• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2009년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.350-355
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• 2009

The crysralline silicon solar cell where the solar cell market grows rapidly is occupying of about 85% or more high efficiency and low cost endeavors many crystalline solar cells. The fabricaion process of high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells necessitate complicated fabrication processes and Ti/Pd/AG contact, This metal contacts have only been used in limited areas in spite of their good srability and low contact resistance because of expensive materials and process. Commercial solar cells with screen-printed solar cells formed by using Ag paste suffer from loe fill factor and high contact resistance and low aspect ratio. Ni and Cu metal contacts have been formed by using electroless plating and light-induced electro plating techniques to replace the Ti/Pd/Ag and screen-printed Ag contacts. Copper and Silver can be plated by electro & light-induced plating method. Light-induced plating makes use the photovoltaic effect of solar cell to deposit the metal on the front contact. The cell is immersed into the electrolytic plating bath and irradiated at the front side by light source, which leads to a current density in the front side grid. Electroless plated Ni/ Electro&light-induced plated Cu/ Light-induced plated Ag contact solar cells result in an energy conversion efficiency of 16.446 % on 0.2~0.6${\Omega}$ cm, $20{\times}20mm^2$, CZ(Czochralski) wafer.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.138-143
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• 2009

액체로켓엔진 연소기에 적용된 대기 플라즈마 코팅 및 전해/무전해 도금 코팅의 열차폐 효율과 내구성 평가를 수행하였다. 연소시험 결과 대기 플라즈마 방식의 $ZrO_2$, NiCrAlY 코팅은 로켓엔진 연소기의 초음속 유동영역에서 코팅이 표면에서 박리되는 현상이 간헐적으로 발생하였으며 따라서 이러한 문제를 극복할 수 있는 대체 코팅 방식이 요구되었다. 시험 결과 열차폐 효율 및 내구성 관점에서 대기 플라즈마 방식의 $ZrO_2$, NiCrAlY 코팅의 대안으로 무전해/전해 방식을 사용한 니켈-크롬 코팅을 사용할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2007

이방성 전도필름(ACF) 접합에 사용되는 니켈 범프를 무전해 및 전해 도금법으로 제작한 다음, 이 범프들의 기계적 특성과 충격안전성을 압축시험, 범프전단시험, 낙하충격시험을 통하여 연구하였다. Nano indenter를 이용한 압축시험에서 얻은 하중-변형량 데이터를 변환시켜 니켈범프의 응력-변형량 곡선을 구하였다. 전해 니켈 범프는 무전해 니켈 범프에 비해 매우 작은 탄성한계응력과 탄성계수를 나타냈었다. 무전해 니켈 범프의 탄성한계응력과 탄성계수가 각각 600-800MPa, $9.7{\times}10^{-3}MPa/nm$인 반면 전해 니켈 범프의 경우에는 각각 70MPa, $7.8{\times}10^4MPa/nm$이었다. 범프전단 시험에서 무전해 니켈 범프는 소성변형이 거의 일어나지 않고 낮은 전단하중에서 범프가 패드 층에서 튕기듯이 떨어져 나간 반면 전해 니켈 범프는 큰 소성변형을 일으키며 범프가 잘려나갔으며 높은 전단하중을 보여주었다. 낙하충격시험 결과 ACF 플립칩 방법으로 본딩한 무전해 및 전해 범프 모두 높은 충격 신뢰성을 보였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.250-253
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• 2007

An evaporated Ti/Pd/Ag contact system is most widely used to make high-efficiency silicon solar cells, however, the system is not cost effective due to expensive materials and vacuum techniques. Commercial solar cells with screen-printed contacts formed by using Ag paste suffer from a low fill factor and a high shading loss because of high contact resistance and low aspect ratio. Low-cost Ni and Cu metal contacts have been formed by using electroless plating and electroplating techniques to replace the Ti/Pd/Ag and screen-printed Ag contacts. Ni/Cu alloy is plated on a silicon substrate by electro-deposition of the alloy from an acetate electrolyte solution, and nickel-silicide formation at the interface between the silicon and the nickel enhances stability and reduces the contact resistance. It was, therefore, found that nickel-silicide was suitable for high-efficiency solar cell applications. The Ni contact was formed on the front grid pattern by electroless plating followed by anneal ing at $380{\sim}400^{\circ}C$ for $15{\sim}30$ min at $N_{2}$ gas to allow formation of a nickel-silicide in a tube furnace or a rapid thermal processing(RTP) chamber because nickel is transformed to NiSi at $380{\sim}400^{\circ}C$. The Ni plating solution is composed of a mixture of $NiCl_{2}$ as a main nickel source. Cu was electroplated on the Ni layer by using a light induced plating method. The Cu electroplating solution was made up of a commercially available acid sulfate bath and additives to reduce the stress of the copper layer. The Ni/Cu contact was found to be well suited for high-efficiency solar cells and was successfully formed by using electroless plating and electroplating, which are more cost effective than vacuum evaporation. In this paper, we investigated low-cost Ni/Cu contact formation by electroless and electroplating for crystalline silicon solar cells.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2009년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.214-219
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• 2009

