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The Effect of Stacking Fault on Thermoelectric Property for n-type SiC Semiconductor (N형 SiC 반도체의 열전 물성에 미치는 적층 결함의 영향)

  • Pai, Chul-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.13-19
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    • 2021
  • This study examined the effects of stacking faults on the thermoelectric properties for n-type SiC semiconductors. Porous SiC semiconductors with 30~42 % porosity were fabricated by the heat treatment of pressed ��-SiC powder compacts at 1600~2100 ℃ for 20~120 min in an N2 atmosphere. XRD was performed to examine the stacking faults, lattice strain, and precise lattice parameters of the specimens. The porosity and surface area were analyzed, and SEM, TEM, and HRTEM were carried out to examine the microstructure. The electrical conductivity and the Seebeck coefficient were measured at 550~900 ℃ in an Ar atmosphere. The electrical conductivity increased with increasing heat treatment temperature and time, which might be due to an increase in carrier concentration and improvement in grain-to-grain connectivity. The Seebeck coefficients were negative due to nitrogen behaving as a donor, and their absolute values also increased with increasing heat treatment temperature and time. This might be due to a decrease in stacking fault density, i.e., a decrease in stacking fault density accompanied by grain growth and crystallite growth must have increased the phonon mean free path, enhancing the phonon-drag effect, leading to a larger Seebeck coefficient.

Microstructure Characterization of Ternary ZnSSe/GaAs Epilayer Grown by MBE (MBE로 성장시킨 3원계 ZnSSe/GaAs 에피층의 미세구조 특성)

  • Lee, Hwack-Joo;Ryu, Hyun;Park, Hae-Sung;Kim, Tae-Il
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.75-81
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    • 1995
  • The microstructural characterization of ternary $ZnS_{x}Se_{1-x}$(x=0.085) on GaAs(001) substrate grown up to $2{\mu}m\;at\;300^{\circ}C$ by molecular beam epitaxy(MBE) which has a single growth chamber was investigated by high resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) working at 300 kV with point resolution of 0.18nm. The interface in the ZnSSe/GaAs specimen maintains a pseudomorphism with the substrate, but the epilayer has high density of stacking faults and moire fringes. The pits which had formed along <111> direction were found at the interface of ZnSSe/GaAs. The pits were responsible for producing defects in both epilayer and substrate. The wavy interface which has the difference of 15nm in height was found to maintain the pseudomorphism with the substrate and no stacking faults were found around the interface. However there exists faint and fine moire fringes in the epilayer near interface.

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The development of deformation microstructures and textures in high Mn steels (고Mn강의 소성에 따른 미세조직및 Texture 변화에 관한연구)

  • Kim, Taek-Nam;Kim, Jong-Ok
    • The Journal of Natural Sciences
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    • v.7
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 1995
  • The microstructural and textural development during rolling is compared in two Hadifield's steels (high Mn steel), one having low carbon content (0.65 wt.%) and the other high carbon (1.35 wt.%).In low carbon Hadfield's steel (LCHS) mixed microstructures are formed which contain intrinsic stacking faults, deformation twins, and brass type shear bands. The deformation twins are thought to be formed by the stacking of intrinsic stacking faults. The similar development to 70-30 brass texture is observed in early deformation. However the abnormal texture is developed after 40 % deformation, which is thought to be due to the martensite phase transformation. In high carbon Hadfield's steel (HCHS) mixed substructures of dislocation tangles, deformation twins, and shear bands (both copper and brass type) are found to develop. The texture development is similar to that of 70-30 brass. This is consistant with no carbon segregation and no martensitic phase transformation in HCHS. In spite of the difference of substructure and texture development during rolling in two steels, the difference in stacking fault energy is measured to be small ($2 mJm^-2$). The carbon segregation is only occurred in LCHS. Thus it is thought that the carbon segregation influence the microstructure and texture development during rolling. This is related with martensite phase transformation in LCHS.

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Characteristics of Silicon Carbide Nanowires Synthesized on Porous Body by Carbothermal Reduction

  • Kim, Jung-Hun;Choi, Sung-Churl
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.55 no.3
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    • pp.285-289
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    • 2018
  • We synthesized silicon carbide (${\beta}-SiC$) nanowires with nano-scale diameter (30 - 400 nm) and micro-scale length ($50-200{\mu}m$) on a porous body using low-grade silica and carbon black powder by carbothermal reduction at $1300-1600^{\circ}C$. The SiC nanowires were formed by vapor-liquid-solid deposition with self-evaporated Fe catalysts in low-grade silica. We investigated the characteristics of the SiC nanowires, which were grown on a porous body with Ar flowing in a vacuum furnace. Their structural, optical, and electrical properties were analyzed with X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and selective area electron diffraction (SAED). We obtained high-quality SiC single crystalline nanowire without stacking faults that may have uses in industrial applications.

