• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.357-371
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• 2005

Nitrogen oxide gases which were produced by spontaneous reaction of nitrocellulose (NC) in the single base propellant accelerate the decomposition of propellant, and result in the reduction of shelf life, The amount of nitrogen oxide was reduced by the addition of $0.3wt\%$ CaCO3 to conventional stabilizer(DPA) which extended the shelf life of the single base propellant as much as twice compared with commercial propellant.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.169-172
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• 2004

Deep sub-micron device required to get the superior ultra thin gate oxide characteristics. In this research, I will recommend a novel shallow trench isolation structure(STI) for thin gate oxide and a $N_2$O gate oxide 30 $\AA$ by NO ambient process. The local oxidation of silicon(LOCOS) isolation has been replaced by the shallow trench isolation which has less encroachment into the active device area. Also for $N_2$O gate oxide 30 $\AA$, ultra thin gate oxide 30 $\AA$ was formed by using the $N_2$O gate oxide formation method on STI structure and LOCOS structure. For the metal electrode and junction, TiSi$_2$ process was performed by RTP annealing at 850 $^{\circ}C$ for 29 sec. In the viewpoints of the physical characteristics of MOS capacitor, STI structure was confirmed by SEM. STI structure was expected to minimize the oxide loss at the channel edge. Also, STI structure is considered to decrease the threshold voltage, result in a lower Ti/TiN resistance( Ω /cont.) and higher capacitance-gate voltage(C- V) that made the STI structure more effective. In terms of the TDDB(sec) characteristics, the STI structure showed the stable value of 25 % ～ 90 % more than 55 sec. In brief, analysis of the ultra thin gate oxide 30 $\AA$ proved that STI isolation structure and salicidation process presented in this study. I could achieve improved electrical characteristics and reliability for deep submicron devices with 30 $\AA$ $N_2$O gate oxide.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.344-349
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• 2006

[ $60{\sim}70nm$ ] 급의 design rule을 가진 고집적 반도체 소자를 제작하려면, 트랜지스터 형성 이후의 공정에서 thermal budget을 줄이기 위하여 공정의 온도를 낮추는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 고온의 습식 산화막을 대체할 수 있는 저온의 LPCVD (Low-Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition) $SiO_2$(LTO : Low-Temperature Oxide) 박막 증착공정을 제시하였으며, ONO (Oxide/Nitride/Oxide) 구조의 커패시터를 형성하여 증착된 LTO 박막의 전기적인 신뢰성을 평가하였다. LTO 박막은 5 MV/cm 이하의 전기장 영역에서는 고온의 습식 산화막과 크게 차이가 없는 누설전류 특성을 보였으나, 더 높은 전기장의 영역에서는 훨씬 더 우수함을 보여주었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(2)
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• pp.41-44
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• 2000

Ultra large scale integrated circuit(ULSI) & complementary metal oxide semiconductor(CMOS) circuits require gate electrode materials such as meta] silicides, titanium-silicide for gate oxides. Many previous authors have researched the improvements sub-micron gate oxide quality. However, little has been done on the electrical quality and reliability of ultra thin gates. In this research, we recommend novel shallow trench isolation structure and two step TiSi$_{2}$ formation for sub 0.1${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ gate oxide.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1997년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.25-29
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• 1997

Capacitor-type MONOS (metal-oxide-nitride-oxide- semiconductor) NVSMs with 23$\AA$ tunneling oxide and 40$\AA$ blocking oxide were fabricated. The thicknesses of nitride layer were 45$\AA$, 91$\AA$ and 223$\AA$, Breakdown characteristics of MONOS devices were measured to investigate the reliability of superthin ONO structure using ramp voltage and constant voltage method. Reducing the nitride thickness will significantly increase the reliablity of MONOS NVSM.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2001

Gate oxide scaling for sub-l00nm CMOS devices has been studied. Issues on the gate oxide scaling are reviewed, which are boron penetration, reliability, and direct tunneling leakage currents. Reliability of Sub-2.0nm oxides and the device performance degradation due to boron penetration are investigated. Especially, the effect of gate leakage currents on the transistor characteristics is studied. As a result, it is proposed that thinner oxides than previous expectations may be usable as scaling proceeds. Based on the gate oxide thickness optimization process we have established, high performance CMOS transistors of $L_{gate}=70nm$ and $T_{ox}=1.4nm$ were fabricated, which showed excellent current drives of $860\mu\textrm{A}/\mu\textrm{m}$ (NMOS) and $350\mu\textrm{A}/\mu\textrm{m}$ (PMOS) at $I_{off}=10\mu\textrm{A}/\mu\textrm{m}$ and $V_dd=1.2V$, and CV/I of 1.60ps (NMOS) and 3.32ps(PMOS).

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.944-948
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• 2011

In this paper, flicker noise characteristic and channel hot carrier degradation of NMOSFETs with plasma nitrided oixde (PNO) and thermally nitrided oxide (TNO) are analyzed in depth. Compared with NMOSFET with TNO, flicker noise characteristic of NMOSFET with PNO is improved significantly because nitrogen density in PNO near the Si/$SiO_2$ interface is less than that in TNO. However, device degradation of NMOSFET with PNO by channel hot carrier stress is greater than that with TNO although PMOSFET with PNO showed greater immunity to NBTI degradation than that with TNO in previous study. Therefore, concurrent investigation of the reliability as well as low frequency noise characteristics of NMOSFET and PMOSFET is required for the development of high performance analog MOSFET technology.

• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2010

NAND-type SONOS with a separated double-gate FinFET structure (SDF-Fin SONOS) flash memory devices are proposed to reduce the unit cell size of the memory device and increase the memory density in comparison with conventional non volatile memory devices. The proposed memory device consists of a pair of control gates separated along the direction of the Fin width. There are two unique alternative technologies in this study. One is a channel doping method and the other is an oxide thickness variation method, which are used to operate the SDF-Fin SONOS memory device as two-bit. The fabrication processes and the device characteristics are simulated by using technology comuter-adided(TCAD). The simulation results indicate that the charge trap probability depends on the different channel doping concentration and the tunneling oxide thickness. The proposed SDG-Fin SONOS memory devices hold promise for potential application.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제8권
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• pp.23-30
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• 1988

In this paper, the characteristics of electrical breakdown and TDDR (Time Dependant Dielectric Breakdown) were studied to evaluate stability and reliability of thin insulator films such as oxide and nitride. As the oxide film thickness decreased, the electrical breakdown field was increased proportioning to its reverse square root, ${d^{-\frac{1}{2}}}$. As for the temperature dependance of breakdown field, its field was inclined to decrease as temperature increased. It also showed that oxide charge (Qss) was changed by stress field and stress time. Consequently, TDDB characteristics and breakdown mechanism proved the improvement of reliability and stability and provided the accurate analysis to predict a device life time.

• 센서학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2019

As CMOS technology scales down, reliability is becoming an important concern for VLSI designers. This paper analyzes gate-oxide breakdowns (i.e., the time-dependent dielectric-breakdown (TDDB) aging effect) as a reliability issue for combinational circuits with 45-nm technology. This paper shows simulation results for the noise margin, delay, and power using a single inverter-chain circuit, as well as the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)'85 benchmark circuits. The delay and power variations in the presence of TDDB are also discussed in the paper. Finally, we propose a novel method to compensate for the logic failure due to dielectric breakdowns: We used a higher supply voltage and a negative ground voltage for the circuit. The proposed method was verified using the ISCAS'85 benchmark circuits.