• Journal of Surface Science and Engineering
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.129-133
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• 2008

Nitrogen and aluminum codoped ZnO(NAZO) thin films were grown on glass substrates with changing the nitrogen flow ratio by radio-frequency magnetron sputtering. The structural, optical, and electrical properties of the NAZO films were investigated. The surface morphologies and the structural properties of the thin films were analyzed by using the X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. The NAZO thin film, deposited at nitrogen flow ratio of 0%, showed a strongly c-axis preferred orientation and the lowest resistivity of $3.2{\times}10^{-3}{\Omega}cm$. The intensity of ZnO(002) diffraction peak was decreased gradually with increasing the nitrogen flow ratio. The optical properties of the films were measured by UV-VIS spectrophotometer and the optical transmittances for all the samples were found to be an average 90% in the visible range. Based on the transmittance value, the optical bandgap energy for the NAZO thin film deposited at nitrogen flow ratio of 0% was determined to be 3.46 eV. As for the electrical properties, the carrier concentration and the hall mobility were decreased, but the electrical resistivity was increased as the nitrogen flow ratio was increased.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.145-145
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• 2017

음극재에 사용되는 타이타니아 나노튜브($TiO_2$ nanotubes)는 높은 종횡비를 가지고 있으며, 기계적인 강도가 우수하고 화학적인 안정성이 높다. 그러나 낮은 전기전도도와 상대적으로 넓은 밴드갭(bandgap)은 다양한 활용 분야에 이 물질이 활용되는 것을 제한하고 있는 상황이다. 전기 화학적 분야에서 광화학 반응 또는 과전압에서 밴드갭을 줄이기 위한 타이타니아 나노튜브의 나노 구조 변형에 대한 많은 연구가 있어왔다. 본 연구에서는 산화 몰리브덴(Molybdenum oxide)을 촉매로 사용하여 타이타니아 나노튜브에 전기충격법을 이용하여 도핑했다. 생성된 타이타니아 나노튜브를 $450^{\circ}C$에서 1시간 30분 동안 가열하여 타이타니아 나노구조를 아나타제(anatase) 구조로 변형켰다. 타이타니아 나노튜브의 구조적인 변화를 scanning electron microscopy(SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy(EDS) 등을 통해 측정했고 UV-Visiblespectroscopy를 통해 도핑된 타이타니아 나노튜브의 밴드갭을 측정하였다. 몰리브덴이 도핑된 타이타니아 나노튜브는 기존의 타이타니아 나노튜브가 가지는 밴드갭인 3.0 ~ 3.2eV 범위보다 더 낮아진 2.6 ~ 2.8eV의 범위를 가지는 것을 확인하였다. 몰리브덴이 도핑된 타이타니아 나노튜브는 다양한 광촉매 분야에 적용될 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.394-401
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• 2009

This paper reports the structural and optical properties of ZnO/glass thin films grown by radio-frequency magnetron sputtering with a powder target. In contrast to ZnO ceramic target typically used, a ZnO raw powder target was sputtered in this study. ZnO grew with the (0002) preferred orientation along the surface normal direction. Initially, the surface of ZnO thin films was flat considerably and then it became rougher as the thickness increased. The optical transmittance was as high as 88% in the range of 400-1000 nm. The bandgap energy of 3.23 eV at the 220 nm thick sample was estimated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.565-565
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• 2012

