• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.219-220
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• 2014

Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) 나 Organic Photovoltaics (OPV)와 같은 유기소자에 투명전극으로 쓰이고 있는 Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)는 유연한 소자에 적용하기에는 유연성이 떨어진다는 문제가 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해서 CNT, Graphene, AgNW, 전도성 고분자 등의 투명전극에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있으나, 여전히 전기적 특성이 좋지 못하다는 문제가 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 본 연구에서는 금속배선을 보조전극으로 형성하여 배선을 폴리머 기판에 함몰시킴으로써 유연성과 표면 평탄도, 전기적 특성이 우수한 배선함몰 투명전극을 형성하였다. 그 결과, $1{\Omega}/{\Box}$의 면저항과 90%의 투과도를 가지는 투명전극을 구현하였다. 이렇게 제작된 배선함몰 전극위에 유기태양전지와 유기발광 다이오드를 제작하여 상용화된 ITO 유리기판과 유사한 효율을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.40-41
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 기존 기판에 배선 형성 방법과 비교하여 매우 간단한 방법으로 배선을 기판 안에 함몰시키는 방법을 개발하였다. Gravure Offset Printing 방법으로 제작한 4 ${\mu}m$ 높이의 Ag 배선을 함몰하여 100 nm 로 만듬으로써 95% 이상이 기판 내부로 함몰되었음을 확인할 수 있었고, 함몰 전후의 면저항 값이 변화되지 않음을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 제작한 배선 함몰형 유연 기판은 각종 회로에 적용할 수 있고, 그 뿐만이 아니라 투명전극에 대한 보조 전극으로 적용 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Solar Energy
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.3-11
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• 1997

Because grain boundaries in polycrystalline silicon act as potential barriers and recombination centers for the photo-generated charge carriers, these defects degrade conversion effiency of solar cell. To reduce these effects of grain boundaries, we investigated various influencing factors such as thermal treatment, various grid pattern, selective wet etching for grain boundaries, buried contact metallization along grain boundaries, grid on metallic thin film. Pretreatment above $900^{\circ}C$ in $N_2$ atmosphere, gettering by $POCl_3$ and Al treatment for back surface field contributed to obtain a high quality poly-Si. To prevent carrier losses at the grain boundaries, we carried out surface treatment using Schimmel etchant. This etchant delineated grain boundaries of $10{\mu}m$ depth as well as surface texturing effect. A metal AI diffusion into grain boundaries on rear side reduced back surface recombination effects at grain boundaries. A combination of fine grid with finger spacing of 0.4mm and buried electrode along grain boundaries improved short circuit current density of solar cell. A ultra-thin Chromium layer of 20nm with transmittance of 80% reduced series resistance. This paper focused on the grain boundary effect for terrestrial applications of solar cells with low cost, large area, and high efficiency.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.88-97
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• 1996

The metallization is the key to determining cell costs, cell performance, and system reliability. Screen printing technology suffers from several limitations affecting mainly the front grid. The buried contact solar cell (BCSC) was specifically desinged to be compatible with low cost, mass production techniques and avoid the conventional metallization problem. By using electroless plating technique, we performed this metallization inexpensively and reliably. This paper presents the details of the optimization procedure of metallization schemes on laser grooved cell surfaces. Commercially available Ni, Cu and Ag plating solutions were applied for the cell metallization. The application of those solutions on the buried contact front metallization has resulted in an cell efficiency of 18.8%. The cell parameters are an open circuit voltage of 651 mV, short circuit current density of 37.1 mA/$\textrm{cm}^2$, and fill factor of 77.8 %. The efficiency of over 18 % was achieved in the above 90% of the batch.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.161.1-161.1
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• 2017

최근 OLED기술을 조명에 응용하고자 하는 연구가 급증되고 있다. 이는 유연하고, 대면적 확장이 가능하며, 다양한 형태 구현에 있어 장점이 존재하기에 차세대 감성조명으로써 주목을 받고 있다. 고효율의 OLED 조명을 위해서는 저저항/고유연의 투명전극 소재의 개발을 통해 전기적 손실을 최소화해야하고, 광추출층의 적용을 통해 내부에서 생성된 빛을 외부로 잘 방출시켜 광학적 손실을 최소화해야한다. 이를 위해 많은 다양한 투명전극에 대한 연구와 광추출을 위한 방법에 대한 연구가 진행이 되고 있고, 두 가지 효과를 한번에 얻을 수 있는 집적기판에 대한 수요가 높아지고 있다. 본 연구는 인쇄공정과 플라즈마 공정을 통해, 미세배선이 함몰된 집적 기판을 개발하여 저저항/고유연 투명전극을 구현하였고 기판상 나노구조체 형성을 통해 광추출 효율을 기존에 비해 20% 이상 향상시킬 수 있었다. 이러한 기판은 향후 대면적 OLED 조명에 응용이 가능할 것이라 전망한다.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.1034-1040
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• 1997

