• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2019

In this study, the Ag nano-dots structure was applied to the textured wafer surface to improve the light trapping effect of crystalline silicon solar cell. The Ag nano-dots structure was formed by the annealing of Ag thin film. Ag thin film deposition was performed using a thermal evaporator. The effect of light trapping was compared and analyzed through light reflectance measurements. The optimization process of the Ag nano-dots structure was made by varying the thickness of Ag thin film, the annealing temperature and time. The thickness of Ag thin films was in the range of 5 ~ 20 nm. The annealing temperature was in the range of 450~650℃ and the annealing time was in the range of 30 ~ 60 minutes. As a result, the light reflectance of 10 nm Ag thin film annealed at 650℃ for 30 minutes showed the lowest value of about 9.67%. This is a value that is about 3.37% lower than the light reflectance of the sample that has undergone only the texturing process. Finally, the change of the light reflectance by the HF treatment of the sample on which the Ag nano-dots structure was formed was investigated. The HF treatment time was in the range of 0 ~ 120 seconds. As a result, the light reflectance decreased by about 0.41% due to the HF treatment for 75 seconds.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제8권10호
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• pp.884-889
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• 1998

대면적의 비정질 실리콘 박막을 가우스 분포(Gaussian Profile)의 일차원 선형빔(line shape beam)을 가지는 엑시머 레이저를 사용하여 결정화를 시켰다. (Corning 7059 glass)위에 증착된 비정질 실리콘 박막이 재결정화된 실리콘 박막의 경우, 두께에따라 결정화되는 모양이 다르게 나타났다. 따라서 두께에 따라 결정화되는 상태의 변화를 조사하기 위하여 angle wrapping 방법을 새롭게 도입하여 깊이에 따른 Si층이 5${\mu}m$ 이상되도록 angle wrapping한 후에 박막의 두께에 따른 micro-raman spectra를 측정하여 결정화상태에 따른 잔류응력을 조사하였다. 또한 기판의 온도가 상온인 경우에 엑시머 레이저의 밀도가 300mJ/${cm}^2$에서 열처리한 경우에 재결정화된 Si 박막의 잔류응력에 박막의 표면에서 박막의 깊이에 따라 $1.3{\times}10^10$에서 $1.6{\times}10^10$을 거쳐 $1.9{\times}10^10$ dyne/${cm}^2$으로 phase의 변화에 따라 증가하였다. 또한 기판의 온도가 $400^{\circ}C$에서 최적의 열처리 에너지 밀도인 300mJ/${cm}^2$에서는 박막의 깊이에 따른 결정화 상태의변화에 따라 thermal stress 의 값이 $8.1{\times}10^9$에서 $9.0{\times}10^9$를 거쳐 $9.9{\times}10^9$ dyne/${cm}^2$으로 변화하는 것을 알 수 있다. 따라서 liquid phase에서 solid phaserk 변화함에 따라 stress값이 증가하는 것을 알 수 있다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.580-584
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• 2001

Ti과 Si의 비가 서로 다른 종류의 타 을 $Ar/N_2$의 혼합기체를 사용하여 rf magnetron sputtering방법으로 증착된 Ti-Si-N박막의 증착특성에 대해 연구하였다. Ti-Si-N박막의 조성과 증착률은 각 타 Ti/Si의 비율과 증착시의 질소기체의 유량에 따라 크게 변하였다. 이것은 Ti과 Si의 nitriding 정도의 차이로 인한 서로 다른 sputter yield에 의한 것으로 나타났다. Si이 비교적 적게 포함된 Ti-Si-N박막은 증착시부터 박막내 TiN의 결정화가 일어났으며, 낮은 비저항을 나타내었다. N의 함량의 증가는 박막의 밀도와 압축응력을 증가시켜 Ti-Si-N박막의 확산방지 능력에 큰 영향을 미치는 인자로 나타났다. 본 연구에서 $N_2$의 유략과 타 의 Ti/Si비율을 조절함으로써 효율적인 확산방지막인 Ti-Si-N 박막의 공정조건을 확립할 수 있었다. 박막의 공정조건을 확립할 수 있었다.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.177-182
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• 2017

The properties of electroless Ni-B thin film on diamond powder with different parameters (temperature, pH, surfactant etc.) were studied. The surface morphology, structure and composition distribution of the Ni-B film were observed by field effect scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), energy-dispersive spectrometer (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES). The growth rate of Ni-B film was increased with increase of bath temperature. The B content in Ni-B film was reduced with increase of bath pH. As a result the structure of Ni-B film was changed from amorphous to crystalline structure. The PVP in solution plays multi-functional roles as a dispersant and a stabilizer. The Ni-B film deposited with adding 0.1 mM-PVP was strongly introduced an amorphous structure with higher B content (25 at.%). Also the crystallite size of Ni-B film was reduced from 12.7 nm to 5.4 nm.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1349_1350
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• 2009

Thin films of pp(ST-Co-VA) were fabricated by plasma deposition polymerization (PVDPM) technique. Properties of the plasma polymerized pp(ST-Co-VA) thin films were investigated for application to semiconductor device as insulator. Thickness, dielectric property, composition of the pp(ST-Co-VA) thin films were investigated considering the relationship with preparation condition such as gas pressure and deposition time. In order to verify the possibility of application to organic thin film transistor, a pentacene thin film was deposited on the pp(ST-Co-VA) insulator by vacuum thermal evaporation technique. Crystalline property of the pentacene thin film was investigated by XRD and SEM, FT-IR. Surface properties at the pp(ST-Co-VA)/pentacene interface was investigated by contact angle measurement. The pp(ST-Co-VA) thin film showed a high-k (k=4.6) and good interface characteristic with pentacene semiconducting layer, which indicates that it would be a promising material for organic thin film transistor (OTFT) application.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2015년도 제49회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.192.1-192.1
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• 2015

