• Applied Microscopy
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.255-263
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• 1999

We have investigated the interfacial reactions in Co/Ti multilayer thin films prepared by DC Magnetron sputtering system. We observed that the amorphous Co-Ti phase formed by SSAR (Solid State Amorphization Reaction) upon annealing at $200^{\circ}C$. Upon annealing treatments at $300^{\circ}C\;and\;400^{\circ}C$, a crystalline phase of CoTi formed at the Co/Ti interface. The sheet resistance of Co/Ti multilayer thin film increased by the formation of the amorphous phase at the Co/Ti interface, which decreased by the formation of new crystalline compound CoTi.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.33 no.9
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• pp.1012-1018
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• 1996

To investigate the final structures and reactions of silicides a somewhat thick Ti monolayer Co monolayer and Co/Ti bilayer films were deposited on single Si(100) wafer by electron beam evaporation followed by heat treatment using RTA system in N2 ambient. TiO2 film formed between Ti and TiSi2 layers due to oxgen or moisture in the Ti monolayer sample. The final layer structure obtained after the silicidation heat-treatment of the Co/Ti bilayer sample turned out to be TiSi2/CoSi2/Ti-Co-Si alloy/CoSi2/Si sbustrate. This implies that imperfect layer inversion occurred due to the formation of Ti-Co-Si intermediate phase.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.143-143
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• 1999

Co/Ti 다층 박막을 제조하기 위해 직류원 마그네트론 스퍼터링 시스템을 이용하여 (100)실리콘 단결정 기판위에 Co와 Ti층을 각각 2/2, 5/5, 10/10 nm 정도의 두께로 조절하여 세가지 조성의 Co/Ti 다층 박막을 제조하였다. 이러한 Co/Ti 다층 박막의 후속 열처리는 Ar 가스분위기 하에서 Tube furnace를 이용하여 20$0^{\circ}C$와 30$0^{\circ}C$, 40$0^{\circ}C$의 온도에서 진행하였다. 증착초기에서부터 후속 열처리 공정을 진행하는 동안, Co/Ti 다층 박막에서의 계면반응을 미세 구조 변화 및 전기, 자기적 특성변화와 연관지어 관찰하였다. Co/Ti 다층 박막의 결정 구조와 미세 구조 변화를 관찰하기 위해 각각 X-선 회절기와 투과 전자 현미경을 사용하였고, 다층 박막의 전기적, 자기적 특성 변화를 관찰하기 위해 각각 4점 탐침기, 진동 시료형 자속계를 이용하였다. Co/Ti 다층 박막을 20$0^{\circ}C$의 저온에서 열처리를 한 경우에는 증착 초기의 계면반응에 의해 형성된 비정질 층이 성장하였고, 30$0^{\circ}C$와 40$0^{\circ}C$의 고온에서 열처리를 하는 경우에는 비정질 측의 성장보다는 새로운 화합물 CoTi 결정상이 형성되면서 비정질상은 오히려 감소하였다. 즉, Co/Ti 다층 박막의 계면 반응은 결정질 Co와 Ti을 계면 반응물로 소모시키면서 비정질 층을 성장시키는 비정질화 반응이 활발히 일어났다. 특히, 소모된 계면 반응물로 소모시키면서 비정질 층을 성장시키는 비정질화 반응일 활발히 일어났다. 특히, 계면 반응물로 소모시키면서 비정질 층을 성장시키는 비정질화 반응일 활발히 일어났다. 특히, 소모된 계면 반응물 Co와 Ti 중에서 Ti의 소모속도가 더 빠르게 관찰되었다. 이로부터 Ti 이 증착초기에서 저온 열처리 과정동안 Co/Ti 다층 박막의 계면에서 일어나는 비정질화 반응의 주 확산자로 작용했다는 것을 알 수 있다. 한편, 30$0^{\circ}C$와 40$0^{\circ}C$의 고온에서 열처리한 Co/Ti 다층 박막의 계면 반응은, 비정질 반응에 의한 비정질층의 형성보다는 새로운 화합물 결정질 CoTi상을 형성시키는 결정화 반응이 우세했다. Co/Ti 다층 박막의 전기적 저항은, 열처리에 의한 비정질 층의 생성 및 성장으로 인해 증가하였고 새로운 저저항 CoTi 결정상의 형성으로 인해 감소하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 Co/Ti 다층 박막의 포화 자화값은, 열처리에 의한 계면에서의 비정질화 반응과 CoTi 결정화 반응으로 인해 강자성체인 Co 결정상이 감소됨에 따라 감소하는 경향을 나타냈다.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.208-213
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• 1998

Silicidation of the Co/Ti/Si bilayer system in which Ti is used as epitaxy promoter for $CoSi_2$has recently received much attention. The Co/Ti bilayer on the spacer oxide of gate electrode must be thermally stable at high temperatures for a salicide transistor to be fabricated successfully. In the $SiO_2$substrate was rapid-thermal annealed. The Sheet resistances of the Co/Ti bilayer increased substantially after annealing at $600^{\circ}C$, which is due to the agglomeration of the Co layer to reduce the interface energy between the Co layer and the $SiO_2$substrate. In the bilayer system insulating Ti oxide stoichiometric Ti oxide and silicide were not found after annealing.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.107-113
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• 2008

