• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.135-139
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• 2017

We fabricated two different transparent conducting oxide thin films of ZnO doped with Ga ($Ga_2O_3$ 0.9 wt%) as well as Al ($Al_2O_3$ 2.1 wt%) (GAZO) and ZnO doped only with Al ($Al_2O_3$ 3 wt%) (AZO). It was investigated how it affects the moisture resistance of the transparent electrode. In addition, $Cu(In,Ga)Se_2$ thin film solar cells with two transparent oxides as front electrodes were fabricated, and the correlation between humidity resistance of transparent electrodes and device performance of solar cells was examined. When both transparent electrodes were exposed to high temperature distilled water, they showed a rapid increase in sheet resistance and a decrease in the fill factor of the solar cell. However, AZO showed a drastic decrease in efficiency at the beginning of exposure, while GAZO showed that the deterioration of efficiency occurred over a long period of time and that the long term moisture resistance of GAZO was better.

• Composites Research
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.355-364
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• 2018

Flexible energy-storage devices (FESDs) have been studied and developed extensively over the last few years because of demands in various fields. Since electrochemical performance and mechanical flexibility must be taken into account together, different framework from composition of conventional energy-storage devices (ESDs) is required. Numerous types of electrodes have been proposed to implement the FESDs. Herein, we review the works related to the FESDs so far and focus on free-standing electrodes and, especially substrate-based ones. The way to utilize carbon woven fabric (CF) or carbon cloth (CC) as flexible substrates is quite simple and intuitive. However, it is meaningful in the point of that the framework exploiting CF or CC can be extended to other applications resulting in multifunctional composites. Therefore, summary, which is on utilization of carbon-based material and conductive substrate containing CF and CC for ESDs, turns out to be helpful for other researchers to have crude concepts to get into energy-storage multi-functional composite. Moreover, polymer electrolytes are briefly explored as well because safety is one of the most important issues in FESDs and the electrolyte part mainly includes difficult obstacles to overcome. Lastly, we suggest some points that need to be further improved and studied for FESDs.

• Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.5-8
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• 2018

In this paper, plasma treatment effects on a ploy(dimethyl siloxane) substrate were analyzed for the applications of stretchable silver nanowire (Ag NWs) electrodes. The oxygen plasma treated sample shows the best performance compared to nitrogen treated and untreated samples. The lowest sheet resistance and reasonable stretching capability was achieved up to 20% strain condition without open circuit fail for the oxygen plasma treated sample.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.349-352
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• 1996

Electrical capacitance at the interface between electrolyte solution and conducting polypyrrole film electrode was measured by a simple electrochemical method. The polymer films were electropolymerized in the presence of perchlorate (PPy-ClO4) or Nafion (PPy-Nafion) anions as the dopant ions. Both polymers exhibited large double layer capacitances which were slightly potential dependent within the potential range where the polymers are conductive. The capacitance increased in proportion to the polymer thickness. The specific capacitance were about 10 Fg-1and 44 F g-1 for PPy-Nafion and PPy-ClO4, respectively.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2020

신축/유연한 전극을 무언가에 접착하거나 전극에 무언가를 접착하기 위해서는 전극의 특성에 맞는 전도성 접착제가 필요하다. 전도성 접착제는 접착성과 전도성이 필수적으로 요구된다. 특히 접착성 부분은 내구성과 내열성이 요구되며 기존 접착제와 다르게 전도성까지 보유해야한다. 그러기 위해서는 강도와 접착성이 좋은 에폭시를 접착제로 선정하였고 여기에 기존 주제와 경화제로 이루어진 2액형 소재가 아닌 가소제와 보강제까지 혼합하여 4액형 소재를 사용하여 신축/유연성을 고분자에 부여하였다. 전도성 필러는 비저항이 낮은 재료인 은으로 선정하였고 높은 전도성을 위해 3가지 모양의 Ag 입자를 사용해 패킹성을 높였다. 이렇게 개발된 전도성 접착제와 실제 판매되고 있는 에폭시 기반 전도성 접착제 2개와 전도성을 비교하였고 실제 판매되고 있는 제품보다 약 10배정도의 우수한 전도성 결과가 도출되었다. 그리고 가소제와 보강제 여부에 따른 전도성, 기계적 특성, 접착력, 강도를 평가하였다. 또한 120℃에서 5분 경화 후에 60%의 인장에도 문제가 없었으며 연필경도는 6H로 우수하게 측정되었다. 3M tape test를 통해 전극의 접착력을 확인한 결과 바인더의 배합 비율에 관계없이 모두 우수한 결과를 보였다. 전극 위에 Cu sheet를 전도성 접착제를 통해 부착시킨 후 접촉저항을 확인한 결과 0.3 Ω으로 우수한 성능을 보였다.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.88-92
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• 1999

