• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.229-234
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• 1999

We analyzed the reliability characteristics in platinum schottky diodes with variations of n-type silicon substrates concentrations and temperature variations of measurements. The parameters of reliability measurement analysis are saturation current. turn-on voltage and ideality factor in the forward bias, the breakdown voltage in the reverse bias with device shapes. The shape of devices are square type and long rectangular type for edge effect. As a result, we analyzed that the forward turn-on voltage, barrier height, dynamic resistance and reverse breakdown voltage were decreased but ideality factor and saturation current were increased by increased concentration in platinum and n-silicon junction parts. In measurement temperature(RT, $50^{\circ}C$, $75^{\circ}C$), the extracted electrical parameter values of reliability characteristics were increased at the higher temperature under the forward and reverse bias. The long rectangular type devices were more decreased than the square type in reverse breakdown voltage by tunneling effects of edge part.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.7
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• pp.89-96
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• 2004

High-linearity voltage-controlled current sources (VCCSs) circuits for wide voltage-controlled oscillator and automatic gain control are proposed. The VCCS consists of emitter follower for voltage input, two common-base amplifier which their emitter connected for current output, and current mirror which connected the two amplifier for large output current. The VCCS used only five transistors and a resistor without an extra bias circuit. Simulation results show that the VCCS has current output range from 0㎃ to 300㎃ over the control voltage range from 1V to 4.8V at supply voltage 5V. The linearity error of output current has less than 1.4% over the current range from 0A to 300㎃.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1109-1112
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• 2015

A milatary ship without degaussing coil has a vertical magnetization to compensate magnetization induced by the vertical magnetic field component of earth magnetic field during demagnetization process. Flash D is very useful to acquire vertical magnetization. However this is hard to predict vertical magnetization. This experiment was investicated on another method, which used the only vertical bias magentic field. The specimens were prepared by thin Zn coated steel sheet with a thickness of 0.15mm. The shapes of 3 specimes was rectangular, triangular and circular cylinders. These shapes were corresponded to the shapes of bow, mid and stern of a vessel. Through FEM analysis, the difference of magnetic signatures for these specimens was recognized and the residual magnetization curve was measured. magnetic field was generated by a solenoid coil and magnetic signature was measured by a magnetic field sensor. A linearity between a vertical bias magnetic field and a vertical manetzation existed and the vertical magnetization of a miltary vessel was predicted by the linearity.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.60-68
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• 2000

This paper describes a design methodology for the CMOS current source which can be implemented in standard memory process. The proposed techniques provide a good characteristic against the power-supply variation by utilizing a self-bias circuit and the reduction of the first-order component of the temperature variation through the new temperature compensation technique and include a new current-sensing start-up circuit enabling a robust operation against the voltage noise generated during the operation of the chip. In addition to the circuit-design technology, techniques where the proposed CMOS current-reference circuit can be applied to the clocking circuits of a very high-speed DRAM are presented. The feasibility of the suggested design methodology for the CMOS current reference is demonstrated by both the analytical method and the circuit simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.239-250
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• 2003

The reliability degradation phenomena in the SiGe hetero-junction bipolar transistor (HBT) are investigated in this review. In the case of the SiGe HBT the decrease of the current gain, the degradation of the AC characteristics, and the offset voltage are frequently observed, which are attributed to the emitter-base reverse bias voltage stress, the transient enhanced diffusion, and the deterioration of the base-collector junction due to the fluctuation in fabrication process, respectively. The reverse-bias stress on the emitter-base junction causes the recombination current to rise, increasing the base current and degrading the current gain, because hot carriers formed by the high electric field at the junction periphery generate charged traps at the silicon-oxide interface and within the oxide region. Because of the enhanced diffusion of the dopants in the intrinsic base induced by the extrinsic base implantation, the shorter distance between the emitter-base junction and the extrinsic base than a critical measure leads to the reduction of the cut-off frequency ($f_t$) of the device. If the energy of the extrinsic base implantation is insufficient, the turn-on voltage of the collector-base junction becomes low, in the result, the offset voltage appears on the current-voltage curve.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.242-242
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• 2010

