• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.15-24
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• 2021

In this paper, 1700 V EPDT (Extended P+ shielding floating gate Double Trench) MOSFET structure, which has a smaller switching time and loss than CDT (Conventional Double Trench) MOSFET, is proposed. The proposed EPDT MOSFET structure extended the P+ shielding area of the source trench in the CDT MOSFET structure and divided the gate into N+ and floating P- polysilicon gate. By comparing the two structures through Sentaurus TCAD simulation, the on-resistance was almost unchanged, but Crss (Gate-Drain Capacitance) decreased by 32.54 % and 65.5 %, when 0 V and 7 V was applied to the gate respectively. Therefore, the switching time and loss were reduced by 45 %, 32.6 % respectively, which shows that switching performance was greatly improved.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.605-610
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• 2010

The devices based on electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) structure are proposed for the detection of external electric charges. A large size charge contact window (CCW) extended from the floating gate is employed to immobilize external charges, and a control gate with stacked metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor is adapted for a standard single polysilicon CMOS process. When positive voltage is applied to the capacitor of CCW of an n-channel EEPROM, the drain current increases due to the negative shift of its threshold voltage. Also when a pre-charged external capacitor is directly connected to the floating gate metal of CCW, the positive charges of the external capacitor make the drain current increase for n-channel, whereas the negative charges cause it to decrease. For an p-channel, however, the opposite behaviors are observed by the external voltage and charges. With the attachment of external charges to the CCW of EEPROM inverter, the characteristic inverter voltage behavior shifts from the reference curve dependent on external charge polarity. Therefore, we have demonstrated that the EEPROM inverter is capable of detecting external immobilized charges on the floating gate. and these devices are applicable to sensing the pH's or biomolecular reactions.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.48 no.10
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• pp.72-81
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• 2011

In this paper, we proposed and designed a novel floating point converter which supports single and double precisions of IEEE754 standard. The proposed convertor supports conversions between floating point number single/double precision and signed fixed point number(32bits/64bits) as well as conversions between signed integer(32bits/64bits) and floating point number single/double precision and conversions between floating point number single and double precisions. We defined a new internal format to convert various input types into one type so that overflow checking could be conducted easily according to range of output types. The internal format is similar to the extended format of floating point double precision defined in IEEE754 2008 standard. This standard specifies that minimum exponent bit-width of the extended format of floating point double precision is 15bits, but 11bits are enough to implement the proposed converting unit. Also, we optimized rounding stage of the convertor unit so that we could make it possible to operate rounding and represent correct negative numbers using an incrementer instead an adder. We designed single cycle data path and 5 cycles data path. After describing the HDL model for two data paths of the convertor, we synthesized them with TSMC 180nm technology library using Synopsys design compiler. Cell area of synthesis result occupies 12,886 gates(2 input NAND gate), and maximum operating frequency is 411MHz.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.8-8
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• 2010

외부전하를 감지할 수 있는 EEPROM 구조를 기반으로 한 센서를 제안하였다. 부유게이트로부터 확장된 큰 면적의 접촉부위 (CCM)는 외부전하를 고정화하도록 설계되었으며, $0.13{\mu}m$ 단일-다결정 CMOS 공정에 적합한 적층의 금속-절연체-금속 (MIM) 제어케이트구조로 구성되었다. N-채널 EEPROM의 CCW 캐패시터 영역에 양의 전압이 인가되면 제어 게이트의 문턱전압이 음의 방향으로 변화하여 드레인 전류는 증가하는 특성을 보였다. 또한 이미 충전된 외부 캐패시터가 CCW의 부유게이트의 금속영역에 직접 연결되면, 외부 캐패시터로부터 유입된 양의 전하는 n-채널 EEPROM의 드레인 전류를 증가시키지만 반면에 음의 전하는 이를 감소시켰다. 외부 전압과 전하에 의해 PMOS의 특성은 NMOS에 비교하여 반대로 나타남이 확인되었다. EEPROM 인버터의 CCW 영역에 외부전하를 연결하면 인버터의 입-출력 특성이 기준 시료에 비해 외부전하의 극성에 따라 변화하였다. 그러므로, EEPROM 인버터는 외부전하를 감지하여 부유게이트에 고정된 전하의 밀도 크기에 따라 출력을 전압으로 표현할 수 있음을 확인하였다.