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A study on failure detection in 64MDRAM gate-polysilicon etching process (64MDRAM gate-polysilicon 식각공정의 이상검출에 관한 연구)

  • 차상엽;이석주;우광방
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.1485-1488
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    • 1997
  • The capacity of memory chip has increased vert quickly and 64MDRAM becomes main product in semiconductor manufacturing lines consists of many sequential processes, including etching process. although it needs direct sensing of wafer state for the accurae detching, it depends on indirect esnsing and sample test because of the complexity of the plasma etching. This equipment receives the inner light of etch chamber through the viewport and convets it to the voltage inetnsity. In this paper, EDP voltage signal has a new role to detect etching failure. First, we gathered data(EPD sigal, etching time and etchrate) and then analyzed the relationships between the signal variatin and the etch rate using two neural network modeling. These methods enable to predict whether ething state is good or not per wafer. For experiments, it is used High Density Inductive coupled Plasma(HDICP) ethcing equipment. Experiments and results proved to be abled to determine the etching state of wafer on-line and analyze the causes by modeling and EPD signal data.

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Failure Analysis of BGA Test Socket Pins (BGA 검사 소켓 핀의 불량 분석 연구)

  • Kim, Myung-Sik;Bae, Kyoo-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.18 no.9
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    • pp.497-502
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    • 2008
  • BGA test sockets failed earlier than the expected life-time due to abnormal signal delay, shown especially at the low temperature ($-50^{\circ}C$). Analysis of failed sockets was conducted by EDX, AES, and XRD. A SnO layer contaminated with C was found to form on the surface of socket pins. The formation of SnO layer was attributed to the repeated Sn transfer from BGA balls to pin surface and instant oxidation of fresh Sn. As a result, contact resistance increased, inducing signal delay. Abnormal signal delay at the low temperature was attributed to the increasing resistivity of Sn oxide with decreasing temperature, as manifested by the resistance measurement of $SnO_2$.

Wind tunnel studies of cantilever traffic signal structures

  • Cruzado, Hector J.;Letchford, Chris;Kopp, Gregory A.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.225-240
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    • 2013
  • The wind-induced vibrations of the mast arm of cantilever traffic signal structures can lead to the fatigue failure of these structures. Wind tunnel tests were conducted on an aeroelastic model of this type of structure. Results of these experiments indicated that when the signals have backplates, vortex shedding causes large-amplitude vibrations that could lead to fatigue failure. Vibrations caused by galloping were only observed for one particular angle of attack with the signals having backplates. No evidence for galloping, previously thought to be the dominant cause of fatigue failures in these structures, was observed.

Full-scale experiments of cantilever traffic signal structures

  • Cruzado, Hector J.;Letchford, Chris
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.21-41
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    • 2013
  • Wind-induced vibrations of mast arms of cantilever traffic signal structures can lead to fatigue failure. Two such structures were instrumented each with a sonic anemometer and a camera that records the motions of the tip of the arm. It was observed throughout this experiment that large amplitude vertical vibrations of mast arms with signals with backplates occur for the most part at low wind speed ranges, between 2 to 7 m/s, and as the wind speed increases the amplitude of the vertical vibrations decreases. The results of these experiments contradict the generally accepted belief that vortex shedding does not cause significant vibrations of mast arms that could lead to fatigue failure, which have been attributed to galloping in the past. Two damping devices were tested with mixed results.

Web-based Real Time Failure Diagnosis System Development for Induction Motor Bearing (유도전동기 베어링의 원거리 실시간 결함진단시스템 개발)

  • Kwon, Oh-Heon;Lee, Seung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.20 no.3 s.71
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2005
  • The industrial induction motor is widely used in the rotating electrical machine for the transmission of power. It is very reliable equipment, but it could lead to the loss of production and lift when failure occurs. Therefore, the failure data is acquired and analyzed by attaching an exclusive instrument to existing induction motor. However, these instruments could lead to side effects, increasing the production costs, because they are very expensive. The purpose of this study is the development of an induction motor bearing failure diagnosis system constructed using LabVIEW which can be supplied the kernelled function, process monitoring and current signature analysis. In addition, the availability and reasonability of the constructed system was examined for an induction motor with failure defects in outer raceway and ball bearing. From the results, it shows that failure diagnosis system constructed is useful for real-time monitoring with detection of bearing defects over the web.

