• 한국재료학회지
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.481-488
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• 2022

The Cu₂ZnSn(S_xSe_1-x)₄ (CZTSSe) absorbers are promising thin film solar cells (TFSCs) materials, to replace existing Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ (CIGS) and CdTe photovoltaic technology. However, the best reported efficiency for a CZTSSe device, of 13.6 %, is still too low for commercial use. Recently, partially replacing the Zn²⁺ element with a Cd²⁺element has attracting attention as one of the promising strategies for improving the photovoltaic characteristics of the CZTSSe TFSCs. Cd²⁺ elements are known to improve the grain size of the CZTSSe absorber thin films and improve optoelectronic properties by suppressing potential defects, causing short-circuit current (J_sc) loss. In this study, the structural, compositional, and morphological characteristics of CZTSSe and CZCTSSe thin films were investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (XRF), and Field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), respectively. The FE-SEM images revealed that the grain size improved with increasing Cd²⁺ alloying in the CZTSSe thin films. Moreover, there was a slight decrease in small grain distribution as well as voids near the CZTSSe/Mo interface after Cd²⁺ alloying. The solar cells prepared using the most promising CZTSSe absorber thin films with Cd²⁺ alloying (8 min. 30 sec.) exhibited a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 9.33 %, J_sc of 34.0 mA/cm², and fill factor (FF) of 62.7 %, respectively.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.19-23
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• 2018

광전소자용 투명전극으로 적용하기 위한 초박형 Al 박막에 대한 기초연구를 수행하였다. 유리 기판 상에 3-12 nm의 두께를 가지는 Al 박막을 형성하였으며, 박막의 두께가 7 nm 이상일 때부터 면저항이 측정되었으며 두께가 증가할 때 면저항이 점진적으로 감소하였다. 박막 내 그레인 크기(Grain size)는 두께가 증가할수록 비례하여 증가하였다. 광 투과도의 경우 가시광선영역(380~770 nm) 파장 기준으로, 3 nm 박막 두께에서 평균 85%의 투과도가 측정된 데 반하여, 4, 5 nm 두께에서 평균 50, 60%로 급격하게 감소되기 시작하며 그 이후 두께 증가에 따라 투과도가 점진적으로 감소하였다. 본 연구결과는 향후 Oxide/Metal/Oxide(OMO) 구조의 고투과, 저저항 투명전극 적용을 위한 기초 결과로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.31-34
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• 2018

차세대 유연 광전소자 적용을 위한 금속-산화물 샌드위치 구조인 ZnO/Al/ZnO 박막의 유연투명전극 기초연구를 수행하였다. 모든 증착은 유연성을 가지는 PET 기판 상에서 이루어졌으며, 상 하부 ZnO층의 두께가 광 투과도에 미치는 영향을 확인하기 위하여 Al 층의 두께는 모두 8 nm로 고정시킨 채 상부 ZnO 층의 두께는 5-70 nm, 하부 ZnO 층의 두께는 2.5-20 nm까지 변화를 주었다. 가시광선영역(380 nm-770 nm) 파장대를 가지는 광원의 투과도에 대하여 측정한 결과, 상부 ZnO 층의 두께가 30 nm이며 하부 ZnO 층의 경우 2.5 nm 일 때 가장 높은 투과도를 보였다. 400 nm 파장기준 투과도 62%, 면저항 $19{\Omega}/{\Box}$, 그리고 곡률반경 5 mm 조건에서의 휨 테스트 후 면저항과 투과도의 변화가 발생하지 않는 ZnO/Al/ZnO 유연투명전극 결과를 보고한다.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2011년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.43.2-43.2
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• 2011

