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Effects of Sputtering Parameters on the Properties of Co/Pd Multilayered Films

  • Shin, J. N.;Hong, D. H.;Lee, T. D.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.146-148
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    • 2003
  • Multilayered films of Co/Pd have been studied as a candidate material for a high density perpendicular recording medium due to higher anisotropy energy. However, high exchange coupling among grains results in large transition noise. To reduce the exchange coupling and grain size, addition of 3rd elements and physical separation of grains have been attempted. In the present paper, effects of sputtering pressure, Co sublayer thickness and Pd underlayer thickness on magnetic properties and microstructures were studied. It was found that by increasing sputtering pressure from 5 mTorr to 25 mTorr, Ms decreased to one half and coercivity increased more than 5000 Oe. The increase of the coercivity is associated with physical separation of grains by high pressure sputtering. Ms per volume of Co for Co/Pd multilayered film deposited at 25 mTorr shows continuous decrease with increasing Co sublayer thickness. This was related to void formation and intermixing of Co/Pd interface. Also, effect of Pd underlayer thickness on magnetic properties will be discussed.

Development of Thin and Lightweight Bulletproof Windows Using Strengthened SLS Glass by Ion Exchange

  • Shim, Gyu-In;Kim, Seong-Hwan;Ahn, Deok-Lae;Park, Jong-Kyoo;Choi, Se-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.52 no.2
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    • pp.123-127
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    • 2015
  • Soda-lime silicate (SLS) glass was strengthened by ion exchange for application of thin and lightweight bulletproof windows. The optimal conditions for ion exchanged SLS glass (thickness of 3 and 10 mm) at $480^{\circ}C$ were 10 and 17 min, respectively. The Vickers hardness values of the strengthened SLS glass samples with thicknesses of 3 and 10 mm were $5.9{\pm}0.22$ and $6.7{\pm}0.17GPa$, respectively, which values were about 22% higher than those of parent SLS glass. By laminating a multilayer defense film and polycarbonate sheet with ion exchanged SLS glass, we were able to make a thin and lightweight bulletproof window (24.25 mm, 4.57 kg, $50.06kg/m^2$, $V_{50}$ 901.8 m/s). As a result, the thickness of the bulletproof window was decreased by about 39% from 40 to 24.25 mm. The light transmittance in the visible range satisfied the standard (over 76%) for bulletproof windows.

Effect of PDMS Index Matching Layer on Characteristics of Mn-Doped SnO2 (MTO)/Ag/MTO/PDMS/MTO Transparent Electrode (PDMS 굴절 조정층이 Mn-Doped SnO2 (MTO)/Ag/MTO/PDMS/MTO 투명전극의 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Jo, Young-Su;Jang, Gun-Eik
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.408-411
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    • 2018
  • We fabricated highly flexible Mn-doped $SnO_2$ (MTO)/Ag/MTO/polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/MTO multilayer transparent conducting films. To reduce refractive-index mismatching of the MTO/Ag/MTO/polyethylene terephthalate (PET), index-matching layers were inserted between the oxide-metal-oxide-structured films and the PET substrate. The PDMS layer was deposited by spin-coating after adjusting the mixing ratio of PDMS and hexane. We investigated the effects of the index-matching layer on the color and reflectance differences with different PDMS dilution ratios. As the dilution ratio increased from 1:100 to 1:130, the color difference increased slightly, while the reflectance difference decreased from 0.62 to 0.32. The MTO/Ag/MTO/PDMS/MTO film showed a transmittance of 87.18~87.68% at 550 nm. The highest value of the Haacke figure of merit was $47.54{\times}10^{-3}{\Omega}^{-1}$ for the dilution ratio of 1:130.

A Study on the Electrical Properties of Organic Ultra Thin Films for Nanoscale Device Manufacture (나노스케일 소자제작을 위한 유기초박막의 전기적특성에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Jin-Won;Han, Chang-Su;Lee, Kyung-Sup
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.384-385
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    • 2005
  • Monolayers of lipids on a water surface have attracted much interest as models of biological membranes, but also as precursors of multilayer systems promising many technical applications. Until now, many methodologies have been developed in order to gain a better understanding of the relationship between the structure and function of the monolayers. Maxwell displacement current (MDC) measurement has been employed to study the dielectric property of Langmuir-films. MDC flowing across monolayers is analyzed using a rod-like molecular model. It is revealed that the dielectric relaxation time $\tau$ of mono layers in the isotropic polar orientational phase is determined using a liner relationship between the monolayer compression speed a and the molecular area $A_m$. Compression speed a was about 30, 40, 50mm/min. also, LB layers of Arachidic acid deposited by LB method were deposited onto slide glass as Y-type film. The structure of manufactured device is Au/Arachidic acid/Al, the number of accumulated layers are 9 ~ 21 and we then examined of the Metal-Insulator-Metal(MIM) device by means of I-V.

