• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.638-638
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• 2013

ZnO는 넓은 밴드갭(3.37 eV)를 가지기 때문에 UV detector로 유용하게 쓰일 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 Graphene 위에 ZnO nanorod를 hydrothermal 방법을 사용하여 성장한 후 Graphene 위에 전극을 형성한 후 UV 센서를 제작하였다. Si의 기판위에 SiO2의 막을 증착을 하고 그 위에 Graphene을 전도시킨다. Graphene위에 ZnO nanorod의 성장을 위해서 ZnO seed layer를 sputtering 방법으로 얇게 증착을 시킨다. ZnO nanorod의 성장은 hydrothermal의 방법으로 Zinc nitrate hexahydrate와 암모니아를 수용액에 넣은 후 $80^{\circ}C$에서 성장하였다. Graphene 위에 ZnO가 없는 부분에 전극을 형성하여 UV의 세기에 따른 IV 전기적 특성의 변화를 관측한다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.725-730
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• 2014

The effect the diameter of silver nanorod arrays whose distance between the nanorods was uniform at 65 nm have on Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) has been studied by varying the diameter from 28 to 51 nm. Nanorod length was fixed at approximately 62 nm, which is the optimum length for SERS by excitation with a 632.8 nm laser line. The transverse and longitudinal modes of the surface plasmon of these silver nanorods were near 400 and 630 nm, respectively. The extinction of the longitudinal mode increased with increasing nanorod diameter, while the transverse mode did not change significantly. High-quality SERS spectra of p-aminothiophenol and benzenethiol adsorbed on the tips of the silver nanorods were observed by excitation with a 632.8 nm laser line. The SERS enhancement increased with increasing nanorod diameter. We concluded that the SERS enhancement increases when the diameter of silver nanorods is increased mainly by increasing the excitation efficiency of the longitudinal mode. The enhancement factor for the silver nanorods with a 51 nm diameter was approximately $2{\times}10^7$.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.9-12
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• 2015

Nano-structured electrodes were fabricated to develop efficient photoelectrochemical conversion systems for the synthesis of hydrogen from water and hydrocarbon fuels from $CO_2$. In this work, we compared the photoactivity of rutile $TiO_2$ nanorods grown on FTO and SEED/FTO by a hydrothermal method. An analysis of the microstructures showed that the density of nanorod/SEED/FTO samples, which showed only the (002) peak in their x-ray diffraction patterns, was two times higher than that of a nanorod/FTO sample. The photocurrent density of nanorod/SEED/FTO samples was increased by as much as 40% of the photocurrent density of the nanorod/FTO sample due to the increased specific density of the nanorods. However, the transient time for a recombination of photogenerated electrons and holes was 20 times faster in the nanorod/SEED/FTO. The seed layers are discussed as possible recombination sites.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.404-408
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• 2003

SiC nanorods have been grown on Si (100) substrate directly. Tetramethylsilane and Ni were used for SiC nanorod growth. After 3minute, SiC nanorod had grown by CVD. Growth regions ware divided by two regions with diameter. The First region consisted of thin SiC nanorods having below 10 nm diameter, but second region's diameter was 10∼50 nm. This appearance shows by reduction of growth rate. The effect of temperature and growth time was investigated by scanning electron microscopy. Growth temperature and time affected nanorod's diameter and morphology. With increasing growth time, nanorod's diameter increased because of the deactivation effect. But growth temperatures affected little. By TEM characterization, grown SiC nanorods consisted of the polycrystalline grain.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.234-241
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• 2003

SiC nanorod was synthesized directly on Si substrate using hexamethyldisilabutane and Fe catalyst with (111) direction. Fe acted a liquid catalyst at growth condition. Grown SiC nanorod has about 30nm diameter and $5{\mu}m$ length. SiC nanorod growth was divided by trro regions with diameter distribution. This diameter distribution were occurred by surface deposition at as - grown nanorod's surface by limitation of growth rate. At higher temperature, these division not occurred. Growth temperature and flow rates affected diameter and morphology of nanorods. With increasing flow rate of source gas, nanorod's diameter increased because of deactivation effect. Case of the increasing temperature, growth rate increased so deactivation did not occurred.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.93-97
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• 2010

We have studied the effect of the chemical composition of the ZnO nanorod surface on the optical characteristics. The surface was treated with H- and O-plasma at different surface temperatures. The chemical composition of the surface of the ZnO nanorod, being investigated by Auger Electron Spectroscopy(AES), was related to the Photoluminescence(PL) data reported in our previous results. The AES showed the opposite results for the $H_2$ and $O_2$ plasma treatments. The ratio of Zn to O on the surface of the ZnO nanorod increased in the case of $H_2$ plasma, while the composition rate of O increased after $O_2$ plasma treatment. The AES results seems to be correlated to the shift in PL peaks. The increase in the composition rate of Zn on the surface of ZnO nanorod is considered to cause the blue shift of the UV peak. On the contrary, the relative increase of O is considered to cause the red shift in PL peaks.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.239-245
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• 2020

Synthesizing one-dimensional nanostructures of oxide semiconductors is a promising approach to fabricate highefficiency photoelectrodes for hydrogen production from photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. In this work, vertically aligned zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorod arrays are successfully synthesized on fluorine-doped-tin-oxide (FTO) coated glass substrate via seed-mediated hydrothermal synthesis method with the use of a ZnO nanoparticle seed layer, which is formed by thermally oxidizing a sputtered Zn metal thin film. The structural, optical and PEC properties of the ZnO nanorod arrays synthesized at varying levels of Zn sputtering power are examined to reveal that the optimum ZnO nanorod array can be obtained at a sputtering power of 20 W. The photocurrent density and the optimal photocurrent conversion efficiency obtained for the optimum ZnO nanorod array photoanode are 0.13 mA/㎠ and 0.49 %, respectively, at a potential of 0.85 V vs. RHE. These results provide a promising avenue to fabricating earth-abundant ZnO-based photoanodes for PEC water oxidation using facile hydrothermal synthesis.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.373-381
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• 2017

