 특성을 조사하였다. 박막의 증착시 초기 압력은 $2.0{\times}10^{-6}Torr$, 증착온도는 상온으로 고정하여 증착하였으며, 기판은 Corning 1737 유리 기판을 사용하였다. RF 파워 공정변수는 20W, 50W, 80W, 110W로 변화를 시켰다. 유리기판에 증착된 모든 GZO박막은 200 nm의 두께로 증착되었으며 모든 GZO 박막에서 85% 이상의 투과율을 나타내었다. RF파워가 낮을수록 투과율을 증가하였으며, 광학적 밴드갭 또한 증가하였다. 공정별로 제작된 모든 GZO박막에서 (002)면의 배향성이 관찰되었고, RF파워가 낮을수록 박막의 결정성은 향상되었다. Hall 측정 결과 RF파워가 20W일 때 전기비저항 $1.85{\times}10^{-3}{\Omega}cm$, 전하의 농도 $3.794{\times}10^{20}cm^{-3}$, 이동도 $8.89cm^2V^{-1}s^{-1}$로 전극으로서의 특성을 나타내었다. GZO 박막의 경우 RF 파워가 낮을수록 결정성이 높아지고, 전극의 특성을 갖는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.6
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• pp.1175-1177
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• 2011

The SBN thin films were deposited on Pt/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si and p-type Si(100) substrate by rf magnetron sputtering method using $Sr_{0.7}Bi_{2.3}Nb_2O_9$ ceramic target. SBN thin films deposited were annealed at 600~800[$^{\circ}C$] by furnace in oxygen atmosphere during 40min. The polarization characteristics have been investigated to confirm the possibility of the SBN thin films for the application to destructive read out ferroelectric random access memory. The maximum remanent polarization and the coercive voltage are 0.6[${\mu}C/cm^2$], 1.2[V] respectively at annealing temperature of 800[$^{\circ}C$]. The leakage current density was the $2.57{\times}10^{-6}[A/cm^2]$ at an applied voltage of 5[V] at annealing temperature of 650[$^{\circ}C$]. Also, the fatigue characteristics of SBN thin films did not change up to $10^8$ switching cycles.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.259-265
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• 2006

We measured sputtering yield of RF $O_2-plasma$ treated MgO protective layer for AC-PDP(plasma display panel) using a Focused ion Beam System(FIB). A 10 kV acceleration voltage was applied. The sputtering yield of the untreated sample and the treated sample were 0.33 atoms/ion and 0.20 atoms/ion, respectively. The influence of the plasma-treatment of MgO thin film was characterized by XPS and AFM analysis. We observed that the binding energy of the O 1s spectra, the FWHM of O 1s spectra and the RMS(root-mean-square) of surface roughness decreased to 2.36 eV, 0.6167 eV and 0.32 nm, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.306.2-306.2
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• 2016

Niobium oxide thin films were synthesized by reactive rf magnetron sputtering. The target was metallic niobium with 2 inch in diameter and the substrate was n-type Si wafer. To control the surface properties of the films, Nb oxide thin films were obtained at various mixing ratios of argon and oxygen gases. Nb oxide thin films were analyzed with alpha step, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The result of alpha step showed that the thickness of Nb oxide thin films were decreased with increasing the oxygen gas ratios. SEM images showed that the granular morphology was formed at 0% of oxygen gas ratio and then disappeared at 20 and 75% of oxygen gas ratio. The amorphous Nb oxide was observed by XRD at all films. The oxidation state of Nb and O were studied with high resolution Ni 2p and O 1s XPS spectra. And the change in the chemical environment of Nb oxide thin films was investigated by XPS with Ar+ sputtering.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.441-447
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• 1995

Ba0.65Sr0.35TiO3 (BST) thin films were deposited on Pt/SiO2/Si(100) substrate by rf magnetron sputtering. The substrate temperature changed from 35$0^{\circ}C$ to 55$0^{\circ}C$ and crystalline BST thin films were deposited above 45$0^{\circ}C$. Most of the films had (111) preferred orientation regardless of deposition temperature, but the films changed to (100) preferred orientation as gas pressure increased. The dielectric constant increased with increasing substrate temperature and film thickness, and ranged from 100 to 600 at room temperature. The leakage current increased as substrate temperature increased or as film thickness decreased.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.624-630
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• 2006

ZnO deposition parameters are not independent and have a nonlinear and complex property. To propose a method that could verify and predict the relations of process variables, neural network was used. At first, ZnO thin films were deposited by using RF magnetron sputtering process with various conditions. Si, GaAs, and Glass were used as substrates. The temperature, work pressure, and RF power of the substrate were $50\sim500^{\circ}C$, 15 mTorr, and $180\sim210W$, respectively : the purity of the target was ZnO 4 N. Structural properties of ZnO thin films were estimated by using XRD (0002) peak intensity. The structure of neural network was a form of 4-7-1 that have one hidden layer. In training a network, learning rate and momentum were selected as 0.2, 0.6 respectively. A backpropagation neural network were performed with XRD (0002) peak data. After training a network, the temperature of substrate was evaluated as the most important parameter by sensitivity analysis and response surface. As a result, neural network could capture nonlinear and complex relationships between process parameters and predict structural properties of ZnO thin films with a limited set of experiments.