• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기물성,응용부문
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• pp.53-54
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• 2006

Arsenic doped p-type ZnO thin films have been realized on intrinsic (100) GaAs substrate by RF magnetron sputtering and thermal annealing treatment. p-Type ZnO exhibits the hole concentration of $9.684{\times}10^{19}cm^3$, resistivity of $2.54{\times}10^{-3}{\Omega}cm$, and mobility of $25.37\;cm^2/Vs$. Photoluminescence (PL) spectra of As doped p-type ZnO thin films reveal neutral acceptor bound exciton ($A^{0}X$) of 3.3437 eV and a transition between free electrons and acceptor levels (FA) of 3.2924 eV. Calculated acceptor binding energy ($E_A$) is about 0.1455 eV. Thermal activation and doping mechanism of this film have been suggested by using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). p-Type formation mechanism of As doped ZnO thin film is more related to the complex model, namely, $As_{Zn}-2V_{Zn}$, in which the As substitutes on the Zn site, rather than simple model, Aso, in which the As substitutes on the O site. ZnO-based p-n junction was fabricated by the deposition of an undoped n-type ZnO layer on an As doped p-type ZnO layer.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.193-201
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• 2017

ZnO, ZnO: Cu, Ga, and ZnO: Cu, Ga, Ag thin films were obtained by oxidization of ZnS and ZnS: Cu, Ga films deposited onto glass substrates by electron-beam evaporation from ZnS and ZnS: Cu, Ga targets and from ZnS: Cu, Ga film additionally doped with Ag by the closed space sublimation technique at atmospheric pressure. The film thickness was about $1{\mu}m$. The oxidation was carried out at $600-650^{\circ}C$ in air or in an atmosphere containing water vapor. Structural characteristics were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Photoluminescence (PL) spectra of the films were measured at 30-300 K using the excitation wavelengths of 337, 405 and 457.9 nm. As-deposited ZnS and ZnS: Cu, Ga films had cubic structure. The oxidation of the doped films in air or in water vapors led to complete ZnO phase transition. XRD and AFM studies showed that the grain sizes of oxidized films at wet annealing were larger than of the films after dry annealing. As-deposited doped and undoped ZnS thin films did not emit PL. Shape and intensity of the PL emission depended on doping and oxidation conditions. Emission intensity of the films annealed in water vapors was higher than of the films annealed in the air. PL of ZnO: Cu, Ga films excited by 337 nm wavelength exhibits UV (380 nm) and green emission (500 nm). PL spectra at 300 and 30 K excited by 457.9 and 405 nm wavelengths consisted of two bands - the green band at 500 nm and the red band at 650 nm. Location and intensities ratio depended on the preparation conditions.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.102-108
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• 2008

대향 타겟식 스퍼터링법 (Facing Targets Sputtering)을 이용하여 유리기판위에 증착한 Ag/ZnO 다층 박막의 특성을 연구하였다. Ag 박막의 높은 전도도와 투과율을 나타내는 공정조건을 찾기 위하여, 증착시간, 기판온도 변화에 따른 Ag박막의 특성을 살펴보았으며, ZnO 박막의 두께 변화에 따른 Ag/ZnO 다층박막의 특성을 살펴보았다, 10초간 증착한 Ag 박막은 연속된 막구조를 가지지 못하여, 30초간 증착된 막에 비해 전기적, 광학적 특성이 저하되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. ZnO 박막의 AFM 측정 결과 박막의 거칠기(Rrms) 값의 변화에 따라 Ag/ZnO박막의 특성에 영향을 미쳤으며, 거칠지 않은 표면을 지닌 박막에서 Ag 박막 증착 시 좋은 특성을 나타냈다. 제작된 박막은 four point probe, UV/VIS spectrometer, AFM을 사용하여 전기적, 광학적, 구조적 특성을 조사하였다. 제작결과 Ag/ZnO 다층박막의 면저항은 9.25 $[\Omega/sq.]$을 나타내었으며, 가시광영역에서 광투과율은 80%이상을 나타내었다.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.109-113
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• 2004

