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Enhanced effect of magnetic anisotropy on patterned Fe-Al-O thin films

  • N.D. Ha;Kim, Hyun-Bin;Park, Bum-Chan;Kim, C.G.;Kim, C.O.
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2003.03a
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    • pp.239-239
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    • 2003
  • As a result of the recent miniaturization and enhancement in the performance of thin film inductors and thin film transformers, there are increased demands for the thin films with a high magnetic permeability in the high frequency range, a high saturation magnetization, a high electrical resistivity, and a low coercive force. In order to improve high frequency properties, we will investigate anisotropy field by shape and size of pattern. The Fe-Al-O thin films of 16mm diameter and 1$\mu\textrm{m}$ thickness were deposited on Si wafer, using RE magnetron reactive sputtering technique with the mixture of argon and oxygen gases. The fabricating conditions are obtained in the working partial pressure of 2m Torr, O$_2$ partial Pressure of 5%, Input power of 400w, and Al pellets on an Fe disk with purity of 99.9%. For continuous thin film is the 4Ms of 19.4kG, H$\sub$c/ of 0.6Oe, H$\sub$k/ of 6.0Oe and effective permeability of 2500 up to 100MHz. In this work, we expect to enhanced effect of magnetic anisotropy on patterned of Fe-Al-O thin films.

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Development of MEMS based Piezoelectric Inkjet Print Head and Its Applications

  • Shin, Seung-Joo;Lee, Hwa-Sun;Lee, Tae-Kyung;Kim, Sung-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.20.2-20.2
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    • 2010
  • Recently inkjet printing technology has been developed in the areas of low cost fabrication in environmentally friendly manufacturing processes. Although inkjet printing requires the interdisciplinary researches including development of materials, manufacturing processes and printing equipment and peripherals, manufacturing a printhead is still core of inkjet technology. In this study, a piezoelectric driven DOD (drop on demand) inkjet printhead has been fabricated on three layers of the silicon wafer in MEMS Technology because of its chemical resistance to industrial inks, strong mechanical properties and dimensional accuracy to meet the drop volume uniformity in printed electronics and display industries. The flow passage, filter and nozzles are precisely etched on the layers of the silicon wafers and assembled through silicon fusion bonding without additional adhesives. The piezoelectric is screen-printed on the top the pressure chamber and the nozzle plate surface is treated with non-wetting coating for jetting fluids. Printheads with nozzle number of 16 to 256 have been developed to get the drop volume range from 5 pL to 80 pL in various industrial applications. Currently our printheads are successfully utilized to fabricating color-filters and PI alignment layers in LCD Flat Panel Display and legend marking for PCB in Samsung Electronics.

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Removal of Laser Damage in Electrode Formed by Plating in Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells (결정질 실리콘 태양전지에서 도금을 이용한 전극 형성 시 발생되는 레이저 손상 제거)

  • Jeong, Myeong Sang;Kang, Min Gu;Lee, Jeong In;Song, Hee-eun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.370-375
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we investigated the electrical properties of crystalline silicon solar cell fabricated with Ni/Cu/Ag plating. The laser process was used to ablate silicon nitride layer as well as to form the selective emitter. Phosphoric acid layer was spin-coated to prevent damage caused by laser and formed selective emitter during laser process. As a result, the contact resistance was decreased by lower sheet resistance in electrode region. Low sheet resistance was obtained by increasing laser current, but efficiency and open circuit voltage were decreased by damage on the wafer surface. KOH treatment was used to remove the laser damage on the silicon surface prior to metalization of the front electrode by Ni/Cu/Ag plating. Ni and Cu were plated for each 4 minutes and 16 minutes and very thin layer of Ag with $1{\mu}m$ thickness was plated onto Ni/Cu electrode for 30 seconds to prevent oxidation of the electrode. The silicon solar cells with KOH treatment showed the 0.2% improved efficiency compared to those without treatment.

