• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2010년도 제39회 하계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.167-167
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• 2010

Indium tin oxide (ITO) has been widely used as transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) for transparent electrodes of various optoelectronic devices, such as liquid crystal displays (LCD) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED). However, indium has become increasingly expensive and rare because of its limited resources. In addition, ITO thin films have some problems for OLED and flexible displays, such as imperfect work function, chemical instability, and high deposition temperature. Therefore, multi-component TCO materials have been reported as anode materials. Among the various materials, IZTO thin films have been gained much attention as anode materials due to their high work function, good conductivity, high transparency and low deposition temperature. IZTO thin films with a thickness of 200nm were deposited on Corning glass substrate at different substrate temperature by pulsed DC magnetron sputtering with a sintered ceramic target of IZTO (In2O3 70 wt%, ZnO 15 wt%, SnO2 15 wt%). We investigated the electrical, optical, structural properties of IZTO thin films. As the substrate temperature is increased, the electrical properties of IZTO are improved. All IZTO thin films have good optical properties, which showed an average of transmittance over 80%. These IZTO thin films were used to fabricate organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) as anode and the device performances studied. As a result, IZTO has utility value of TCO electrode although it reduced indium and we expect it is possible for the IZTO to apply to flexible display due to the low processing temperature.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.64-72
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• 2006

우리는 tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (Alq3)와 같은 단분자 유기물 박막을 사용하여 유기물 발광 소자(OLEDs)를 제작하였다. OLEDs는 ITO가 증착된 유기 기판 위에서 제조되었고, 수명 측정 이후의 OLEDs에 대한 발광, 축전 용량, 유전 손실 특성 등을 측정하였다. 여기서, 수명 측정을 위하여 사용한 인가 전류는 0.5mA 에서 9mA까지 였고, 수명의 인가 전류 의존성은 약 2 mA 부근에서 다르게 관찰되었다. C-V 특성 곡선에서 나타난 축전 용량의 봉우리들은 유기물 내의 분극과 유기물과 금속의 경계에서 나타난 분극의 영향으로 추측된다. 그리고, 2 mA 보다 낮은 전류 하에서 수명 측정 후 발광특성이 저하된 OLEDs에서는 소자 내의 분극 크기의 감소와 전하 유입 장벽의 낮아짐이 같이 관찰되었다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.798-801
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• 2007

Multilayer transparent electrodes, having a much lower electrical resistance than the widely used transparent conducting oxide electrodes, were prepared by using radio frequency magnetron sputtering. The multilayer structure consisted of five layers, indium tin oxided (ITO)/zinc oxide (ZnO)/Ag/zinc oxide (ZnO)/ITO. With about 50 nm thick ITO films, the multilayer showed a high optical transmittance in the visible range of the spectrum and had color neutrality. The electrical and optical properties of ITO/ZnO/Ag/ZnO/ITO multilayer were changed mainly by Ag film properties, which were affected by the deposition process of the upper layer. Especially ZnO layer was improved to adhesion of Ag and ITO. A high quality transparent electrode, having a resistance as low as and a high optical transmittance of 91% at 550 nm, was obtained. It could satisfy the requirement for the flexible OLED and LCD.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2007년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.8
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• pp.397-397
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• 2007

Multilayer transparent electrodes, having a much lower electrical resistance than the widely used transparent conducting oxide electrodes, were prepared by using radio frequency magnetron sputtering. The multilayer structure consisted of five layers, indium tin oxided(ITO)/zinc oxide(ZnO)/Ag/oxide(ZnO)/ITO. With about 50nm thick ITO films, the multilayer showed a high optical transmittance in the visible range of the spectrum and had color neutrality. The electrical and optical properties of ITO/ZnO/Ag/ZnO/ITO multilayer were changed mainly by Ag film properties, which were affected by the deposition process of the upper layer. Especially ZnO layer was improved to adhesion of Ag and ITO. A high quality transparent electrode, having a resistance as low as and a high optical transmittance of 91% at 550nm, was obtained. It could satisfy the requirement for the flexible OLED and LCD.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2008년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.9
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• pp.411-412
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• 2008