리튬이온전지용 $LiCoO_2$ 전극의 도전재료인 흑연과 블랙에 대하여 도전재료 함량에 따른 복합체 전극의 겉보기 밀도, 전해액 중에서 집전체로부터 전극복합체의 자기박리 및 전자전도 저항 특성을 조사하였다. $LiCoO_2$복합전극의 겉보기 밀도는 도전재료의 함량 증가에 따라 감소하였으며, 복합체 중 $LiCoO_2$ 단독의 겉보기 밀도는 보다 큰 감소를 나타내었다. $4.7\%w/w$ 이상의 super s black 도전재료를 사용한 전극은 propylene carbonate와 diethyl carbonate의 1: 1 체적비 혼합용매 중의 1 mol/I $LiPF_6$ 전해액 함침으로 자기박리하였으며, 흑연 도전재료에서는 자기박리가 없었다 복합전극의 전자전도에 대한 비저항은 도전재료의 함량 증가에 따라 감소하였으며, super s black도전재료 $2\~3\%w/w$ 함량의 비저항은 Lonza KS6흑연 도전재료 $12\%w/w$ 함량의 비저항과 유사하였다. 본 연구에서 나타낸 범위 내에서 super s black도전재료를 사용할 때 전극 복합체 중의 $LiCoO_2$밀도가 높아 고용량을 나타내었다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.133-137
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• 2011

Gold have been used as an electrode materials having a good mechanical flexibility as well as electrical conductivity, however the stretchability of the gold on a flexible substrate is poor because of its small elastic modulus. To overcome this mechanical inferiority, the reinforcing gold is necessary for the stretchable electronics. Among the reinforcing materials having a large elastic modulus, carbon nanotube (CNT) is the best candidate due to its good electrical conductivity and nanoscale diameter. Therefore, similarly to ferroconcrete technology, here we demonstrated gold electrodes mechanically reinforced by inserting fabrics of CNTs into their bodies. Flexibility and stretchability of the electrodes were determined for various densities of CNT fabrics. The roles of CNTs in resisting electrical disconnection of gold electrodes from the mechanical stress were confirmed using field emission scanning electron microscope and optical microscope. The best mechanical stability was achieved at a density of CNT fabrics manufactured by 1.5 ml spraying. The concept of the mechanical reinforced metal electrode by CNT is the first trial for the high stretchable conductive materials, and can be applied as electrodes materials in various flexible and stretchable electronic devices such as transistor, diode, sensor and solar cell and so on.

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2012

의료기기의 발전과 IT융합기술의 접목으로 때와 장소에 관계없이 생체신호의 측정이 가능하게 되었으며, 다양한 형태의 u-헬스케어 기기가 개발되어 일상생활과 가정에서 불편함이 없이 건강변수 측정이 가능하게 되었다. 또한 사용자를 고려해 의복처럼 착용하고 생활하며 생체 신호를 측정할 수 있는 스마트 의류에 전도성 섬유의 활용이 이루어지고 있다. 하지만 이러한 u-헬스케어 기기에 대한 연구 및 개발이 우선되고 있는 반면 성능평가 기준 마련은 미흡한 실정이다. 이에 시판전의 시험검사나 시판후의 수거 검사 시에 성능평가를 위한 표준시험방법 개발 등에 따른 가이드라인 마련에 힘을 쓰고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 섬유적 특성 시험을 통해 전도성 섬유의 착용형 u-헬스케어 기기에 전극으로 접목 가능성 여부를 연구하였다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.314-314
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• 2013

Recently, flexibility is one of the hottest issues in the field of electronic devices. For flexible displays or solar cells, a development of transparent conductive electrodes (TCEs) with flexibility, bendability and foldability is an essential element. Hundreds of nanometers indium-tin-oxide (ITO) films have been widely used and commercialized as a transparent electrode, but their brittleness make them difficulty to apply flexible electronics. Many researchers have been studying for flexible TCEs such as a few layers of graphene sheets, carbon nanotube networks, conductive polymer films and combinations among them. Although gained flexibility, their transmittance and resistivity have not reached those of commercialized ITO films. Metal grids electrode cannot act as TCEs only, but they can be used to lower the resistance of TCEs with few losses of transmittance. However, the possibility of device shortage will be rise at the devices with metal grids because a surface flatness of TCEs may be deteriorated when metal grids are introduced using conventional methods. In our research, we have developed hybrid TCEs, which combined tens of nanometers ITO film and metal grids which are embedded in flexible substrate. They show $13{\Omega}$/${\Box}f$ sheet resistance with 94% of transmittance. Moreover, the sheet resistance was maintained up to 1 mm of bending radius. Also, we have verified that flexible organic light emitting diodes and organic solar cells with the TCEs showed similar performances compared to commercial ITO (on glass substrate) devices.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.562-568
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• 2012

Metal nanowires can be coated on various substrates to create transparent conducting films that can potentially replace the dominant transparent conductor, indium tin oxide, in displays, solar cells, organic light-emitting diodes, and electrochromic windows. One issue with these metal nanowire based transparent conductive films is that the resistance between the nanowires is still high because of their low aspect ratio. Here, we demonstrate high-performance transparent conductive films with silver nanofiber networks synthesized by a low-cost and scalable electrospinning process followed by two-step sequential thermal treatments. First, the PVP/$AgNO_3$ precursor nanofibers, which have an average diameter of 208 nm and are several thousands of micrometers in length, were synthesized by the electrospinning process. The thermal behavior and the phase and morphology evolution in the thermal treatment processes were systematically investigated to determine the thermal treatment atmosphere and temperature. PVP/$AgNO_3$ nanofibers were transformed stepwise into PVP/Ag and Ag nanofibers by two-step sequential thermal treatments (i.e., $150^{\circ}C$ in $H_2$ for 0.5 h and $300^{\circ}C$ in Ar for 3 h); however, the fibrous shape was perfectly maintained. The silver nanofibers have ultrahigh aspect ratios of up to 10000 and a small average diameter of 142 nm; they also have fused crossing points with ultra-low junction resistances, which result in high transmittance at low sheet resistance.