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A Study of the Electrical and Galvanomagnetic Properties of InSb Films

  • Bae, Chang-Hwan;Lee, Ju-Hee;Han, Chang-Suk
    • Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.353-356
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    • 2010
  • InSb thin films with a thickness of approximately 300 nm were prepared using single- and double-source vacuum evaporation methods and their structures and properties were investigated in terms of a heat treatment procedure. The double-source InSb films, prepared by the alternate stacking of In and Sb, were polycrystalline in structure and included small amounts of unreacted In and Sb phases. After annealing at elevated temperatures below the melting point of InSb (525$^{\circ}C$), the films changed into the InSb phase and were found to contain small amounts of unreacted In. The formation capability of the InSb compound was slightly lower for multilayer films than for single-layer films. The electrical and galvanomagnetic properties were found to be strongly related to the microstructures of the films. The maximum value of the Hall mobility and the magnetoresistance were determined to be $4.3{\times}10^3cm^2$/Vs and 70%, respectively, for the single-layer films, while these values for the alternately stacked films were respectively $2.9{\times}10^3cm^2$/Vs and 29% for the $[Sb(2.5)/In(2.5)]_{60}$ films, and $3.1{\times}10^3cm^2$/Vs and 10% for the $[Sb(150)/In(150)]_1$ films.

Proposal of the Energy Recovery Circuit for Testing High-Voltage MLCC (고전압 MLCC 시험을 위한 에너지 회수 회로 제안)

  • Kong, So-Jeong;Kwon, Jae-Hyun;Hong, Dae-Young;Ha, Min-Woo;Lee, Jun-Young
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.214-220
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    • 2022
  • This paper proposes a test device designed for developing a high-voltage multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC). The proposed topology consists of an energy recovery circuit for charging/discharging capacitor, a flyback converter, and a boost converter for supplying power and a bias voltage application to the energy recovery circuit. The energy recovery circuit designed with a half-bridge converter has auxiliary switches operating before the main switches to prevent excessive current from flowing to the main switches. A prototype has been designed to verify the reliability of target capacitors following the voltage fluctuation with a frequency range below 65 kHz. To conduct high root mean square (RMS) current to the capacitor as a load, the MLCC test was conducted after the topology verification was completed through the film capacitor as a load. Through the agreement between the RMS current formula proposed in this paper and the MLCC test results, the possibility of its use was demonstrated for high-voltage MLCC development in the future.

Coersivity Alteration of Free Layer in the [Co/Pd] Spin-valves with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy ([Pd/Co] 다층박막을 이용한 수직스핀밸브 구조에서 비자성층에 인접한 강자성 물질과 그 두께에 따른 자유층의 보자력 변화)

  • Heo, Jang;Choi, Hyong-Rok;Lee, Ky-Am
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.89-93
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    • 2010
  • We study the giant magneto-resistance (GMR), coercivity and their dependence on the ferromagnetic layers adjacent to the nonmagnetic layer in a spin-valve structure, [Pd/ferromagnetic] multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy. We fabricated a basic spinvalve structure of $[Pd/Co]_2$/ferro-magnetic layer/nonmagnet/ferro-magnetic layer/$[Pd/Co]_2$/FeMn and investigated the dependence of its GMR and magnetic properties such ad coercivity on the ferromagnetic material to reduce the coercivity of the free layer. We try to reduce the freelayer coercivity by controlled the anisotropy, we insert the material NiFe, $Co_8Fe_2$, $Co_9Fe_1$ to ferromagnetic layers adjacent to the Cu layer. Then, we have been able to reduce the coercivity as low as 100 Oe, and also achieved 6.7% of magneto-resistance ratio when the ferromagnetic layer thickness was 0,7 nm.