Atomic structures and Energies of Planar defects in w-GaN (GaN 평면결함의 구조와 형성에너지에 관한 연구)

  • Moon, Won-Ha;Choi, Chang-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.567-568
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    • 2006
  • We investigate the structures and the formation energy of inversion domain boundaries (IDBs) using the Tersoff empirical potential. Four kinds of IDBs ( A and B types for IDB* and Holt ) are considered. The IDBs with A type are energetically favorable compared to B type with the structural instability. The IDB* is also more stable than the Holt type in spite of fourfold and eightfold rings of bonds. We calculate the atomic configurations of the Holt IDBs induced by the interactions of the IDB* with the stacking faults $I_1$ and $I_2$. The stacking fault $I_2$ interacted with $I_1$ on the IDB induces the structural transformation from IDB* to Holt type.

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Transient analysis of point defect dynamics in czochralski-grown silicon crystals

  • Wang, Jong-Hoe;Oh, Hyun-Jung;Park, Bong-Mo;Lee, Hong-Woo;Yoo, Hak-Do
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.259-263
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    • 2001
  • The continuum model of transient point defect dynamics to predict the concentrations of interstitial and vacancy is established by estimating expressions for the thermophysical properties of intrinsic point defects. And the point defect distribution in a Czochralski-grown 200 mm silicon crystal and the location of oxidation-induced stacking fault ring(OiSF-ring) created during the cooling of crystals are calculated by using the numerical analysis. The purpose of this paper is to show that his approach lead to predictions that are consistent with experimental results. Predicted point defect distributions by transient point defect dynamic analysis are in good qualitative agreement with experimental data under widely and abruptly varying crystal pull rates when correlated with the position of the OiSF-ring .

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TSV Fault Detection Technique using Eye Pattern Measurements Based on a Non-Contact Probing Method (Eye 패턴을 사용한 비접촉 형태의 TSV 고장 검출 기법)

  • Kim, Youngkyu;Han, Sang-Min;Ahn, Jin-Ho
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.64 no.4
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    • pp.592-597
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    • 2015
  • 3D-IC is a novel semiconductor packaging technique stacking dies to improve the performance as well as the overall size. TSV is ideal for 3D-IC because it is convenient for stacking and excellent in electrical characteristics. However, due to high-density and micro-size of TSVs, they should be tested with a non-invasive manner. Thus, we introduce a TSV test method on test prober without a direct contact in this paper. A capacitive coupling effect between a probe tip and TSV is used to discriminate small TSV faults like voids and pin-holes. Through EM simulation, we can verify the size of eye-patterns with various frequencies is good for TSV test tools and non-contact test will be promising.

A Study of Electrical Anisotropy of n-type a-plane GaN films grown on $\gamma$-plane Sapphire Substrates ($\gamma$-plane 사파이어 기판 위에 성장한 무분극 ${alpha}$-plane GaN 층의 전기적 비등방성 연구)

  • Kim, Jae-Bum;Kim, Dong-Ho;Hwang, Sung-Min;Kim, Tae-Geun
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.47 no.8
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2010
  • We report on the electrical properties of Ti/Al/Ni/Au (20 nm/ 150 nm/ 30 nm/ 100 nm) Ohmic contacts and the anisotropic conductivity of n-type ${\alpha}$-plane ([11-20]) GaN grown on $\gamma$-plane ([1-102]) sapphire substrates. The Ti/Al/Ni/Au Ohmic contacts and their sheet resistances are characterized by using the transfer length method (TLM) as a function of azimuthal angles. It is found that the specific contact resistance does not depend on the axis orientation and there are significant electrical anisotropy in ${\alpha}$-plane GaN films on $\gamma$-plane sapphire substrates, and the sheet resistance varies with azimuthal angles. The sheet resistance values in the direction parallel to m-axis [1-100] are 25% ~ 75% lower than those parallel to c-axis [0001] directions. Thus, Basal stacking faults (BSFs) are offered as a feasible source of the anisotropic mobility in defected m-axis direction because the band-edge discontinuities owing to the differential band gap structure.

Optical Dark Field Imaging for Characterization of Semiconductors

  • Ogawa, Tomoya;Kissinger, Gudrun;Sakai, Kazufumi
    • Proceedings of the Korea Association of Crystal Growth Conference
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    • 1997.06a
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    • pp.219-222
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    • 1997
  • The principle of dark field imaging is comprehensively discussed using real images of dislocations, stacking faults and gettering phenomena due to defects obtained by Cz Si wafers and LEC semi-insulating GaAs crystals. Resulution of dark field imaging is improved by Fourier transformation of Fraunhofer diffraction pattern obtained at an out-of focusing position of an objective lens.

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Defect Formation in Epitaxially Grown Silver Films (배향 성장시킨 은박막중의 결함생성)

  • Lee Ki-Seon;Kim Key-Soo
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.33-38
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    • 1976
  • Formation of crystal defects which may occur during and after the vacuum deposition of silver films on rocksalt substrates were studied by electron microscopy. To obtain defect free films, various evaporation conditions, such as evaporation rate, substrate temperature, substrate treatments and annealing of films were examined. Stacking faults and micro-twins are dominant defects in silver films.

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