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A study on Improvement of $30{\AA}$ Ultra Thin Gate Oxide Quality (얇은 게이트 산화막 $30{\AA}$에 대한 박막특성 개선 연구)

  • Eom, Gum-Yong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.07a
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    • pp.421-424
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    • 2004
  • As the deep sub-micron devices are recently integrated high package density, novel process method for sub $0.1{\mu}m$ devices is required to get the superior thin gate oxide characteristics and reliability. However, few have reported on the electrical quality and reliability on the thin gate oxide. In this paper I will recommand a novel shallow trench isolation structure for thin gate oxide $30{\AA}$ of deep sub-micron devices. Different from using normal LOCOS technology, novel shallow trench isolation have a unique 'inverse narrow channel effects' when the channel width of the devices is scaled down shallow trench isolation has less encroachment into the active device area. Based on the research, I could confirm the successful fabrication of shallow trench isolation(STI) structure by the SEM, in addition to thermally stable silicide process was achiever. I also obtained the decrease threshold voltage value of the channel edge and the contact resistance of $13.2[\Omega/cont.]$ at $0.3{\times}0.3{\mu}m^2$. The reliability was measured from dielectric breakdown time, shallow trench isolation structure had tile stable value of $25[%]{\sim}90[%]$ more than 55[sec].

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Improvement of Seismic Performance of Existing Bridges using Isolation (지진격리장치를 이용한 기존 교량의 내진성능 향상)

  • 한경봉;김민지;박선규
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2004
  • The seismic performance evaluation and retrofit process are very important in old existing bridges. If the result is not appropriate. then a retrofit process are required. Among various retrofit methods, the seismic isolation is a very useful method. because it can be applied by replacing old bridge bearings. In this study, the effectiveness of seismic isolation is rationally verified. For this purpose, two seismic isolations used widely are selected and non-linear static and dynamic analyses are performed. The responses of existing bridges are compared with those of retrofited bridges by seismic isolation bridge for earthquake of target level. and seismic performances are evaluated.

Seismic fragility analysis of base isolation reinforced concrete structure building considering performance - a case study for Indonesia

  • Faiz Sulthan;Matsutaro Seki
    • Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.243-260
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    • 2023
  • Indonesia has had seismic codes for earthquake-resistant structures designs since 1970 and has been updated five times to the latest in 2019. In updating the Indonesian seismic codes, seismic hazard maps for design also update, and there are changes to the Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA). Indonesian seismic design uses the concept of building performance levels consisting of Immediate occupancy (IO), Life Safety (LS), and Collapse Prevention (CP). Related to this performance level, cases still found that buildings were damaged more than their performance targets after the earthquake. Based on the above issues, this study aims to analyze the performance of base isolation design on existing target buildings and analyze the seismic fragility for a case study in Indonesia. The target building is a prototype design 8-story medium-rise residential building using the reinforced concrete moment frame structure. Seismic fragility analysis uses Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) with Nonlinear Time History Analysis (NLTHA) and eleven selected ground motions based on soil classification, magnitude, fault distance, and earthquake source mechanism. The comparison result of IDA shows a trend of significant performance improvement, with the same performance level target and risk category, the base isolation structure can be used at 1.46-3.20 times higher PGA than the fixed base structure. Then the fragility analysis results show that the fixed base structure has a safety margin of 30% and a base isolation structure of 62.5% from the PGA design. This result is useful for assessing existing buildings or considering a new building's performance.

Analysis, Design, Modeling, Simulation and Development of Single-Switch AC-DC Converters for Power Factor and Efficiency Improvement

  • Singh, Bhim;Chaturvedi, Ganesh Dutt
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2008
  • This paper addresses several issues concerning the analysis, design, modeling, simulation and development of single-phase, single-switch, power factor corrected AC-DC high frequency switching converter topologies with transformer isolation. A detailed analysis and design is presented for single-switch topologies, namely forward buck, flyback, Cuk, Sepic and Zeta buck-boost converters, with high frequency isolation for discontinuous conduction modes (DCM) of operation. With an awareness of modem design trends towards improved performance, these switching converters are designed for low power rating and low output voltage, typically 20.25W with 13.5V in DCM operation. Laboratory prototypes of the proposed single-switch converters in DCM operation are developed and test results are presented to validate the proposed design and developed model of the system.

Performance Improvement of Slot-Coupled Microstrip Directional Coupler Using Periodic Stubs (주기적 스터브를 이용한 슬롯결합형 마이크로스트립 방향성결합기의 특성 개선)

  • Kim Jong-Sung
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.41 no.6 s.324
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    • pp.87-92
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    • 2004
  • Several stubs are added to a rectangular slot for giving an improvement in both return loss and isolation for a slot-coupled microstrip directional coupler. Its closed-form design equations are derived by velocity equalization of two normal modes and network equivalence. It was verified that nearly ideal performance is achievable by design examples.