그래핀(Graphene) 기반의 전계효과 트랜지스터(Field effect transistor) 응용에 있어, 가장 핵심적인 도전과제중 하나는 에너지 밴드갭(Energy bandgap)을 갖는 그래핀 채널의 제작이다. 그래핀은 에너지 밴드갭이 존재하지 않는 반금속(semi metal)의 특성을 지니고 있어, 그 본래의 물리적 특성을 지니고서는 소자구현에 어려움이 있다. 그러나 폭이 수~수십 나노미터인 그래핀 나노리본(Graphene nanoribbon)의 경우 양자구속효과(Quantum confinement effect)에 의하여 에너지 밴드갭이 형성되며, 갭의 크기는 리본의 폭에 반비례한다는 연구결과가 보고된 바 있다. 이러한 이유에서, 효과적이며 실현가능한 그래핀 나노리본의 제작은 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 은 나노 와이어(Ag nanowire)를 기반으로 한 그래핀 나노리본의 합성을 연구하였다. 은 나노와이어를 열화학 기상증착법(Thermal chemical vapor deposition)을 이용, 아세틸렌(Acetylene, C2H2) 가스를 탄소공급원으로 하여 그래핀을 나노와이어 표면에 합성하였다. 합성과정에서 구조에 영향을 미치는 요인인 합성온도와 가스의 비율, 압력 등을 조절하여 최적화된 합성조건을 확립하였다. 합성된 나노리본의 특성을 라만분광법(Raman spectroscopy)과 주사전자 현미경(Scanning electron microscopy), 투과전자현미경(Transmission electron microscopy), 원자힘 현미경(Atomic force microscopy)를 통하여 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.424-424
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• 2012

나노 구조의 반도성 산화물은 독특한 구조적 특성으로 전기적, 광학적 특성을 향상 시킬 수 있다. 현재 연구되고 있는 나노 구조의 반도성 산화물 중 Zinc oxide (ZnO)는 3.37 eV의 bandgap를 갖는 wurtzite 구조체로서 상온에서 60 meV의 exciton binding energy 등 우수한 특성으로 인하여 최근 많이 연구되고 있다. 특히 단파장 light emitting diode 재료로써 기대를 모으고 있는데, 이를 실현하기 위한 가장 큰 문제점이 바로 안정적인 p-type ZnO 박막의 제조이다. 지금까지 알려진 바에 따르면 P를 doping한 후 급속 열처리한 경우 p-type의 전기전도도를 갖는 ZnO 박막을 제조할 수 있다고 보고되어 있으나 vacancy 농도에 따른 불안정적인 요소가 해결해야 할 문제로 남아 있다. 최근 Ag를 doping 시킨 ZnO 박막의 p-type 반도체로서 가능성에 대한 보고가 제기되고 있다. 합성 방법과 조건에 따라서 수 nm에서 수십 또는 수백 nm 크기의 구형 입자나, 리본, 와이어, 로드 그리고 꽃모영 등 다양한 형상을 갖는 나노 구조체를 합성 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 ZnO:Ag 박막을 radio-frequency sputtering 방법으로 증착하여 그 물성을 분석하였다. 보통의 sputtering 증착법에서 사용되는 sintering된 타겟과 달리 본 실험은 분말 타겟을 이용하여 박막을 증착하였다. 타겟은 95 wt% ZnO와 5 wt% Ag를 서로 혼합하여 제조하였다. 본 발표에서는 박막의 증착압력 및 증착 온도의 변화에 따른 ZnO:Ag 박막의 구조적, 광학적 특성에 대하여 논의 할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.438-438
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• 2011

White light-emitting diodes (LEDs), the so-called next-generation solid-state lighting, offer benefits in terms of reliability, energy-saving, maintenance, safety, lead-free, and eco-friendly. Recently, rare-earth-doped oxynitride or nitride compounds have attracted a great deal of interest as a photoluminescent material because of their unique luminescent property, especially for white LEDs applications. Ce doped ${\beta}$-SiAlON has been studied as a wavelength conversion phosphor in white LEDs thanks to its high absorption rates, high quantum efficiency, and excellent thermal stability. Previously researches were not enough to understand the detail mechanism and characteristics of ${\beta}$-SiALON. The bandgap structures and electronic structures were not exact due to limitation of calculation methods. In this study, to elucidate the Ce doping effect on the SiAlON system, accurate band structures and electronic structure of the Ce doped ${\beta}$-SiAlON was intensively investigated using density functional theory calculations. In order to get a better description of the band gaps, MBJLDA method were used. We have found a single Ce atom site in ${\beta}$-SiAlON super cell. Furthermore, the density of state, band structure and lattice constant were intensively investigated.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.1005-1010
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• 1997

