• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.120-120
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• 2010

최근 투명전도성 산화물(Transparent Conductive Oxide, TCO) 박막은 액정 표시소자(LCD), 플라즈마 디스플레이 패널(PDP), 압전소자 및 태양전지의 투명소자로 사용되어지고 있다. 현재 가장 널리 사용되어지고 있는 투명전극물질인 인듐주석산화물(indium tin oxide, ITO)은 낮은 비저항과 높은 투과율을 가지고 있지만, 높은 원자재의 가격 및 수소플라즈마 처리시 In과 Sn이 환원되어 전기적, 광학적으로 불안정한 문제점들이 지적되고 있다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 최근 적외선 및 가시광선 영역에서 높은 투과도 및 전기 전도성과 수소플라즈마에 대한 화학적 안정성을 갖는 ZnO를 기반으로 3족 원소를 첨가한 새로운 투명 전도막에 대한 연구가 활발하다. 본 연구에서는 RF-Magnetron Sputtering법을 이용하여 $Ga_2O_3$ 혼합비에 따라 제작된 ZnO(GZO) 박막들의 전기적, 광학적, 구조적인 특성들을 분석하였다. 측정결과, $Ga_2O_3$의 첨가량이 7 wt.%인 GZO 박막이 가시광선영역에서 80%이상의 높은 투과율과 $50.5\;\Omega/\Box$의 가장 낮은 면저항을 나타내었다. 이는 Ga원소가 다른 3족 원소와 격자결합을 비교할 때, 이온의 크기가 Zn원소와 비슷하여 최적화된 혼합율을 가지는 경우 격자결합을 최소화시켜 캐리어 밀도의 증가로 인해 높은 전도성을 가지며, 고온에서도 전기적 특성 및 내구성이 향상되기 때문이다. 또한 기판온도에 따른 열처리 특성으로서 기판의 온도를 $100^{\circ}{\sim}400^{\circ}C$까지 변화를 주어 실험하였다. X-선 회절패턴 분석결과 기판온도가 증가함에 따라 ZnO (002) 방향이 감소하는 반면 ZnO(103) 방향이 증가하였으며, 기판온도가 $300^{\circ}C$ 일 때 $17.1\;\Omega/\Box$의로 가장 낮은 면저항이 나타났다. 이는 SEM 이미지를 분석한 결과, 실온에서 제작된 박막과 비교해 300 에서 증착된 GZO 박막이 결정립의 크기가 크고 밀도도 조밀해져 전하의 이동도가 향상되었기 때문이다.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.197-204
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• 2007

Ceramic pigments were developed by using 4 kinds of Brass scraps. Each Brass scraps were mixed with same weight-ratio of Husk ash, and fine-ground by Rotate ring mill(RRG-120, Armstech industrial. co. Ltd, Korea) after firing at $900^{\circ}C$, $1000^{\circ}C$ and $1100^{\circ}C$. As a result, analysis of particle size of synthetic pigments by particle size analyser, they are $3{\mu}m$ as average. The resulting pigments were characterized by using XRD, FT-IR, SEM Structure of the crystals are Zn2SiO4,, and ZnO, Cu2O, CuO, and cristobalite are existed and particles' shape are plate or needle. As a result of analysis of chemical composition by XRF, synthetic pigments have high SiO2 and CuO content and have SnO2, ZnO and NiO, too. 1wt%, 3wt% and 5wt% pigments were added in each lime glaze, lime-barium glaze and lime-magnesia glaze, and fired at oxidation and reducing atmosphere to figure hue in glazes out. As a result of analysis of color, chroma and brightness by UV, colors of glazes fired at oxidation atmosphere turned into green from sky blue, and colors of glazes fired at reducing atmosphere turned into pink and red.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.120-120
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• 2003

The metallic oxide nanomaterials including ZnO, Ga$_2$O$_3$, TiO$_2$, and SnO$_2$ have been synthesized by a number of methods including laser ablation, arc discharge, thermal annealing procedure, catalytic growth processes, and vapor transport. We have been interested in preparing the nanomaterials of Ga$_2$O$_3$, which is a wide band gap semiconductor (E$_{g}$ =4.9 eV) and used as insulating oxide layer for all gallium-based semiconductor. Ga$_2$O$_3$ is stable at high temperature and a transparent oxide, which has potential application in optoelectronic devices. The Ga$_2$O$_3$ nanoparticles and nanobelts were produced using GaN single crystals, which were grown by flux method inside SUS$^{TM}$ cell using a Na flux and exhibit plate-like morphologies with 4 ~ 5 mm in size. In these experiments, the conventional electric furnace was used. GaN single crystals were pulverized in form of powder for the growth of Ga$_2$O$_3$ nanomaterials. The structure, morphology and composition of the products were studied mainly by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM).).

