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A Study on Image Analysis of Graphene Oxide Using Optical Microscopy (광학 현미경을 이용한 산화 그래핀 이미지 분석 조건에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Yu-Jin;Kim, Na-Ri;Yoon, Sang-Su;Oh, Youngsuk;Lee, Jea Uk;Lee, Wonoh
    • Composites Research
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.183-189
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    • 2014
  • Experimental considerations have been performed to obtain the clear optical microscopic images of graphene oxide which are useful to probe its quality and morphological information such as a shape, a size, and a thickness. In this study, we investigated the contrast enhancement of the optical images of graphene oxide after hydrazine vapor reduction on a Si substrate coated with a 300 nm-thick $SiO_2$ dielectric layer. Also, a green-filtered light source gave higher contrast images comparing to optical images under standard white light. Furthermore, it was found that a image channel separation technique can be an alternative to simply identify the morphological information of graphene oxide, where red, green, and blue color values are separated at each pixels of the optical image. The approaches performed in this study can be helpful to set up a simple and easy protocol for the morphological identification of graphene oxide using a conventional optical microscope instead of a scanning electron microscopy or an atomic force microscopy.

3-D Analysis of Semiconductor Surface by Using Photoacoustic Microscopy (광음향 현미경법을 이용한 반도체 표면의 3차원적 구조 분석)

  • Lee, Eung-Joo;Choi, Ok-Lim;Lim, Jong-Tae;Kim, Ji-Woong;Choi, Joong-Gill
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.48 no.6
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    • pp.553-560
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    • 2004
  • In this experiment, a three dimensional structure analysis was carried out to examine the surface defects of semiconductor made artificially on known scale. It was investigated the three dimensional imaging according to the sample depth and the thermal diffusivity as well as the carrier transport properties. The thermal diffusivity measurement of the intrinsic GaAs semiconductor was also analyzed by the difference of frequency-dependence photoacoustic signals from the sample surface of different conditions. Thermal properties such as thermal diffusion length or thermal diffusivity of the Si wafer with and without defects on the surface were obtained by interpreting the frequency dependence of the PA signals. As a result, the photoacoustic signal is found to have the dependency on the shape and depth of the defects so that their structure of the defects can be analyzed. This method demonstrates the possibility of the application to the detection of the defects, cracks, and shortage of circuits on surface or sub-surface of the semiconductors and ceramic materials as a nondestructive testing(NDT) and a nondestructive evaluation(NDE) technique.

Effect of Oxygen Incorporation in the Fabrication of TiN Thin Film for Frame by UBM Sputtering System (UBM Sputtering System에 의한 안경테용 TiN막 제작에 있어 Oxygen 영향 연구)

  • Park, Moon Chan;Lee, Jong Geun;Joo, Kyung Bok;Lee, Wha Ja;Kim, Eung Soon;Choi, Kwang Ho
    • Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: TiN films were deposited on sus304 by unbalanced magnetron sputtering system which was designed and developed as unbalancing the strength of the magnets in the magnetron electrode. The effect of oxygen incorporation in the fabrication of deposited films was investigated. Methods: The cross sections of deposited films on Silicon wafer were observed by SEM to measure the thickness of the films, the components of the surface of the films were identified by XPS survey spectra, the compositional depth-profile of deposited films was examined by an XPS apparatus. Results: From the data of XPS depth profile of films, it could be seen that the element O as well as the elements Ti and N present in the surface of the film and the relative percentage of the element O was constant at 65 at.% with respect to the depth of film. Conclusions: The color change with thickness of the films had something to do with the change of Ti $ 2p_{3/2}$ peak intensity and shape mixed of $ TiO_2$, TiN, $ TiO_{x}N_{y}$ compound.

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Effect of Size and Morphology of Silica Abrasives on Oxide Removal Rate for Chemical Mechanical Polishing (기계화학적 연마용 실리카 연마재의 형상과 크기가 산화막 연마율에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Jinho;Lim, Hyung Mi;Huh, Su-Hyun;Jeong, Jeong-Hwan;Kim, Dae Sung;Lee, Seung-Ho
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.631-635
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    • 2011
  • Spherical and non-spherical silica particles prepared by the direct oxidation were studied for the effect of the particle size and shape of these particles on oxide CMP removal rate. Spherical silica particles, which have 10~100 nm in size, were prepared by the direct oxidation process from silicon in the presence of alkali catalyst. The 10 nm silica particles were aggregated by addition of an acid, an alcohol, or a silane as an aggregation inducer between the particles. Two or more aggregated silica particles were used as a seed to grow non spherical silica particles in the direct oxidation process of silicon in the presence of alkali catalyst. The oxide removal rate of spherical silica particles increased with increasing an average particle size for spherical silica abrasives in the oxide CMP. It further increased non-spherical particles, compared with the spherical particles in the similar average particle size.

Crytallization Behavior of Amorphous ${Si_{1-x}}{Ge_x)$ Films Deposited on $SiO_2$ by Molecular Beam Epitaxy(MBE) ($SiO_2$위에 MBE(Moleculat Beam Epitaxy)로 증착한 비정질 ${Si_{1-x}}{Ge_x)$박막의 결정화거동)

  • Hwang, Jang-Won;Hwang, Jang-Won;Kim, Jin-Won;Kim, Gi-Beom;Lee, Seung-Chang;Kim, Chang-Su
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.4 no.8
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    • pp.895-905
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    • 1994
  • The solid phase crystallization behavior of undoped amorphous $Si_{1-x}Ge_{x}$ (X=O to 0.53) alloyfilms was studied by X-ray diffractometry(XRD) and transmission electron microscopy(TEM). Thefilms were deposited on thermally oxidized 5" (100) Si wafer by MBE(Mo1ecular Beam Epitaxy) at 300'C and annealed in the temperature range of $500^{\circ}C$ ~ $625^{\circ}C$. From XRD results, it was found that the thermal budget for full crystallization of the film is significantly reduced as the Ge concentration in thefilm is increased. In addition, the results also shows that pure amorphous Si film crystallizes with astrong (111) texture while the $Si_{1-x}Ge_{x}$ alloy film crystallzes with a (311) texture suggesting that the solidphase crystallization mechanism is changed by the incorporation of Ge. TEM analysis of the crystallized filmshow that the grain morphology of the pure Si is an elliptical and/or a dendrite shape with high density ofcrystalline defects in the grains while that of the $Si_{0.47}Ge_{0.53}$ alloy is more or less equiaxed shape with muchlower density of defects. From these results, we conclude that the crystallization mechanism changes fromtwin-assisted growth mode to random growth mode as the Ge cocentration is increased.ocentration is increased.

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