• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2015.08a
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• pp.185.2-185.2
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• 2015

Tin Oxide (SnO2) has been widely investigated as a transparent conducting oxide (TCO) and can be used in optoelectronic devices such as solar cell and flat-panel displays. In addition, it would be applicable to fabricating the wide bandgap semiconductor because of its bandgap of 3.6 eV. There have been concentrated on the improvement of optical properties, such as conductivity and transparency, by doping Indium Oxide and Gallium Oxide. Recently, with development of fabrication techniques, high-qulaity SnO2 epitaxial thin films have been studied and received much attention to produce the electronic devices such as sensor and light-emitting diode. In this study, powder sputtering method was employed to deposit epitaxial thin films on sapphire (0001) substrates. A commercial SnO2 powder was sputtered. The samples were prepared with varying the growth parameters such as gas environment and film thickness. Then, the samples were characterized by using XRD, SEM, AFM, and Raman spectroscopy measurements. The details of physical properties of epitaxial SnO2 thin films will be presented.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.03a
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• pp.190-190
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• 2003

여러원소 (Sb, F 등)를 도핑한 SnO$_2$ 투명전도막은 여러 가지 훌륭한 특성으로 Solar cell, heat mirrors, gas sensors, liquid crystal displays, thick film resistor 등과 같이 넓은 범위에서 응용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 Sb 도핑된 Tin Oxide films이 Sol-gel dip coating법에 의해 준비되었다. SnO$_2$:Sb 용액은 SnC1$_2$ 와 SbC1$_3$ Power를 알코올에 용해하여 Ethylene glycol 와 Citric acid를 첨가하여 합성하였다. 막의 상형성은 XRD와 SEM(Scanning electron microscope)에 의해서 분석되었으며, 특성분석은 투과율(UV/VIS Spectrophotometer)과 표면전기저항(four point probe)으로 분석되었다. SiO$_2$ barrier이 SnO$_2$:Sb 막의 특성에 미치는 영향을 확인하기 위하여 XPS(X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy) 분석이 적용되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.666-666
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• 2013

CIGS solar cell에서 p-type semiconductor역할을 수행하는 Cu(In,Ga)Se로 이루어진 Absorber layer는 4 element multi binary compound로 stoichiometry 측면에서 다양한 형태가 나타나기 때문에 태양전지 효율을 향상시키기 위해 이에 대한 연구가 활발하다. 우리는 E-beam evaporation 방법으로 다양한 조건의 multi layer로 증착된 CIG layer 위에 일정 두께의 Se을 증착하면서 열처리 조건에 따른 Selenization 메커니즘에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 결과분석을 위해(in-situ High Temperature) XRD, XPS, Micro Raman spectroscopy, FE-SEM, (Nano Indentor, Atomic Force Microscopy) 등을 이용하여 결정구조, 결정화도, Depth profile, Eg (band gap energy) 등을 알아보고 분석결과간의 상관관계를 고찰하였다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.28-28
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• 2004

In order to obtain a clearer understanding on the evolution of Our Galaxy, we are currently undertaking a series of spectroscopic observation for few hundreds metal poor halo stars. As the first result, we present the chemical abundance measurements for 15 metal-poor dwarf stars in the solar neighborhood. The observation was made with the BOES #4-fiber, providing the effective resolving power R=32000. (omitted)

• Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.229-229
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• 2006

Recently there has been significant interest in utilizing functional semiconductor polymers for electronic and opto-electronic devices such as Light-emitting diodes, thin film field effect transistors, solar cells, displays, and chemical and biosensors. However, better materials and further understanding of their electronic properties are critical for devices based on these materials. In this work, we use various scanning probe techniques, spectroscopy, and device fabrication to study the molecular interactions, optical and charge transport properties in conjugated polyelectrolytes. Using chemical synthesis approach, we are able to tune the molecular packing and interactions in these materials, which in turn, influence their electronic properties and device performance.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.759-762
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• 2013

