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Development of a Photoemission-assisted Plasma-enhanced CVD Process and Its Application to Synthesis of Carbon Thin Films: Diamond, Graphite, Graphene and Diamond-like Carbon

  • Takakuwa, Yuji
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.08a
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    • pp.105-105
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    • 2012
  • We have developed a photoemission-assisted plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PAPE-CVD) [1,2], in which photoelectrons emitting from the substrate surface irradiated with UV light ($h{\nu}$=7.2 eV) from a Xe excimer lamp are utilized as a trigger for generating DC discharge plasma as depicted in Fig. 1. As a result, photoemission-assisted plasma can appear just above the substrate surface with a limited interval between the substrate and the electrode (~10 mm), enabling us to suppress effectively the unintended deposition of soot on the chamber walls, to increase the deposition rate, and to decrease drastically the electric power consumption. In case of the deposition of DLC gate insulator films for the top-gate graphene channel FET, plasma discharge power is reduced down to as low as 0.01W, giving rise to decrease significantly the plasma-induced damage on the graphene channel [3]. In addition, DLC thickness can be precisely controlled in an atomic scale and dielectric constant is also changed from low ${\kappa}$ for the passivation layer to high ${\kappa}$ for the gate insulator. On the other hand, negative electron affinity (NEA) of a hydrogen-terminated diamond surface is attractive and of practical importance for PAPECVD, because the diamond surface under PAPE-CVD with H2-diluted (about 1%) CH4 gas is exposed to a lot of hydrogen radicals and therefore can perform as a high-efficiency electron emitter due to NEA. In fact, we observed a large change of discharge current between with and without hydrogen termination. It is noted that photoelectrons are emitted from the SiO2 (350 nm)/Si interface with 7.2-eV UV light, making it possible to grow few-layer graphene on the thick SiO2 surface with no transition layer of amorphous carbon by means of PAPE-CVD without any metal catalyst.

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Analysis of Threshold Voltage Characteristics for Double Gate MOSFET Based on Scaling Theory (스켈링이론에 따른 DGMOSFET의 문턱전압 특성분석)

  • Jung, Hak-Kee;Han, Ji-Hyung;Jeong, Dong-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.683-685
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    • 2012
  • This paper have presented the analysis of the change for threshold voltage and drain induced barrier lowering among short channel effects occurred in subthreshold region for double gate(DG) MOSFET with two gates to be next-generation devices, based on scaling theory. To obtain the analytical solution of Poisson's equation, Gaussian function been used as carrier distribution to analyze closely for experimental results, and the threshold characteristics have been analyzed for device parameters such as channel thickness and doping concentration and projected range and standard projected deviation of Gaussian function. Since this potential model has been verified in the previous papers, we have used this model to analyze the threshold chatacteristics. As a result to apply scaling theory, we know the threshold voltage and drain induced barrier lowering is changed, and the deviation rate is changed for device parameters for DGMOSFET.

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A Study on the Reduction of Current Kink Effect in NMOSFET SOI Device (NMOSFET SOI 소자의 Current Kink Effect 감소에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Myoung-Seok;Lee, Chung-Keun;Hong, Shin-Nam
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics T
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    • v.35T no.2
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    • pp.6-12
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    • 1998
  • Thin film SOI(Silicon-on-insulator) device offer unique advantages such as reduction in short channel effects, improvement of subthreshold slope, higher mobility, latch-up free nature, and so on. But these devices exhibit floating-body effet such as current kink which inhibits the proper device operation. In this paper, the SOI NMOSFET with a T-type gate structure is proposed to solve the above problem. To simulate the proposed device with TSUPREM-4, the part of gate oxide was considered to be 30nm thicker than the normal gate oxide. The I-V characteristics were simulated with 2D MEDICI. Since part of gate oxide has different oxide thickness, the gate electric field strength is not same throughout the gate and hence the impact ionization current is reduced. The current kink effect will be reduced as the impact ionization current drop. The reduction of current kink effect for the proposed device structure were shown using MEDICI by the simulation of impact ionization current, I-V characteristics, and hole current distribution.