ZnS:Mn thin film was made by coevaporation with Electron Beam Evaparation(EBE) method. And structural and optical characteristics of ZnS:Mn thin films were investigated by substrate temperature annealing temperature and dopant Mn. When ZnS:Mn thin film was well deposited with cubic crystalline at substrate temperature of 30$0^{\circ}C$ its surface index was [111] and its lattice constant of a was 5.41$\AA$. Also When ZnA:Mn thin film was well made with hexagonal crystalline at substrate temperature of 30$0^{\circ}C$annealing temperature of 50$0^{\circ}C$and annealing time of 60min its miller indices were (0002) (1011), (1012) and (1120). And its lattice constant of a and c was 3.88$\AA$and 12.41$\AA$ respectively. Finally hexagonal ZnS:Mn thin film with dopant Mn of 0.5wt% had fundamental absorption wavelength of 342nm. And so its energy bandgap was about 3.62eV.

• Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.19-20
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• 2013

Thermoelectic properties of the typical thermoelectric host materials, the tellurides and selenides, are known to be noticeably changed by their volume change due to the strain [1]. In the bismuth telluride ($Bi_2Te_3$) crystal, a substitution of rare-earth element by replacing one of the Bi atoms may cause the change of the lattice parameters while remaining the rhombohedral structure of the host material. Using the first-principles approach by the precise full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method [2], we investigated the Ce substitution effect on the thermoelectric transport coefficients for the bismuth telluride, employing Boltzmann's equation in a constant relaxation-time approach fed with the FLAPW wave-functions within the rigid band approximation. Depending on the real process of re-arrangement of atoms in the cell to reach the equilibrium state, $CeBiTe_3$ was found to manifest a metal or a narrow bandgap semiconductor. This feature along with the strong correlation effect originated by the 4f states of Ce affect significantly on the thermoelectric properties. We showed that the position of the strongly localized f-states in energy scale (Fig. 1, f-states are shaded) was found to alter critically the transport properties in this material suggesting an opportunity to improve the thermoelectric efficiency by tuning the external strain which may changing the location of the f-sates.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.12
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• pp.2276-2280
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• 2008

In this paper, we present thermal dependancy of LED package element by changing temperature of MCPCB for design high efficiency LED lamp, and confirmed influence of LED chip against temperature with analysis of thermal resistance and thermal capacitance. As increasing temperature, WPOs were decreased from 25 to 22.5 [%] and optical power were also decreased. that is decreased reason of optical power that forward voltage was declined by decrease of energy bandgap. Therefore optical power by temperature of MCPCB should consider to design lamp for street light and security light. Moreover, compensation from declined optical efficiency is demanded when LED package is composed. Also, thermal resistances from chip to metal PCB were decreased from 12.18 to 10.8[$^{\circ}C/W$] by changing temperature. Among the thermal resistances, the thermal resistance form chip to die attachment was decreased from 2.87 to 2.5[$^{\circ}C/W$] and was decreased 0.72[$^{\circ}C/W$] in Heat Slug by chaning temperature. Therefore, because of thermal resistance gap in chip and heat slug, reliability and endurance of high power LED affect by increasing non-radiative recombination in chip from heat.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.29A no.9
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• pp.56-64
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• 1992

Because of a small bandgap energy, a high doping density, and a low operating temperature, the dark current in HgCdTe photodiode is almost composed of a tunneling current. The tunneling current is devided into an indirect tunneling current via traps and a band-to-band direct tunneling current. The indirect tunneling current dominates the dark current for a relatively high temperature and a low reverse bias and forward bias. For a low temperature and a high reverse bias the direct tunneling current dominates. In this paper, to verify the tunneling currents in HgCdTe photodiode, the new tunneling-recombination equation via trap is introduced and tunneling-recombination current is calculated. The new tunneling-recombination equation via trap have the same form as SRH (Shockley-Read-Hall) generation-recombination equation and the tunneling effect is included in recombination times in this equation. Chakrabory and Biswas's equation being introduced, band to band direct tunneling current are calculated. By using these equations, HgCdTe (mole fraction, 0.29 and 0.222) photodiodes are analyzed. Then the temperature dependence of the tunneling-recombination current via trap and band to band direct tunneling current are shown and it can be known what is dominant current according to the applied bias at athe special temperature.