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Large Area Bernal Stacked Bilayer Graphene Grown by Multi Heating Zone Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition

  • Han, Jaehyun;Yeo, Jong-Souk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2015.08a
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    • pp.239.2-239.2
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    • 2015
  • Graphene is a most interesting material due to its unique and outstanding properties. However, semi-metallic properties of graphene along with zero bandgap energy structure limit further application to optoelectronic devices. Recently, many researchers have shown that band gap can be induced in the Bernal stacked bilayer graphene. Several methods have been used for the controlled growth of the Bernal staked bilayer graphene, but it is still challenging to control the growth process. In this paper, we synthesize the large area Bernal stacked bilayer graphene using multi heating zone low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD). The synthesized bilayer graphenes are characterized by Raman spectroscopy, optical microscope (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM). High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) is used for the observation of atomic resolution image of the graphene layers.

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Excimer Laser-Assisted In Situ Phosphorus Doped $Si_{(1-x)}Ge_x$ Epilayer Activation

  • Bae, Ji-Cheul;Lee, Young-Jae
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.247-252
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents results from experiments on laser-annealed SiGe-selective epitaxial growth (LA-SiGe-SEG). The SiGe-SEG technology is attractive for devices that require a low band gap and high mobility. However, it is difficult to make such devices because the SiGe and the highly doped region in the SiGe layer limit the thermal budget. This results in leakage and transient enhanced diffusion. To solve these problems, we grew in situ doped SiGe SEG film and annealed it on an XMR5121 high power XeCl excimer laser system. We successfully demonstrated this LA-SiGe-SEG technique with highly doped Ge and an ultra shallow junction on p-type Si (100). Analyzing the doping profiles of phosphorus, Ge compositions, surface morphology, and electric characteristics, we confirmed that the LA-SiGe-SEG technology is suitable for fabricating high-speed, low-power devices.

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Microstrip line tunable phase shifter (마이크로스트립 라인 전압제어 가변 대역통과필터)

  • ;Mai linh
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.227-229
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, we report on a microstrip line voltage controlled tunable bandpass filter. We used the characteristic the relative dielectric constant of thin film ferroelectrics depends on the applied dr voltage. we designed using Au/BSTO/MgO/Au structure. We cascaded many resonators for large furling range sustaining 1 GHz renter frequency, narrow band, low IL ($\leq$4 dB). We could design the BPF of which center frequency is 16 GHz, 1.9 GHz tuning range, the narrow bandwidth within 800 MHz, low insertion loss less than 3 dB by adjusting the gap of 3 cascaded resonators.

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Inorganic ferroelectric materials for LC alignment for high performance display design

  • Lee, Won-Gyu;Choe, Ji-Hyeok;Na, Hyeon-Jae;Im, Ji-Hun;Han, Jeong-Min;Hwang, Jeong-Yeon;Seo, Dae-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.161-161
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    • 2009
  • Ion bombarded inorganic materials for LC alignment has been researched as it provides controllability in a nonstop process for producing high-resolution displays. Many optically transparent insulators such as $SiOx$ and a-C:H have been investigated as potential candidates for inorganic alignment materials. Even so, LC orientation on a new material with superior capacity is required to produce high-performance displays. Many inorganic materials with high permittivities can reduce the voltage losses due to the LC alignment layer that are a trade-off for its capacitance. The minimum voltage for device operation can be applied to the LC under low external voltage using these materials. This means that low power consumption for LCD applications can be achieved using a high-k alignment structure in which the LC can be driven effectively with a low threshold voltage. Among the many other potential high-k oxides, HfO2 is considered to be one of the most promising due to its remarkable properties of high dielectric constant, relatively low leakage current, large band gap (5.68 eV), and high transparency. Due to these characteristics, HfO2 can be used in LC alignment to increase the capacitance of the inorganic alignment layer for low-voltage driving of LCs.

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[ $a-Si:H/{\mu}c-Si:H$ ] thin-film tandem solar cells (비정질/마이크로 탠덤 구조형 실리콘 박막 태양전지)

  • Lee, Jeong-Chul;Song, Jin-Soo;Yoon, Kyung-Hoon
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.228-231
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    • 2006
  • This paper briefly introduces silicon based thin film solar cells: amorphous (a-Si:H), microcrystalline ${\mu}c-Si:H$ single junction and $a-Si:H/{\mu}c-Si:H$ tandem solar cells. The major difference of a-Si:H and ${\mu}c-Si:H$ cells comes from electro-optical properties of intrinsic Si-films (active layer) that absorb incident photon and generate electron-hole pairs. The a-Si:H film has energy band-gap (Eg) of 1.7-1.8eV and solar cells incorporating this wide Eg a-Si:H material as active layer commonly give high voltage and low current, when illuminated, compared to ${\mu}c-Si:H$ solar cells that employ low Eg (1.1eV) material. This Eg difference of two materials make possible tandem configuration in order to effectively use incident photon energy. The $a-Si:H/{\mu}c-Si:H$ tandem solar cells, therefore, have a great potential for low cost photovoltaic device by its various advantages such as low material cost by thin-film structure on low cost substrate instead of expensive c-Si wafer and high conversion efficiency by tandem structure. In this paper, the structure, process and operation properties of Si-based thin-film solar cells are discussed.