We have studied a property change of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) due to an indium tin oxide (ITO) surface reformation. The characteristics of OLED were improved by oxygen plasma processing of an ITO in this work. ITO is widely used as a transparent electrode in light-emitting devices, and the OLED device performance is sensitive to the surface properties of the ITO. The OLED devices with the structure of ITO/TPD(50nm)/$Alq_3$(70nm)/LiF(0.5nm)/Al(100nm) were fabricated, and the surface properties of ITO were investigated by using various characterization techniques. The oxygen plasma process of an ITO was processed by using RF power of 125W and oxygen partial pressure of $2\times10^{-2}$ Torr. The oxygen plasma processing of an ITO processed for 0/1/2/3/4min. Current-voltage-luminance characteristics of the devices show that turn-on voltage is 4V for 2min device and the luminance reaches about 27,000cd/$m^2$ for 4min device. The current efficiency shows that 3min device becomes saturated to be about 8cd/ A. They show that emission was from the $Alq_3$ layer, because the peak wavelength is about 525nm. View angle-dependent emission spectra show that the emission intensity decreases as the angle increases.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.47-51
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• 2008

The Al:Au double-layer metal electrode for use in transparent, dual emission of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) was fabricated. The electrode of Al:Au metals with various thicknesses was deposited by the vacuum thermal evaporation technique. For Al thickness of 1 nm, a bottom luminance of $4880\;cd/m^2$ was observed at 8 V. Otherwise, top luminance of $2020\;cd/m^2$ were observed at 8 V. In addition, the threshold voltages of the electrodes were 2.2 V. It was forward that the inserting 1 nm Al between LiF and Au enhanced electron injection with tunneling effect.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.19
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• pp.298-299
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 전면 발광 OLED용 투명 금속 전극 소자의 제조를 위해 Al과 Ag 재료를 가지고 박막의 두께에 따른 투과도와 면저항을 조사하였다. Al 금속 재료의 박막 두께가 30nm에 따른 면저항값은 $8{\Omega}/{\square}$로 조사되었고, 70% 이상의 투과도를 가진 금속의 두께는 10nm 이상으로 조사되었다. Ag 금속 재료의 최적의 두께 25nm에 따른 면 저항값는 $4.5{\Omega}/{\square}$로 조사되었고, 70% 이상의 투과도를 가진 Ag 금속의 두께는 5nm 이하로 조사되었다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1469-1472
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• 2006

We investigated the electrical and optical properties of ZnO:Al thin films as a function of the thermal process conditions. The film was prepared by RF magnetron sputtering followed by annealing in a box furnace in air. An ZnO:Al (98:2) alloy with the purity of 99.99% (3 inch diameter) was used as the target material. The electrical properties of the transparent electrode, exhibited surface oxidation as a result of rapid oxygen absorption with increasing annealing temperature. The processed ZnO:Al films and commercial ITO(indium-tin-oxide) were applied to an OLED stack to investigate the current density and luminescence efficiency. The efficiency of the device using the ZnO:Al electrode was higher than that from the device using the ITO electrode.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제52권9호
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• pp.400-406
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• 2003

Efficient electrodes are devised for organic luminescent device(OLED). ITO electrode is treated with $O_2$ plasma. In order to inject hole efficiently, there is proposed the shape of anode that inserted plasma polymerized films as buffer layer between anode and organic layer using thiophene monomer. In the case of device inserted the buffer layer by using the plasma polymerization after $O_2$ plasma processing for ITO transparent electrode, since it forms the stable interface and reduce the moving speed of hole, the recombination of hole and electronic are made in the emitting layer. Therefore it realized the device capability of two times in the aspect of luminous efficiency than the device which do not be inserted the buffer layer. Experiments are limited to the device that has the structure of TPD/$AIq_3$, however, the aforementioned electrodes can similarly applied to the organic luminous device and the Polymer luminous device.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2004년도 Asia Display / IMID 04
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• pp.707-710
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• 2004

We have proposed on dual-drive & -emission (DDE) panel based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The device is composed on independent operation of two OLED structures with two transparent electrodes for data signals and an intermediate reflective electrode for common scan signal. Typical device structure is ITO / organic electroluminescent layer (1) /intermediate reflective electrode / organic electroluminescent layer (2) /transparent electrode. Symmetric bright emission could be obtained by applying AlNd as the intermediate reflective electrode and $MoO_3$ as a hole injection layer for upper device structure. The proposed panel is useful for emissive face-to-face panel exhibited for different images.