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Measurement of Secondary Electron Emission Coefficient on Deposition Time of the Silicon Thin Films (실리콘박막의 증착시간에 따른 감마계수 측정법 개발)

  • Lee, Jung-Hui;Choi, Byoung-Jung;Yang, Sung-Chae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.330-331
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    • 2006
  • Recently, plasma display panels (PDPs) are highlighted for the flat type display device. Therefore, much attention has been paid to secondary electron emission coefficient of the electrode protective material of PDPs. As PDPs is developing, the concern about secondary electron emission coefficient ($\gamma$) which is related with PDPs electrode protection material is increasing continually. So the concern about the way to how to measure secondary electron emission coefficient is on the rise. At present, the way to how to measure secondary electron emission coefficient is developed by some research groups, which is giving some research part's advance help. In this research, we have studied how to measure secondary electron emission coefficient which is related with various thin films more conveniently than previous measurement method. We studied the method of measurement of secondary electron emission coefficient (${\gamma}$) of amorphous silicon films by using Paschen's curve.

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Advances in Absorbers and Reflectors of Amorphous Silicon Oxide Thin Film Solar Cells for Tandem Devices (적층형 태양전지를 위한 비정질실리콘계 산화막 박막태양전지의 광흡수층 및 반사체 성능 향상 기술)

  • Kang, Dong-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.115-118
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    • 2017
  • Highly photosensitive and wide bandgap amorphous silicon oxide (a-$SiO_x$:H) films were developed at low temperature ranges ($100{\sim}150^{\circ}C$) with employing plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition by optimizing $H_2/SiH_4$ gas ratio and $CO_2$ flow. Photosensitivity more than $10^5$ and wide bandgap (1.81~1.85 eV) properties were used for making the a-$SiO_x$:H thin film solar cells, which exhibited a high open circuit voltage of 0.987 V at the substrate temperature of $100^{\circ}C$. In addition, a power conversion efficiency of 6.87% for the cell could be improved up to 7.77% by employing a new n-type nc-$SiO_x$:H/ZnO:Al/Ag triple back-reflector that offers better short circuit currents in the thin film photovoltaic devices.

Two-Dimensional Device Simulator TFT2DS for Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistors (수소화된 비정질 실리콘 박막 트랜지스터의 이차원 소자 시뮬레이터 TFT2DS)

  • Choe, Jong-Seon;Neudeck, Gerold W.
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 1999
  • Hyrdogenated amorphous silicon thin film transistors are used as a pixel switching device of TFT-LCDs and very active research works on a-Si:H TFTs are in progress. Further development of the technology based on a-Si:H TFTs depends on the increased understanding of the device physics and the ability to accurately simulate the characteristics of them. A two-dimensional device simulator based on the realistic and flexible physical models can guide the device designs and their optimizations. A non-uniform finite-difference TFT Simulation Program, TFT2DS has been developed to solve the electronic transport equations for a-Si:H TFTs. In TFT2DS, many of the simplifying assumptions are removed. The developed simulator was used to calculate the transfer and output characteristics of a-Si:H TFTs. The measured data were compared with the simulated ones for verifying the validity of TFT2DS. Also the transient behaviors of a-Si:H TFTs were calculated even if the values of the related parameters are not accurately specified.

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Emission wavelength tuning of porous silicon with ultra-thin ZnO capping layers by plasma-assited molecular beam epitaxy (다공성 실리콘 기판위에 Plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy으로 성장한 산화아연 초박막 보호막의 발광파장 조절 연구)

  • Kim, So-A-Ram;Kim, Min-Su;Nam, Gi-Ung;Park, Hyeong-Gil;Yun, Hyeon-Sik;Im, Jae-Yeong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.349-350
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    • 2012
  • Porous silicon (PS) was prepared by electrochemical anodization. Ultra-thin zinc oxide (ZnO) capping layers were deposited on the PS by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PA-MBE). The effects of the ZnO capping layers on the properties of the as-prepared PS were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and photoluminescence (PL). The as-prepared PS has circular pores over the entire surface. Its structure is similar to a sponge where the quantum confinement effect (QCE) plays a fundamental role. It was found that the dominant red emission of the porous silicon was tuned to white light emission by simple deposition of the ultra-thin ZnO capping layers. Specifically, the intensity of white light emission was observed to be enhanced by increasing the growth time from 1 to 3 min.

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Fabrication of Metal-Semiconductor Interface in Porous Silicon and Its Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production

  • Oh, Il-Whan;Kye, Joo-Hong;Hwang, Seong-Pil
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.32 no.12
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    • pp.4392-4396
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    • 2011
  • Porous silicon with a complex network of nanopores is utilized for photoelectrochemical energy conversion. A novel electroless Pt deposition onto porous silicon is investigated in the context of photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation. The electroless Pt deposition is shown to improve the characteristics of the PS photoelectrode toward photoelectrochemical $H^+$ reduction, though excessive Pt deposition leads to decrease of photocurrent. Furthermore, it is found that a thin layer (< 10 ${\mu}m$) of porous silicon can serve as anti-reflection layer for the underlying Si substrate, improving photocurrent by reducing photon reflection at the Si/liquid interface. However, as the thickness of the porous silicon increases, the surface recombination on the dramatically increased interface area of the porous silicon begins to dominate, diminishing the photocurrent.

Effective Silicon Oxide Formation on Silica-on-Silicon Platforms for Optical Hybrid Integration

  • Kim, Tae-Hong;Sung, Hee-Kyung;Choi, Ji-Won;Yoon, Ki-Hyun
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.73-80
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    • 2003
  • This paper describes an effective method for forming silicon oxide on silica-on-silicon platforms, which results in excellent characteristics for hybrid integration. Among the many processes involved in fabricating silica-on-silicon platforms with planar lightwave circuits (PLCs), the process for forming silicon oxide on an etched silicon substrate is very important for obtaining transparent silica film because it determines the compatibility at the interface between the silicon and the silica film. To investigate the effects of the formation process of the silicon oxide on the characteristics of the silica PLC platform, we compared two silicon oxide formation processes: thermal oxidation and plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). Thermal oxidation in fabricating silica platforms generates defects and a cristobalite crystal phase, which results in deterioration of the optical waveguide characteristics. On the other hand, a silica platform with the silicon oxide layer deposited by PECVD has a transparent planar optical waveguide because the crystal growth of the silica has been suppressed. We confirm that the PECVD method is an effective process for silicon oxide formation for a silica platform with excellent characteristics.

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Recent Advances in Poly-Silicon Crystallization

  • Klene, Brian;Knowles, David S.;Bowen, M. Shane;Turk, Brandon A.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.323-327
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    • 2006
  • We present the most recent experimental results on Thin-beam Directional X'tallization (TDX), a rapid excimer-laser-based crystallization method for creating extremely high-quality large-grained polycrystalline silicon films on glass substrates. We will present experimental data obtained with our prototype Gen 2 tool, and discuss the ability to produce different types of poly-Si material.

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Formation of Silicon nanocrystallites by ion beam assisted electron beam deposition

  • Won Chel Choi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 1998.02a
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    • pp.68-69
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    • 1998
  • Nano-crystalline silicon(nc-Si) thin films were directly depposited by ion beam assisted electron beam depposition (IBAED) method. The visibe luminescence in IBAED sampples were originated from not an oxygen bond but Si nano-crystallites. And we can conclude that the ion beam would be contribute to the suppression of the Si-O bond formation.

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