A sintering process for copper based films using a rapid thermal process with infrared lamps is proposed to improve the electrical properties. Compared with films produced by conventional thermal sintering, the microstructure of the copper based films contained fewer internal and interfacial pores and larger grains after the rapid thermal process. This high-density microstructure is due to the high heating rate, which causes the abrupt decomposition of the organic shell at higher temperatures than is the case for the low heating rate; the high heating rate also induces densification of the copper based films. In order to confirm the effect of the rapid thermal process on copper nanoink, copper based films were prepared under varying of conditions such as the sintering temperature, time, and heating rate. As a result, the resistivity of the copper based films showed no significant changes at high temperature (300 oC) according to the sintering conditions. On the other hand, at low temperatures, the resistivity of the copper based films depended on the heating rate of the rapid thermal process.

Using the nano Fe powders having 50 nm in diameter, Fe compact bodies were fabricated by injec-tion molding process. The relationship between microstructure and material properties depending on the volume ratio of powder/binder and sintering temperature were characterized by SEM, TEM techniques. In the compact body with the volume percentage ratio of 45(Fe powder) : 55(binder), which was sintered at the relative density was about and the values of volume shrinkage and hardness were about and 242.0 Hv, respec-tively. Using the composition of 50(Fe powder) : 50(binder) and sintered at the values of relative density, volume shrinkage and hardness of Fe sintered bodies were and 152.8 Hv, respectively. They showed brittle fracture mode due to the porous and fine microstructure.

실리콘 산화막을 N2O 분위기에서 RTP로 제조하여 그 성장 기구를 고찰 했다. 산화막과 기판 실리콘 계면 사이에 질소성분이 포함된 oxynitride층이 존재한다. N2O 기체를 이용한 산화막 성장은 삼화제 확산에 의해 성장이 지배되는 포물선 성장론을 따르고 산화제 확산 억제작용은 실리콘 산화막과 실리콘 기판사이에 존재하는 oxynitride막에서 일어난다. 확산이 산화막 성장을 결정하는 구간에서 포물선 성장율 상수 B의 활성화 에너지는 약 1.5 eV이고 산화막 두께 증가에 따라 증가한다.

Si(100) 웨이퍼를 사용하여 RTP 장비에서 O2와 N2O 분위기에서 8nm의 oxynitride를 제조 하였다. 기존의 로(furnace) 열산화막과 비교해서 oxynitride는 I-V, TDDB 특성이 우수하였고, flat-band voltage shift도 적었으며 BF2이온 주입에 의한 붕소 투과 억제 특성도 우수하다. 유전상수는 oxynitride가 열산화막에 비해서 크다. Oxynitride는 순수한 SiO2유사하게 V 〉Φ0 구간에서 Fowler-Nordheim 터널링 특성을 나타낸다. SIMS, AES, 그리고 XPS 분석 결과 질소 pile-up이 SiO2/Si 계면에서 나타나고, 이것은 oxynitride 산화막 특성 향상과 깊은 관련이 있다.