Evaluation and improvement of the vibrational characteristics in the automotive exhaust system (자동차 배기계의 진동특성의 평가 및 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Park, H;Jeon, E. S.;Oh, J. E.;Lim, D. G.
    • Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.47-55
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    • 1990
  • This study is the first step for the grasp of transfer path to the vibration generated from the automotive engine and consideration of counterplan for optimal design and low vibration, low noise of the exhaust system. In this study, by applying the theory of modal analysis and experiment, vibrational reduction effect is evaluated according to the attachment of flexible coupling to the exhaust system. And data for the design is suggested to improve the characteristics of vibration. The vibration isolation and damping characteristics are improved due to the attachment of flexible coupling to the exhaust system. As a result, it is identified that flexible coupling which has good flexibility is more effective for the improvement of vibrational characteristics. By the estimation of modeshape of vibration, the location of optimal damping hanger is determined in the viewpoint of vibration isolation. Also it is confirmed that the characteristics of vibration is improved due to the attachment of damping hanger.

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A Novel Compact Metamaterial Zeroth Order Resonant Bandpass Filter for a VHF Band and Its Stopband Improvement by Transmission Zeros

  • Kahng, Sungtek;Jang, Geonho
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.263-266
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    • 2013
  • A novel compact and low-loss VHF bandpass filter is presented with enhanced stopband performance using metamaterial zeroth order resonator (ZOR) characteristics. An in-line ZOR filter is initially suggested and changed to have transmission zeros (TZs) due to source-load coupling for effective improvement of the isolation from UHF wireless channels. The proposed filter is smaller than 1/10 of the conventional filters in terms of size and has relatively very low insertion loss (< 1 dB for the electromagnetic (EM) simulation and < 3 dB for the measurement) and return loss (<-20 dB) in the passband due to the approximately 80% size reduction and the higher isolation in the stopband due to the TZs. The circuit and EM simulation are in good agreement with the measurements.

Vibration Control of High-rise Building Structures using Top-story Isolation Systems (최상층면진시스템을 활용한 고층건물의 진동제어)

  • Kim, Tae-Ho;Kim, Hyun-Su
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.75-82
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    • 2008
  • In this study, the possibility of vibration control of high-rise building structures by applying top-story isolation has been investigated. To this end, El Centro NS (1940) earthquake load is applied to 20- and 50-story building structures for numerical analysis. Artificial wind loads are used to evaluate the serviceability of example structures against wind vibration. As the number of isolated stories of example buildings is changed, structural responses has been evaluated to investigate optimal isolated building mass. And the natural period of isolation systems for top-story isolation is varied to investigate the improvement of control performance compared with the fixed base structure. Based on the analytical results, the top-story isolation system can be used as a hued mass damper and effectively reduce the structural responses of high-rise buildings against wind and seismic loads.

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Analysis of Seismic Fragility Improvement Effect of an Isolated Rotational Equipment (면진장치를 설치한 회전기기의 지진취약도 개선효과 분석)

  • Kim, Min-Kyu;Ohtori, Yasuki;Choun, Young-Sun;Choi, In-Kil
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.69-78
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    • 2007
  • In this study, for the evaluation of seismic safety of the isolated Emergency Diesel Generator (EDG) System more quantitatively, the seismic fragility analysis method were proposed. Using the proposed method, seismic fragility analysis performed and a seismic risk of EDG system was present. The fragility analysis performed not for an existing EDG system but also for an isolated EDG system which increases the seismic capacity. At first, numerical models for existing and isolated EDG system were constructed and seismic response analysis performed according to input seismic waves and peak ground accelerations. An uncertainty factors and failure modes of both fixed and isolated EDG system were assumed for fragility analysis. The HCLPF values were evaluated for the compare the improvement effect using the isolation system. As a result, the isolation system can make better the seismic fragility of EDG system, but the failure of isolation system was govern the behavior of whole system.

A study on Improvement of sub 0.1$\mu\textrm{m}$VLSI CMOS device Ultra Thin Gate Oxide Quality Using Novel STI Structure (STI를 이용한 서브 0.1$\mu\textrm{m}$VLSI CMOS 소자에서의 초박막게이트산화막의 박막개선에 관한 연구)

  • 엄금용;오환술
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.729-734
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    • 2000
  • Recently, Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuit & deep-submicron bulk Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor(CMOS) devices require gate electrode materials such as metal-silicide, Titanium-silicide for gate oxides. Many previous authors have researched the improvement sub-micron gate oxide quality. However, few have reported on the electrical quality and reliability on the ultra thin gate oxide. In this paper, at first, I recommand a novel shallow trench isolation structure to suppress the corner metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor(MOSFET) inherent to shallow trench isolation for sub 0.1${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ gate oxide. Different from using normal LOCOS technology deep-submicron CMOS devices using novel Shallow Trench Isolation(STI) technology have a unique"inverse narrow-channel effects"-when the channel width of the devices is scaled down, their threshold voltage is shrunk instead of increased as for the contribution of the channel edge current to the total channel current as the channel width is reduced. Secondly, Titanium silicide process clarified that fluorine contamination caused by the gate sidewall etching inhibits the silicidation reaction and accelerates agglomeration. To overcome these problems, a novel Two-step Deposited silicide(TDS) process has been developed. The key point of this process is the deposition and subsequent removal of titanium before silicidation. Based on the research, It is found that novel STI structure by the SEM, in addition to thermally stable silicide process was achieved. We also obtained the decrease threshold voltage value of the channel edge. resulting in the better improvement of the narrow channel effect. low sheet resistance and stress, and high threshold voltage. Besides, sheet resistance and stress value, rms(root mean square) by AFM were observed. On the electrical characteristics, low leakage current and trap density at the Si/SiO$_2$were confirmed by the high threshold voltage sub 0.1${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ gate oxide.

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