• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.336.1-336.1
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• 2014

대표적인 TCO 물질인 ITO는 디스플레이 패널이나 태양 전지 등과 같은 소자에 널리 사용되고 있다. 최근에는 대량생산 및 대면적화, 그리고 유연 디스플레이 응용을 위해 롤투롤 스퍼터링(roll to roll sputtering) 공정을 이용하여 플라스틱 기판에 ITO박막을 증착하여 ITO 필름을 제작하고 있다. 롤투롤 방식으로 ITO 필름의 제작 시 공정 변수에 따라 ITO 박막의 전기적 광학적 물성 변화가 매우 크기 때문에, 공정 변수에 따른 ITO 박막의 전기적, 광학적 특성 변화에 대한 연구의 필요성이 매우 높아지고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 롤투롤 스퍼터링 방법으로 PET 기판 위에 다양한 조건으로 ITO 박막을 증착하여 공정변수에 따른 ITO 박막의 물성을 조사 하였다. 이를 위해 ITO (In/Sn=95/5 wt.%) 타겟을 사용하여 DC 파워와 산소 분압비, 열처리 온도 등을 변화시켜 낮은 면저항과 높은 광투과도를 가지는 최적의 ITO 증착 조건을 찾은 후 ITO 박막을 PET 기판 위에 두께 별로 증착 하였다. ITO 박막의 두께와 열처리 온도에 따른 전기적 특성은 면저항 측정기와 홀 측정 장치를 이용하여 분석하였고, 분광광도계와 탁도 측정기를 이용하여 광학적 특성을 관찰하였다. 또한, GIXD를 이용하여 이들 박막의 구조와 결정성에 대한 조사를 수행하였다. 이 결과들로부터 산소 분압비에 따른 ITO/PET 박막의 저항 특성 변화와 ITO 박막의 두께와 열처리 온도에 따른 구조적, 전기적, 광학적 특성을 조사하여, 롤투롤 스퍼터링법에서 공정 조건에 따른 ITO/PET 필름의 물성변화를 보고하고자 한다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.320-320
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• 2016

Nanocrystalline Carbon thin films have numerous applications in different areas such as mechanical, biotechnology and optoelectronic devices due to attractive properties like high excellent hardness, low friction coefficient, good chemical inertness, low surface roughness, non-toxic and biocompatibility. In this work, we studied the comparison of pure DC power and pulsed DC power in plasma sputtering process of carbon thin films synthesis. Using a close field unbalanced magnetron sputtering system, films were deposited on glass and Si wafer substrates by varying the power density and pulsed DC frequency variations. The plasma characteristics has been studied using the I-V discharge characteristics and optical emission spectroscopy. The films properties were studied using Raman spectroscopy, Hall effect measurement, contact angle measurement. Through the Raman results, ID/IG ratio was found to be increased by increasing either of DC power density and pulsed DC frequency. Film deposition rate, measured by Alpha step measurement, increased with increasing DC power density and decreased with pulsed DC frequency. The electrical resistivity results show that the resistivity increased with increasing DC power density and pulsed DC frequency. The film surface energy was estimated using the calculated values of contact angle of DI water and di-iodo-methane. Our results exhibit a tailoring of surface energies from 52.69 to $55.42mJ/m^2$ by controlling the plasma parameters.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.255-262
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• 2011

This paper has relatively high technical standard and experimental skill. The fabrication of TCO film with high transparency, low resistance and low chromaticity require exact control of several competing factors. This paper has resolved these problems reasonably well, thus recommended for publication. Indium tin oxide(ITO) thin films were by D.C. magnetron roll-to-roll sputter system utilizing ITO and $SiO_2$ targets of ITO and $SiO_2$. In this experiment, the effect of D.C. power, winding speed, and oxygen flow rate on electrical and optical properties of ITO thin films were investigated from the view point of sheet resistance, transmittance, and chromaticity($b^*$). The deposition of $SiO_2$ was performed with RF power of 400W, Ar gas of 50 sccm and the deposition of ITO, DC power of 600W, Ar gas of 50 sccm, $O^2$ gas of 0.2 sccm, and winding speed of 0.56m/min. High quality ITO thin films without $SiO_2$ layer had chromaticity of 2.87, sheet resistivity of 400 ohm/square, and transmittance of 88% and $SiO_2$-doped ITO Thin film with chromaticity of 2.01, sheet resistivity of 709 ohm/square, and transmittance of more than 90% were obtained. As a result, $SiO_2$ was coated on PET before deposition of ITO, their chromaticity($b^*$) and transmittance were better than previous results of ITO films. These results show that coating of $SiO_2$ induced arising chromaticity($b^*$) and transmittance. If the thickness of $SiO_2$ is controlled, sheet resistance value of ITO film will be expected to be better for touch screen. A four point probe and spectrophotometer are used to investigate the properties of ITO thin films.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.321-327
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• 2014

