• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.179-180
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• 2007

반도체의 최소 회로 선폭이 감소함에 따라 Contact 저항이 크게 증가하게 된다. Contact 저항을 낮추기 위하여 Tungsten Metal Contact을 일반적으로 사용하며, Si 기판과의 Ohmic 접촉 및 WF6의 Fluorine과 Si 반응을 억제하기 위한 Barrier Metal로 Ti/TiN 이중막을 사용한다. 본 논문에서는 90nm급 이하 제품의 CVD Ti/TiN Barrier Metal이 유발하는 불량 현상과 원인 규명에 대하여 연구하였으며, Ohmic Contact형성을 위해 TiSix형성 최적화 방안에 대해 정리하였다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2008년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.270-271
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• 2008

The contact resistance between organic semiconductor and source-drain electrode in Bottom Contact Organic Thin-Film Transistors (BCOTFTs) can be effectively reduced by metal oxide/molybdenum double layer structure; metal oxide layers including nickel oxide (NiOx/Mo) and moly oxide(MoOx) under molybdenum work as a high performance carrier injection layer. Step profiles of source-drain electrode can be easily achieved by simultaneous etching of the double layers using the difference etching rate between metal oxides and metal layers.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.65-68
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• 2009

Metal-semiconductor contact is very important for the operating property of semiconductor detector. $Cd_{0.96}$ $Zn_{0.04}$ Te semiconductor crystal was grown with Bridgman method, and the crystal was cut and polished. EPMA (Electron Probe Micro Analyzer) and ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) analysis were done to obtain the chemical composition and impurity of the crystal. Metal contact was deposited with thermal evaporator on both sides of the crystal. Detectors with Au/CZT/Au and In/CZT/Au structure were made, and I-V curve and the energy spectrum were measured with the detectors. It could be seen that the detector with the In/CZT/Au structure has superior property than the detector with Au/CZT/Au structure when the crystal resistivity was low. However, the metal contact structure effect becomes low when the crystal resistivity was high.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.588-593
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• 2014

Current crowding problem can worsen the internal quantum efficiency and the negative-voltage ESD of InGaN-based LEDs. In this paper, by using photon emission microscope and thermal emission microscope measurement, we confirmed that the electric field and the current of the InGaN-based LED sample are crowded in specific regions where the distance between p-type metal contact and n-type metal contact is shorter than other regions. To improve this crowding problem of electric field and current, modified metal contact geometry having uniform distance between the two contacts is proposed and verified by a numerical simulation. It is confirmed that the proposed structure shows better current spreading, resulting in higher internal quantum efficiency and reduced reverse leakage current.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권8호
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• pp.2277-2280
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• 2014

The contact properties between gold and poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) films having either of two distinct molecular orientations and orderings were investigated. Thermal treatment increased the molecular ordering of P3HT and remarkably reduced the contact resistance at the electrode/semiconductor interface, which enhanced the electrical performance. This phenomenon was understood in terms of a small degree of metal penetration into the P3HT film as a result of the thermal treatment, which formed a sharp interface at the contact interface between the gold electrode and the organic semiconductor.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.401-407
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• 2010

We studied the influence of different types of metal electrodes on the performance of solution-processed zinc tin oxide (ZTO) thin-film transistors. The ZTO thin-film was obtained by spin-coating the sol-gel solution made from zinc acetate and tin acetate dissolved in 2-methoxyethanol. Various metals, Al, Au, Ag and Cu, were used to make contacts with the solution-deposited ZTO layers by selective deposition through a metal shadow mask. Contact resistance between the metal electrode and the semiconductor was obtained by a transmission line method (TLM). The device based on an Al electrode exhibited superior performance as compared to those based on other metals. Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) allowed us to measure the work function of the oxide semiconductor to understand the variation of the device performance as a function of the types metal electrode. The solution-processed ZTO contained nanopores that resulted from the burnout of the organic species during the annealing. This different surface structure associated with the solution-processed ZTO gave a rise to a different work function value as compared to the vacuum-deposited counterpart. More oxygen could be adsorbed on the nanoporous solution-processed ZTO with large accessible surface areas, which increased its work function. This observation explained why the solution-processed ZTO makes an ohmic contact with the Al electrode.

• Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2017

Graphene, with a carrier mobility achieving up to $140,000cm^2/Vs$ at room temperature, makes it an ideal material for application in semiconductor devices. However, when the metal comes in contact with the graphene sheet, an energy barrier forms at the metal-graphene interface, resulting in a drastic reduction of the carrier mobility of graphene. In this review, the various methods of forming metal-graphene covalent contacts to lower the contact resistance are discussed. Furthermore, the graphene sheet in the area of metal contact can be cut in certain patterns, also discussed in this review, which provides a more efficient approach to forming covalent contacts, ultimately reducing the contact resistance for the realization of high-performance graphene devices.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.276-281
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• 2014

A high-responsive Schottky device has been achieved by forming a thin metal deposition on a Si substrate. Two-different metals of Ni and Ag were used as a Schottky metal contact with a thickness about 10 nm. The barrier height formation between metal and Si determines the rectifying current profiles. Ag-embedding Schottky device gave an extremely high response of 17,881 at a wavelength of 900 nm. An efficient design of Schottky device may applied for photoelectric devices, including photodetectors and solar cells.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.467-472
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• 2021

고온에서도 반도체 소자의 안정적인 동작이 필요하다. 반도체 소자의 구조중에서 고온에서 불안정한 전기적 응답을 야기할 수 있는 영역은 금속과 반도체가 접합하는 콘택층이다. 본 연구에서는 p형 SiC 층위에 니켈-실리사이드(NiSix)의 콘택층을 형성하는 공정과정에 포함되는 어닐링 공정 조건이 콘택 저항의 비저항과 전체 저항에 미치는 효과를 고찰하였다. 이를 위해, 4인치 p형 SiC층 위에 전송길이 이론(transfer length method: TLM) 측정을 위한 알련의 전극 패턴들을 형성하였고, 어닐링 온도(1700와 1800℃)와 어닐링 시간(30와 60분)을 달리하여 4종의 시료를 제조하였으며, TLM을 이용한 저항을 측정하였다. 그 결과, 어닐링 조건이 콘택층의 저항과 소자의 전기적 안정성에 영향을 미치는 사실을 확인하였다.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.205-210
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• 1983

This paper presents a steady-state computer solution of the fundamental semiconductor one-dimensional transport equations, describing a single (metal-semiconductor) contact device, involving only one type of charge carrier. The computations are conveniently made by the