$RuO_2$ is a common active component of Dimensionally Stable Anodes (DSAs) for chlorine evolution that can be used in wastewater treatment systems. The recent improvement of chlorine evolution using nanostructures of $RuO_2$ electrodes to increase the treatment efficiency and reduce the energy consumption of this process has received much attention. In this study, $RuO_2$ nanorod and nanosheet electrodes were simply fabricated using the sol-gel method with organic surfactants as the templates. The obtained $RuO_2$ nanorod and nanosheet electrodes exhibit enhanced electrocatalytic activities for chlorine evolution possibly due to the active surface areas, especially the outer active surface areas, which are attributed to the increase in mass transfers compared with a conventional nanograin electrode. The electrocatalytic activities for chlorine evolution were increased up to 20 % in the case of the nanorod electrode and 35% in the case of the nanosheet electrode compared with the nanograin electrode. The $RuO_2$ nanorod 80 nm in length and 20-30 nm in width and the $RuO_2$ nanosheet 40-60 nm in length and 40 nm in width are formed on the surface of Ti substrates. These results support that the templated $RuO_2$ nanorod and nanosheet electrodes are promising anode materials for chlorine evolution in future applications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.08a
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• pp.126-126
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• 2011

수직으로 정렬된 1차원 ZnO nanorod arrays (NRAs)는 효율적인 반사방지 특성의 기하학적 구조를 갖고 있어, 크기와 모양 그리고 정렬형태의 다양한 설계를 통해 빛의 흡수율과 광 추출효율을 증가시켜 광전소자 및 태양광 소자의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있으며, 최근 이러한 연구에 대한 관심이 집중되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 ZnO NRAs의 넓은 표면적과 불연속적인 독특한 표면을 활용하여 광학적 특성을 효과적으로 개선하였다. 실험을 위해, thermal evaporator를 사용하여 Au와 Ag 그리고 e-beam evaporator를 사용하여 $SiO_2$를 ZnO NRAs 표면에 여러 가지 조건으로 증착하여, 독특한 계층 나노구조의 형성과 광학적 특성을 관찰하였다. 표면 roughness가 큰 FTO/glass 위에 수열합성법을 통해 끝이 뾰족하고, 비스듬히 정렬된 ZnO nano-tip array에 Au를 증착할 경우 ZnO/Au core/shell 구조가 형성되며, Au의 광 흡수율이 매우 크게 증가함을 관찰할 수 있었다. 반면 flat한 표면위에 빽빽하게 수직으로 정렬된 ZnO NRAs를 성장시켜 그 위에 Ag를 증착할 경우, evaporated Ag flux가 ZnO nanorod의 사이에 scattered 되어 ZnO nanorod 기둥의 측면에 직경이 50 nm 이하인 nanoparticles이 decorated 되어 국소표면플라즈몬 현상이 관찰되었으며, 이러한 효과를 통해 입사되는 빛의 흡수율을 효과적으로 증가시킬 수 있었다. 또한, ZnO NRAs의 표면에 $SiO_2$를 e-beam evaporator를 이용하여 증착할 경우, 자연적으로 vapor flux와 ZnO nanorod 사이에 oblique angle이 $80^{\circ}$ 이상으로 증가하여 $SiO_2$ nanorods가 자발적으로 형성되어 ZnO/$SiO_2$ branch 계층형태의 나노구조를 제작할 수 있었다. 이러한 구조는 유효 graded refractive index profile로 인해 기존의 ZnO NRAs보다 개선된 반사방지 특성을 나타냈다. 이러한 계층 나노구조의 광학적 특성을 시뮬레이션을 통해 이론적으로 분석을 통해 광전자 소자의 성능의 개선에 대한 적용 가능성을 조사하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.126-126
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 catalyst-free 유기금속 화학증착법 (MOCVD)를 이용하여 사파이어 (0001)면 위에 직접 InN nanorods를 성장하였다. InN 박막의 성장에서 TMIn과 $NH_3$를 전구체로 사용하였으며, 캐리어 가스로는 질소를 사용하였다. 성장 전, 기판에 $1100^{\circ}C$에서 3분간 nitridation 처리를 거친 후 온도를 낮춰 $630{\sim}730^{\circ}C$의 온도범위 에서 InN 박막을 성장하였다. 이때 $710^{\circ}C$의 온도에서 박막은 columnar growth의 특성을 보였으며 동일조건에서 80분간 성장시킨 결과 InN nanorods가 성장되었다. 성장시킨 InN nanorod는 X-선 회절 측정법, 주사 전자 현미경 그리고 투과 전자 현미경을 이용하여 그 특성을 분석하였다. 투과 전자 현미경을 통한 분석결과 지름이 150~200 nm이며 그 길이는 수 ${\mu}m$인 InN nanorod가 성공적으로 성장되었음을 확인하였다. 또한 X-선 회절 측정법과 주사 전자 현미경을 통한 분석에서 이들 nanorods가 대부분 c 방향으로 수직하게 정렬되어 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 Ti/Au (120/80 nm)를 전극으로 사용하여 개개의 nanorod의 전기적 특성을 분석한 결과 linear한 I-V특성이 관찰되었으며 비저항은 평균적으로 $0.0024\;{\Omega}cm$ 이었다. transfer 특성의 측정결과 -50V까지 게이트 전압을 인가하여도 드레인 전류의 변화는 매우 적어 doping level이 상당히 높다고 예상가능하다. 또한 mobility는 $133\;cm^2/Vs$로 도출되었다.