• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.29-33
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• 2004

In this paper, we investigated the ultra-low temperature(<$150^{\circ}C$) polycrystalline silicon film on plastic substrate application using RF-magnetron sputtering and excimer laser annealing. Amorphous silicon films were deposited using Ar/He mixture gas at $120^{\circ}C$ and in-film argon concentration was less than 2%, which was measured to Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry. At energy density 320mJ/$\textrm{cm}^2$, RMS roughness was 267$\AA$ and UV crystallinity was 62%. The grain size varies from 50nm to 100nm after excimer laser irradiation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.462-465
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• 2009

Schottky barrier thin film transistors (SB-TFT) on polycrystalline silicon(poly-Si) are fabricated by platinum silicided source/drain for p-type SB-TFT. High quality poly-Si film were obtained by crystallizing the amorphous Si film with excimer laser annealing (ELA) or solid phase crystallization (SPC) method, The fabricated poly-Si SB-TFTs showed low leakage current level and a large on/off current ratio larger than 10), Significant improvement of electrical characteristics were obtained by the additional forming gas annealing in 2% $H_2/N_2$ ambient, which is attributed to the termination of dangling bond at the poly-Si grain boundaries as well as the reduction of interface trap states at gate oxide/poly-Si channel.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.1407-1411
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• 2003

Due to the heat confinement in the shallow region of the target for a short time scale, pulsed laser annealing has received increasing interest for the fabrication of poly-Si thin film transistors(TFTs) on glass as a low cost substrate in the flat panel displays. The formation and growth mechanisms of poly silicon(poly-Si) grains in thin films are investigated using an excimer laser crystallization system. To understand the crystallization mechanism, the grain formations are observed by FESEM analysis. The optical reflectance and transmittance during the crystallization process are measured using HeNe laser optics. A two-step ELC(Excimer Laser Crystallization) process is applied to enhance the grain formation uniformity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.528-531
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• 2000

Deposition of PZT with UV laser ablatio was applied for realization of thin film sensors and actuators. Deposition rate of more than 20nm/min was attained by pulsed KrF excimer laser deposition, which is fairly better than those obtained by the other methods. Perovskite phase was obtained at room temperature deposition with Fast Atom Beam(FAB) treatment and annealing. Smart MEMS(Micro electro-mechanical system) is now a suject of interest in the field of micro optical devices, micro pumps, AFM cantilever devices etc. It can be fabricated by deposition of PZT thin films and micromachining. PZT films of more than 1 micron thickness is difficult to obtain by conventional methods. This is the reason why we applied excimer laser ablation for thin film deposition. The remanent polarization Pr of 700nm PZT thin film was measured, and the relative dielectric constant was determined to about 900 and the dielectric loss tangent was also measured to be about 0.04. XRD analysis shows that, after annealing at 650 degrees C in 1 hour, the perovskite structure would be formed with some amount of pyrochlore phase, as is the case of the annealing at 750 degrees C in 1 hour.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.28-28
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• 2010

This study realized low-temperature crystallization process of the $Ba_{0.6}Sr_{0.4}TiO_3$ (BST) thin films without thermal damage of substrate using excimer laser annealing (ELA) and structural and electrical characteristics were investigated. The amorphous BST thin films were prepared on Pt/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si substrate by sol-gel method at $250^{\circ}C$. The ELA was carried out using KrF excimer laser which provided excitation wavelength of 248 nm. The beam homogenizing system was used in order to homogenize beam shape of Gaussian fit. The XRD and SEM were used to analyze structural characteristics and the microwave capacitance, dielectric loss and tunability of the BST films were measured by a symmetrical stripline resonator method with shorted end. Consequently, the crystallinity of BST thin films were improved after ELA process and RF tunable capacitor was demonstrated at low temperature below $300^{\circ}C$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.19-19
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• 2007