고분자 분산형 액정 렌즈는 40 wt%의 NOA65 prepolymer와 60 wt%의 E7 액정 균일 혼합물에 추가적으로 광개시제를 첨가하여 $11{\mu}m$와 $30{\mu}m$의 두께로 제작 되었다. 광개시제로 사용된 벤조페논은 상업적으로 판매되는 NOA65에 기본적으로 5.0 wt%의 함량으로 포함되어있다. 이 논문에서는 NOA65에 포함되어 있는 벤조페논의 농도가 스마트 전자 안경을 위한 고분자 분산형 액정 렌즈에 미치는 영향에 대해서 알아보았다. 광개시제는 NOA65와 E7 액정 혼합물 무게의 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 wt%씩 추가로 첨가되었다. 벤조페논이 첨가된 샘플이 가지는 구동 전압, 직선 구간의 기울기, 응답 시간, 명암비와 같은 전기-광학적 특성들은 벤조페논의 첨가 없이 NOA65 만을 사용해 만든 샘플에 비해 모두 개선되었다. 이러한 개선들은 벤조페논의 첨가로 인해 샘플 내부에 존재하는 액정 방울의 평균 직경 크기가 증가하는 것에 기인하였다. 액정 방울의 평균 직경 크기는 벤조페논을 0 wt%에서 8 wt%로 첨가함에 따라 $5.3{\mu}m$에서 $12.2{\mu}m$로 증가하였다. 광개시제의 농도 범위에 대해 구동 전압은 11.1 V에서 17.3 V의 범위를 보였고, 직선 구간에서의 기울기는 10.35 %T/V에서 13.96 %T/V의 범위를 보였다. 이 두 특성은 벤조페논의 첨가 없이 기본 NOA65로 만들어진 샘플에 비해 더욱 개선되었다. 벤조페논을 첨가하지 않고 샘플의 셀 간격을 $30{\mu}m$에서 $11{\mu}m$로 감소시킴에 따라 상승응답 시간은 0.47 ms에서 1.05 ms로, 하강 응답 시간은 18.64 ms에서 45.3 ms로 각각 증가하였고 명암비는 86.5에서 5.7로 크게 감소하였다. 두 특성 모두 셀 간격의 영향으로 저하되는 것을 확인하였으나 벤조페논의 첨가에 따라 상승 응답 시간은 0.77 ms, 하강 응답 시간은 41.04 ms로 각각 감소하였고 명암비는 16.7로 증가하여 다소 개선되는 것 또한 확인되었다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.642-642
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• 2013

Graphene, two dimensional single layer of carbon atoms, has tremendous attention due to its superior property such as high electron mobility, high thermal conductivity and optical transparency. Especially, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown graphene has been used as a promising material for high quality and large-scale graphene film. Unfortunately, although CVD-grown graphene has strong advantages, application of the CVD-grown graphene is limited due to ineffective transfer process that delivers the graphene onto a desired substrate by using polymer support layer such as PMMA(polymethyl methacrylate). The transferred CVD-grown graphene has serious drawback due to remaining polymeric residues generated during transfer process, which induces the poor physical and electrical characteristics by a p-doping effect and impurity scattering. To solve such issue incurred during polymer transfer process of CVD-grown graphene, various approaches including thermal annealing, chemical cleaning, mechanical cleaning have been tried but were not successful in getting rid of polymeric residues. On the other hand, lithographical patterning of graphene is an essential step in any form of microelectronic processing and most of conventional lithographic techniques employ photoresist for the definition of graphene patterns on substrates. But, application of photoresist is undesirable because of the presence of residual polymers that contaminate the graphene surface consistent with the effects generated during transfer process. Therefore, in order to fully utilize the excellent properties of CVD-grown graphene, new approach of transfer and patterning techniques which can avoid polymeric residue problem needs to be developed. In this work, we carried out transfer and patterning process simultaneously with no polymeric residue by using a metal etch mask. The patterned thin gold layer was deposited on CVD-grown graphene instead of photoresists in order to make much cleaner and smoother surface and then transferred onto a desired substrate with PMMA, which does not directly contact with graphene surface. We compare the surface properties and patterning morphology of graphene by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy(AFM) and Raman spectroscopy. Comparison with the effect of residual polymer and metal on performance of graphene FET will be discussed.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2008년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.993-994
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• 2008