InP에서 열처리 온도와 시간 및 활성화 온도에 따른 Zn의 확산의 특성을 electrochemical capacitance-voltage 법으로 조사하였다. InP층은 metal organic chemical vapor deposition를 이용하여 성장하였으며, 화산방법으로는 $Zn_3P_2$ 확산과 박막과 rapid thermal annealing를 사용하였다. 최대의 정공 농도를 갖는 p-lnP 층은 $550^{\circ}C$에서 5분 동안 확산과 활성화를 한 시료에서 얻었고, Zn의 농도는 $1\times10^{19}\textrm{cm}^{-3}$이었다. $550^{\circ}C$에서 5-20 분 동안 확산을 수행한 결과 정공농도의 확산 깊이는 1.51 $\mu\textrm{m}$에서 3.23 $\mu\textrm{m}$로 이동하였고, Zn의 확산계수는 $5.4\times10^{-11}\textrm{cm}^2$/sec이었다. 활성화 시간의 증가로, Zn가 더 깊게 확산하지만, 정공농도는 거의 변화가 없었다. 이는 도핑된 영역의 과잉의 침입형 Zn가 도핑되지 않은 영역으로 빠르게 확산하고 치환형 Zn로 변한다는 것을 의미한다. 정공농도는 $SiO_2$ 박막의 두께가 1,000$\AA$ 이상이어야 안정적으로 분포된다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.21
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• pp.302-303
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• 2008

Nominally undoped (intrinsic) ZnO thin films were deposited by magnetron sputtering system with utilization of substrate bias on silicon at $450^{\circ}C$. Oxygen gas was selected as sputtering gas. The deposited thins were evaluated with X-ray diffraction (XRD) for their microstructure analysis and Hall effect in Van der Pauw configuration for their electrical property. The XRD shows that the magnitude and polarity of substrate bias significantly influence the microstructure and electrical properties.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.281-287
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• 2009

ZnO thin film was grown on a sapphire single crystal substrate by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy. In addition to near band edge (NBE) emissions, both blue and green luminescences are also observed together. The PL intensity of the blue luminescence (BL) range from 2.7 to 2.9 eV increased as the amount of activated oxygen increased, but green luminescence (GL) was weakly observed at about 2.4 eV without much change in intensity. This result is quite unlike previous studies in which BL and GL were regarded as the transition between shallow donor levels such as oxygen vacancy and interstitial zinc. Based on the transition level and formation energy of the ZnO intrinsic defects predicted through the first principle calculation, which employs density functional approximation (DFA) revised by local density approximation (LDA) and the LDA+U approach, the green and blue luminescence are nearly coincident with the transition from the conduction band to zinc vacancies of $V^{2-}_{Zn}$ and $V^-_{Zn}$, respectively.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권7호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 어닐링조건이 ZnO 박막의 결정구조((002) 세기, FWHM d-간격, grain 크기, (002) 피크 위치) 광학 (UV 피크, UV 피크 위치) 및 전기적 성질 (전자농도, 비저항, mobility)에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. ZnO 박막은 RF 마그네트론 스퍼터링으로 ZnO 타겟을 사용하여 SiO$_2$/Si 기판 상에 증착하였다. 증착도중 기판에 열을 가하지 않았고 ZnO 박막은 $500^{\circ}C\sim650^{\circ}C$의 온도범위와 5분$\sim$20분의 시간범위에서 어닐링 되었다. 샘플의 표면 거칠기 및 구조는 각각 SEM과 XRD로 분석하였다. 광학 성질은 He-Cd 325 nm 레이저를 사용하여 상온에서 측정된 photoluminescence (PL)로 평가 하였다. 어닐링 온도 및 시간 변화에 따라 다음과 같은 관계가 관찰되었다: (1) UV intensity, (002) intensity, grain size 사이에 비례관계가 성립하고, (2) UV intensity는 FWHM와 반비례하고, (3) UV intensity는 전자농도와 큰 상관관계가 없고, (4) d-spacing과 (002) peak position은 반비례 관계에 있고, (5) 3.20$\sim$3.24 eV 범위의 UV peak position은 ZnO 박막이 n-type 특성을 가진다는 것을 의미하며 이는 전기적인 특성의 결과와 일치하고, (6) 최고의 광학 및 구조적 특성을 갖기 위한 최적조건은 0.2의 산소분압(O$_2$/(O$_2$+Ar)), 240W의 PF 파워, 상온의 기판온도, 600$^{\circ}C$온도를 20분 유지하는 어닐링 조건, 그리고 20 mTorr의 스퍼터링 압력 등을 들 수 있다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.65-69
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• 2009