In high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells, If high-efficiency solar cells are to be commercialized. It is need to develop superior contact formation method and material that can be inexpensive and simple without degradation of the solar cells ability. For reason of plated metallic contact is not only high metallic purity but also inexpensive manufacture. It is available to apply mass production. Especially, Nickel, Copper and Silver are applied widely in various electronic manufactures as easily formation is available by plating. The metallic contact system of silicon solar cell must have several properties, such as low contact resistance, easy application and good adhesion. Ni is shown to be a suitable barrier to Cu diffusion as well as desirable contact metal to silicon. Nickel monosilicide(NiSi) has been suggested as a suitable silicide due to its lower resistivity, lower sintering temperature and lower layer stress than $TiSi_2$. Copper and Silver can be plated by electro & light-induced plating method. Light-induced plating makes use the photovoltaic effect of solar cell to deposite the metal on the front contact. The cell is immersed into the electrolytic plating bath and irradiated at the front side by light source, which leads to a current density in the front side grid. Electroless plated Ni/ Electro&light-induced plated Cu/ Light-induced plated Ag contact solar cells result in an energy conversion efficiency of 14.68 % on $0.2{\sim}0.6{\Omega}{\cdot}cm,\;20{\times}20mm^2$, CZ(Czochralski) wafer.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.33-37
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• 2008

Polycarbonate has a high transmittance to light, low specific gravity, flexibility and cost-effectiveness that extends the application field of the polymer to bio-engineering, optics, electronic parts, etc. Moreover, electro plating of metallic film on PC could endow the parts the electromagnetic interference shielding capability. However, poor adhesion of copper on PC limited the wide usage in the industry. In this work, a composite(PC/ABS) and MmSH(Momentary mold Surface Heating) injection process were used to improve the plating characteristics; plating thickness, gloss and adhesion. Also plasma treatment and chemical treatment were employed for improving adhesion. Plating characteristics on PC/ABS were better than those on PC due to the anchoring effect of butadiene. MmSH injection process could ameliorate the gloss and coating adhesion. Also plating thickness and adhesion of PC and PC/ABS were increased by plasma treatment.

• 청정기술
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.103-109
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• 2011

전기도금의 seed layer를 형성하는 무전해 동도금 공정의 throwing power (TP)와 두께 편차를 개선하기 위한 공정 최적화 방법을 제시하였다. 실험계획법 (DOE)을 이용하여 가능한 모든 공정 인자들 가운데 TP와 두께 편차에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 주요 인자를 파악해 보았다. 균일성을 가진 via filling을 위해서는 도금액 내의 Cu 이온의 농도를 높여주고 도금 온도를 낮추어 주는 것이 바람직한 것으로 판단되었으며 이는 표면 반응성의 측면에서 설명되었다. Kinetic Monte Carlo (MC) 모사가 이를 시각화하기 위해 도입되었으며 실험에서 관찰된 현상을 정성적으로 무리 없이 설명할 수 있었다. 실험계획법을 이용한 체계적인 실험과 이를 뒷받침하는 이론적인 모사가 결합된 본 연구의 접근법은 관련 공정에서 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.814-817
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• 2015

A new ionic mass transfer correlation is derived for the fluid-saturated, horizontal porous layer. Darcy-Forchheimer model is used to explain characteristics of fluid motion. Based on the microscales of turbulence a backbone mass transfer relation is derived as a function of the Darcy-Rayleigh number, $Ra_D$ and the porous medium Schmidt number, $Sc_p$. For the Darcy's limit of $Sc_p{\gg}Ra_D$, the Sherwood number, Sh is a function of $Ra_D$ only. However, for the region of high $Ra_D$, Sh can be related with $Ra_DSc_p$. Based on the present backbone equation and the electrochemical mass transfer experiments which are electro plating or electroless plating, the new ionic mass transfer correlation is suggested in the porous media.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.217-221
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• 2015

Developing a metallization that has low cost and high efficiency is essential in solar-cell industries, to replace expensive silver-based metallization. Ni/Cu two-step metallization is one way to reduce the cost of solar cells, because the price of copper is about 100 times less than that of silver. Alkaline electroless plating was used for depositing nickel seed layers on the front electrode area. Prior to the nickel deposition process, 2% HF solution was used to remove native oxide, which disturbs uniform nickel plating. In the subsequent step, a nickel sintering process was carried out in $N_2$ gas atmosphere; however, copper was plated by light-induced plating (LIP). Plated nickel has different properties under different bath conditions because nickel electroless plating is a completely chemical process. In this paper, plating bath conditions such as pH and temperature were varied, and the metal layer's structure was analyzed to investigate the adhesion of Ni/Cu metallization. Average adhesion values in the range of 0.2-0.49 N/mm were achieved for samples with no nickel sintering process.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.941-946
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• 2001

Conductive microspheres with a density of 0.2 g/cc were fabricated by electroless silver plating for application to the light-weighted microwave absorbers. The silver plating was conducted with the variation of plating conditions (sensitizing condition, $AgNO_3$, concentration, amount of reducing agent). Specimens have very low electro-resistivity. Under an optimum processing condition, conductive microspheres with uniform silver plating layer can be produced. Rubber-sphere composites were fabricated and their microwave absorbing properties were measured by HP8722D Network Analyzer. It was found that the lower the electrical resistance of microsphere, the better the microwave absorbing properties. Feasibility of microwave absorbers using this microspheres can be demonstrated with the result of microwave reflection loss of -15 dB and thickness of 1.44 mm.