We demonstrated the nonvolatile memory functionality of nano-crystalline silicon (nc-Si) and InGaZnOxide (IGZO) thin film transistors (TFTs) using mobile protons that are generated by very short time hydrogen neutral beam (H-NB) treatment in gate insulator (SiO2). The whole memory fabrication process kept under $50^{\circ}C$ (except SiO2 deposition process; $300^{\circ}C$). These devices exhibited reproducible hysteresis, reversible switching, and nonvolatile memory behaviors in comparison with those of the conventional FET devices. We also executed hydrogen treatment in order to figure out the difference of mobile proton generation between PECVD and H-NB CVD that we modified. Our study will further provide a vision of creating memory functionality and incorporating proton-based storage elements onto a probability of next generation flexible memorable electronics such as low power consumption flexible display panel.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.194-194
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• 2009

3C-SiC thin films are widely used in extreme environments, radio frequency (RF) environments, and bio-materials for micro/nano electronic mechanical systems (M/NEMS). The mechanical properties of 3C-SiC thin films need to be considered when designing M/NEMS, so Young's Modulus and the hardness need to be accurately measured. Young's Modulus and the hardness are influenced by N-doping. In this paper, we show that the mechanical properties of poly (polycrystalline) 3C-SiC thin films are influenced by the N-doping concentration. Furthermore, we measure the mechanical properties of 3C-SiC thin films for N-doping concentrations of 1%, 3%, and 5%, by using nanoindentation. For films deposited using a 1% N-doping concentration, Young's Modulus and the hardness were measured as 270 GPa and 30 GPa, respectively. When the surface roughness of the thin films was investigated by using atomic force microscopy (AFM), the roughness of the 5% N-doped 3C-SiC thin film was the lowest of all the films, at 15 nm.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.1103-1109
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• 2003

Crystalline carbon nitride films have been deposited by RF reactive magnetron sputtering system with negative DC bias. The carbon nitride films deposited on various substrates showed ${\alpha}$- C$_3$N$_4$,${\beta}$-C$_3$N$_4$ and lonsdaleite structures through XRD and FTIR We can find the grain growth of hexagonal structure from SEMI photographs, which is coincident with the theoretical carbon nitride unit cell. When nitrogen gas ratio is 70 % and RF power is 200 W, the growth rate of carbon nitride film on quartz substrate is about 2.1 $\mu\textrm{m}$/hr.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.383-390
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• 1992

We investigated the effect of substrate on the properties of the Ni-Zn-Cu ferrite thin films deposited on SiO2 (1000∼3000${\AA}$) / Si (100) substrate at various conditions by rf magnetron sputtering. A disktype Ni-Zn-Cu ferrite sintered by conventional ceramic process and argon gas were used as a target and a sputtering gas, repectively. The compositions of the thin films measured by EPMA were similar to target composition (Fe: 65.8 at%, Ni: 12.7 at%, Cu: 6.7 at%, Zn: 14.8 at%) irrespective of substrate temperature. Amorphous thin films were deposited when substrate was not intentionally heated, but the films came to crystallize with increasing substrate temperature, and crystalline thin films were deposited at substrate temperature above 200$^{\circ}C$. Below 250$^{\circ}C$ saturation magnetization (Ms), remanence (Mr) and coercivity (Hc) of the ferrite thin film increased with the substrate temperature due to the increase of grain size and the improvement of crystallinity. And above 250$^{\circ}C$, Ms, Mr increased slightly, but Hc of the amorphous thin films increased due to crystallization, whereas that of the crystalline thin films decreased because of grain growth and stress release.

• Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.107-117
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• 1998

Epitaxial undoped and Sb-doped si films have been grown on Si(001) substrates at temperatures T between 80 and 750$^{\circ}C$ using energetic Si in ultra-high-vacuum Kr+-ion-beam sputter deposition(IBSD). Critical epitaxial thicknesses te, The average thickness of epitaxial layers, in undoped films were found to range from 8nm at Ts=80$^{\circ}C$ to > 1.2 ${\mu}$m at Ts=300$^{\circ}C$ while Sb incorporation probabilities $\sigma$sb varied from unity at Ts 550$^{\circ}C$ to 0.1 at 750$^{\circ}C$. These te and $\sigma$Sb values are approximately one and one-to-three orders of magnitude, respectively, higher than reported results achieved with molecular-beam epitaxy. Plan-view and cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy, high-resolution x-ray diffraction, channeling and axial angular-yield profiles by Rutherford back scattering spectroscopy for epitaxial Si1-x Gex(001) alloy films (0.15$\leq$x$\leq$0.30) demonstrated that the films are of extremely high crystalline quality. critical layer thicknesses hc the film thickness where strain relaxation starts, I these alloys wre found to increase rapidly with decreasing growth temperature. For Si0.70 Ge0.30, hc ranged from 35nm at Ts=550$^{\circ}C$ to 650nm at 350$^{\circ}C$ compared to an equilibrium value of 8nm.