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were coated with undoped zinc oxide (ZnO) or 5 wt% gallium-incorporated ZnO (GZO) using various deposition conditions. The CNTs were directly grown on conical-type tungsten substrates at $700^{\circ}C$ using inductively coupled plasma-chemical vapor deposition. The pulsed laser deposition technique was used to deposit the ZnO and GZO thin films with very low stress. Field-emission scanning electron microscopy and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy were used to monitor the variations in the morphology and microstructure of CNTs prior to and after ZnO or GZO coating. The formation of ZnO and GZO films on CNTs was confirmed using energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy. In comparison to the as-grown (uncoated) CNT emitter, the CNT emitter that was coated with a thin (10 nm) GZO film showed remarkably improved field emission characteristics, such as the emission current of $325\;{\mu}A$ at 1 kV and the threshold field of $1.96\;V/{\mu}m$ at $0.1\;{\mu}A$, and it also exhibited the highly stable operation of emission current up to 40 h.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2010년도 제39회 하계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.145-145
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• 2010

In this paper, we report that the effects of hydrogen doping on the electrical and optical properties of typical transparent conducting oxide films such as ZnO and $SnO_2$ prepared by magnetron sputtering. Recently, density functional theory (DFT) calculations have shown strong evidence that hydrogen acts as a source of n-type conductivity in ZnO. In this work, the beneficial effect of hydrogen incorporation on Ga-doped ZnO thin films was demonstrated. It was found that hydrogen doping results a noticeable improvement of the conductivity mainly due to the increases in carrier concentration. Extent of the improvement was found to be quite dependent on the deposition temperature. A low resistivity of $4.0{\times}10^{-4}\;{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ was obtained for the film grown at $160^{\circ}C$ with $H_2$ 10% in sputtering gas. However, the beneficial effect of hydrogen doping was not observed for the films deposited at $270^{\circ}C$. Variations of the electrical transport properties upon vacuum annealing showed that the difference is attributed to the thermal stability of interstitial hydrogen atoms in the films. Theoretical calculations also suggested that hydrogen forms a shallow-donor state in $SnO_2$, even though no experimental determination has yet been performed. We prepared undoped $SnO_2$ thin films by RF magnetron sputtering under various hydrogen contents in sputtering ambient and then exposed them to H-plasma. Our results clearly showed that the hydrogen incorporation in $SnO_2$ leads to the increase in carrier concentration. Our experimental observation supports the fact that hydrogen acting as a shallow donor seems to be a general feature of the TCOs.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.889-894
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• 2001

2wt% $Al_2O_3-doped$ ZnO (AZO) thin films were deposited on sapphire (0001) single crystal substrate by parellel type rf magnetron sputtering at 55$0^{\circ}C$. The as-grown AZO thin films was polycrystalline and showed only broad deep defect-level photoluminescence (PL). In order to examine the change of PL property, AZO thin films were annealed in $N_2$ (N-AZO) and $H_2$ (H-AZO) at the temperature of $600^{\circ}C$~$1000^{\circ}C$ through rapid thermal annealing. After annealed at $800^{\circ}C$, N-AZO shows near band edge emission (NBE) with very small deep-level emission, and then N-AZO annealed at $900^{\circ}C$ shows only sharp NBE with 219 meV FWHM. In Comparison with N-AZO, H-AZO exhibits very interesting PL features. After $600^{\circ}C$ annealing, deep defect-level emission was quire quenched and NBE around 382 nm (3.2 eV) was observed, which can be explained by the $H_2$passivation effect. At elevated temperature, two interesting peaks corresponding to violet (406 nm, 3.05 eV) and blue (436 nm, 2.84 eV) emission was firstly observed in AZO thin films. Moreover, peculiar PL peak around 694 nm (1.78 eV) is also firstly observed in all the H-AZO thin films and this is believed good evidence of hydrogenation of AZO. Based on defect-level scheme calculated by using the full potential linear muffin-tin orbital (FP-LMTO), the emission 3.2 eV, 3.05 eV, 3.84 eV and 1.78 eV of H-AZO are substantially deginated as exciton emission, transition from conduction band maximum to $V_{ Zn},$ from $Zn_i$, to valence band maximum $(V_{BM})$ and from $V_{o} to V_BM}$, respectively.