• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.582-588
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• 2014

We study polarization-dependent spontaneous emission (SE) rate and light extraction efficiency (LEE) in localized-surface-plasmon (LSP)-coupled light emitting diodes (LEDs). The closely packed seven $Ag/SiO_2$ core-shell (CS) nanoparticles (NPs) lie on top of the GaN surface for LSP coupling with a radiated dipole. According to the dipole direction, both the SE rate and the LEE are significantly modified by the LSP effect at the $Ag/SiO_2$ CS NPs when the size of Ag, the thickness of $SiO_2$, and the position of the dipole source are varied. The enhancement of the SE rate is related to an induced dipole effect at the Ag, and the high LEE is caused by light scattering with an LSP mode at $Ag/SiO_2$ CS NPs. We suggest the optimum position of the quantum well (QW) in blue InGaN/GaN LEDs with $Ag/SiO_2$ CS NPs for practical application.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.787-789
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• 2006

In this letter, we report that vertically well-aligned ZnO nanowires were grown on GaN epilayers and c-plane sapphire via a vapor-liquid-solid process by introducing a 3 nm Au thin film as a catalyst. In our experiments, epitaxially grown ZnO nanowires on Au-coated GaN were vertically well-aligned, while nanowires normally tilted from the surface when grown on Au-coated c-$Al_2O_3$ substrates. However, pre-growth annealing of the Au thin layer on c-$Al_2O_3$ resulted in the growth of well-aligned nanowires in a normal surface direction. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy measurements showed that the grown nanowires have a hexagonal c-axis orientation with a single-crystalline structure.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.67-71
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 Si(111) 기판을 이용하여 고품질의 GaN 박막을 성장하기 위하여 다양한 패턴을 갖는 Si 기판을 제작하였다. Si(111) 기판위에 이온 스퍼터(ion-sputter)를 이용하여 Pt 박막을 증착한 후 열처리(thermal annealing)하여 Pt 금속 마스크를 형성하고 유도 결합 플라즈마 이온 식각(inductively coupled plasma-reactive ion etching, ICP-RIE) 공정을 통하여 기둥(pillar)형태의 나노 패턴된 Si(111) 기판을 제작하였고 리소그래피 공정을 통하여 마이크로 패턴된 Si(111) 기판을 제작하였다. 일반적인 Si(111) 기판, 마이크로 패턴된 Si(111) 기판 및 나노 패턴된 Si(111) 기판위에 유기화학기상증착(metal organic chemical vapor deposition, MOCVD) 방법으로 GaN 박막을 성장하여 표면 특성과 결정성 및 광학적 특성을 분석하였다. 나노 패턴된 Si(111) 기판위에 성장한 GaN 박막은 일반적인Si(111) 기판과 마이크로 패턴된 Si(111) 기판위에 성장한 GaN 박막보다 표면의 균열과 거칠기가 개선되었다. 나노 패턴된 Si(111) 기판위에 성장한 GaN (002)면과 (102)면에 x-선 회절(x-ray diffraction, XRD) 피크의 반폭치(full width at half maximum, FWHM)는 576 arcsec, 828 arcsec으로 다른 두 기판위에 성장한 GaN 박막 보다 가장 낮은 값을 보여 결정성이 향상되었음을 확인하였다. Photoluminescence(PL)의 반폭치는 나노 패턴된 Si(111) 기판위에 성장한 GaN 박막이 46.5 meV으로 다른 기판위에 성장한 GaN 박막과 비교하여 광학적 특성이 향상되었음을 확인하였다.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.102-105
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• 2001

A parametric cmpariosn of etch rate and etch selectivity has been performed for GaN, InN and AIN etched in chlorine- and boron halides-based Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) discharges. Chlorine-based chemistries produced controllable etch rates (50~150 nm/min) and maximum etch selectivities ~6 for InN over GaN and ~10 for InN over AlN. Maximum etch selectivities of ~100 for InN over GaN and InN over AlN were obtained in boron halides-based discharges and smooth etched surface morphologies were also achieved.

• 센서학회지
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.79-84
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• 1996

$n^{+}$형 GaAs 기판위에 MBE로 $1\;{\mu}m$ 두께의 GaAs층과 AlAs층 및 GaAs cap 단결정층을 차례로 성장시켰다. AlAs/GaAs epi층을 $400^{\circ}C$에서 각각 2시간 및 3시간동안 $N_{2}$로 bubbled된 $H_{2}O$ 수증기(水蒸氣)($95^{\circ}C$)에서 산화시켰다. 산화시간에 따른 산화막의 XPS 분석결과, 작은 양의 $As_{2}O_{3}$ 및 AlAS 그리고 원소형 As들이 2시간동안 산화된 시편에서 발견되었다. 그러나 3시간동안 산화시킨 후에는, 2시간동안 산화시켰을 때 산화막내에 존재하던 소량의 As 산화물과 As 원자들은 발견되지 않았다. 따라서 As-grown된 AlAs/GaAs epi층은 3시간동안 $400^{\circ}C$의 산화온도에서 선택적으로 $Al_{2}O_{3}/GaAs$으로 변화되었다. 그러므로 산화온도 및 산화시간은 AlAs/GaAs 계면에서 결함이 없는 표면을 형성하고 기판쪽으로 산화가 진행되는 것을 멈추기 위해서는 매우 결정적으로 작용하는 것으로 조사되었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 제39회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1270-1271
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• 2008

