• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2013

ZnO film has been used for CIGS solar cells as a buffer layer as itself or by doping Mg and Sn; ZnO film also has been used as a transparent conducting layer by doping Al or B for solar cells. Since ZnO itself is a host material for many applications it is necessary to understand the electrical and optical properties of ZnO film itself with various preparation conditions. We prepared ZnO films by converting ZnS precursor into ZnO film by thermal annealing. ZnO film was formed at low temperature as low as $500^{\circ}C$ by annealing a ZnS precursor layer in air. In the air annealing, the electrical resistivity decreased monotonically with increasing annealing temperature; the intensity of the green photoluminescence at 505 nm increased up to $750^{\circ}C$ annealing. The electrical resistivity further decreased and the intensity of green emission also increased in reducing atmospheres. The results suggest that deep-level defects originated by oxygen vacancy enhanced green emission, which reduce light transmittance and enhance the recombination of electrons in conduction band and holes in valence. More oxidizing environment is necessary to obtain defect-free ZnO film for higher transparency.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.206-210
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• 2010

RF 마그네트론 스퍼터링법을 이용하여 Al 도핑된 ZnO 박막을 Ar 유량에 따라 증착하고 박막의 다양한 특성을 연구하였다. ZnO 박막의 Ar 유량 변화를 통해 고품질 박막을 증착할 수 있었고 Al 도핑된 ZnO 박막에 대한 Ar 유량의 영향을 확인하였다. 모든 Al 도핑된 ZnO에서 80% 이상의 좋은 투과도를 보였다. Hall 측정과 X-ray photoelectron spectrometer 측정 결과, 비저항이 가장 작은 60 sccm에서 가장 작은 Al 도핑 농도를 보였다. Ar 유량에 따른 Al 도핑된 ZnO 박막에서의 전기적인 특성은 Al 도핑 농도보다 산소 공공에 의해 더 영향을 받음을 확인하였다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.103-105
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• 2015

Effect of silicon doping into ZnSnO systems was investigated using solution process. Addition of silicon was used to suppress oxygen vacancy generation. The transfer characteristics of the device showed threshold voltage shift toward the positive direction with increasing Si content due to the high binding energy of silicon atoms with oxygen. As a result, the carrier concentration was decreased with increasing Si content.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2007년도 제32회 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.135-135
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• 2007

• EDISON SW 활용 경진대회 논문집
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• 제3회(2014년)
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• pp.514-515
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• 2014

실리신의 single vacancy에 Sc부터 Zn까지 전이금속을 넣고 이에 따른 실리신의 자기 모멘트와 구조 변화를 density funtional theory(DFT) 계산을 통해 알아보았다. 실리신은 그래핀(Graphene)과는 다소 다른 경향을 보였으며, 이는 실리신의 buckled 구조와 결합 길이의 차이로 인한 것으로 생각된다. 자기 모멘트는 전이금속 impurity에 큰 영향을 받았다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2006년도 제31회 학술논문발표회 초록집
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• pp.148-148
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• 2006

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.764-768
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• 2004

Perovskite Pb(Mn_{1/3}Sbu_{2/3})O_2-Pb(Zr,Ti)O_3\;(PMS-PZT) was prepared and ZnO doping effects on its piezoelectric properties were investigated. Pyrochlore phase was not identified in the PMS-PZT ceramics with $0\sim5\;mol\%$ ZnO sintered at $1100^{\circ}C$ for 2 hrs, and maximum sintered density of $7.92 g/cm^3$ was obtained. Piezoelectric charge constant and voltage constant increased to $359{\times}10^{-12}\;C/N\;and\;22.5{\times}10^{-13}\;Vm/N$, respectively, with increasing ZnO content. Mechanical quality factor reduced considerably with increasing ZnO content. When the ZnO content was 3 $mol\%$, electromechanical coupling factor and relative dielectric constant showed maximum values of $56\%$ and 1727, respectively. This should be evaluated by complicated variations of sintered density, tetragonality of lattice, grain size, and A-site vacancy generated by ZnO addition and $Zn^{2+}$ substitution.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.155-158
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• 2017

In this paper, ZnO Thin Film Transistors (TFTs) were fabricated by a sol-gel method using a low-temperature process, and their physical and electrical characteristics were analyzed. To lower the process temperature to $200^{\circ}C$, we used a zinc nitrate hydrate ($Zn(NO_3)_2{\cdot}xH_2O$) precursor. Thermo Gravimetric Analyzer (TGA) analysis showed that the zinc nitrate hydrate precursor solution had 1.5% residual organics, much less than the 6.5% of zinc acetate dihydrate at $200^{\circ}C$. In the sol-gel method, organic materials in the precursor disrupt formation of a high-quality film, and high-temperature annealing is needed to remove the organic residuals, which implies that, by using zinc nitrate hydrate, ZnO devices can be fabricated at a much lower temperature. Using an X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD) and an X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS), $200^{\circ}C$ annealed ZnO film with zinc nitrate hydrate (ZnO (N)) was found to have an amorphous phase and much more oxygen vacancy ($V_o$) than Zn-O bonds. Despite no crystallinity, the ZnO (N) had conductance comparable to that of ZnO with zinc acetate dihydrate (ZnO (A)) annealed at $500^{\circ}C$ as in TFTs. These results show that sol-gel could be made a potent process for low-cost and flexible device applications by optimizing the precursors.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.84-97
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• 1989

The influence of Zn, Si and Te diffusion on the interdiffusion in $GaAs-Ga_1_-xIN_xAs_1__yP_y$and InP$Ga_1__xIn_xAs_1__yP_y$ heterostructures was studied. The heterostructures were grown by liquid phase epitaxy, and the impurity diffusion into the heterostructures was carried out using metal compound or element sources. The extent of interdiffusion for both group III and V atoms was observed by depth profiling of matrix elements with secondary ion mass spectrometry and Auger electron spectroscopy. Selective enhancement of cation interdiffusion was observed by the concurrent Zn diffusion in both the GaAs based-and InP based-crystals. In contrast to the Zn diffusion, the Si diffusion in the GaAs based-crystal and the Te diffusion in the InP based-crystal enhanced both cation and anion interdiffusion to the same extent. A kick-out mechanism is proposed to explain the selective enhancement of the cation interdiffusion due to Zn, and a single vacancy mechanism is proposed for the interdiffusion due to Si and Te.

• Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.78-84
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• 1998

ZnO:Al films were prepared by an rf magnetron sputtering and targets for the experiments were fabricated by sintering the mixture of ZnO and Al2O3. The most conductive film was obtained from the target with 2.0∼2.2 wt.% of Al2O3. Optical properties studied with spectroscopic ellipsometry showed band gap widening, i.e., the Burstein-Moss shift, with aluminum doping as well as with the elevation of deposition temperature. And it is found that the optical and electrical properties were related to the density of states as well as the variation of donor level. when hydrogen atoms were introduced into the films, the activation energy for the generation of oxygen vacancy was smaller for the films showing higher conductivity. This indicates that the optimum deposition condition for highly conductive ZnO:Al film has strong relation to the optimum doping condition.