• 한국결정학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.56-61
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• 2003

Nanocrystalline hydrogenated silicon (nc-Si : H) thin films were deposited at room temperature by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD): a mixture of SiH₄ and H₂ gas was introduced into the evacuated reaction chamber. When the H₂ gas flow rate was low, the density of Si-H₃ bonds was high in the films. On the other hand, when the H₂ gas flow rate was high, e.g., 100 sccm, a large number of Si-H bonds contributed to the passivation of the surface of the large volume of Si nanocrystallites. The relative fraction of the Si-H₃ and Si-H₂ bonds in the amorphous matrix varied sensitively with the H₂ gas flow rate. The variation was associated with the change in the intensity as well as the wavelength of the main PL peaks, indicating the change in the total volume as well as the size of the Si nanocrystallites in the films.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.322-329
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• 2009

60 nm- and 20 nm-thick hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) layers were deposited on 200 nm $SiO_2/Si$ substrates using ICP-CVD (inductively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition). A 10 nm-Ni layer was then deposited by e-beam evaporation. Finally, 10 nm-Ni/60 nm a-Si:H/200 nm-$SiO_2/Si$ and 10 nm-Ni/20 nm a-Si:H/200 nm-$SiO_2/Si$ structures were prepared. The samples were annealed by rapid thermal annealing for 40 seconds at $200{\sim}500^{\circ}C$ to produce $NiSi_x$. The resulting changes in sheet resistance, microstructure, phase, chemical composition and surface roughness were examined. The nickel silicide on a 60 nm a-Si:H substrate showed a low sheet resistance at T (temperatures) >$450^{\circ}C$. The nickel silicide on the 20 nm a-Si:H substrate showed a low sheet resistance at T > $300^{\circ}C$. HRXRD analysis revealed a phase transformation of the nickel silicide on a 60 nm a-Si:H substrate (${\delta}-Ni_2Si{\rightarrow}{\zeta}-Ni_2Si{\rightarrow}(NiSi+{\zeta}-Ni_2Si)$) at annealing temperatures of $300^{\circ}C{\rightarrow}400^{\circ}C{\rightarrow}500^{\circ}C$. The nickel silicide on the 20 nm a-Si:H substrate had a composition of ${\delta}-Ni_2Si$ with no secondary phases. Through FE-SEM and TEM analysis, the nickel silicide layer on the 60 nm a-Si:H substrate showed a 60 nm-thick silicide layer with a columnar shape, which contained both residual a-Si:H and $Ni_2Si$ layers, regardless of annealing temperatures. The nickel silicide on the 20 nm a-Si:H substrate had a uniform thickness of 40 nm with a columnar shape and no residual silicon. SPM analysis shows that the surface roughness was < 1.8 nm regardless of the a-Si:H-thickness. It was confirmed that the low temperature silicide process using a 20 nm a-Si:H substrate is more suitable for thin film transistor (TFT) active layer applications.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.42-44
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• 2007

The a-Si:H TFTs decreasing parasitic capacitance of source-drain is fabricated on glass. The structure of a-Si:H TFTs is inverted staggered. The gate electrode is formed by patterning with length of $8{\mu}m{\sim}16{\mu}m$ and width of $80{\sim}200{\mu}m$ after depositing with gate electrode (Cr) $1500{\AA}$ under coming 7059 glass substrate. We have fabricated a-SiN:H, conductor, etch-stopper and photoresistor on gate electrode in sequence, respectively. The thickness of these, thin films is formed with a-SiN:H ($2000{\mu}m$), a-Si:H($2000{\mu}m$) and $n^+a-Si:H$ ($500{\mu}m$). We have deposited $n^+a-Si:H$, NPR(Negative Photo Resister) layer after forming pattern of Cr gate electrode by etch-stopper pattern. The NPR layer by inverting pattern of upper gate electrode is patterned and the $n^+a-Si:H$ layer is etched by the NPR pattern. The NPR layer is removed. After Cr layer is deposited and patterned, the source-drain electrode is formed. The a-Si:H TFTs decreasing parasitic capacitance of source-drain show drain current of $8{\mu}A$ at 20 gate voltages, $I_{on}/I_{off}$ ratio of ${\sim}10^8$ and $V_{th}$ of 4 volts.

• 공업화학
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.98-104
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 ECR플라즈마 화학증착법을 이용하여 반응기내 압력의 변화에 따라 수소화된 무정형 실리콘막을 증착하고 박막내 수소의 함량과 결합구조 및 전기적 특성을 조사하였다. 일반적인 CVD에 의해 제조된 a-Si:H막은 증착속도가 증가할수록 광감도는 감소하지만 ECR플라즈마의 경우 증착속도가 증가할수록 광감도가 향상되었다. 마이크로파 출력과 사일렌/수소 희석비, 반응기내 압력등이 동일한 실험 조건에서 증착시간에 따른 막의 두께는 선형적으로 증가하고 막내에 함유된 수소의 농도는 일정하지만, 반응시간이 짧은 경우 막내에 $SiH_2$결합이 SiH결합보다 많이 형성되어 광전도도를 저하시킬 수 있다. 반응기내 압력이 증가함에 따라 박막내에 SiH결합이 증가하여 광학 에너지 갭을 줄여 광전도도를 향상시킬 수 있었으나 암전도도의 증가로 광감도는 감소하였다. 따라서 양질의 박막을 얻기 위해서는 압력이 낮고 수소기체의 양이 적은 조건에서 성장시켜야 한다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 1999년도 제17회 학술발표회 논문개요집
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• pp.63-63
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• 1999

