• Proceedings of the Korean Ceranic Society Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.99.2-99
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• 2000

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.207-207
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• 2008

Modern industry has focused on processing that produce low- loss dielectric substrates used complex micron-sized devices using tick film technologies such as tape casting and slip casting. However, these processes have inherent disadvantages fabricating high density interconnect with embedded passives for high speed communication electronic devices. Here, we have successfully fabricated porous alumina dielectric layer infiltrated with polymer solution by using inkjet printing process. Alumina suspensions were formulated as dielectric ink that were optimized to use in inkjet process. The layer was confirmed by field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) for measuring microstructure and volume fraction. In addition, the reaction kinetics and electrical properties were characterized by FT-IR and the impedance analyzer. The volume fraction of alumina in porous dielectric alumina layer is around 70% much higher than that in the conventional process. Furthermore, after infiltration on the dielectric layer using polymer resins such as cyanate ester. Excellent Q factors of the dielectric is about 200 when confirmed by impedance analyzer without any high temperature process.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.447-451
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• 1999

Silver has the highest electrical conductivity of all metals and consequently this property is an attractive feature which makes it a leading candidate for use in electronic devices. The research conducted was focused primarily on the development of a process for obtaining a deposited silver-coating onto alumina, for applications related to electrical-conducting devices and, ancillarily, catalysts. Alumina balls and plane substrates were utilized for the investigation. The coating process employed an aqueous ammoniacal silver-nitrate electrolytes with a formaldehyde solution as the reductant. Modifying additives-an activator which would be expected to promote good deposition-characteristics onto the (dielectric) substrate and an inhibitor which would obviate homogeneous reduction (precipitation) of silver was observed when the activator-containing silver-electrolyte reductant constituents were combined. However, the silver-electrolyte/reductant system with inhibitor could be employed (at 8$0^{\circ}C$) to achieve a viable (subject to future research optimization) coating on alumina. The influence of the processing temperature on the deposition process was delineated during the course of the research. The morphology of the deposited-silver on the alumina balls was assessed by SEM imaging. A tape-peel test was employed, with the plane substrates, to semi-quantitatively characterize the adhesion to the alumina.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.109-119
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• 1996

In order to improve adhesion of electroless copper deposits on alumina substrates, some stabilizers such as 2-Mercapto Benzothiazole, thiourea and NaCN were added over a wide range of concentrations. The adhesion tests of the deposits were performed by using the cellophane tape and the push-pull scale. With the minor addition of the stabilizers, 2-MBT having a large molecular size gives poor adhesion, together with a finer grain structure, whereas Thiourea and NaCN show a high mechanical strength of the deposits. The high mechanical strength is supposed to be due to the easy desorption of hydrogen gas generated from the electroless reactions. A large amount of the three stabilizers decreases the adhesion for all the cases, resulting from strong adsorption of the stabilizers to the substrates.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.30 no.11
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• pp.683-687
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• 2017

We investigated the structure of an ultra-thin insulating board with low thermal conductivity along z-axis, which was based on the idea of void layers created during the glass infiltration process for the zero-shrinkage low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology. An alumina and four glass powders were chosen and prepared as green sheets by the tape casting method. After comparison of the four glass powders, bismuth glass was selected for the experiment. Since there is no notable reactivity between alumina and bismuth glass, alumina was selected as the supporting additive in glass layers. With 2.5 vol% of alumina powder, glass green sheets were prepared and stacked alternately with alumina green sheet to form the 'alumina/glass (including alumina additive)/alumina' structure. The stacked green sheets were sintered into an insulating substrate. Scanning electron microscopy revealed that the additive alumina formed supporting bridges in void layers. The depth and number of the stacking layers were varied to examine the insulating property. The lowest thermal conductivity obtained was 0.23 W/mK with a $500-{\mu}m-thick$ substrate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.05c
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• pp.245-248
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• 2003

저온동시소성 세라믹으로 제작된 모듈을 고주파 대역에 적용할 경우 dimension의 오차는 모듈 특성의 오차를 유발시킨다. Constrained sintering 기술은 XY 방향의 수축을 억제시킴으로써 세라믹 소결체의 dimensional tolerance를 향상시키기 위하여 개발된 기술이다. LTCC의 소성온도에서는 수축하지 않는 비소성층을 LTCC 적층체의 위 아래에 함께 적층시킴으로써 XY 방향의 수축은 기계적으로 억제되며, 두께 방향으로만 수축이 일어난다. 본 연구에서는 LTCC 기판을 constrained sintering 방법으로 소성하고, 그 특성값을 일반적인 소성방법으로 제작하였을 때와 비교하였다. 알루미나 테잎의 제조조건 빛 적층조건을 변화시켜 이에 따른 면수축 제어 특성의 변화를 고찰하였다. 실험결과 알루미나 테잎의 고형분 용량과 부착층의 두께가 면수축 제어를 위하여 고려되어야할 주요 인자임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.39 no.9
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• pp.871-877
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• 2002

