• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
• /
• 제16권3호
• /
• pp.139-141
• /
• 2015

Contact resistance of interface between the channel layers and various S/D electrodes was investigated by transmission line method. Different electrodes such as Ti/Au, a-IZO, and multilayer of a-IGZO/Ag/a-IGZO were compared in terms of contact resistance, using the transmission line model. The a-IGZO TFTs with a-IGZO/Ag/a-IGZO of S/D electrodes showed good performance and low contact resistance due to the homo-junction with channel layer.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
• /
• pp.433-433
• /
• 2013

Graphene, $sp^2$-hybridized 2-Dimension carbon material, has drawn enormous attention due to its desirable performance of excellent properties. Graphene can be applied for many electronic devices such as field-effect transistors (FETs), touch screen, solar cells. Furthermore, indium tin oxide (ITO) is commercially used and sets the standard for transparent electrode. However, ITO has certain limitations, such as increasing cost due to indium scarcity, instability in acid and basic environments, high surface roughness and brittle. Due to those reasons, graphene will be a perfect substitute as a transparent electrode. We report the graphene synthesized by inductive coupled plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (ICP-PECVD) process on Cu substrate. The growth was carried out using low temperature at $400^{\circ}C$ rather than typical chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process at $1,000^{\circ}C$ The low-temperature process has advantage of low cost and also low melting point materials will be available to synthesize graphene as substrate, but the drawback is low quality. To improve the quality, the factor affect the quality of graphene was be investigated by changing the plasma power, the flow rate of precursors, the scenario of precursors. Then, graphene film's quality was investigated with Raman spectroscopy and sheet resistance and optical emission spectroscopy.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
• /
• 제23권1호
• /
• pp.78-84
• /
• 2009

본 연구에서는 ZnO:Al 박막의 필름형 염료감응 태양전지의 투명전도막으로의 웅용 가능성을 연구하기 위하여 PET 기판 위에 r. f. 마그네트론 스퍼터링법으로 ZnO:Al 박막을 증착하였으며, ZnO:Al 박막의 전기적 그리고 광학적 특성의 향상을 위하여 기판 바이어스 전압을 인가하였다. 그 결과, 정(+)의 기판 바이어스 전압은 플라즈마 중의 전자를 기판의 스퍼터 원자에 충돌하게 함으로써 박막에 부가적인 에너지를 공급하게 되어 박막의 결정성장 및 전기적 특성을 향상시키고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 그러나 +30[V] 이상의 과도한 기판 바이어스 전압을 인가한 경우, 박막의 전기적 특성은 나빠졌으며, 특히 부(-)의 바이어스 전압을 인가한 경우 결정 성장이 나타나지 알아, 전기적 특성의 향상을 위한 기판 바이어스 전압의 효과가 매우 제한적으로 작용되고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구에서는 +30(V)의 기판 바이어스 조건하에서 $1.8{\times}10^{-3}[{\Omega}-cm]$의 체적 저항율 및 87.77(%)의 광 투과율을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
• /
• pp.312.1-312.1
• /
• 2016

We have deposited ZnO thin films by ultraviolet (UV) enhanced atomic layer deposition using diethylznic (DEZ) and water (H2O) as precursors with UV light. The atomic layer deposition relies on alternating dose of the precursor on the surface and subsequent chemisorption of the precursors with self-limiting growth mechanism. Though ALD is useful to deposition conformal and precise thin film, the surface reactions of the atomic layer deposition are not completed at low temperature in many cases. In this experiment, we focused on the effects of UV radiation during the ALD process on the properties of the inorganic thin films. The surface reactions were found to be complementary enough to yield uniform inorganic thin films and fully react between DEZ and H2O at the low temperature by using UV irradiation. The UV light was effective to obtain conductive ZnO film. And the stability of TFT with UV-enhanced ZnO was improved than ZnO by thermal ALD method. High conductive UV-enhanced ZnO film have the potential to applicability of the transparent electrode.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 대한전기학회 2006년도 제37회 하계학술대회 논문집 C
• /
• pp.1357-1358
• /
• 2006

