• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.390-390
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• 2013

유기물을 이용하여 제작한 비휘발성 메모리 소자는 저전압 구동, 간단한 공정과 플렉서블 모바일에 응용 가능성 때문에 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 나노복합체를 사용하여 제작한 비휘발성 메모리 소자의 전기적 특성에 대한 연구가 많이 진행되었으나 고분자를 저장매체로 사용한 메모리 소자의 전기적 특성에 대한 연구는 미흡하다. 본 연구에서 poly (methylmethacrylate) (PMMA)와 poly (3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) 혼합한 용액을 이용하여 제작한 메모리 소자의 전기적 특성을 연구하였다. P3HT와 PMMA를 같이 클로로벤젠에 용해한 후 초음파 교반기를 사용하여 두 물질을 고르게 섞었다. Indium-tin-oxide가 코팅된 유리 기판 위에 제작한 고분자 용액을 스핀 코팅하고, 열을 가해 용매를 제거하였다. P3HT박막 위에Al을 상부전극으로 열증착하여 소자를 제작하였다. 제작된 소자의 전류-전압(I-V) 측정결과는 같은 전압에서 전도도가 큰 ON 상태와 전도도가 작은 OFF 상태의 큰 ON/OFF 전류비율을 가진 전류의 히스테리시스를 보여주었다. P3HT를 포함하지 않은 소자의 I-V 측정결과는 전류의 히스테리시스 특성이 보이지 않았고 이것은 P3HT 박막이 메모리 특성을 나타내는 저장매체가 됨을 알 수 있었다. 소자의 전류-시간 특성 측정 결과는 전류의 ON/OFF 비율이 시간에 따라 큰 감쇠 현상 없이 오랫동안 지속적으로 유지됨을 보여줌으로 소자의 동작 안정성을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.150-153
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• 2005

반도체성 고분자인 poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)과 $C_{60}$ 유도체인 PCBM의 복합재를 이용하여 유기태양전지를 제작하였다. 열처리 온도론 중심으로 다양한 제조조건 하에서의 태양전지 특성을 조사하였다. 열처리 온도를 높임에 따라, P3HT/PCBM 복합재 박막은 뚜렷한 색변화와 함께 가시광 영역에서의 광흡수가 증가됨이 관찰되었고, 소자 성능도 크게 향상되었다. 결과적으로, 본 P3HT/PCBM bulk 이종접합형 구조의 유기 태양전지는 최적화된 제조 조건에서 $2.8\%$의 에너지 전환 효율을 나타내었다($100mW/cm^2$, 백색광).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.45-48
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• 2002

Poly(3-hexylthiophene) or P3HT based organic thin film transistor (OTFT) array was fabricated on flexible poly carbonate substrates and the electrical characteristics were investigated. As the gate dielectric, a dual layer structure of polyimide-$SiO_2$ was used to improve the roughness of $SiO_2$ surface and further enhancing the device performance and also source-drain electrodes were $O_2$ plasma treated for improvement of the electrical properties, such as drain current and field effect mobility. For the active layer, polymer semiconductor, P3HT layer was printed by contact-printing and spin-coating method. The electrical properties of OTFT devices printed by both methods were evaluated for the comparison. Based on the experiments, P3HT-based OTFT array with field effect mobility of 0.02~0.025 $cm^{2}/V{\cdot}s$ and current modulation (or $I_{on}/I_{off}$ ratio) of $10^{3}\sim10^{4}$ was fabricated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.486-489
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• 2003

Red organic electroluminescent(EL) devices based on poly(N-vinylcarbazole)(PVK) and tris(8-hydroxyquinorine aluminum)($Alq_3$) doped with red emissive material, 4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-t-butyl-6-(1,1,7,7-tetramethyljulolidyl-9-enyl)4H-pyran(DCJTB), poly(3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT), Rubrene and 4-dicyanomethylene-2-methyl-6[2-(2,3,6,7-tetrahydro-1H,5H-benzo-[i.j])quinolizin-8yl)vinyl-4H-pyran(DCM2) were fabricated. We examine the energy transfer from $Alq_3$ to DCJTB, P3HT, Rubrene and DCM2 by comparing between the PL and EL spectrum. The maximum peak PL intensities were achieved when the doping concentration of DCJTB, DCM2, P3HT and Rubrene has 5, 1, 0.5, 2wt%, respectively. The maximum luminance of device using DCJTB showed $594\;cd/m^2$ at 15V.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.1140-1143
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• 2006