SiO2박막을 이온 감지막으로 이용한 pH농도센서를 제작하였다. 현재 많은 연구중인 pH센서, pH-ISFET(pH-Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistor)는 용액과 기준전극간의 전기화학적 변위차를 이용하여 pH를 센싱한다. pH-ISFET는 기존 CMOS공정을 그대로 이용할 수 있고, 이온감지막의 변화만으로 다양한 센서를 제작할 수 있어 최근 많은 연구가 진행 중이다. 하지만 FET를 제작하기 위한 공정의 복잡성과 용액의 전위를 정해주고 FET에 바이어스를 인가해줄 기준전극이 반드시 필요하다는 제한성이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 SOI 기판을 이용하여 간단한 구조의 pH센서를 제작하였다. 센서는 (100)결정면을 가지는 p-타입 SOI(Silicon On Insulator)기판을 사용하였으며 포토리소그래피 공정을 이용하여 back-gated MOSFET구조로 제작하였다. 이온감지막으로 사용할 SiO2박막은 RF 스퍼터링을 이용하여 $100{\AA}$ 증착하였다. 바이어스는 기존 pH-ISFET와는 다르게 기준전극 대신 기판을 backgate로 사용하여 FET에 바이어스를 인가해 주었다. pH 용액 주입을 위해 PDMS재질의 챔버를 제작하고 실리콘글루를 이용하여 센서에 부착하였다. pH12부터 pH4까지 단계적으로 누적시키며 챔버에 주입하였고, pH에 따른 드레인전류의 변화를 관찰하였다. pH용액을 챔버에 주입시, pH농도에 따라 제작된 센서의 문턱전압이 오른쪽으로 이동하는 결과를 관찰할 수 있었다. 결과적으로, 구조가 간단한 pseudo MOSFET을 이용하여 pH센서의 적용가능성을 확인하였으며 SiO2박막 역시 본 pH센서의 이온감지막의 역할과 센서의 안정성을 향상시킬 수 있다는 점을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.678-681
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• 2009

A single-pixel photon counter is designed using a folded cascode CMOS operational amplifier which is self-biased. Since there is no need for a voltage bias circuit, the layout area and power consumption of the designed counter are reduced. The signal voltage of the designed charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) with the MagnaChip $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process is simulated to be 138mv, near the theoretical voltage of 151mV. And the layout area of the designed counter is $100{\mu}m{\times}100{\mu}m$.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.11
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• pp.836-845
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• 2001

A Novel fully-differential bipolar current subtracter(FCS) and its application to current controlled current amplifier(CCCA) for high-accuracy current-mode signal processing were designed. To obtain full-differential current output, the FCS was symmetrically composed of two current follower with low current-input impedance. The CCCA to control output current by the bias current was consisted of the subtracter and a current gain amplifier(CGA) with single-ended current output.. The simulation result shows that the FCS has current-input impedance of 5 Ω and a good linearity. The CCCA has 3-dB cutoff frequency of 20 MHz for the range over bias current 100 $\mu$A to 20 mA. The power dissipation of the FCS and CCCA are 1.8 mW and 3 mW, respectively.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.649-652
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 MICROTEC〔3,4〕시뮬레이터를 이용하여 소트키 다이오드를 형성하고 금속-반도체 쇼트키 접촉에서 턴 온 전압과 항복 전압을 관찰하였다. 또한 여러 가지 쇼트키 장벽 높이를 가지는 금속을 사용하여 동일한 디바이스에서 이들 금속-반도체 접촉에 전압을 인가했을 때, 순 방향에서 턴 온 특성을 관찰하여 턴 온 전압과 역 방향에서의 항복 현상을 관찰하여 항복 전압을 확인하였다. 사용된 금속은 Au(0.8V), Mo(0.68V), Pt(0.9V), Ti(0.5V) 이며 반도체는 실리콘 n/n 구조가 형성되었다. 쇼트키 다이오드는 대 전력용 보다는 높은 속도의 스위칭 디바이스에 주로 응용되고 있으며 장벽의 높이가 높을수록 뚜렷한 정류 특성을 나타내어 순 방향 바이어스에서 빠른 턴 온 특성이 예상되는데 시뮬레이션 결과 또한 잘 일치하였다. 그리고 다이오드의 I-V 특성을 관찰하기 위해 역 방향 바이어스에서의 항복 전압을 관찰하였는데 쇼트키 장벽이 높을수록 낮은 항복 전압이 나타났다. 또한 디바이스 공정에서 epitaxial과 열처리 공정 후의 2차원적인 농도 분포를 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.269-270
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• 2015

상용 교류전원 환경에서 구동되는 조명용 OLED의 연구를 위하여 적색 형광 소자를 제작하여 교류 순방향 바이어스 인가에 따른 유기 전계발광 소자의 발광 특성을 분석하였다. 순방향 교류전원으로 구동된 유기발광 소자의 경우 직류 구동 방식과 비교하여 인가전압에 따른 전류 밀도와 발광 휘도는 유사한 특성을 나타내나, 높은 구동 전압에서 시간에 따른 열화가 빠르게 진행되는 결과를 나타내었다. 이러한 원인은 동일한 인가전압에서 교류의 경우 첨두치 전압이 높아 OLED 구동에 치명적인 열화의 원인으로 작용한다는 것을 실험적으로 확인하였다. 조명 용도로 교류전원 환경에서 OLED를 직결로 구동시키기 위해서는 소자를 안정적으로 구동할 수 있는 전압 범위의 첨두치 전압 조건에서 충분한 휘도와 효율 특성이 요구됨을 본 연구 결과를 통해 알 수 있다.