Thermoelectric Characteristics of the Electroplated Bi-Te Films and Photoresist Process for Fabrication of Micro Thermoelectric Devices (전기도금 공정으로 제조한 Bi-Te 박막의 열전특성 및 미세열전소자 형성용 포토레지스트 공정)

  • Lee, Kwang-Yong;Oh, Tae-Sung
    • Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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    • v.14 no.2 s.43
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2007
  • Thermoelectric properties of the electrodeposited Bi-Te films and photoresist process have been investigated to apply for thermoelectric thin film devices. After plating in Bi-Te solutions of 20 mM concentration, which were prepared by dissolving $Bi_2O_3$ and $TeO_2$ into 1M $HNO_3$, thermoelectric properties of the films were characterized with variation of the Te/(Bi+Te) ratio in a plating solution. With increasing the Te/(Bi+Te) ratio in the plating solution from 0.5 to 0.65, Seebeck coefficient of Bi-Te films changed from $-59{\mu}V/K$ to $-48{\mu}V/K$ and electrical resistivity was lowered from $1m{\Omega}-cm$ to $0.8m{\Omega}-cm$ due to the increase in the electron concentration. Maximum power factor of $3.5{\times}10^{-4}W/K^2-m$ was obtained for the Bi-Te film with the $Bi_2Te_3$ stoichiometric composition. Using multilayer overhang process, the photoresist pattern to form thermoelectric legs of 30 m depth and 100m diameter was successfully fabricated fur micro thermoelectric device applications.

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Shape Magnetic Anisotropy on Magnetic Easy Axis of NiFe/Cu/NiFe/IrMn Spin Valve Thin Film (NiFe/Cu/NiFe/IrMn 스핀밸브 박막소자의 자화 용이축에 따른 형상 자기이방성)

  • Choi, Jong-Gu;Kwak, Tae-Joon;Lee, Sang-Suk;Sim, Jung-Taek
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.35-40
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    • 2010
  • The GMR-SV (giant magnetoresistance-spin valve) device depending on the micro patterned features according to two easy directions of longitudinal and transversal axes has been studied. The GMR-SV multilayer structure was Ta(5 nm)/NiFe(8 nm)/Cu(2.3 nm)/NiFe(4 nm)/IrMn(8 nm)/Ta(2.5 nm). The applied anisotropy direction of the GMR-SV thin film was performed under the magnitude of 300 Oe using by permanent magnet during the deposition. The size of micro patterned device was a $1\;{\times}\;18\;{\mu}m^2$ after the photo lithography process. In the aspects of the shape magnetic anisotropy effect, there are two conditions of fabrication for GMR-SV device. Firstly, the direction of sensing current was perpendicular to the magnetic easy axis of the pinned NiFe/IrMn bilayer with the transversal direction of device. Secondly, the direction of shape magnetic anisotropy was same to the magnetic easy axis of the free NiFe layer with the longitudinal direction of device.

Current Status of the Synchrotron Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Station BL4C1 at the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory

  • Jorg Bolze;Kim, Jehan;Huang, Jung-Yun;Seungyu Rah;Youn, Hwa-Shik;Lee, Byeongdu;Shin, Tae-Joo;Moonhor Ree
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.2-12
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    • 2002
  • The small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) beamline BL4C1 at the 2.5 GeV storage ring of the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) has been in its first you of operation since August 2000. During this first stage it could meet the basic requirements of the rapidly growing domestic SAXS user community, which has been carrying out measurements mainly on various polymer systems. The X-ray source is a bending magnet which produces white radiation with a critical energy of 5.5 keV. A synthetic double multilayer monochromator selects quasi-monochromatic radiation with a bandwidth of ca. 1.5%. This relatively low degree of monochromatization is sufficient for most SAXS measurements and allows a considerably higher flux at the sample as compared to monochromators using single crystals. Higher harmonics from the monochromator are rejected by reflection from a flat mirror, and a slit system is installed for collimation. A charge-coupled device (CCD) system, two one-dimensional photodiode arrays (PDA) and imaging plates (IP) are available its detectors. The overall performance of the beamline optics and of the detector systems has been checked using various standard samples. While the CCD and PDA detectors are well-suited for diffraction measurements, they give unsatisfactory data from weakly scattering samples, due to their high intrinsic noise. By using the IP system smooth scattering curves could be obtained in a wide dynamic range. In the second stage, stating from August 2001, the beamline will be upgraded with additional slits, focusing optics and gas-filled proportional detectors.