• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.328-331
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• 2000

Carbon nanotube(CNT) was successfully grown on Ni-W alloyed substrate by applying PECVD technique(Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition). As a catalyst, Ni-W alloyed substrate was prepared by mechanical alloying method. In order to find the optimum growth condition, initially two different types of gas mixtures such ac $C_2$H$_2$-H$_2$and $C_2$H$_2$-MH$_3$were systematically investigated by adjusting results on the mixing ratio in temperature range of 500 to 80$0^{\circ}C$. In this work, we will report the preliminary results on the CNT processed by PECVD, which were characterized by XRD, SEM and TEM. Finally we will evalute the effect on CNT growth by changing many processing parameters, such as typical gas, mixing ratio between 2 mixture, plasma power and etc.

• 한국표면공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국표면공학회 2007년도 춘계학술발표회 초록집
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• pp.78-79
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• 2007

In this study, chemical dry characteristics of silicon nitride layers were investigated in the $F_2/N_2/Ar$ remote plasma. A toroidal-type remote plasma source was used for the generation of remote plasmas. The effects of additive $N_2$ gas on the etch rates of various silicon nitride layers deposited using different deposition techniques and precursors were investigated by varying the various process parameters, such as the $F_2$ flow rate, the addition $N_2$ flow rate and the substrate temperature. The etch rates of the various silicon nitride layers at the room temperature were initially increased and then decreased with the $N_2$ flow increased, which indicates an existence of the maximum etch rates. The etch rates of the silicon oxide layers were also significantly increased with the substrate temperature increased. In the present experiments the $F_2$ gas flow, addition $N_2$ flow rate and the substrate temperature were found to be the critical parameters in determining the etch rate of the silicon nitride layers

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제40회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.257-257
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• 2011

The amorphous indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (a-IGZO) materials for use in high performance display research fields are strongly investigated due to its good performance, such as high mobility and better transparency. However, the stability of a-IGZO materials is increasingly becoming one of critical issues due to the sub-gap electron trap sites induced by rough interfaces during deposition processing. It is well-known that the threshold voltage shift is related to interface roughness and oxygen vacancy formed by breaking weak chemical bonds. Here, we report the better properties of transparent oxide transistors by reducing the threshold voltage shift with an external rf plasma supported magnetron sputtering system. Mainly, our sputtering method causes the surface of sample to be sleek, so that it prevents the formation of various defects, such as shallow electron trap sites in the interface. External rf power was applied from 0 to 50W during RF sputtering process to enhance the stability of our oxide transistor without having a large voltage shift. To observe the effects of external rf-plasma source on the properties of our devices, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) are carried out to observe surface roughness and morphology of sputtered thin film. In addition, typical electrical properties, such as I-V characteristics are analyzed.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.405-422
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• 2013

Atomic layer deposition(ALD) is a promising deposition method and has been studied and used in many different areas, such as displays, semiconductors, batteries, and solar cells. This method, which is based on a self-limiting growth mechanism, facilitates precise control of film thickness at an atomic level and enables deposition on large and three dimensionally complex surfaces. For instance, ALD technology is very useful for 3D and high aspect ratio structures such as dynamic random access memory(DRAM) and other non-volatile memories(NVMs). In addition, a variety of materials can be deposited using ALD, oxides, nitrides, sulfides, metals, and so on. In conventional ALD, the source and reactant are pulsed into the reaction chamber alternately, one at a time, separated by purging or evacuation periods. Thermal ALD and metal organic ALD are also used, but these have their own advantages and disadvantages. Furthermore, plasma-enhanced ALD has come into the spotlight because it has more freedom in processing conditions; it uses highly reactive radicals and ions and for a wider range of material properties than the conventional thermal ALD, which uses $H_2O$ and $O_3$ as an oxygen reactant. However, the throughput is still a challenge for a current time divided ALD system. Therefore, a new concept of ALD, fast ALD or spatial ALD, which separate half-reactions spatially, has been extensively under development. In this paper, we reviewed these various kinds of ALD equipment, possible materials using ALD, and recent ALD research applications mainly focused on materials required in microelectronics.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.495-500
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• 2010