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) are transparent in the visible and show conductivity comparable to copper, and are environmentally stable. SWCNT films have high flexibility, conductivity and transparency approaching that indium tin oxide (ITO), and can be prepared inexpensively without vacuum equipment. Transparent conducting Films (TCF) of SWCNTs has the potential to replace conventional transparent conducting oxides (TCO, e.g. ITO) in a wide variety of optoelectronic devices, energy conversion and photovoltaic industry. However, the sheet resistance of SWCNT films is still higher than ITO films. A decreased in the resistivity of SWCNT-TCFs would be beneficial for such an application. We fabricated SWCNT sheet with $KAuBr_4$ on PET substrate. Arc-discharge SWCNTs were dispersed in deionized water by adding sodum dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as surfactant and sonicated, followed by the centrifugation. The dispersed SWCNT was spray-coated on PET substrate and dried on a hotplate at $100^{\circ}C$. When the spray process was terminated, the TCF was immersed into deionized water to remove the surfactant and then it was dried on hotplate. The TCF film was then treated with AuBr4-, rinsed with deionized water and dried. The surface morphology of TCF was characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy. The sheet resistance and optical transmission properties of the TCF were measured with a four-point probe method and a UV-visible spectrometry, respectively. $HNO_3$ treated SWCNT films with Au nano-particles have the lowest 61 ${\Omega}$/< sheet resistance in the 80% transmittance. Sheet resistance was decreased due to the increase of the hole concentration at the washed SWCNT surface by p-type doping of $AuBr_4{^-}$.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2010년도 제39회 하계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.175-175
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• 2010

Transparent conducting oxide (TCO) films are widely used as transparent conducting thin film material for application in various fields such as solar cells, optoelectronic devices, heat mirrors and gas sensors, etc. Recently the increased utilization of many transparent electrodes has accelerated the development of inexpensive TCO materials. Indium tin oxide (ITO) film is well-known for TCO materials because of its low resistivity, but there is disadvantage that it is too expensive. ZnO film is cheaper than ITO but it shows thermally poor stability. On the contrary, antimony-doped tin oxide films (ATO) are more stable than TCO films such as Al-doped zinc oxide (AZO) and ITO. Moreover, SnO2 film shows the best thermal and chemical stability, low cost and mechanical durability except the poor conductivity. However, annealing is proved to improve the conductivity of ATO film. Therefore, in this work, antimony (6 wt%) doped tin oxide films to improve the conductivity were deposited on 7059 corning glass by RF magnetron sputtering method for the application to transparent electrodes. In general, of all TCO films, glass is the most commonly selected substrate. However, for future development in flexible devices, glass is limited by its intrinsic inflexibility. In this study, we report the growth and properties of antimony doped tin oxide (ATO) films deposited on PES flexible substrate by using RF magnetron sputtering. The optimization process was performed varying the sputtering parameters, such as RF power and working pressure, and parameter effect on the structural, electrical and optical properties of the ATO films were investigated.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.246.1-246.1
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• 2014

Over the past several years, colloidal core/shell type quantum dots lighting-emitting diodes (QDLEDs) have been extensively studied and developed for the future of optoelectronic applications. In the work, we fabricate an inverted CdSe/ZnS quantum dot (QD) based light-emitting diodes (QDLED). In order to reduce work function of indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode for inverted structure, a very thin (<10 nm) polyethylenimine ethoxylated (PEIE) is used as surface modifier[1] instead of conventional metal oxide electron injection layer. The PEIE layer substantially reduces the work function of ITO electrodes which is estimated to be 3.08 eV by ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS). From transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study, CdSe/ZnS QDs are uniformly distributed and formed by a monolayer on PEIE layer. In this inverted QDLEDs, blend of poly (9,9-di-n-octyl-fluorene-alt-benzothiadiazolo) and poly(N,N'-bis(4-butylphenyl)-N,N'-bis(phenyl)benzidine] are used as hole transporting layer (HTL) to improve hole transporting property. At the operating voltage of 8 V, the QDLED device emitted spectrally orange color lights with high luminance up to 2450 cd/m2, and showed current efficacy of 0.6 cd/A, respectively.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제5권8호
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• pp.936-944
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• 1995

