• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.902-907
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• 2003

In this paper, the ITO thin film, which is considered as one of the most currently used material for the high performance transparent conducting films for the PDP cell, was made in a parallel-plate, capacitively coupled DC magnetron sputtering system. Some electrical and optical properties of ITO films were investigated and discussed on the basis of glow discharge characteristics. The optimized thin film fabricating conditions of Ar gas pressure and substrate temperature were derived from the Paschen curve and glow discharge characteristics. The maximum transmittance of 89.61 % in the visible region and optical band gap of 3.89 eV and resistivity of 1.67${\times}$10$\^$-3/ $\Omega$-cm were obtained under the conditions of 300 C of substrate temperature and 10∼15 mtorr of pressure, which corresponds nearly to that of Paschen minimum.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.53-56
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• 2014

I-V characteristics of a cylindrical target in an ECR plasma were studied for sheath spatial evolutions when the target was pulsed biased to a high negative potential. The magnetic field effects on sheath thickness and sheath boundary speed were investigated by comparison between the experimental results and the theoretical results using the Child-Langmuir sheath model. The results showed that the magnetic field suppressed electron motion away from the target so that sheath thickness and sheath boundary speed decreased.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.39 no.11
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• pp.1227-1234
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• 1990

This study is to figure out the properties of the DC thermal plasma at low pressure. For this purpose, a temperature measurement system utilizing emission spectroscopy has been set up and its measurement method and results have been described. At low pressure, the plasma has shown drastic changes in its appearance. The discharge characteristics under low pressure have been measured and analyzed. The temperature of thermal plasma generated in this research has been ranged from 10, 000 K to 15, 000 K. Temperature has been observed to increase with the flow rate and magnetic field strength. The temperature characteristics at low pressure has been observed to coincide with the reported results.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.45-59
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• 1996

Ultrafine powders(UFPs) of aluminum nitride(AlN) have been synthesized by chemical reactions in the nitrogen atmosphere and the gaseous aluminum evaporated from Al powders in thermal plasmas produced by a DC plasma torch. A synthesis system consisting of a plasma torch, a finely-controllable powder feeder, a reaction chamber, and a quenching-collection chamber have been designed and manufactured, and a filter for gathering AlN UFPs produced by the quenching process subsequent to the synthesis is set up. The synthesis process is interpreted by numerical analyses of the plasma-particle interaction and the chemical equilibrium state, respectively, and a fully-saturated fractional factorial test is used to find the optimum process conditions. The degrees and ultrafineness of synthesis are evaluated by means of SEM, TEM, XRD, and ESCA analyses. AlN UFPs synthesized in the optimum process conditions have polygonal shapes of the size of 5-100 nm, and their purities differ depending on collecting positions and filter types, and the maximum purity obtained is 72 wt% at the filter.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.209-213
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• 2007

Change of the plasma volume by pulse frequency in a bipolar pulsed DC unbalanced magnetron sputtering was investigated. As increasing the frequency at off duty 10% and at a constant power, the plasma volume was lengthened in vertical direction from the AZO target. When there is an electrically floated substrate, the vertical length of the plasma area was not affected by the pulse frequency. Instead, the diameter of the plasma volume was increased. We found that the temperature rise of a substrate was affected by the pulse frequency, too. As increasing it, the maximum temperature rise of a glass substrate was decreased from $132^{\circ}C\;to\;108^{\circ}C$.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.478-484
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• 1994

Facing target dc sputtering system developed by Hoshi et al. has simple configuration and high deposition rate under moderate substrate temperature in the range of pressure 5x10S0-4T - 1x10S0-2T torr. In this system, magnetic field should be applied perpendicular to the target surface in order to confine high energy secondary electrons between two targets. Because of this magnetic field, the glow discharge characteristics are very different from dc planar diode system showing some unstable discharge region. In this paper, the glow discharge characteristics of this system have been studied under the condition of Ti targets with Ar-NS12T(10%) as working gas. It is found that this system has stable discharge region under the discharge current density of 15-30(mA/cmS02T). The plasma density and electron temperature are in the range of 10S010Y - 10S011T(CMS0-3T) and 2.5-5(eV), respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.178-179
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• 2011

2차 연료 전지용 금속 분리판 중 스테인리스 스틸은 많은 연구가 진행 되어 왔지만, 알루미늄은 거의 연구가 진행되지 않고 있다. 따라서 이번 연구는 반응성 DC 마그네트론 스퍼터링법으로 스테인리스 와 알루미늄 기판에 TiN 박막을 증착한 후, 기판의 종류에 따른 TiN 박막의 물성을 비교 검토하였다.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.154-158
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• 2010

Numerical analysis is done to investigate the effects of pulse bias on the plasma processing characteristics like ion doping and ion nitriding by using fluid dynamic code with a 2D axi-symmetric model. For 10 mTorr of Ar plasma, -1 kV of pulse bias was simulated. Maximum sheath thickness was around 20 mm based on the electric potential profile. The peak electron temperature was about 20 eV, but did not affect the averaged plasma characteristics of the whole chamber. Maximum ion current density incident on the substrate was 200 $A/m^2$ at the center, but was decreased down to 1/10th at radius 100 mm, giving poor radial uniformity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.312-312
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• 2010

기존의 박막태양전지 전면층으로 활용하는 Asahi glass는 증착공정 중에 발생하는 수소 플라즈마로 인해 FTO 기판의 투명전도막이 손상되어 태양전지의 효율 저하가 문제가 되었다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 FTO 기판의 전면층을 대신하여 ZnO:Al 박막증착을 하기 위해서 회전원통형의 타겟이 장착된 DC magnetron sputtering을 가지고 성장을 시켰는데 증착하는데 있어 중요한 공정변수인 압력 및 온도 조건의 가변을 통해 이를 최적화하여 전면층에 활용하고 자 한다. 그래서 3mtorr의 압력과 $230^{\circ}C$의 온도 조건에서 두께가 약 $1{\mu}m$일 경우, $6.5{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}cm$의 비저항과 함께 약 85% 이상의 투과도를 나타냈다. 이것은 ZnO:Al 박막이 압력과 온도의 영향에 따라 투명전도막에 많은 영향을 끼치는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.111-112
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• 2018

4Quadrant 동작하는 ITER CS, VS1, CC AC/DC Converter Local Controller는 전압제어 모드로 동작하며 초전도 코일에 제어된 전류를 충전, 유지, 방전하며 제어기 내외부 조건에 의한 보호 동작이 요구된다. 코일 전류가 제로 영역에 있을 때 플라즈마 붕괘로 인한 코일 전류 blocking을 방지하기 위한 순환전류 모드가 요구 되며 코일 전류에 따른 컨버터 브릿지의 동작모드가 결정된다. 본 논문은 RTDS를 이용하여 제어기의 성능을 검증한 내용을 논의하고자 한다.