Four prominent features of Titan's haze are found within the '3.4-${\mu}m$' absorption to be uniform with recent vertically resolved Cassini/VIMS spectra. These are absorptions at 2998 $cm^{-1}$ (3.34 ${\mu}m$), 2968 $cm^{-1}$ (3.37 ${\mu}m$), 2927 $cm^{-1}$ (3.42 ${\mu}m$), and 2882 $cm^{-1}$ (3.47 ${\mu}m$). A detailed fitting suggests that the 2998 $cm^{-1}$ feature could originate from amorphous acetonitrile ($CH_3CN$) carrying about 25% of integrated optical depth; the remaining features, which account for 75% of the integrated optical depth, could arise from a distinct triplet (C-H stretching) structure of radiolyzed hydrocarbons. An additional feature was possibly evidenced at altitudes higher than 300 km and attributable to 'polymer-capped' methane ($CH_4$), significantly constraining the chemical composition of organic haze layers under Titan's active radiation field.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.48-52
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• 1992

Indium tin oxide (ITO) layers are of considerable interest on account of the combination of properties they provide high electrical conductivity, high infrared reflection with high solar energy transmission, high transmission in the visible range. We are concerned about the variation of the spectral transmittances and sheet resistances as the thickness of SiO2-ZrO2 barrier layer and ITO layers and heat treating conditions are changed. Transmittances and reflectivities were studied by measuring UV-VIS-NIR-, FT-IR spectroscopy. ITO films are crack free, homogeneous and of polycrystalline cubic structure. The microstructure of good ITO films shows a narrow grain size distribution and mean value of 100 nm. The selectivity of absorbing properties is improved by increasing the thickness of ITO films. The increase of sheet resistance of ITO films are due to the increase in the reaction between films and glass substrate.

• Rapid Communication in Photoscience
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.9-17
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• 2013

Visible light-sensitive $TiO_2$ and ZnO nanostructure materials have attracted great attention as the promising material for solar energy conversion systems such as photocatalysts for water splitting and environmental purification as well as nano-biosensors. Success of their applications relies on how to control their surface state behaviors related to the exciton dynamics and optoelectronic properties. In this paper, we briefly review some recent works on single nanoparticle photoluminescence (PL) technique and its application to observation of their surface state behaviors which are raveled by the conventional ensemble-averaged spectroscopic techniques. This review provides an opportunity to understand the temporal and spatial heterogeneities within an individual nanostructure, allowing for the potential use of single-nanoparticle approaches in studies of their photoenergy conversion and nano-scale optical biosensing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.295-295
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• 2010

Nanoparticles of the compound semiconductor, Cu(In, Ga)Se2 (CIGS), were synthesized in solution under ambient pressure below $100^{\circ}C$ and characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), optical absorption spectroscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) analyses. These materials have chalcopyrite crystal structures and the particle sizes less than 100 nm. Synthetic conditions were studied for the crystallized CIGS nanoparticles formation to prevent from side products of Cu2Se, Cu2-xSe, and CuSe etc. The single phase CIGS nanoparticles were applied to coating of thin films photovoltaic cells. The electro deposition of CIGS thin films is also a good non-vacuum technology and under investigation. In aqueous solutions, the different chemical compositions of CIGS thin films were obtained, depending on pH, concentration of starting materials and deposition potentials. The surface morphology of the prepared CIGS thin films depends on the complexing ligands to the solutions during the electrochemical deposition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.488.2-488.2
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• 2014

Carbon-based materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene have emerged as promising building blocks in applications for nanoelectronics and energy devices due to electrical property, ease of processability, and relatively inert electrochemistry. In recent years, there has been considerable interest in core-shell nanomaterials, in which inorganic nanowires are surrounded by inorganic or organic layers. Especially, carbon encapsulated semiconductor nanowires have been actively investigated by researchers in lithium ion batteries. We report a method to synthesize silicon nanowire (SiNW) core/carbon shell structures by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), using methane (CH4) as a precursor at growth temperature of $1000{\sim}1100^{\circ}C$. Unlike carbon-based materials synthesized via conventional routes, this method is of advantage of metal-catalyst free growth. We characterized these materials with FE-SEM, FE-TEM, and Raman spectroscopy. This would allow us to use these materials for applications ranging from optoelectronics to energy devices such as solar cells and lithium ion batteries.