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http://dx.doi.org/10.46670/JSST.2021.30.4.236

Fabrication of the FET-based SPM probe by CMOS standard process and its performance evaluation  

Lee, Hoontaek (Department of mechanical engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Kim, Junsoo (Department of mechanical engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Shin, Kumjae (Safety System R&D Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Moon, Wonkyu (Department of mechanical engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology)
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Journal of Sensor Science and Technology / v.30, no.4, 2021 , pp. 236-242 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we report the fabrication of the tip-on-gate of a field-effect-transistor (ToGoFET) probe using a standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process and the performance evaluation of the fabricated probe. After the CMOS process, I-V characteristic measurement was performed on the reference MOSFET. We confirmed that the ToGoFET probe could be operated at a gate voltage of 0 V due to channel ion implantation. The transconductance at the operating point (Vg = 0 V, Vd = 2 V) was 360 ㎂/V. After the fabrication process was completed, calibration was performed using a pure metal sample. For sensitivity calibration, the relationship between the input voltage of the sample and the output current of the probe was determined and the result was consistent with the measurement result of the reference MOSFET. An oxide sample measurement was performed as an example of an application of the new ToGoFET probe. According to the measurement, the ToGoFET probe could spatially resolve a hundred nanometers with a height of a few nanometers in both the topographic image and the ToGoFET image.
Keywords
Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM); FET sensor; CMOS process;
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