A solar cell conversion effiency was degraded by grain boundary effect in polycrystalline silicon. Grain boundaries acted as potential barriers as well as recombination centers for the photo-generated carriers. To reduce these effects of the grain boundaries we investigated various influencing factors such as emitter thickness thermal treatment preferential chemical etching of grain boundaries grid design contact metal and top metallization along boundaries. Pretreatment in $N_2$atmosphere and gettering by POCl$_3$and Al were performed to obtain multicrystalline silicon of the reduced defect density. Structural electrical and optical properties of slar cells were characterized before and after each fabrication process. Improved conversion efficiencies of solar cell were obtained by a combination of pretreatment above 90$0^{\circ}C$ emitter layer of 0.43${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ Al diffusion in to grain boundaries on rear side fine grid finger top Yb metal and buried contact metallization along grain boundaries.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.593-599
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• 1996

Laser scribing of silicon plays an important role in metallization including the grid pattern and the front surface geometry which means aspect ratio of metal contacts. To make a front metal electrode of buried contact solar cell, we used ND:YAG lasers that deliver average 3-4W at TEM$\_$00/ mode power to sample stage. The Q-switched Nd:YAG laser of 1.064 gm wavelength was used for silicon scribing with 20-40.mu.m width and 20-200.mu.m depth capabilities. After silicon slag etching, the groove width and depth for buried contact solar cell are -20.mu.m and 30-50.mu.m respectively. Using MEL 40 Nd:YAG laser system, we can scribe the silicon surface with 18-23.mu.m width and 20-200.mu.m depth controlled by krypton arc lamp power, scan speed, pulse frequency and beam focusing. We fabricated a buried contact Silicon Solar Cell which had an energy conversion efficiency of 18.8 %. In this case, the groove width and depth are 20.mu.m and 50.mu.m respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.424-430
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• 1996

The present processing sequence for solar cells is very elaborate and ads to the cost of the fabricated cells. This processing cost, which accounts for about 30% of the total cost, can be reduced if the many high temperature sequences can be reduced without significantly reducing the cells energy conversion efficiency. By using the spin-on glasses (SOG) in conjunction with the conventional tube furnace (CTF) or rapid thermal annealer (RTA), the many high temperature process can be reduced to only one. In order to achieve efficiencies similar to the standard high temperature sequences using the solid or liquid sources, some basic characterization of the groove diffusion is necessary to ascertain the its suitability. This paper describes the work done in diffusing the buried contact grooves using the phosphorus SOG.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.14 no.2 s.43
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• pp.41-47
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• 2007

Today lots of investigations on Embedded Passive Technology using materials and chip components have been carried out. We fabricated diplexers with 1005 sized-passives, which were made by burying chips in PCB substrate and surface mounting chip on PCB. 6 passive chips (inductors and capacitors) were used for the frequency divisions of $880\;MHz{\sim}960\;MHz(GSM)$ and $1.71\;GHz{\sim}1.88\;GHz(DCS)$. Two types of diplxer were characterized with Network analyzer. The chip buried diplexer showed extra 5db loss and a little deviation of 0.6GHz at aimed frequency areas, whereas the chip mounted diplexer showed man. 0.86dB loss within GSM field and max. 0.68dB within DCS field respectively. But few degradations were observed after $260^{\circ}C$ for 80min baking and $280^{\circ}C$ for 10sec solder floating.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.263-274
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• 1996

Titanium dioxide ($TiO_{2}$) film has been widely used as anti-reflection coating for solar cells but not as masking oxide for metallisation and diffusion of impurities. In this paper we have investigated the properties of $TiO_{2}$ for possible incorporation into solar cell processing sequence. Thus the use of a spray deposition system to form the $TiO_{2}$ film and the characterisation of this film to ascertain its suitability to solar cell processing. The spray-on $TiO_{2}$ film was found to be resistant to all the chemicals used in conjunction with solar cell processing. The high temperature anealing (in oxygen ambient) of the spray-on $TiO_{2}$ film resulted in an increased refractive index, which indicated the growth of an underlying thin film of $SiO_{2}$ film for the passivation of silicon surface which would reduce the recombination activities of the fabricated device. Most importantly, the successful incorporation of the $TiO{2}$ film will lead to the reduction of the many high temperature processing steps of solar cell to only one.