Identification of Open-Switch and Short-Switch Failure of Multilevel Inverters through DWT and ANN Approach using LabVIEW

  • Parimalasundar, E.;Vanitha, N. Suthanthira
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.2277-2287
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    • 2015
  • In recent times, multilevel inverters are given high priority in many large industrial drive applications. However, the reliability of multilevel inverters are mainly affected by the failure of power electronic switches. In this paper, open-switch and short-switch failure of multilevel inverters and its identification using a high performance diagnostic system is discussed. Experimental and simulation studies were carried out on five level cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter and its output voltage waveforms were analyzed at different switch fault cases and at different modulation index values. Salient frequency domain features of the output voltage signal were extracted using the discrete wavelet transform multi resolution signal decomposition technique. Real time application of the proposed fault diagnostic system was implemented through the LabVIEW software. Artificial neural network was trained offline using the Matlab software and the resultant network parameters were transferred to LabVIEW real time system. In the proposed system, it is possible to precisely identify the individual faulty switch (may be due to open-switch (or) short-switch failure) of multilevel inverters.

Nondestructive Evaluation of Damage Modes in a Bending Piezoelectric Composite Actuator Based on Waveform and Frequency Analyses (파형 및 주파수해석에 근거한 굽힘 압전 복합재료 작동기 손상모드의 비파괴적 평가)

  • Woo, Sung-Choong;Goo, Nam-Seo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.31 no.8
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    • pp.870-879
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    • 2007
  • In this study, various damage modes in bending unimorph piezoelectric composite actuators with a thin sandwiched PZT plate during bending fracture tests have been evaluated by monitoring acoustic emission (AE) signals in terms of waveform and peak frequency as well as AE parameters. Three kinds of actuator specimens consisting of woven fabric fiber skin layers and a PZT ceramic core layer are loaded with a roller and an AE activity from the specimen is monitored during the entire loading using an AE transducer mounted on the specimen. AE characteristics from a monolithic PZT ceramic with a thickness of $250{\mu}m$ are examined first in order to distinguish different AE signals from various possible damage modes in piezoelectric composite actuators. Post-failure observations and stress analyses in the respective layers of the specimens are conducted to identify particular features in the acoustic emission signal that correspond to specific types of damage modes. As a result, the signal classification based on waveform and peak frequency analyses successfully describes the failure process of the bending piezoelectric composite actuator exhibiting diverse failure mechanisms. Furthermore, it is elucidated that when the PZT ceramic embedded actuators are loaded mechanical bending loads, the failure process of actuator specimens with different lay-up configurations is almost same irrespective of their lay-up configurations.

Reliability Assessment Criteria of Module for the LED traffic signal (LED 교통신호등용 모듈의 신뢰성평가기준)

  • Kim, Jin-Sheon;Park, Chang-Kyu;Kim, Dae-Kyung;Jeong, Hai-Sung
    • Journal of Applied Reliability
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.265-278
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    • 2010
  • Module of the LED traffic signal is the core component for the care of driver and walker. Also it is important one to control the traffic. If it is against the criteria of brightness, it is the source of the people's death and traffic congestion. Therefore, it is a list of articles desired the security of stability. However, there is not the analysis of failure and not preserve the uniformity of quality. Therefore, it is necessary to establish the criteria of appreciation for the module of the LED traffic signal to analysis the data of failure. In this paper, we investigate the performance test, environment field test and test of reliability appreciation to improve the reliability. We also set up the criteria of success decision using the real measurement data.

A Study on Robustness Improvement of the Semiconductor Transmitter and Receiver Module By the Bias Sequencing and Tuning the Switching Time (바이어스 시퀀스와 스위칭 타임 튜닝을 통한 반도체 송수신 모듈의 강건성 향상에 대한 연구)

  • Yoo, Woo-Sung;Keum, Jong-Ju;Kim, Do-Yeol;Han, Sung
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.251-259
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    • 2016
  • This paper describes that how to enhance the robustness of semiconductor TRM(Transmitter and Receiver Module) through the bias sequencing and tuning the switching time. Previous circuit designs focused on improving the MDS(Minimum Detection Signal) performance. Because TRM has critical problem which transmission output signal leak into receiver by it's compact design. Under this condition, TRM was frequently broken down within the MTBF(Mean Time Between Failure). This study proposes the bias sequencing and tuning the switching time to improve above problem. At first, we collected major failure symptom and infer it's cause. Second, we demonstrated it's effect by derive the improvement method and apply it to our system. And finally we can convinced that the proposed method clear the frequent failure problem with its lack of isolation.

Fault Diagnosis in Gear Using Adaptive Signal Processing (능동 신호 처리 이용한 기어의 이상 진단)

  • Lee, Sang-Kwon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.06a
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    • pp.1114-1118
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    • 2000
  • Impulsive sound and vibration signals in gear are often associated with their faults. Thus these impulsive sound and vibration signals can be used as indicators in the diagnosis of gear fault. The early detection of impulsive signal due to gear fault prevents from complete failure in gear. However it is often difficult to make objective measurement of impulsive signals because of background noise signals. In order to ease the detection of impulsive signals embedded in background noise, we enhance the impulsive signals using adaptive signal processing.

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