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An Experimental Study on The Uncertainty of Suspended Sediment Pickup on Slope by Solitary Wave (고립파에 의한 경사면에서의 부유사 제승의 불확실성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Cho, Jae Nam;Jeong, Seok Il;Lee, Seung Oh
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2017
  • Suspended sediment transport plays principal roles in morphological process of natural coastals. It is needed to understand the reason why interaction characteristics of solitary wave and suspended sediment. The present study shows that suspended sediment pickup derived on solitary wave celerity. The 2D prismatic open channel length is 12 m, width is 0.8 m, height is 0.75 m and slope is 1/6. Generation of solitary wave is used by rapidly opening the sluice gate. Bottom surface sediments are laid movable slope section by 0.03 m thickness and experimental sediments are used anathracite and jumoonjin sand. Techniques of suspended sediment pickup rate are designed equipment ASC(Absorptive Suspended sediment Collector). It could directly absorb 5 points suspended sediment by channel water depth. Solitary wave celerity is measued by ADV(Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter). Mounted two video cameras(Model No. : Sony, HDR-XR550) are used to image processing of suspended sediment concentration and turbidity. Suspended sediment pikcup rate(Einstein, 1950) is analyzed to nondimensionalization based on solitary wave celerity. The suspended sediment pickup rate is suggested that more effective plunging breaking type than spilling. The results indicates fundamental suspended sediment transport mechanism between solitary wave celerity and suspended sediment pickup based on laboratory experiments. Finally, the present study suggests that suspended sediment pickup rate by solitary wave is used only characteristics of sediment and solitary wave celerity.

Structure design of regenerative cooling chamber of liquid rocket thrust chamber (액체로켓 연소기 재생냉각 챔버 구조설계)

  • Ryu, Chul-Sung;Choi, Hwan-Seok;Lee, Dong-Ju
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.12
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2005
  • Elastic-plastic structural analysis for regenerative cooling chamber of liquid rocket thrust chamber is performed. Uniaxial tension test is also conducted for the copper alloy in order to get material data necessary for the structure analysis. The results of uniaxial tension test reveal that copper alloy become ductile after brazing process and flow stress becomes lower as temperature becomes higher. As a result of structural analysis using the material data, the deformation of cooling channel is more increased by thermal load than by internal pressure of cooling fluid. Therefore, the results of analysis show that structural stability and cooling performance of combustion thrust chamber which is designed to endure mechanical load and minimized a channel thickness are improved by decreased thermal load as possible.

Design Characteristics of Tapered Directional Couplers in Optical Communication (광통신용 테이퍼 방향성 결합기의 설계 특성)

  • Son, Seock-Yong;Ho, Kwang-Chun;Kim, Yung-Kwon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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    • v.36D no.11
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    • pp.18-26
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    • 1999
  • Recently, various simplified simulation techniques such as firite-difference beam propagation method and non-orthogonal coupled-mode theory have proposed to analyze the optical characteristics of tapered directional couplers supported by the coupling of two propagating modes. Although these approaches are often in sufficiently accurate, they do not provide the detailed solutions encountered in the analysis of tapered guiding structures. For this purpose, we introduce and utilize a newly developed modal transmission-line theory to analyze rigorously power transfer of the directional coupler. The numerical result reveals that the propagation constants of even and odd modes converge to a single value as increasing the spacer thickness between two symmetric tapered guides. Furthermore, 97% of the power incident into a guiding channel is transmitted to the other channel at the tapered angle ${\theta}=0.1^{\circ}$, and the efficiency of power transfer decreases dramatically as increasing the angle.

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Modeling of Nano-scale FET(Field Effect Transistor : FinFET) (나노-스케일 전계 효과 트랜지스터 모델링 연구 : FinFET)

  • Kim, Ki-Dong;Kwon, Oh-Seob;Seo, Ji-Hyun;Won, Tae-Young
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.41 no.6
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2004
  • We performed two-dimensional (20) computer-based modeling and simulation of FinFET by solving the coupled Poisson-Schrodinger equations quantum-mechanically in a self-consistent manner. The simulation results are carefully investigated for FinFET with gate length(Lg) varying from 10 to 80nm and with a Si-fin thickness($T_{fin}$) varying from 10 to 40nm. Current-voltage (I-V) characteristics are compared with the experimental data. Device optimization has been performed in order to suppress the short-channel effects (SCEs) including the sub-threshold swing, threshold voltage roll-off, drain induced barrier lowering (DIBL). The quantum-mechanical simulation is compared with the classical appmach in order to understand the influence of the electron confinement effect. Simulation results indicated that the FinFET is a promising structure to suppress the SCEs and the quantum-mechanical simulation is essential for applying nano-scale device structure.