Vapor Deposition Techniques for Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

  • Song, Jeong-Gyu;Park, Kyunam;Park, Jusang;Kim, Hyungjun
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.119-125
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    • 2015
  • Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have attracted significant attention due to their unique and exotic properties attributed to their low dimensionality. In particular, semiconducting 2D TMDCs such as $MoS_2$, $WS_2$, $MoSe_2$, and $WSe_2$ have been demonstrated to be feasible for various advanced electronic and optical applications. In these regards, process to synthesize high quality 2D TMDCs layers with high reliability, wafer-scale uniformity, controllable layer number and excellent electronic properties is essential in order to use 2D TMDCs in practical applications. Vapor deposition techniques, such as physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition and atomic layer deposition, could be promising processes to produce high quality 2D TMDCs due to high purity, thickness controllability and thickness uniformity. In this article, we briefly review recent research trend on vapor deposition techniques to synthesize 2D TMDCs.

Investigation of n+ Emitter Formation Using Spin-On Dopants for Crystalline Si Solar Cells (Spin-On Dopants를 이용한 결정질 실리콘 태양전지의 n+ 에미터 형성에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Kyeong-Yeon;Lee, Ji-Hoon;Choi, Jun-Young;Lee, Soo-Hong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.68-69
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    • 2007
  • To make cost-effective solar cells, We have to use low cost material or make short process time or high temperature process. In solar cells, formation of emitter is basic and important technique according to build-up P-N junction. Diffusion process using spin-on dopants has all of this advantage. In this paper, We investigated n+ emitter formation spin-on dopants to apply crystalline silicon solar cells. We known variation of sheet resistance according to variation of temperature and single-crystalline and multi-crystalline silicon wafer using Honeywell P-8545 phosphorus spin-on dopants. We obtain uniformity of sheet resistance within 3~5% changing RPM of spin coater.

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RF Power Dependence of Stresses in Plasma Deposited Low Resistive Tungsten Films for VLSI Devices (고집적 소자에 적용되는 저저항 텅스텐 박막에서 응력의 RF power 의존성)

  • Lee, Chang-U;Go, Min-Gyeong;O, Hwan-Won;U, Sang-Rok;Yun, Seong-Ro;Kim, Yong-Tae;Park, Yeong-Gyun;Gho, Seok-Jung
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.8 no.11
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    • pp.977-981
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    • 1998
  • Controlling the wafer temperatures from 200 to$500^{\circ}C$, low resistive tungsten thin films used for VLSI metallization are deposited by PECVD method. Resistivities of plasma deposited tungsten thin films are very sensitive to the $H_2/WF_6 $ partial pressure ratios. Residual stress behaviors of the films as a function of plasma power density were also studied. At the power density under the $0.7W/\textrm{cm}^2$, residual stress of W film is about $2.4\times10^9dyne/\textrm{cm}^2$. When the power density is. however, increased from 1.8 to $2.7W/\textrm{cm}^2$, residual stress is suddenly increased from $8.1\times10^9$ to $1.24\times10^{10}dyne/\textrm{cm}^2$ ue to the ion or radical bombardment at high power density.

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Silicon Nitride Layer Deposited at Low Temperature for Multicrystalline Solar Cell Application

  • Karunagaran, B.;Yoo, J.S.;Kim, D.Y.;Kim, Kyung-Hae;Dhungel, S.K.;Mangalaraj, D.;Yi, Jun-Sin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.276-279
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    • 2004
  • Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) of silicon nitride (SiN) is a proven technique for obtaining layers that meet the needs of surface passivation and anti-reflection coating. In addition, the deposition process appears to provoke bulk passivation as well due to diffusion of atomic hydrogen. This bulk passivation is an important advantage of PECVD deposition when compared to the conventional CVD techniques. A further advantage of PECVD is that the process takes place at a relatively low temperature of 300t, keeping the total thermal budget of the cell processing to a minimum. In this work SiN deposition was performed using a horizontal PECVD reactor system consisting of a long horizontal quartz tube that was radiantly heated. Special and long rectangular graphite plates served as both the electrodes to establish the plasma and holders of the wafers. The electrode configuration was designed to provide a uniform plasma environment for each wafer and to ensure the film uniformity. These horizontally oriented graphite electrodes were stacked parallel to one another, side by side, with alternating plates serving as power and ground electrodes for the RF power supply. The plasma was formed in the space between each pair of plates. Also this paper deals with the fabrication of multicrystalline silicon solar cells with PECVD SiN layers combined with high-throughput screen printing and RTP firing. Using this sequence we were able to obtain solar cells with an efficiency of 14% for polished multi crystalline Si wafers of size 125 m square.