We report on the fabrication of P3HT-based thin-film transistors (TFTs) for liquid crystal display that consist of $NiO_x$, poly-vinyl phenol (PVP), and Ni for the source-drain (S/D) electrodes, gate dielectric layer, and gate electrode, respectively The $NiO_x$ S/D electrodes of which the work function is well matched to that of P3HT are deposited on a P3HT channel by electron-beam evaporation of NiO powder. The maximum saturation current of our P3HT-based TFT is about $15{\mu}A$ at a gate bias of -30 V showing a high field effect mobility of $0.079cm^2/Vs$ in the dark, and the on/off current ratio of our TFT is about $10^5$. It is concluded that jointly adopting $NiO_x$ for the S/D electrodes and PVP for gate dielectric realizes a high-quality P3HT-based TFT.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.9-10
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• 2006

The patterning for the active layer of organic semiconductors is important to attain completely organic-based OTFTs(Organic Thin Film Transistors). We studied on possibility of the application of the conventional photolithography technique to pattern the organic active layer poly(3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT). Patterned P3HT-based OTFTs with Bottom Contact(BC) configuration were fabricated using the conventional photolithography. We achieved field-effect mobilities in the saturation regime ${\sim}1.2{\times}10^{-3}cm^2/V{\cdot}s$, $I_{on/off}$ ratios ${\sim}10^5$ in the subtractive method, ${\sim}8{\times}10^{-4}cm^2/V{\cdot}s$, $I_{on/off}$ ratios ${\sim}10^3$ in the additive one.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.08a
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• pp.163-163
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• 2012

We observed strain evolution of P3HT crystals in P3HT:PCBM films and the effect of Al electrode on the evolution during real time annealing process. Based on simple assumptions, both relaxed lattice parameters and thermal expansion coefficient could be quantitatively determined. P3HT:PCBM films displayed tensile strain in as-prepared samples regardless of the presence of an Al layer. In the absence of Al layer, P3HT crystals showed only strain relaxation at an annealing temperature of $180^{\circ}C$. Meanwhile In the presence of an Al layer, the strain was relaxed and changed to compressive strain at around 120C annealing temperature, which indicated a tightening of the thiophene ring packing. These behaviors support the improved performance of devices fabricated by post annealing process.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.107-113
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• 2009

In order to improve air stability, we proposed a new active layer of an organic TFT by synthesizing P3HT/POSS conjugated polymer. P3HT/POSS OTFTs with the various P3HT/POSS volume ratios were fabricated and characterized. With the P3HT/POSS volume ratio of 1:1, we achieved the field-effect mobilities of ${\sim}1.19{\times}10^{-3}\;cm^2/v{\cdot}sec$ in the saturation region and the current on/off ratio of ${\sim}2.51{\times}10^2$. The resulting current on-off ratio was much higher than that of the P3HT-based OTFTs and resulted from the dramatic decrease of the off-current. Since the off-current can be reduced by preventing oxygen in atmosphere from doping the P3HT/POSS active layers, this new active layer shows its ability to avoid oxygen doping in atmosphere. Therefore, the improvement of the air stability can be achieved by employing the P3HT/POSS active layers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.606-609
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• 1999

We fabricated white light-emitting diode which have a mixed single emitting layer containing poly(N-vinylcarbazole), trois(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum and poly(3-hexylthiophene) and investigated the emission properties of it. It is possible to obtain a blue light from poly(N-vinylcarbazole). green light from tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum and red light from poly(3-hexylthiophene). The fabricated device emits white light with slight orange light. We think that the energy transfer in a mixed layer occurred from PVK to Alq₃ and P3HT resulted in decreasing the blue light intensity from PVK. We find that the efficiency of the white light electroluminescent device can be improved by injecting electron more effectively and blue light need to improve the color purity of white light.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.27-32
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• 2011

In this study, we have investigated the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells utilizing conjugated polymer/fullerene bulk-hetero junction(BHJ) device structures. We have fabricated poly(3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT), poly[2methoxy-5-(3',7'-dimethyloctyl-oxy)-1-4-phenylenevinylene] as an electron donor, [6,6]-phenyl $C_{61}$ butyric acid methylester(PCBM-$C_{61}$)as an electron acceptor, and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate)(PEDOT:PSS) used as a hole injection layer(HIL), after fabricated active layer, between active layer and metal cathode(Al) deposited LiF interlayer(5 nm). The properties of fabricated organic solar cell(OSC) devices have been analyzed as a function of different thickness. The electrical characteristics of the fabricated devices were investigated by means J-V, fill factor(FF) and power conversion efficiency(PCE). We observed the highest PCEs of 0.628%(MDMO-PPV:PCBM-$C_{61}$) and 2.3%(P3HT:PCBM-$C_{61}$) with LiF inter-layer at the highest thick active layer, which is 1.3times better than the device without LiF inter-layer.