Ultrafine TiC-5%Co powders were synthesized by spray drying of aqueous solution of TiO$(OH)_2$ slurry and cobalt nitrate, followed by calcination and carbothermal reaction. The oxide powders with carbon powder was reduced and carburized at $900^{\circ}C{\sim}1250^{\circ}C$ under hydrogen atmosphere. During reduction, CO gas was mainly evolved by reducing reaction of oxides. Ultrafine TiC-5%Co powders were easily formed by carbothermal reaction at $1250^{\circ}C$ due to using ultrafine powders as raw materials. The ultrafine WC-TiC-Co alloy prepared by sintering of mixed powder of ultrafine WC-13%Co powder and ultrafine TiC-5%Co powder has higher sintered density and mechanical properties than WC-TiC-Co alloy prepared by commercial WC, TiC and Co powders.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.88-93
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• 2003

Co/Ti bilayer structure in Co salicide process helps to the improvement of device speed by lowering contact resistance due to the epitaxial growth of $CoSi_2$layers. We investigated the epitaxial growth and interfacial mass transport of $CoSi_2$layers formed from $150 \AA$-Co/Ti structure with two step rapid thermal annealing (RTA). The thicknesses of Ti layers were varied from 20 $\AA$ to 100 $\AA$. After we confirmed the appropriate deposition of Ti film even below $100\AA$-thick, we investigated the cross sectional microstructure, surface roughness, eptiaxial growth, and mass transportation of$ CoSi_2$films formed from various Ti thickness with a cross sectional transmission electron microscopy XTEM), scanning probe microscopy (SPM), X-ray diffractometery (XRD), and Auger electron depth profiling, respectively. We found that all Ti interlayer led to$ CoSi_2$epitaxial growth, while $20 \AA$-thick Ti caused imperfect epitaxy. Ti interlayer also caused Co-Ti-Si compounds on top of $CoSi_2$, which were very hard to remove selectively. Our result implied that we need to employ appropriate Ti thickness to enhance the epitaxial growth as well as to lessen Co-Ti-Si compound formation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.177-185
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• 1998

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of Co, Co-Ti addition on the sintering characteristic of $(Ti_{1-x}Alx)N$ material synthesized by the direct nitriding method for a application as a cermet material. The observed shrinkage rates of $(Ti_{1-x}Alx)N$ pellets increase with the additive (Co, Co-Ti) content, temperature and time, and also the pellets with the same additive content exhibit the shrinkage behavior that depends on the Ti/Al ratio. However, although the shrinkage rates in this study is the mast higher (36%), the density of the sintered $(Ti_{1-x}Alx)N$ pellet is below 80% density in theory because of the partial segregation and the dense band defect of AlCo compound. Consequentely, it is considered that Co was not effective as a binder material because the wettability of liquid Co metal on $(Ti_{1-x}Alx)N$ materials is poor, In $(Ti_{1-x}Alx)N$ with Ti-Co additive, the stoichiometric TiN is transformed by the under-stoichiometric TiNx(x<1.0) during sintering, leading to the good properties such as hardnees and hot oxidation.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.484-492
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• 1998

The formation mechanism of the epitaxial cobalt silicide from Co/Ti/OOO) Si structure has been investigated. The transition temperature of CoSi to CoSi, was found to increase with increasing the Ti interlayer thickness, which may be owing to the occupation of the tetrahedral sites by Ti atoms in the CoSi crystal structure as well as the blocking effect of the Ti interlayer on the diffusion of Co. Also, the Co- Ti-O ternary compound formed at the metal! Si interface at the begining of silicidation, which seems to play an important role in epitaxial growth of Co silicide. The final layer structures obtained after a rapid thermal annealing of the Cot Ti/( 100) Si bi-layer structure turned out to be Ti oxide/Co- Ti-Si/epi-$CoSi_2$/OOO)

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-4
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• 2005

We investigated the electronic structures and the magnetic properties of Ti-based intermetallic system of CoTi/FeTi/CoTi(110) surface and interface by using the all-electron full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). The calculated magnetic moments of interface Co and Fe atoms are 0.65 and 0.15 μ/sub B/, respectively. Surface and interface magnetism of CoTi/FeTi/CoTi(110) are discussed using the calculated density of states (DOS) and the spin densities.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.1431-1437
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• 2007

Cobalt titanates($CoTiO_x$), such as $CoTiO_3$ and $Co_2TiO_4$, have been synthesized via a solid-state reaction and characterized using X-ray diffraction(XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic(XPS) measurement techniques, prior to being used for continuous wet trichloroethylene(TCE) oxidation at $36^{\circ}C$, to support our earlier chemical structure model for Co species in 5 wt% $CoO_x/TiO_2$(fresh) and(spent) catalysts. Each XRD pattern for the synthesized $CoTiO_3$ and $Co_2TiO_4$ was very close to those obtained from the respective standard XRD data files. The two $CoTiO_x$ samples gave Co 2p XPS spectra consisting of very strong main peaks for Co $2p_{3/2}$ and $2p_{1/2}$ with corresponding satellite structures at higher binding energies. The Co $2p_{3/2}$ main structure appeared at 781.3 eV for the $CoTiO_3$, and it was indicated at 781.1 eV with the $Co_2TiO_4$. Not only could these binding energy values be very similar to that exhibited for the 5 wt% $CoO_x/TiO_2$(fresh), but the spin-orbit splitting(${\Delta}E$) had also no noticeable difference between the cobalt titanates and a sample of the fresh catalyst. Neither of all the $CoTiO_x$ samples were active for the wet TCE oxidation, as expected, but a sample of pure $Co_3O_4$ had a good activity for this reaction. The earlier proposed model for the surface $CoO_x$ species existing with the fresh and spent catalysts is very consistent with the XPS characterization and activity measurements for the cobalt titanates.