The stability of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) films under the light soaking are very important since the applications of a-Si:H films are solar cells, color sensors, photosensors, and thin film transistors(TFTs). We found the changes of the electric conductivity and the conductivity activation energy (Ea) of a-Si:H films by argon radical annealing. The deposition rate of a-Si:H films depends on the argon radical annealing time. The optical band gap and the hydrogen contents in the a-Si:H films are changes along the argon radical annealing time. We will discuss the microscopic processes of argon radical annealing in a-si:H films.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2023

4H-SiC 기판 위의 Si 성장은 전력 반도체, 바이폴라 접합 트랜지스터 및 광전자 공학에서 매우 유용한 재료로서 광범위한 응용 분야를 가지고 있다. 그러나 Si와 4H-SiC 사이에 약 20 %의 격자 불일치로 인해 4H-SiC에서 매우 양질의 결정 Si를 성장시키는 것은 상당히 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 혼합 소스 수소화물 기상 에피택시 방법을 이용하여 4H-SiC 기판에서 성장한 Al 관련 나노 구조체 클러스터에 의한 육각형 Si 에피층의 성장을 보고한다. 4H-SiC 기판 위에 육각형 Si 에피층을 성장시키기 위해 먼저 Al 관련 나노 구조체 클러스터가 형성되고 Si 원자를 흡수하여 육각형 Si 에피층이 형성되는 과정을 관찰하였다. Al 관련 나노 구조체 클러스터와 육각형 Si 에피층에 대하여 FE-SEM 및 라만 스펙트럼 결과로부터 육각형 Si 에피층은 일반적인 입방정계 Si 구조와 다른 특성을 가지는 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.5-12
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• 2000

Silicon carbide(SiC)는 뛰어난 전기적, 열적, 물리적 특성 때문에 내환경 전자소자용 반도체 재료로 널리 연구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 화학기상증착법으로 단결정 6H-SiC 동종박막을 성장시키고 이의 성장 특성을 조사하였다. 특히, 몰리브덴 (Mo)-plate를 이용하여 SiC를 코팅하지 않은 graphite susceptor를 사용한 6H-SiC 동종박막 성장조건을 성공적으로 얻었다. 대기압 상태의 RF-유도가열식 챔버에서 CVD성장을 수행하였고, <1120> 방향으로 $3.5^{\circ}$off-axis된 기판을 사용하였다. 성장 박막의 결정성을 평가하기 위하여 Nomarski 관찰, 투과율 측정 , 라만 분광, XRD, 광발광(PL) 분광, 투과전자현미경(TEM) 측 정 등의 방법을 이용하였다. 이상과 같은 실험을 통하여, 본 연구에서는 성장온도 $1500^{\circ}C$, C/Si flow ratio ($C_3H_8$ 0.2 sccm, $SiH_4$ 0.3 sccm)인 성장조건에서 결정성이 가장 좋은 6H-SiC 동종박막을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2009년도 제38회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.383-383
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• 2010

Gas-phase hydrogen atoms create a variety of chemical and physical phenomena on Si surfaces: adsorption, abstraction of pre-adsorbed H, Si etching, Si amorphization, and penetration into the bulk lattice. Thermal desorption/evolution analyses exhibited three distinct peaks, including one from the crystalline bulk. It was previously found that thermal-energy gaseous H(g) atoms penetrate into the Si(100) crystalline bulk within a narrow substrate temperature window(centered at ~460K) and remain trapped in the bulk lattice before evolving out at a temperature as high as ~900K. Developing and sustaining atomic-scale surface roughness, by H-induced silicon etching, is a prerequisite for H absorption and determines the $T_s$ windows. Issues on the H(g) absorption to be further clarified are: (1) the role of the detailed atomic surface structure, together with other experimental conditions, (2) the particular physical lattice sites occupied by, and (3) the chemical nature of, absorbed H(g) atoms. This work has investigated and compared the thermal H(g) atom absorptivity of Si(100), Si(111) and Si(110) samples in detail by using the temperature programmed desorption mass spectrometry (TPD-MS). Due to the differences in the atomic structures of, and in the facility of creating atom-scale etch pits on, Si(100), (100) and (110) surfaces, the H-absorption efficiency was found to be larger in the order of Si(100) > Si(111) > Si(110) with a relative ratio of 1 : 0.22 : 0.045. This intriguing result was interpreted in terms of the atomic-scale surface roughening and kinetic competition among H(g) adsorption, H(a)-by-H(g) abstraction, $SiH_3(a)$-by-H(g) etching, and H(g) penetraion into the crystalline silicon bulk.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.77-79
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• 2009

Amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells, TCO/a-Si:H (p)/c-Si(n)/a-Si:H(n)/Al, are investigated. The influence of various parameters for the front structures was studied. We used thin (10 nm) a-Si:H(p) layers of amorphous hydrogenated silicon are deposited on top of a thick ($500{\mu}m$) crystalline c-Si wafer. This work deals with the influence of the a-Si:H(p) doping concentration on the solar cell performance is studied.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1997년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.529-532
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• 1997

We studied the crystallization of a-Si:H thin film. Multi-crystallized Si films are preferred in many applications such as FPD, solar cells, RAM, and integrated circuits. Because most of these applications require a low temperature process, we investigated a crystallization of a-Si:H using a Cd layer. A metal Cd shows an eutectic point at a temperature of 321$^{\circ}C$. This paper present Cd layer assisted crystallization of a-Si:H film for the various grain growth Parameters such as anneal temperature, Cd layer thickness, and anneal time