Electrochromic (EC) devices are capable of reversibly changing their optical properties upon charge injection and extraction induced by the external voltage. The characteristics of the EC device, such as low power consumption, high coloration efficiency, and memory effects under open circuit status, make them suitable for use in a variety of applications including smart windows and electronic papers. Coloration due to reduction or oxidation of redox chromophores can be used for EC devices (e-paper), but the switching time is slow (second level). Recently, with increasing demand for the low cost, lightweight flat panel display with paper-like readability (electronic paper), an EC display technology based on dye-modified $TiO_2$ nanoparticle electrode was developed. A well known organic dye molecule, viologen, was adsorbed on the surface of a mesoporous $TiO_2$ nanoparticle film to form the EC electrode. On the other hand, ZnO is a wide bandgap II-VI semiconductor which has been applied in many fields such as UV lasers, field effect transistors and transparent conductors. The bandgap of the bulk ZnO is about 3.37 eV, which is close to that of the $TiO_2$ (3.4 eV). As a traditional transparent conductor, ZnO has excellent electron transport properties, even in ZnO nanoparticle films. In the past few years, one-dimension (1D) nanostructures of ZnO have attracted extensive research interest. In particular, 1D ZnO nanowires renders much better electron transportation capability by providing a direct conduction path for electron transport and greatly reducing the number of grain boundaries. These unique advantages make ZnO nanowires a promising matrix electrode for EC dye molecule loading. ZnO nanowires grow vertically from the substrate and form a dense array (Fig. 1). The ZnO nanowires show regular hexagonal cross section and the average diameter of the ZnO nanowires is about 100 nm. The cross-section image of the ZnO nanowires array (Fig. 1) indicates that the length of the ZnO nanowires is about $6\;{\mu}m$. From one on/off cycle of the ZnO EC cell (Fig. 2). We can see that, the switching time of a ZnO nanowire electrode EC cell with an active area of $1\;{\times}\;1\;cm^2$ is 170 ms and 142 ms for coloration and bleaching, respectively. The coloration and bleaching time is faster compared to the $TiO_2$ mesoporous EC devices with both coloration and bleaching time of about 250 ms for a device with an active area of $2.5\;cm^2$. With further optimization, it is possible that the response time can reach ten(s) of millisecond, i.e. capable of displaying video. Fig. 3 shows a prototype with two different transmittance states. It can be seen that good contrast was obtained. The retention was at least a few hours for these prototypes. Being an oxide, ZnO is oxidation resistant, i.e. it is more durable for field emission cathode. ZnO nanotetropods were also applied to realize the first prototype triode field emission device, making use of scattered surface-conduction electrons for field emission (Fig. 4). The device has a high efficiency (field emitted electron to total electron ratio) of about 60%. With this high efficiency, we were able to fabricate some prototype displays (Fig. 5 showing some alphanumerical symbols). ZnO tetrapods have four legs, which guarantees that there is one leg always pointing upward, even using screen printing method to fabricate the cathode.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.175-180
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• 2010

Transparent conducting oxide (TCO) films are widely used for optoelectronic applications. Among TCO materials, zinc oxide (ZnO) has been studied extensively for its high optical transmission and electrical conduction. In this study, the effects of $O_2$ plasma pretreatment on the properties of Ga-doped ZnO films (GZO) on polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) substrate were studied. The $O_2$ plasma pretreatment process was used instead of conventional oxide buffer layers. The $O_2$ plasma treatment process has several merits compared with the oxide buffer layer treatment, especially on a mass production scale. In this process, an additional sputtering system for oxide composition is not needed and the plasma treatment process is easily adopted as an in-line process. GZO films were fabricated by RF magnetron sputtering process. To improve surface energy and adhesion between the PEN substrate and the GZO film, the $O_2$ plasma pre-treatment process was used prior to GZO sputtering. As the RF power and the treatment time increased, the contact angle decreased and the RMS surface roughness increased significantly. It is believed that the surface energy and adhesive force of the polymer surfaces increased with the $O_2$ plasma treatment and that the crystallinity and grain size of the GZO films increased. When the RF power was 100W and the treatment time was 120 sec in the $O_2$ plasma pretreatment process, the resistivity of the GZO films on the PEN substrate was $1.05\;{\times}\;10^{-3}{\Omega}-cm$, which is an appropriate range for most optoelectronic applications.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.99-104
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• 2011