Indium tin oxide (ITO) thin film is a transparent electrode, which is widely applied to solar battery, illuminators, optical switches, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), plasma display panels (PDPs), and organic light emitting displays (OLEDs) due to its easy formation on glass substrates, goof optical transmittance, and good conductivity. ITO thin film is generally fabricated by various methods such as spray, CVD, evaporation, electron gun deposition, direct current electroplating, high frequency sputtering, and reactive DC sputtering. However, some problems such as peaks, bumps, large particles, and pin-holes on the surface of ITO thin film were reported, which caused the destruction of color quality, the reduction of device life time, and short-circuit. Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) processis one of the suitable solutions which could solve the problems.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
• /
• 제23권3호
• /
• pp.21-29
• /
• 2016

본 연구에서는 유연하고 투명한 특성을 지닌 유연 투명 정전용량형 압력 센서를 제안하여 기존의 X, Y 좌표 위치 인식이 가능할 뿐만 아니라 3차원 인식이 가능한 터치스크린을 제작하였다. 유연 투명 정전용량형 압력 센서는 상부 기판, 압력 감지층, 하부 기판의 3 중 구조로 구성되어 있다. 은나노와이어 전도성고분자 하이브리드 필름이 상부 및 하부 기판으로 사용되었다. 유연 투명 정전용량형 압력 센서의 터치 면적은 5인치이며, 전기적 신호를 인가하기 위한 11개의 driving line과 정전용량의 변화를 감지하기 위한 19개의 sensing line으로 구성되었다. 은나노와이어 전도성고분자 하이브리드 필름 및 유연 투명 정전용량형 압력 센서의 전기적, 광학적 특성을 평가하였다. 또한 기계적 유연성을 평가하기 위하여 굽힘 시험을 수행하였다. 제작된 은나노와이어 전도성고분자 하이브리드 필름은 평균 투과율 91.1%, 평균 탁도 1.35%로서 매우 우수한 광학 특성을 나타내었고, 평균 면저항은 $44.1{\Omega}/square$이었다. 굽힘 시험 결과 은나노와이어 전도성고분자 필름은 곡률 반경 3 mm까지 저항의 변화가 거의 없어 매우 우수한 유연성을 갖고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 200,000회의 반복 굽힘 피로 시험 결과, 저항의 증가는 매우 미미하여, 유연 내구성이 매우 우수함을 알 수 있었다. 유연 투명 정전용량형 압력 센서의 평균 투과율은 84.1%, 탁도는 3.56%이었다. 또한, 직경 2 mm의 팁으로 눌렀을 경우, 누르는 압력에 따라 센서가 잘 작동함을 알 수 있었으며, 이를 통하여 멀티 터치 및 멀티 포스 터치가 가능함을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서 제작한 유연 투명 정전용량형 압력 센서는 유저인터페이스, 사용자 경험이 강조되고 있는 현재 상황에서 새로운 인터페이스의 터치스크린 패널에 대한 발전 가능성을 제시할 수 있을 것이라 판단된다.

• 전기학회논문지
• /
• 제65권12호
• /
• pp.2014-2018
• /
• 2016

Transparent, conductive electrode films, showing the particular characteristics of good conductivity and high transparency, are of considerable research interest because of their potential for use in opto-electronic applications, such as smart window, photovoltaic cells and flat panel displays. Multilayer transparent electrodes, having a much lower electrical resistance than widely-used transparent conducting oxide electrodes, were prepared by using RF/DC magnetron sputtering system. The multilayer structure consisted of three layers, [NiInZnO(NIZO)/Ag/NIZO]. The optical and electrical properties of the multilayered NIZO/Ag/NIZO structure were investigated in relation to the thickness of each layer. The optical and electrical characteristics of multilayer structures have been investigated as a function of the Ag and NIZO film thickness. High-quality transparent conductive films have been obtained, with sheet resistance of $9.8{\Omega}/sq$ for Ag film thickness of 8 nm. Also the multilayer films of inserted Ag 8 nm thickness showed a high optical transmittance above 93% in the visible range. The electrical and optical properties of the new multilayer films were mainly dependent on the thickness of Ag insertion layer.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국진공학회 2010년도 제39회 하계학술대회 초록집
• /
• pp.170-170
• /
• 2010