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.434-436
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• 2013

Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) was substitutes of the SnO2:F films on soda lime glass substrate in the photovoltaic devices such as CIGS, CdTe and DSSC due to good properties and low cost. However, it was reported that the electrical resistivity of GZO is unstable above $300^{\circ}C$ in air atmosphere. To improve thermal stability of GZO thin films at high temperature above $300^{\circ}C$ an $TiO_2$ thin film was deposited on the top of GZO thin films as a barrier layer by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) method. $TiO_2$ thin films were deposited at various thicknesses from 25 nm to 100 nm. Subsequently, these films were annealed at temperature of $300^{\circ}C$, $400^{\circ}C$, $500^{\circ}C$ in air atmosphere for 20 min. The XRD measurement results showed all the films had a preferentially oriented ( 0 0 2 ) peak, and the intensity of ( 0 0 2 ) peak nearly did not change both GZO (300 nm) single layer and $TiO_2$ (50 nm)/GZO (300 nm) double layer. The resistivity of GZO (300 nm) single layer increased from $7.6{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}m$ (RT) to $7.7{\times}10^{-2}{\Omega}m$ ($500^{\circ}C$). However, in the case of the $TiO_2$ (50 nm)/GZO (300 nm) double layer, resistivity showed small change from $7.9{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}m$ (RT) to $5.2{\times}10^{-3}{\Omega}m$ ($500^{\circ}C$). Meanwhile, the average transmittance of all the films exceeded 80% in the visible spectrum, which suggests that these films will be suitable for photovoltaic devices.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.389-389
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• 2011

Transparent conductive oxide (TCO) 박막은 디스플레이 및 태양전지 등 광범위한 분야에서 적용되고 있으며, 특히 indium tin oxide (ITO)는 낮은 전기적 저항과 우수한 광투과도를 가지고 있어서 이미 많은 분야에 적용되고 있다. 본 연구는 RF와 DC를 혼용한 마그네트론 스퍼터링 공정을 활용하여 ITO 박막 특성 및 이를 활용한 유기태양전지 적용에 관한 것이다. UV-O3 처리된 glass 기판위에 thermal evaporation 방식으로 밀착력을 높이기 위하여 Cr을 5 nm 두께로 증착한 후 Al을 95 nm 증착하였다. 그 위에 스퍼터링 공정으로 ITO 박막을 In2O3:SnO2 target (10wt% SnO2)을 사용하여 1.0 mTorr의 공정압력(Ar:O2=30:1), 50W의 RF power 및 0.11kW의 DC power에서 50~250 nm의 두께로 증착하였다. ITO 박막의 결정구조 및 표면 형상은 x-ray diffraction (XRD) 및 scanning electron microscope (SEM)을 사용하여 분석하였으며, 전기적 특성은 four-point probe법으로 비저항값을 측정하였다. 또한 높은 광변환효율을 가지는 태양전지 제작을 위하여, 다양한 두께의 ITO 박막을 사용하여 ITO/ZnO/P3HT:PCBM/PEDOT/Ag 구조의 유기태양전지를 제작하여 소자 특성을 최적화 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.91-91
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• 2010

현재 나노크기의 나노소자에 대한 관심과 연구가 활발히 진행 중에 있고, 나노소자 제작을 위한 나노구조체 연구에도 탄력을 받고 있다. 나노구조체 연구 중에서도 탄소나노튜브(CNT)와 실리콘이 많이 연구되고 있으나 CNT의 경우 금속과 반도체 등 전기적 특성이 혼재되어 분리기술이 필요하며, 실리콘 기반의 나노구조체들은 공기 중에 노출되었을 경우 자연 산화막 생성에 대한 문제점들이 대두되고 있다. 이러한 기존 나노구조체들의 문제점들을 극복하기 위해 산화물 계열의($InO_3$, ZnO와 $SnO_2$ 등) 나노구조체들이 화학, 광학 및 생화학 센서등의 다양한 응용 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 thermal evaporation법으로 tube furnace 장비를 이용하여 온도($500{\sim}900^{\circ}C$)변화에 따른 ZnO nanorod를 성장시켰다. 성장된 ZnO nanorod의 구조적 특성을 확인하기 위하여 전계방출주사전자현미경(SEM)을 측정한 결과 ZnO nanorod들은 직경 50~80nm, 길이는 400~1000nm 이상까지 다양한 직경과 길이를 가지고 성장되었으며 $800^{\circ}C$ 에서 성장된 ZnO nanorod가 가장 곧고 이상적인 nanorod의 형태를 이루는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. Nanorod는 온도가 높아질수록 nanowire로 성장됨에 따라 본 연구에서 $800^{\circ}C$ 에서는 nanorod형태를 이루고 있으나 $900^{\circ}C$에서부터 nanowire의 형태로 성장되었다. 또한 성장된 ZnO nanorod들의 X-선 회절패턴(XRD)을 측정 결과 ZnO의 (002) 우선 배양성 때문에 성장된 nanorod 또한 (002) 방향으로 성장되었음을 확인하였다. 이 연구를 통하여 온도를 조절함으로서 ZnO nanorod의 성장제어가 가능함을 확인하였고, 특성 분석을 통하여 발광소자, Solar Cell로의 응용가능성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.1873-1878
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• 2013