단결정 성장을 위한 $MgGa_2Se_4$ 다결정은 수평 전기로에서 합성하였으며, 결정구조는 rhombohedral이고 격자상수 $a_0$는 3.953 ${\AA}$, $c_0$는 38.890 ${\AA}$였다. $MgGa_2Se_4$ 단결정박막은 HWE(Hot Wall Epitaxy) 방법으로 반절연성 GaAs(100)기판에 성장시켰다. 단결정박막의 성장 조건은 증발원의 온도 $610^{\circ}C$, 기판의 온도 $400^{\circ}C$에서 진행되었으며 성장 속도는 0.5 ${\mu}m/h$였다. 단결정박막의 결정성은 이중 결정 x-선 회절곡선의 반폭치와 X-선 회절무늬의 ${\omega}-2{\theta}$로부터 구하여 최적 성장 조건을 알 수 있었다. Hall 효과는 van der Pauw 방법에 의해 측정되었으며, 온도에 의존하는 운반자 농도와 이동도는 293 K에서 각각 $6.21{\times}10^{18}/cm^3$, 248 $cm^2/v{\cdot}s$였다. $MgGa_2Se_4$/SI(Semi-Insulated) GaAs(100) 단결정 박막의 광흡수 스펙트럼을 10 K에서 293 K까지 측정하였다. 광흡수 스펙트럼으로부터 구한 에너지 갭 $E_g(T)$는 varshni 공식 $E_g(T)=E_g(0)=({\alpha}T^2/T+{\beta})$을 잘 만족함을 알 수 있었다. 여기서 $E_g(0)=2.34\;eV$, ${\alpha}=8.81{\times}10^{-4}\;eV/K$, ${\beta}=251\;K$였다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제45회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.97-97
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• 2013

Recently, Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CZTSS), which is one of the In- and Ga- free absorber materials, has been attracted considerable attention as a new candidate for use as an absorber material in thin film solar cells. The CZTSS-based absorber material has outstanding characteristics such as band gap energy of 1.0 eV to 1.5 eV, high absorption coefficient on the order of 104 cm-1, and high theoretical conversion efficiency of 32.2% in thin film solar cells. Despite these promising characteristics, research into CZTSS based thin film solar cells is still incomprehensive and related reports are quite few compared to those for CIGS thin film solar cells, which show high efficiency of over 20%. I will briefly overview the recent technological development of CZTSS thin film solar cells and then introduce our research results mainly related to sputter based process. CZTSS thin film solar cells are prepared by sulfurization of stacked both metallic and sulfide precursors. Sulfurization process was performed in both furnace annealing system and rapid thermal processing system using S powder as well as 5% diluted H2S gas source at various annealing temperatures ranging from $520^{\circ}C$ to $580^{\circ}C$. Structural, optical, microstructural, and electrical properties of absorber layers were characterized using XRD, SEM, TEM, UV-Vis spectroscopy, Hall-measurement, TRPL, etc. The effects of processing parameters, such as composition ratio, sulfurization pressure, and sulfurization temperature on the properties of CZTSS absorber layers will be discussed in detail. CZTSS thin film solar cell fabricated using metallic precursors shows maximum cell efficiency of 6.9% with Jsc of 25.2 mA/cm2, Voc of 469 mV, and fill factor of 59.1% and CZTS thin film solar cell using sulfide precursors shows that of 4.5% with Jsc of 19.8 mA/cm2, Voc of 492 mV, and fill factor of 46.2%. In addition, other research activities in our lab related to the formation of CZTS absorber layers using solution based processes such as electro-deposition, chemical solution deposition, nano-particle formation will be introduced briefly.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제45회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.130.2-130.2
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• 2013

Today, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of hydrocarbon gases has been demonstrated as an attractive method to synthesize large-area graphene layers. However, special care should be taken to precisely control the resulting graphene layers in CVD due to its sensitivity to various process parameters. Therefore, a facile synthesis to grow graphene layers with high controllability will have great advantages for scalable practical applications. In order to simplify and create efficiency in graphene synthesis, the graphene growth by thermal annealing process has been discussed by several groups. However, the study on growth mechanism and the detailed structural and optoelectronic properties in the resulting graphene films have not been reported yet, which will be of particular interest to explore for the practical application of graphene. In this study, we report the growth of few-layer, large-area graphene films using rapid thermal annealing (RTA) without the use of intentional carbon-containing precursor. The instability of nickel films in air facilitates the spontaneous formation of ultrathin (<2~3 nm) carbon- and oxygen-containing compounds on a nickel surface and high-temperature annealing of the nickel samples results in the formation of few-layer graphene films with high crystallinity. From annealing temperature and ambient studies during RTA, it was found that the evaporation of oxygen atoms from the surface is the dominant factor affecting the formation of graphene films. The thickness of the graphene layers is strongly dependent on the RTA temperature and time and the resulting films have a limited thickness less than 2 nm even for an extended RTA time. The transferred films have a low sheet resistance of ~380 ${\Omega}/sq$, with ~93% optical transparency. This simple and potentially inexpensive method of synthesizing novel 2-dimensional carbon films offers a wide choice of graphene films for various potential applications.