원자층 증착법(ALD: atomic layer deposition)을 이용하여 PES (poly (ether sulfon)) 기판위에 증착 온도, 플라즈마 파워에 따라 $Al_2O_3$와 $TiO_2$ 박막을 증착했다. 공정 조건에 따라 $Al_2O_3$와 $TiO_2$ 박막의 밀도, 탄소의 함유량이 달라지는 것을 알 수 있었으며, 공정 조건을 변화시켜 고밀도의 박막을 얻을 수 있었다. 플라즈마에 의한 PES 기판 손상을 막기 위해 buffer layer를 도입했으며, 또한 박막 내부 결함에 의한 수분 투과를 지연 또는 막기 위해 다층 구조를 증착했다. 이를 분석하기 위해 MOCON test를 이용해 투습률을 조사하였다. 플라스틱 기판에 다층 구조의 무기물 보호막을 적용했을 시 플라스틱 기판의 투습률 특성이 개선되었으며, 수분 투과에 대한 activation energy 또한 증가하는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.1013-1019
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• 2007

[ $150^{\circ}C$ ]의 저온에서 플라즈마 화학기상증착 (PECVD) 방법으로 비정질 규소 및 질화규소 박막을 성막 하였다. 비정질 질화규소 박막은 소스 가스의 수소 분율을 증가시킴에 따라 굴절률이 1.9에 접근하고 질소-수소 결합이 주도적이 되어 고온성막한 박막에 버금가는 특성을 보였다. 비정질 규소 박막은 소스 가스의 수소 분율을 높임에 따라 굴절률과 광학적 금지대역의 크기가 고온 성막된 박막의 값인 4.2와 1.8 eV에 근접한 값을 가지게 되었으며, $[Si-H]/([Si-H]+[Si-H_2])$의 값이 증가하여 양질의 박막특성을 얻을 수 있었다. RF 전력 및 증착 압력에 대해서 낮은 전력과 작은 압력에서 양질의 박막을 얻을 수 있었으며, 박막 특성은 RF 전력 보다는 증착 압력의 변화에 대해서 좀더 큰 의존성을 보였다. 박막트랜지스터 제작에 적용 가능한 양질의 비정질 규소 및 질화규소 박막을 저온에서 얻기 위해서는 소스 가스의 수소 분율을 높게 하는 것이 중요한 공통 인자로 파악되었다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제41회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.148-148
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• 2011

Recently, there have been many research activities to develop the large-area plasma source, which is able to generate the high-density plasma with relatively good uniformity, for the plasma processing in the thin-film solar cell and display panel industries. The large-area CCP sources have been applied to the PECVD process as well as the etching. Especially, the PECVD processes for the depositions of various films such as a-Si:H, ${\mu}c$-Si:H, Si3N4, and SiO2 take a significant portion of processes. In order to achieve higher deposition rate (DR), good uniformity in large-area reactor, and good film quality (low defect density, high film strength, etc.), the application of VHF (>40 MHz) CCP is indispensible. However, the electromagnetic wave effect in the VHF CCP becomes an issue to resolve for the achievement of good uniformity of plasma and film. Here, we propose a new electrode as part of a method to resolve the standing wave effect in the large-area VHF CCP. The electrode is split up a series of strip-type electrodes and the strip-type electrodes and the ground ones are arranged by turns. The standing wave effect in the longitudinal direction of the strip-type electrode is reduced by using the multi-feeding method of VHF power and the uniformity in the transverse direction of the electrodes is achieved by controlling the gas flow and the gap length between the powered electrodes and the substrate. Also, we provide the process results for the growths of the a-Si:H and the ${\mu}c$-Si:H films. The high DR (2.4 nm/s for a-Si:H film and 1.5 nm/s for the ${\mu}c$-Si:H film), the controllable crystallinity (~70%) for the ${\mu}c$-Si:H film, and the relatively good uniformity (1% for a-Si:H film and 7% for the ${\mu}c$-Si:H film) can be obtained at the high frequency of 40 MHz in the large-area discharge (280 mm${\times}$540 mm). Finally, we will discuss the issues in expanding the multi-electrode to the 8G class large-area plasma processing (2.2 m${\times}$2.4 m) and in improving the process efficiency.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1462-1464
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• 2006

