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Characterization of zinc tin oxide thin films by UHV RF magnetron co-sputter deposition

  • Hong, Seunghwan;Oh, Gyujin;Kim, Eun Kyu
    • 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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    • pp.307.1-307.1
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    • 2016
  • Amorphous zinc tin oxide (ZTO) thin films are being widely studied for a variety electronic applications such as the transparent conducting oxide (TCO) in the field of photoelectric elements and thin film transistors (TFTs). Thin film transistors (TFTs) with transparent amorphous oxide semiconductors (TAOS) represent a major advance in the field of thin film electronics. Examples of TAOS materials include zinc tin oxide (ZTO), indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO), indium zinc oxide, and indium zinc tin oxide. Among them, ZTO has good optical and electrical properties (high transmittance and larger than 3eV band gap energy). Furthermore ZTO does not contain indium or gallium and is relatively inexpensive and non-toxic. In this study, ZTO thin films were formed by UHV RF magnetron co-sputter deposition on silicon substrates and sapphires. The films were deposited from ZnO and SnO2 target in an RF argon and oxygen plasma. The deposition condition of ZTO thin films were controlled by RF power and post anneal temperature using rapid thermal annealing (RTA). The deposited and annealed films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscope (AFM), ultraviolet and visible light (UV-VIS) spectrophotometer.

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이온선 스퍼터 증착법에 의하여 제초된 CrOX의 전기적 특성에 관한 연구 (Study on The Electrical Characteristics of Chromium Oxide Film Produced by ton Beam Sputter Deposition)

  • 조남제;장문식;이규용
    • 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국전기전자재료학회 1999년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.409-414
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    • 1999
  • The influence of ion beam energy and reactive oxygen partial pressure on the electrical and crystallographic characteristics of transition metal oxide compound(Cr0x) film was studied in this paper. Chromium oxide films were prepared onto the coverglass using Ion Beam Sputter Deposition(1BSD) technique according to the processing conditions of the partial pressure of reactive oxygen gas and ion beam energy. Crystallinity and grain size of as-deposited films were analyzed using XRD analysis. Thickness and Resistivity of the films were measured by $\alpha$-step and 4-point probe measurement. As results, according to the XRD, XPS and resistivity measurement, the deposited films were the cermet type films which has a crystal structure including amorphous oxide(a-oxide) phase and metal Cr phase simultaneously. The increasernent of the ion b m energy during the deposition process happened to decreasernent of metal Cr grain size and the rapid change of resistivity above the critical $O_2$ partial pressure.

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Improvement in the Setup of the Inline Sputter System and the ITO Sputtering Process by Measuring and Controlling the Base Vacuum Level

  • Ahn, Min-Hyung;Cho, Eou-Sik;Kwon, Sang-Jik
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • 제9권4호
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2008
  • A DC-magnetron inline sputter was established, and the influence of the base pressure on the structural characteristics of the ITO thin films was studied. When the inline sputter system was established and operated for ITO sputtering, its initial vacuum level did not go below $5\times10^{-6}$ torr. The vacuum leak test was conducted by measuring t he elapsed time until the vacuum level reached $1\times10^{-6}$ torr. The base pressure was successfully maintained at $1\times10^{-6}$ torr for 900 min, and the uniformity of the ITO film that had been deposited at this pressure significantly improved.

태양전지 응용을 위한 PC 기판상의 ZnO:Al 박막 특성에 관한 연구 (A Study on Properties of ZnO:Al Films on PC Substrate for Solar Cell Applications)

  • 나영일;이재형;임동건;양계준
    • 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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    • 제18권2호
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    • pp.116-119
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    • 2005
  • Al doped ZnO thin films (ZnO:Al) were deposited on poly carbonate (PC) substrate by rf magnetron sputtering. In addition, the electrical, optical properties of the films prepared at various conditions were investigated. As the sputter power increased, the resistivity of ZnO:Al films decreased, regardless of substrate types. However, the resistivity of the films increased with the sputter pressure. The ZnO:Al films were increasingly dark gray colored as the sputter power increased, resulting in the loss of transmittance. High quality films with resistivity as low as 1.43${\times}$10$^{-4}$ Ω-cm and transmittance over 80 % have been obtained by suitably controlling the deposition parameters.

마그네트론 스퍼터용 20kW급 플라즈마 전원장치 개발 (Development of Module Type 20kW Plasma Power Supply for Magnetron Sputter)

  • 서광덕;김상훈
    • 산업기술연구
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    • 제27권A호
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    • pp.157-162
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    • 2007
  • This paper describes a power supply aimed at the production of plasma and its control method for a magnetron sputter in thin film coating process of PVD(Physical Vapor Deposition). Plasma load changes its impedance characteristic easily according to operating conditions and frequently produces electric arc. So. in this paper, a plasma power supply with improved output control performance in the transient state for the plasma load is presented. Also, it includes a strategy that can detect arc rapidly and reduce arc energy effectively into a load. The validity of the proposed power supply through experimentation on 20kW system was proved.

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Exchange Bias Coupling Depending on Uniaxial Deposition Field of Antiferromagnetic FeMn Layer

  • Lee, Sang-Suk;Hwang, Do-Guwn
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • 제15권1호
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    • pp.17-20
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    • 2010
  • The relationship between ferromagnet anisotropic magnetization and the antiferromagnet atomic spin configuration was investigated for various angles of the uniaxial deposition magnetic field of the FeMn layer in the Corning glass/Ta(5nm)/NiFe(7nm)/FeMn(25nm)/Ta(5nm) multilayer that was prepared by the ion beam sputter deposition. The exchange bias field ($H_{ex}$) obtained from the measurement of the easy-axis MR loop decreased to 40 Oe at the deposition field angle of $45^{\circ}$, and to 0 Oe at the angle of $90^{\circ}$. When the difference between the uniaxial axis between the ferromagnet NiFe and the antiferromagnet FeMn was $90^{\circ}$, the strong antiferromagnetic dipole moment of FeMn caused the weak ferromagnetic dipole moment of NiFe to rotate in the interface.

Reduction of Plasma Process Induced Damage during HDP IMD Deposition

  • Kim, Sang-Yung;Lee, Woo-Sun;Seo, Yong-Jin
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • 제3권3호
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    • pp.14-17
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    • 2002
  • The HDP (High Density Plasma) CVD process consists of a simultaneous sputter etch and chemical vapor deposition. As CMOS process continues to scale down to sub- quarter micron technology, HDP process has been widely used fur the gap-fill of small geometry metal spacing in inter-metal dielectric process. However, HBP CVD system has some potential problems including plasma-induced damage. Plasma-induced gate oxide damage has been an increasingly important issue for integrated circuit process technology. In this paper, thin gate oxide charge damage caused by HDP deposition of inter-metal dielectric was studied. Multiple step HDP deposition process was demonstrated in this work to prevent plasma-induced damage by introducing an in-situ top SiH$_4$ unbiased liner deposition before conventional deposition.