Hot-Carrier-Induced Degradation of Lateral DMOS Transistors under DC and AC Stress (DC 및 AC 스트레스에서 Lateral DMOS 트랜지스터의 소자열화)

  • Lee, In-Kyong;Yun, Se-Re-Na;Yu, Chong-Gun;Park, J.T.
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.13-18
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents the experimental findings on the different degradation mechanism which depends on the gate oxide thickness in lateral DMOS transistors. For thin oxide devices, the generation of interface states in the channel region and the trapped holes in the drift region is found to be the causes of the device degradation. For thick devices, the generation of interface states in the channel region is found to be the causes of the device degradation. We confirmed the different degradation mechanism using device simulation. From the comparison of device degradation under DC and AC stress, it is found that the device degradation is more significant under DC stress than one under AC stress. The device degradation under AC stress is more significant in high frequency. Therefore the hot carrier induced degradation should be more carefully considered in the design of RF LDMOS transistors and circuit design.

Feasibility Study for a Lab-chip Development for LAL Test (LAL 시험용 Lab-chip 개발을 위한 타당성 연구)

  • 황상연;최효진;서창우;안유민;김양선;이은규
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.429-433
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    • 2003
  • LAL (Limulus amebocyte lysate) test to detect and quantity endotoxin is based on gellation reaction between endotoxin and LAL from a blood extract of Limulus polyphemus. The test is labor intensive requiring dedicated personnel, takes relatively long reaction time (approximately 1 hr), requires relatively large volume of samples and reagents, and its end-point detection method is rather subjective. To solve these problems, we attempted to develop a miniaturized LOC (lab-on-a-chip) prototype using PDMS and glass. Using the 62 mm (length) ${\times}$ 18 mm (width) prototype in which 2 mm (width) ${\times}$ 44.34 mm (length) ${\times}$ 100 $\mu\textrm{m}$ (depth) microfluidic channel was provided, we compared the various detection methods of gellation, turbidometric, and chromogenic assays to find the chromogenic method to be the most suitable for small volume assay. In this assay, kinetic point method was more accurate than end point method. We also found the PDMS chip thickness should be minimized to around 2 mm to allow sufficient light transmittance, which necessitated a glass slide bonding for chip rigidity. Through the miniaturization, the test time was reduced from 1 hr to less than 10 minutes, and the sample volume could be reduced from 100 ${\mu}\ell$ to 4.4 ${\mu}\ell$. In sum, this study revealed that the mini LOC could be an alternative for a semi-automated and reliable method for LAL test.

Improved Contact property in low temperature process via Ultrathin Al2O3 layer (Al2O3 층을 이용한 저온공정에서의 산화물 기반 트랜지스터 컨택 특성 향상)

  • Jeong, Seong-Hyeon;Sin, Dae-Yeong;Jo, Hyeong-Gyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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    • 2018.06a
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    • pp.55-55
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    • 2018
  • Recently, amorphous oxides such as InGaZnO (IGZO) and InZnO (IZO) as a channel layer of an oxide TFT have been attracted by advantages such as high mobility, good uniformity, and high transparency. In order to apply such an amorphous oxide TFTs to a display, the stability in various environments must be ensured. In the InGaZnO which has been studied in the past, Ga elements act as a suppressor of oxygen vacancy and result in a decreased mobility at the same time. Previous studies have been showed that the InZnO, which does not contain Ga, can achieve high mobility, but has relatively poor stability under various instability environments. In this study, the TFTs using $IZO/Al_2O_3$ double layer structure were studied. The introduction of an $Al_2O_3$ interlayer between source/drain and channel causes superior electrical characteristics and electrical stability as well as reduced contact resistance with optimally perfect ohmic contact. For the IZO and $Al_2O_3$ bilayer structures, the IZO 30nm IZO channels were prepared at $Ar:O_2=30:1$ by sputtering and the $Al_2O_3$ interlayer were depostied with various thickness by ALD at $150^{\circ}C$. The optimal sample exhibits considerably good TFT performance with $V_{th}$ of -3.3V and field effect mobility of $19.25cm^2/Vs$, and reduced $V_{th}$ shift under positive bias stress stability, compared to conventional IZO TFT. The enhanced TFT performances are closely related to the nice ohmic contact properties coming from the defect passivation of the IZO surface inducing charge traps, and we will provide the detail mechanism and model via electrical analysis and transmission line method.

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