Alumina slurriers, having various amount of alumina and ratio of organic additives, were prepared for tape casting. The relative viscosities were compared to investigate influence of composition on stability of the slurry and plotted as a function of powder fraction. They raised with increasing powder fraction of slurries, revealing a exponential function curve, which means that stability of slurry was not affected by amount and composition of organic additives. Cast green tapes were tested under tensile condition at room temperature. The increase in alumina ratio and binder ratio was found to decrease strain to failure of green tapes from 363% to 45% and from 68% to 25%, respectively. Tensile strength of green tapes increased abruptly with increasing alumina ratio, which showed its maximum at 1 MPa. On other hand, Tensile strength increased continuously from 0.5 MPa to 4 MPa with increasing binder ratio. Mechanical properties of them were affected seriously and lost their properties by elevating temperature from 20$^{\circ}C$ to 80$^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.122-129
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• 1999

Alumina tapes, having various weight ratios of alumina powder/(alumina+binder+plasticizer), X, and binder / (binder+plsticizer), Y, were prepared and their complex modulus was measured using Micro Fourier Rheometer. As the X and Y ratios increased, Transfer function(TF) magnitude and Transfer function (TF) phase increased and decreased, respectively, indicating that the elastic modulus of the tapes depends on the weight ratios. The temperature dependence of the viscosity of the tapes was visualized by the decreased TF magnitude and the increased TF phase. The Y ratio dependence of the complex modulus related to the glass transition temperature of the tapes and the moduls change by the Y ratio was higher than that by the X ratio within the comperature of the tapes and the modulus changes by the Y ratio was higher than that by the X ratio within the composition range, investigated in the present study. The measurement of the complex modulus of the alumina tapes suggested that the TF phase should be higher that 17$^{\circ}$for the tapes to be utilized for 3-dimensional shaping.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.303-313
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• 1997

To enhance the strength and formability of MCFC matrixes, alumina/${\gamma}$-LiAlO2 fiber-reinforced ${\gamma}$-LiAlO2 ma-trixes have been investigated. The MCFC matrixes with the thickness of 500~600 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ were prepared by tape-casting of the slurry containing 10~30wt% fibers, followed by heat-treating up to $650^{\circ}C$. The porosity of fi-ber-reinforced matrixes decreased with the content of fibers, while the appropriate porosity(50~60%) for MCFC matrixes could be attained by adding larger ${\gamma}$-LiAlO2 particles with the diameter of about 50${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ up to 50 wt%. The optimum length and content of the alumina fiber, both in the alignment of fibers and the enhancement of the strength, were found to be below 250${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ and 20 wt%, respectively. On the other hand, the strength(156 gf/$\textrm{mm}^2$) of the ${\gamma}$-LiAlO2 matrix reinforced with ${\gamma}$-LiAlO2 fibers prepared in this study was improved by 20~40% in comparison with the alumina-fiber-reinforced matrix. It was also found that the alu-mina-fiber-reinforced matrix was completely corroded in molten carbonates but the ${\gamma}$-LiAlO2 was not.

• The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.832-845
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• 1998

The purpose of this study was to compare the marginal fit of all ceramic crowns prepared from alumina slip casting, which is consistent with the conventional In-ceram system, and those fabricated from alumina tapes which is currently under development in an effort to alleviate complexities involved in the forming procedure of the In-ceram crown core. All ceramic crowns, made of In-ceram(slip casting) and alumina tapes(Doctor blade casting), were prepared with $90^{\circ}\;and\;135^{\circ}$ shoulder margins. The crowns were cemented with a glass ionomer cement and embeded in epoxy resin. The embedded crowns were sectioned faciolingually and mesiodistally and marginal discrepancies and marginal gaps were measured under the Measurescope MM II. The measurements were analyzed using Wilcoxon rank sum test and Kruskal-Wallis test and the results were as follows: 1. In the case of $90^{\circ}$ shoulder margin, the combined marginal discrepancies and marginal gaps were $78.3{\mu}m\;and\;44.4{\mu}m$ respectively, for the all ceramic crowns fabricated using the alumina tapes. In comparison, the values were $65{\mu}m\;and\;25.5{\mu}m$ for the In-ceram crowns. For the marginal gaps a statistical difference existed (p<0.05) but no significant difference was observed for the marginal discrepancy (p>0.05). 2. In the case of $135^{\circ}$ shoulder margin, the combined marginal discrepancy and marginal gaps were $82.1{\mu}m\;and\;40.2{\mu}m$ respectively, for the all ceramic crowns formed with the tapes. As compared with the marginal discrepancy and gaps of the $90^{\circ}$ shoulder margin in the fabricated from the alumina tapes, no significant statistical differencies were discerned in both cases (p>0.05). 3. There was no statistically significant difference in the fits among four locations around the margins of the all ceramic crowns fabricated using the alumina tapes. The results obtained in this study showed that the marginal fits of the glass infiltrated alumina cores fabricated from the alumina tapes are slightly higher value than those prepared using the In-ceram but the difference is within a clinically acceptable range.