Effects of thin ZnO/Mg interlayers on electrical and optical properties between p-GaN and ITO were characterized for its application to GaN-LEDs. The ZnO and Mg layers were deposited to have various thicknesses (1${\sim}$6nm for ZnO and 1${\sim}$2nm for Mg) by sputtering. After RTA process, the atomic migration between Mg and ZnO and the formation of Ga vacancy were observed from SIMS depth profile, resulting in the increase of hole concentration and the reduction of band bending at the surface region of p-GaN. The sample using ZnO(2nm)/Mg(2nm) interlayer produced the lowest contact resistance with SBH(Schottky barrier height) of 0.576 eV and the transmittance higher than 83% at a wavelength of 460nm when annealed at 500$^{\circ}C$ for 3min in air ambient.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제45회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.244.1-244.1
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• 2013

The p-type GaN which act as a hole injection layer in GaN-based LEDs has fundamental problems. The first one arises from the difficulty in growing a highly doped p-GaN (with a carrier concentration exceeding ~1018 $cm^{-3}$). And the second one is the absence of appropriate metals or conducting oxides having a work function that is larger than that of p-type GaN (7.5 eV). Moreover, the LED efficiency is decreases gradually as the injection current increases (the so-called 'efficiency droop' phenomenon). The efficiency droop phenomenon in InGaN quantum wells (QWs) has been a large obstacle that has hindered high-efficiency operation at high current density. In this study, we introduce the new approaches to improve the light-output power of LEDs by using graphene oxide sheets. Graphene oxide has many functional groups such as the oxygen epoxide, the hydroxyl, and the carboxyl groups. Due to nature of such functional groups, graphene oxide possess a lot of hole carriers. If graphene oxide combine with LED top surface, graphene oxide may supply hole carriers to p-type GaN layer which has relatively low free carrier concentration less than electron concentration in n-type GaN layer. To prove the enhancement factor of graphene oxide coated LEDs, we have investigated electrical and optical properties by using ultra-violet photo-excited spectroscopy, confocal scanning electroluminescence microscopy.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.51-55
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• 2010

The electronic and magnetic properties of Cu-doped GaN with a Cu concentration of 6.25% and 12.5% are examined theoretically using the full-potential linear muffin-tin orbital method. The magnetic moment of Cu atoms decreases with increasing Cu concentration. The spin-polarization of Cu atoms is reduced due to the Cu d-d interaction depending on the distance between the nearest neighbouring Cu atoms. Cu atoms exhibits a clustering tendency in GaN. For Cu-adsorbed GaN thin films with a surface coverage of 0.25, the ferromagnetic state is found to be the energetically favourable state with an induced magnetic moment of $0.54\;{\mu}_B$ per supercell.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제1권6호
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• pp.626-630
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• 2017

GaN-based green light-emitting diode (LED) structures suffer from low internal quantum efficiency (IQE), known as the "green gap" problem. The IQE of LED structures is expected to be improved to some extent by exploiting the Purcell effect. In this study, the Purcell effect on the IQE of green LED structures is investigated numerically using a finite-difference time-domain simulation. The Purcell factor of flip-chip LED structures is found to be more than three times as high as that of epi-up LED structures, which is attributed to the high-reflectance mirror near the active region in the flip-chip LED structures. When the unmodified IQE is 20%, the relative enhancement of IQE can be greater than 50%, without utilizing the surface-plasmon coupling effect. Based on the simulation results, the "green gap" problem of GaN-based green LEDs is expected to be mitigated significantly by optimizing flip-chip LED structures to maximize the Purcell effect.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.129-133
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• 2021

This study observed the performance of an InAs/GaSb type-II superlattice photodiode with a p-i-n structure for mid-wavelength infrared detection. The 10 ML InAs/10 ML GaSb type-II superlattice photodiode was grown using molecular beam epitaxy. The cutoff wavelength of the manufactured photodiode with Si3N4 passivation on the mesa sidewall was determined to be approximately 5.4 and 5.5 ㎛ at 30 K and 77 K, respectively. At a bias of -50 mV, the dark-current density for the Si3N4-passivated diode was measured to be 7.9 × 10-5 and 1.1 × 10-4 A/㎠ at 77 K and 100 K, respectively. The differential resistance-area product RdA at a bias of -0.15 V was 1481 and 1056 Ω ㎠ at 77 K and 100 K, respectively. The measured detectivity from a blackbody source at 800 K was calculated to be 1.1 × 1010 cm Hz1/2/W at zero bias and 77 K.