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Solar Cell Efficiency Improvement using a Pre-deposition Temperature Optimization in The Solar Cell Doping Process (도핑 공정에서의 Pre-deposition 온도 최적화를 이용한 Solar Cell 효율 개선)

  • Choi, Sung-Jin;Yoo, Jin-Su;Yoo, Kwon-Jong;Han, Kyu-Min;Kwon, Jun-Young;Lee, Hi-Deok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.244-244
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    • 2010
  • Doping process of crystalline silicon solar cell process is very important which is as influential on efficiency of solar. Doping process consists of pre -deposition and diffusion. Each of these processes is important in the process temperature and process time. Through these process conditions variable, p-n junction depth can be controled to low and high. In this paper, we studied a optimized doping pre-deposition temperature for high solar cell efficiency. Using a $200{\mu}m$ thickness multi-crystalline silicon wafer, fixed conditions are texture condition, sheet resistance($50\;{\Omega}/sq$), ARC thickness(80nm), metal formation condition and edge isolation condition. The three variable conditions of pre-deposition temperature are $790^{\circ}C$, $805^{\circ}C$ and $820^{\circ}C$. In the $790^{\circ}C$ pre-deposition temperature, we achieved a best solar cell efficiency of 16.2%. Through this experiment result, we find a high efficiency condition in a low pre-deposition temperature than the high pre-deposition temperature. We optimized a pre-deposition temperature for high solar cell efficiency.

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High-Tunable Capacitor Using a Multi-Layer Dielectric Thin Film for Reconfigurable RF Circuit Applications (재구성 RF 회로 응용을 위한 다층유전체 박막을 이용한 고-가변형 커패시터)

  • Lee, Young-Chul;Lee, Baek-Ju;Ko, Kyung-Hyun
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.1038-1043
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    • 2012
  • In this work, a high tunable capacitor using a multi-layer dielectric of BZN/BST/BZN is designed and characterized for reconfigurable RF applications. By utilizing a high tunable BST ferroelectric and a low-loss BZN paraelectric thin film, a multi-layer dielectric of BZN/BST/BZN obtained a tunability of 47 % and $tan{\delta}$ of 0.005. The fabricated tunable capacitor on a quartz wafer using this multi-layer dielectric achieved a Q-factor of 10 and tunability of 60 % at 800 MHz and 15 V. Its size is $327{\times}642{\mu}m2$.

Experimental Control Characteristic Investigation of Ball Bearing Guided Linear Motion Stage with Diamond-like Carbon Coated Guide Rail (DLC 코팅된 가이드레일을 이용한 볼베어링 직선 이송 스테이지의 진공환경 제어 특성 분석)

  • Shim, Jongyoup;Khim, Gyungho;Hwang, Jooho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.392-397
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    • 2014
  • Recently, there is an increase in the need for precision linear stages with vacuum compatibility in such areas as lithography equipment for wafer or mask manufacturing, mask mastering equipment for optical data storage and electron beam equipment. A simple design, high stiffness and low cost can be achieved by using ball bearings. However, a ball bearing have friction and wear problems just as in ambient air. In order to decrease the friction, a special finish, a diamond-like carbon (DLC) film coating, is applied to the surface of a guide rail by sputtering deposition. This paper presents the result of an experimental investigation on the control performance of a ball bearing-guided linear motion stage under two environmental conditions: in air and vacuum. A comparison between the results with and without the DLC coating was also considered in the experimental investigation.