본 논문에서는 저압 유기금속 기상성장(low pressure metal organic vapor phase epitaxy) 장치에 의해 성장된 InGaAsP/InP 구조의 상(phase) 분리현상(Spinodal 분해)이 photoluminescence (PL)의 강도와 반치폭(full-width at half maximum, FWHM)에 미치는 영향에 대해 연구하였다. 시료의 격자부정합은 double crystal x-ray diffractometer를 사용하여 측정하였고, InGaAsP에피막의 Spinodal분해조직은 투과전자현미경 (transmission electron microscopy, TEM)을 사용하여 관측하였다. 격자부정합에서 도출된 부정합응력과 Spinodal 모듈레이션의 주기(periodicity)와 밀접한 관계가 있음이 밝혀졌다. 또한 이러한 InGaAsP에피막의 미세조직 구조와 시료의 광전 특성이 어떤 관계가 있는지 알기 위해 PL 실험을 수행했으며, PL강도와 FWHM이 조성 모듈레이션의 주기에 강하게 의존한다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이 현상을 심층적으로 연구하기 위해 부정합응력이 야기할 수 있는 interaction 탄성변형 에너지라는 새로운 함수를 유도하였으며 이에 의하여 실험결과를 설명할 수 있었다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제45회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.204.2-204.2
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• 2013

Wide band gap II-VI semiconductors have attracted the interest of many research groups during the past few years due to the possibility of their applications in light-emitting diodes and laser diodes. Among the II-VI semiconductors, ZnO is an important optoelectronic device material for use in the violet and blue regions because of its wide direct band gap (Eg ~3.37 eV) and large exciton binding energy (60 meV). F-doped ZnO (FZO) and undoped ZnO thin films were grown onto quartz substrate by the sol-gel spin-coating method. The doping level in the solution, designated by F/Zn atomic ratio of was varied from 0 to 5 in 1 steps. To investigate the effects of the structure and optical properties of FZO thin films were investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-visible spectroscopy, and photoluminescence (PL). In the XRD, the residual stress, FWHM, bond length, and average grain size were changed with increasing the doping concentration. For the PL spectra, the high INBE/IDLE ratio of the FZO thin films doping concentration at 1 at.% than the other samples.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제49권9호
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• pp.732-738
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• 2011

Silicon oxide thin films were deposited by using a plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor deposition technique to investigate the light emission properties. The photoluminescence characteristics were divided into two categories along the relative ratio of the flow rates of $SiH_4$ and $N_2O$ source gases, which show light emission in the broad/visible range and a light emission peak at 380 nm. We attribute the broad/visible light emission and the light emission peak to the quantum confinement effect of nanocrystalline silicon and the Si=O defects, respectively. Changes in the photoluminescence spectra were observed after the post-annealing processes. The photoluminescence spectra of the broad light emission in the visible range shifted to the long wavelength and were saturated above an annealing temperature of $900^{\circ}C$ or after 1 hour annealing at $970^{\circ}C$. However, the position of the light emission peak at 380 nm did not change at all after the post-annealing processes. The light emission intensities at 380 nm initially increased, and decreased at annealing temperatures above $700^{\circ}C$ or after 1 hour annealing at $700^{\circ}C$. The photoluminescence behaviors after the annealing processes can be explained bythe size change of the nanocrystalline silicon and the density change of Si=O defect in the films, respectively. These results support the possibility of using a silicon-based light source for Si-optoelectronic integrated circuits and/or display devices.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.167-173
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• 2021

최근 폴리이미드가 기판으로 사용되어 유기발광다이오드 디스플레이가 구현된 폴더블 스마트폰이 출시되고 있다. 이와 같이 굽힘이 가능한 기판위에 다양한 전자소자를 제작하기 위한 관심이 증가하고 있기 때문에 본 논문에서는 굽힘성이 우수한 127㎛ 두께의 얇은 스테인리스 금속 기판을 이용하여 먼저 크롬을 코팅하고 알루미늄을 형성한 샘플과 알루미늄 구현 후 크롬을 증착한 2가지 샘플을 급속 열처리 장비를 이용하여 150도, 350도, 550도의 온도에서 각각 20분간 어닐링을 진행하여 표면의 형상을 관찰하였다. 고분해능 SEM과 nm까지 거칠기를 측정할 수 있는 AFM을 이용하여 표면에 대한 데이터를 추출하였다. 350도까지는 열처리하지 않은 샘플과 차이가 없지만, 550도에서는 결정립의 변화를 확인할 수 있다. 향후 본 실험 결과는 플렉서블 광전자분야로의 적용을 위해 전기전도도, 반사도와 같은 특성 분석 및 광소자 제작을 통해 금속 소재의 플렉서블 전자소자로의 적용 가능성을 모색할 것이다.