ITZO ($In_2O_3$ : $SnO_2$ : ZnO = 90wt.% : 5wt.% : 5wt.%) thin films were fabricated on glass substrates (Eagle 2000) at room temperature with various working pressures (1~7 mTorr) by RF magnetron sputtering. The influence of the working pressure on the structural, electrical, and optical properties of the ITZO thin films were investigated. The XRD and FESEM results showed that all ITZO thin films are amorphous structures with very smooth surfaces regardless of the working pressure. Amorphous ITZO thin films deposited at 3 mTorr showed the best properties, such as a low resistivity, high transmittance, and figure of merit of $3.08{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$, 81 %, and $10.52{\times}10^{-3}{\Omega}^{-1}$, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.378-385
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• 1999

To evaluate the effect of Sn on the corrosion behavior of Zr alloys for nuclear fuel claddings, the corrosion tests on the binary Zr-xSn and the ternary Zr-0.4Nb-xSn alloys were performed in water at $360^{\circ}C$. The binary alloys containing 0.5, 0.8 and 1.5wt.% Sn showed the transition corrosion rate at 15 days. On the other hand, the binary alloy containing 2.0wt.% Sn showed a good corrosion resistance without the transition of corrosion rate up to 80 days. The corrosion rate of the ternary alloy increased with increasing Sn content. The difference of corrosion behaviors between binary and ternary alloys is considered due to the different solubility of Sn, Nb content and precipitates. The corrosions of Zr-xSn and Zr-0.4Nb-xSn alloys would be controlled by the fraction of tetragonal-$ZrO_2$and the amount of hydrogen pick-up.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.961-968
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• 2009

In this work, transparent conductive oxide(TCO) films such as $In_2O_3-SnO_2$(ITO) and $In_2O_3-ZnO$(IZO) were prepared on polyethylene naphthalene(PEN) and glass substrates by using rf-magnetron sputtering system. The TCO films deposited on PEN substrate show very poor conductivity as compared to that of the TCO films deposited on glass substrates. From the results of the residual gas analysis(RGA) test, this poor stability of plastic substrate is presumed to be caused by the deteriorated adhesion between the TCO films and the plastic substrate due to outgassing from the plastic substrate during deposition of TCO films. From our experiment, it is found that the vaporization of some defects in the plastic substrates deteriorate the adhesion of the TCO films to the plastic substrate, because the most plastic substrates containing the water vapor and/or other adsorbed particles such as organic solvents. Mixing of these gases vaporized in the sputtering process will also affect the electrical property of the deposited TCO films. Inorganic thin composite $(SiO_2)_{40}(ZnO)_{60}$ film as a gas barrier layer is coated on the PEN substrate to protecting the diffusion of vapors from the substrate, so that the TCO films with an improved quality can be obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.279-282
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• 2003

For the millimeter-wave dielectrics, Forsterite-based ceramics were produced. Pure forsterite ceramics($Mg_2SiO_4$) shows porous micro-structure and very low Q*f values, which is not suitable for the dielectrics for the millimeter-wave band. Several sintering aids including $Al_2O_3$, $Li_2CO_3$, $Li_2SiO_4$, were added to the forsterite ceramics in order to produce dense low-loss dielectrics. Among these additives, $Li_2CO_3$ is the most effective sintering aids. Several sub-components including NiO, ZnO, $SnO_2$, $TiO_2$, were added to enhance the microwave dielectric properties. $TiO_2$ is the most effective additive to enhance the dielectric properties at microwave bands. The simultaneous addition of $TiO_2$ and $Li_2CO_3$ increases Q*f value over 170,000, which can be used as dielectrics in millimeter-wave bands.