Scaling rules for TFT application devices have led to the necessity of ultra thin dielectric films and high-k dielectric layers. In this paper, The advantages of high concentration of nitrogen in silicon oxide layer deposited by using $N_2O$ in Inductively Coupled Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition (ICP-CVD) is investigated using X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). We have reported about Ellipsometric measurement, Capacitance - Voltage characterization and processing conditions.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.80-81
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• 2012

Recently, one of the critical issues in the etching processes of the nanoscale devices is to achieve ultra-high aspect ratio contact (UHARC) profile without anomalous behaviors such as sidewall bowing, and twisting profile. To achieve this goal, the fluorocarbon plasmas with major advantage of the sidewall passivation have been used commonly with numerous additives to obtain the ideal etch profiles. However, they still suffer from formidable challenges such as tight limits of sidewall bowing and controlling the randomly distorted features in nanoscale etching profile. Furthermore, the absence of the available plasma simulation tools has made it difficult to develop revolutionary technologies to overcome these process limitations, including novel plasma chemistries, and plasma sources. As an effort to address these issues, we performed a fluorocarbon surface kinetic modeling based on the experimental plasma diagnostic data for silicon dioxide etching process under inductively coupled C4F6/Ar/O2 plasmas. For this work, the SiO2 etch rates were investigated with bulk plasma diagnostics tools such as Langmuir probe, cutoff probe and Quadruple Mass Spectrometer (QMS). The surface chemistries of the etched samples were measured by X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer. To measure plasma parameters, the self-cleaned RF Langmuir probe was used for polymer deposition environment on the probe tip and double-checked by the cutoff probe which was known to be a precise plasma diagnostic tool for the electron density measurement. In addition, neutral and ion fluxes from bulk plasma were monitored with appearance methods using QMS signal. Based on these experimental data, we proposed a phenomenological, and realistic two-layer surface reaction model of SiO2 etch process under the overlying polymer passivation layer, considering material balance of deposition and etching through steady-state fluorocarbon layer. The predicted surface reaction modeling results showed good agreement with the experimental data. With the above studies of plasma surface reaction, we have developed a 3D topography simulator using the multi-layer level set algorithm and new memory saving technique, which is suitable in 3D UHARC etch simulation. Ballistic transports of neutral and ion species inside feature profile was considered by deterministic and Monte Carlo methods, respectively. In case of ultra-high aspect ratio contact hole etching, it is already well-known that the huge computational burden is required for realistic consideration of these ballistic transports. To address this issue, the related computational codes were efficiently parallelized for GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) computing, so that the total computation time could be improved more than few hundred times compared to the serial version. Finally, the 3D topography simulator was integrated with ballistic transport module and etch reaction model. Realistic etch-profile simulations with consideration of the sidewall polymer passivation layer were demonstrated.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.153-157
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• 2023

반도체 회로를 제조하기 위해서 에칭, 세척, 증착 등의 공정들이 반복적으로 진행된다. 따라서 이러한 공정이 진행되면 진공장비 내부는 부식성이 높은 가혹한 플라즈마 환경에 노출되게 된다. 따라서 반도체 공정 장비의 내부를 플라즈마 노출에 강한 재료를 사용하여 코팅층의 에칭과 오염 입자의 생성을 최소화하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 고상합성법에 의해 합성된 옥시불화이트륨 (YOF)를 이용한 증착층의 플라즈마 식각 특성을 향상시키기 위하여 YOF 분말에 AlF₃ 분말을 혼합하여 플라즈마 스프레이 공정으로 Al 금속위에 증착시키고 그 특성을 분석하였다. AlF₃ 혼합비율의 증가에 따른 증착층의 결정구조, 미세구조 및 화학조성 변화를 조사하고 증착된 코팅층의 플라즈마 식각율을 측정하여 AlF₃ 혼합비율과의 상관관계를 분석하였다.