Recently, as the demand for a non-contact liquid crystal alignment method capable of improving viewing angle characteristics has spread throughout the industry, various non-contact liquid crystal alignment methods, including conventional UV light alignment, are being actively studied. In the case of UV light alignment, it is currently applied to mass production in many fields and shows relatively excellent initial characteristics, but there is a problem of display quality deterioration over time. In this study, among these non-contact liquid crystal alignment methods, the liquid crystal is oriented by quantitatively irradiating an ion beam onto the SiOF inorganic film, which has excellent initial characteristics and does not cause deterioration in quality over time., the electro-optical properties were evaluated by manufacturing a commercial-level IPS (In-Plane Switching) liquid crystal cell. In particular, in the case of such inorganic film orientation, it is common to have many problems with orientation stability, but the evaluation cell manufactured by the method proposed in this study is capable of maintaining a uniform orientation without losing orientation even after heat treatment at a high temperature of 200°C. could be observed.

AZO thin films are grown on a p-Si(111) substrate by RF magnetron sputtering. The characteristics of various thicknesses and heat treatment conditions are investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Hall effect and room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) measurements. The substrate temperature and the RF power during growth are kept constant at 400 ℃ and 200 W, respectively. AZO films are grown with a preferred orientation along the c-axis. As the thickness and the heat treatment temperature increases, the length of the c-axis decreases as Al3+ ions of relatively small ion radius are substituted for Zn2+ ions. At room temperature, the PL spectrum is separated into an NBE emission peak around 3.2 eV and a violet regions peak around 2.95 eV with increasing thickness, and the PL emission peak of 300 nm is red-shifted with increasing annealing temperature. In the XPS measurement, the peak intensity of Al2p and Oll increases with increasing annealing temperature. The AZO thin film of 100 nm thickness shows values of 6.5 × 1019 cm−3 of carrier concentration, 8.4 cm−2/V·s of mobility and 1.2 × 10−2 Ω·cm electrical resistivity. As the thickness of the thin film increases, the carrier concentration and the mobility increase, resulting in the decrease of resistivity. With the carrier concentration, mobility decreases when the heat treatment temperature increases more than 500 ℃.

Transparent ITO films were deposited on a polycarbonate substrate with RF magnetron sputtering in a pure argon(Ar) and oxygen (O2) gas atmosphere, and then post deposition electro annealed for 20 minutes in a 4×10-1Pa vacuum. Electronbombardment with an accelerating voltage of 100V increased the substrate temperature to 120oC. XRD analysis of the depositedITO films did not show any diffraction peaks, while electro annealed films indicated the growth of crystallites on the (211), (222),and (400) planes. The sheet resistance of ITO films decreased from 103 to 82Ω/□. The optical transmittance of ITO films inthe visible wavelength region increased from 85 to 87%. Observation of the work function demonstrated that the electro-annealingincreased the work function of ITO films from 4.4 to 4.6eV. The electro annealed films demonstrated a larger figure of meritof 3.0×10-3Ω-1 than that of as deposited films. Therefore, the electro annealed films had better optoelectrical performances thanas deposited ITO films.

해수에 노출된 콘크리트 구조물은 시간의 경과에 따라 철근부식이 야기될 수 있으며, 이는 구조적인 성능저하로 진전된다. 1단계 연구에서 도출된 해수전착시스템의 개발을 통하여 2단계 연구에서는 해수전착 코팅된 철근 및 코팅철근을 사용한 RC 콘크리트 부재의 구조적, 내구적 성능이 평가되었다. 내구적 성능평가에서는 반전위 측정이 수행되었는데, 코팅된 철근은 일반철근의 35%수준의 부식속도를 가지고 있었으므로 높은 내부식성을 확보하고 있었다. 구조실험에서는 직접인장시험, 부착력시험, RC 부재를 이용한 휨 및 전단시험이 수행되었다. 인장강도 시험에서는 3.2%, 부착성능에서는 8.8%의 강도 증가가 코팅된 철근에서 평가되었다. RC보에 대한 실험에서는 최대하중 및 파괴형태는 두가지 경우에서 거의 동일하게 평가되었다. 해수전착된 시편은 철근주위에 콘크리트와 비슷한 화합물(수산화마그네슘, 탄산칼슘)이 형성되므로 부착력 및 강도를 일부 증가시키는 것으로 평가되었다. 해수전착철근은 피로, 내충격성, 장기침지실험 등을 통하여 성능이 입증되면 더욱 활발하게 사용될 것으로 사료된다.

본 연구는 해수에 존재하는 다량의 칼슘 및 마그네슘 이온을 전기적으로 강판에 전착하는 전착시스템을 개발하는 것이다. 최종적인 목표는 해수를 이용하여 전착한 구조용 철근의 개발이며, 본 연구는 1단계 연구로서 고내구성 철근개발을 위한 전착시스템 개발에 목적을 두었다. 다양한 전극과 온도, 전류밀도, 코팅시간 등을 변수로 하고 실험을 수행하여 철근 코팅을 위한 최적의 조건을 도출하였다. 탄산칼슘(CaCO3)과 수산화마그네슘(Mg(OH)2)으로 구성된 코팅층은 SEM, EDS, XRD 등을 통하여 성분을 파악하였으며, 자연전위 및 전류밀도를 분석하여 기존의 철보다 부식에 대하여 매우 안전함을 확인하였다. 본 연구의 성과를 이용하여 고내구성 강재의 구조적, 내구적 실험에 대한 토의가 2차 연구에서 추가적으로 수행될 것이다.