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A Bandgap Reference Voltage Generator Design for Low Voltage SoC (저전압 SoC용 밴드갭 기준 전압 발생기 회로 설계)

  • Lee, Tae-Young;Lee, Jae-Hyung;Kim, Jong-Hee;Shim, Oe-Yong;Kim, Tae-Hoon;Park, Mu-Hun;Ha, Pan-Bong;Kim, Young-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.137-142
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    • 2008
  • The band-gap reference voltage generator which can be operated by low voltage is proposed in this paper. The proposed BGR circuit can be realized in logic process by using parasitic NPN BJTs because a $Low-V_T$ transistors are not necessary. The proposed BGR circuit is designed and fabricated using $0.18{\mu}m$ triple-well process. The mean voltage of measured VREF is 0.72V and the three sigma$(3{\sigma})$ is 45.69mv.

Comparison of Luminescence Properties of Electrochemical Luminescence Cells for Various Electrode Materials and Structures

  • Pooyodying, Pattarapon;Ok, Jung-Woo;Sung, Youl-Moon
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.1605-1610
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    • 2017
  • The electrochemical luminescence (ECL) device was investigated, which has similar structure to the dye-sensitized solar cell. The structure of the ECL cell in this experiment reliably induces a large amount of the oxidation around electrodes. The band gap of the ECL electrode is of 3.0 - 3.2 eV. Titanium dioxide ($TiO_2$) nanoparticle has following properties: a band gap of 3.4 eV, a low-priced material, and 002 preferred orientation (Z-axis). Zinc Oxide (ZnO) nanorod is easy to grow in a vertical direction. In this paper, in order to determine material suitable for the ECL device, the properties of various materials for electrodes of ECL devices such as ZnO nanorod (ZnO-NR) and $TiO_2$ nanoparticle ($TiO_2-NP$) were compared. The threshold voltage of the light emission of the ZnO-NR was 2.0 V which is lower than 2.5 V of $TiO_2-NP$. In the other hand, the luminance of $TiO_2-NP$ was $44.66cd/m^2$ and was higher than that of $34cd/m^2$ of ZnO-NR at the same applied voltage of 4 V. Based on the experimental results, we could conclude that $TiO_2-NP$ is a more suitable electrode material in ECL device than the ZnO-NR.

Dielectric cap quantum well disordering for band gap tuning of InGaAs/InGaAsP quantum well structure using various combinations of semiconductor-dielectric capping layers (다양한 반도체-유전체 덮개층 조합을 이용한 InGaAs/InGaAsP 양자우물의 무질서화)

  • 조재원;이희택;최원준;우덕하;김선호;강광남
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.207-211
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    • 2002
  • Band gap tuning by quantum well disordering in $In_{0.53}Ga_{0.47}As/InGaAsP(Q1.25)$ quantum well structure has been investigated using photoluminescence. The threshold temperature for the blue shift was about $750^{\circ}C$ , and the blue shift became larger as the annealing temperature increased. $SiO_2$ showed saturation as the annealing temperature increased. $SiN_x$caused larger blue shift than $SiO_2$, which is considered to be related to the low growth temperature of $SiN_x$. The diffusion of P and Ga are thought to be responsible for the blue shift of the $SiN_x$ and $SiO_2$capped quantum well disordering , respectively.

Optical and dielectric properties of nano BaNbO3 prepared by a combustion technique

  • Vidya, S.;Mathai, K.C.;John, Annamma;Solomon, Sam;Joy, K.;Thomas, J.K.
    • Advances in materials Research
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.141-153
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    • 2013
  • Nanocrystalline Barium niobate ($BaNbO_3$) has been synthesized by a novel auto-igniting combustion technique. The X-Ray diffraction studies reveals that $BaNbO_3$ posses a cubic structure with lattice constant $a=4.071{\AA}$. Phase purity and structure of the nano powder are further examined using Fourier-Transform Infrared and Raman spectroscopy. The average particle size of the as prepared nano particles from the Transmission Electron Microscopy is 20 nm. The UV-Vis absorption spectra of the samples are recorded and the calculated average optical band gap is 3.74eV. The sample is sintered at an optimized temperature of $1425^{\circ}C$ for 2h and attained nearly 98% of the theoretical density. The morphology of the sintered pellet is studied with Scanning Electron Microscopy. The dielectric constant and loss factor of a well-sintered $BaNbO_3$ at 5MHz sample is found to be 32.92 and $8.09{\times}10^{-4}$ respectively, at room temperature. The temperature coefficient of dielectric constant was $-179pp/^{\circ}C$. The high dielectric constant, low loss and negative temperature coefficient of dielectric constant makes it a potential candidate for temperature sensitive dielectric applications.

Photocatalytic Degradation of a Congo red Using ZnO/rutile-$TiO_2$, ZnO, rutile-$TiO_2$ and CdS (ZnO/rutile-$TiO_2$, ZnO, rutile-$TiO_2$, CdS를 이용한 Congo red의 광 촉매 분해반응)

  • Kim, Chang Suk;Ryu, Hae-Ill
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.259-265
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    • 2001
  • Photocatalytic degradation of Congo red was performed using various semiconductors as ZnO, CdS, rutile-$TiO_2$ or mixed rutile-$TiO_2$/ZnO. The change of degradation of the dye was investigated by UV-visible spectrophotometric method. The photocatalytic action of CdS was greater than ZnO and rutile-$TiO_2$ in account of low band gap energy of CdS. The rate of photocatalytic degradation reaction increased drastically in according to increasing ratio of ZnO on mixed rutile-$TiO_2$/ZnO. These photocatalytic effect of rutile-$TiO_2$ was suppressed by more stable rutile-$TiO_2$, doping the hydrolysis product with $Zn^{2+}$ prior to calcination onto the rutile-$TiO_2$ surface.

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