Thin-film transistors (TFT) have become the key components of electronic and optoelectronic devices. Most conventional thin-film field-effect transistors in display applications use an amorphous or polycrystal Si:H layer as the channel. This silicon layers are opaque in the visible range and severely restrict the amount of light detected by the observer due to its bandgap energy smaller than the visible light. Therefore, Si:H TFT devices reduce the efficiency of light transmittance and brightness. One method to increase the efficiency is to use the transparent oxides for the channel, electrode, and gate insulator. The development of transparent oxides for the components of thin-film field-effect transistors and the room-temperature fabrication with low voltage operations of the devices can offer the flexibility in designing the devices and contribute to the progress of next generation display technologies based on transparent displays and flexible displays. In this thesis, I report on the dc performance of transparent thin-film transistors using amorphous indium tin zinc oxides for an active layer. $SiO_2$ was employed as the gate dielectric oxide. The amorphous indium tin zinc oxides were deposited by RF magnetron sputtering. The carrier concentration of amorphous indium tin zinc oxides was controlled by oxygen pressure in the sputtering ambient. Devices are realized that display a threshold voltage of 4.17V and an on/off ration of ${\sim}10^9$ operated as an n-type enhancement mode with saturation mobility with $15.8\;cm^2/Vs$. In conclusion, the fabrication and characterization of thin-film transistors using amorphous indium tin zinc oxides for an active layer were reported. The devices were fabricated at room temperature by RF magnetron sputtering. The operation of the devices was an n-type enhancement mode with good saturation characteristics.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
• /
• pp.313-313
• /
• 2016

Transparent conductive oxide (TCO) films have many disadvantages, such as rarity, possible exhaustion, process temperature limitations, and brittleness on a flexible substrate. In particular, as display technology moves toward flexible displays, TCO will become completely unsuitable due to its brittleness. To address theses issue, many researchers have been studying TCO substitutes. In recent efforts, metal nanowires, conducting polymers, carbon nanotube networks, graphene films, hybrid thin films, and metal meshes/grids have been evaluated as candidates to replace TCO electrodes. In this study, we fabricated the TCO film with Ag meshes shape using polystyrene (PS) beads monolayer on the substrate. The PS beads were used as a template to create the mesh pattern. We fabricated the monolayer on the flexible substrate (PES) with the well-aligned PS beads. Electrodes with Ag mesh shape were formed using this patterned monolayer. We could fabricated the Ag mesh electrode with the sheet resistance with $8ohm{\Omega}/{\Box}$.

• 한국표면공학회지
• /
• 제50권2호
• /
• pp.55-71
• /
• 2017

Transparent Conductive Oxide (TCO), especially Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) films are almost prepared by DC magnetron sputtering because of the advantage of obtaining homogeneous large area coatings with high reproducibility. The purpose of this report is describe a detailed investigation of key factors dominating electrical and structural properties of sputtered ITO films. It was confirmed that crystallinity and electrical properties of ITO films were strongly depend on the sputtering pressure and kinetic energy of sputtered particles which are expected to have a close relation with the transport processes between target and substrate. And also, nodule formation on the ITO target was suppressed by both $CaCO_3$ addition and decreasing micro-pore in the target. On the other hand, we focused on the characteristics of amorphous TCO film to use as transparent electrode for various applications. To realize high thermoelectric performance, it was tried to control both high electrical conductivity and low thermal conductivity for the amorphous IZO:Sn films.