Excimer laser annealing (ELA) 방법을 이용하여 결정화하고 게이트 절연체로써 high-k 물질을 가지는 다결정 실리콘박막 트랜지스터의 전기적 특성을 평가하였다. 다결정 실리콘 박막 트랜지스터는 비결정질 실리콘 박막 트랜지스터 보다 높은 전계 효과 이동도와 운전 용이한 장점을 가진다. 기존의 결정화 방법으로는 다결정 실리콘 박막 트랜지스터의 높은 열 공급을 피할 수 없기 때문에, 매몰 산화막 위의 비결정질 박막은 저온에서 다결정 실리콘 결정화를 위해 KrF excimer laser (248nm)를 이용하여 가열 냉각 공정을 했다. 게다가 케이트 절연체로써 atomic layer deposition (ALD) 방법에 의해 저온에서 20 nm의 고 유전율을 가지는 $HfO_2$ 박막을 증착하였다. 알루미늄은 n-MOS 박막 트랜지스터의 게이트 전극으로 사용되었다. 금속 케이트 전극을 사용하여 게이트 공핍 효과와 관계되는 케이트 절연막 두께의 증가를 예방할 수 있고, 게이트 저항의 감소에 의해 소자 속도를 증가 시킬 수 있다. 추가적으로, 비결정질 실리콘 박막의 결정화 기술로써 사용된 ELA 방법은 SPC (solid phase crystallization) 방법과 SLS (sequential lateral solidification) 방법에 의해 비교되었다. 결과적으로, ELA 방법에 의해 결정화된 다결정 실리콘 박막의 결정도와 표면 거칠기는 SPC와 SLS 방법에 비해 개선되었다. 또한, 우리는 ELA 결정화 방법에 의한 다결정 실리콘 박막 트랜지스터로부터 우수한 소자 특성을 얻었다.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.205-210
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• 2004

The waveguide Bragg gratings have been fabricated by the phase-mask method. An excimer laser with maximum 600mJ output pulse energy and uniform phase masks have been used. Hydrogen loading is often used for enhancing the uv photosensitivity of the core, however, the resultant gratings show significant aging effect. In the present study, high temperature thermal annealing process has been investigated to obtain thermal gratings and process parameters are deduced.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.254-257
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• 2009

The crystallization and activated annealing effect of Si films using an excimer laser and a new CW blue laser are described comparing with furnace annealing (SPC) for the application of advanced TFTs and future applications. Currently, pulsed ELA is used extensively as a LTPS process on glass substrates as the efficiency is high in UV region for thin Si film of 40- 60 nm thickness. ELA enables extremely low resistivity for both n- and p-typed Si films. On the other hand, CW BLDA enables the smooth Si surface having arbitral grains from micro-grains to anisotropic huge grain structure only controlling its power density.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1003-1006
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• 2004

We have fabricated poly-Si TFTs at 170$^{\circ}C$ using inductively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition (ICP-CVD) and excimer laser annealing (ELA). A Poly-Si film with large grains exceeding 5000${\AA}$ and a $SiO_2$ film with high breakdown field are deposited by ICP-CVD. A high mobility exceeding 100$cm^2$/Vs with a low sub-threshold swing of 0.76V/dec was obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.562-565
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• 2001

In this paper, novel device structures in order to realize ultra fast and ultra small silicon devices are investigated using ultra-high vacuum chemical vapor deposition(UHVCVD) and Excimer Laser Annealing (ELA). Based on these fundamental technologies for the deep sub-micron device, high speed and low power devices can be fabricated. These junction formation technologies based on damage-free process for replacing of low energy ion implantation involve solid phase diffusion and vapor phase diffusion. As a result, ultra shallow junction depths by ELA are analyzed to 10~20nm for arsenic dosage(2${\times}$10$\_$14//$\textrm{cm}^2$), exciter laser source(λ=248nm) is KrF, and sheet resistances are measured to 1k$\Omega$/$\square$ at junction depth of 15nm and realized sub-50nm n-MOSFET.