• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2007

This paper presents two novel compensation circuits for leakage current and power supply noise (PSN) in phase locked loop (PLL) using a nanometer CMOS technology. The leakage compensation circuit reduces the leakage current of the charge pump circuit which becomes more serious problem due to the thin gate oxide and small threshold voltage in nanometer CMOS technology and the PSN compensation circuit decreases the effect of power supply variation on the output frequency of VCO. The PLL design is based on a 32nm predictive CMOS technology and uses a 0.9V power supply voltage. The simulation results show that the proposed PLL achieves a 88% jitter reduction at 440MHz output frequency compared to the PLL without leakage compensator and its output frequency drift is little to 20% power supply voltage variations. The PLL has an output frequency range of $40M{\sim}725MHz$ with a multiplication range of 11023, and the RMS and peak-to-peak jitter are 5ps and 42.7ps, respectively.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.457-459
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• 2010

A low-power down-sampling mixer in a low-power digital 65 nm CMOS technology is presented. The mixer consumes only 830 ${\mu}W$ at 1.2 V supply voltage by combining an NMOS and a PMOS mixer with cascade transistors at the output. The measured gain is (19 ${\pm}$1 dB) at frequencies between 100 MHz and 3 GHz. An IIP3 of -5.9 dBm is achieved.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.93-105
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• 2010

Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology scaling has been a main key for continuous progress in silicon-based semiconductor industry over the past three decades. However, as the technology scaling enters nanometer regime, CMOS devices are facing many serious problems such as increased leakage currents, difficulty on increase of on-current, large parameter variations, low reliability and yield, increase in manufacturing cost, and etc. To sustain the historical improvements, various innovations in CMOS materials and device structures have been researched and introduced. In parallel with those researches, various new nanoelectronic devices, so called "Beyond CMOS Devices," are actively being investigated and researched to supplement or possibly replace ultimately scaled conventional CMOS devices. While those nanoelectronic devices offer ultra-high density system integration, they are still in a premature stage having many critical issues such as high variations and deteriorated reliability. The practical realization of those promising technologies requires extensive researches from device to system architecture level. In this paper, the current researches and challenges on nanoelectronics are reviewed and critical tasks are summarized from device level to circuit design/CAD domain to better prepare for the forthcoming technologies.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.241-246
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• 2007

This paper presents two novel compensation circuits for leakage current and power supply noise (PSN) in phase locked loop (PLL) using a nanometer CMOS technology. The leakage compensation circuit reduces the leakage current of the charge pump circuit and the PSN compensation circuit decreases the effect of power supply variation on the output frequency of VCO. The PLL design is based on a 32nm predictive CMOS technology and uses a 0.9 V power supply voltage. The simulation results show that the proposed PLL achieves 88% jitter reduction at 440 MHz output frequency compared to the PLL without leakage compensator and its output frequency drift is little to 20% power supply voltage variations. The PLL has an output frequency range of 40 $M{\sim}725$ MHz with a multiplication range of 1-1023, and the RMS and peak-to-peak jitter are 5psec and 42.7 psec, respectively.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.34-40
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• 2018

Traditionally, many researchers have conducted research on terahertz technology utilizing optical devices such as lasers. However, nanometer-scale electronic devices using silicon or III-V compound semiconductors have received significant attention regarding the development of a terahertz system owing to the rapid scaling down of devices. This enables an operating frequency of up to approximately 0.5 THz for silicon, and approximately 1 THz for III-V devices. This article reviews the recent trends of terahertz monolithic integrated circuits based on several electronic devices such as CMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, and InP HBT/HEMT, and a particular quantum device, an RTD.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제45권11호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 양자 현상을 고려한 나노미터 MuGFET의 C-V 특성을 분석하기 위하여 2차원 Poisson-$Schr{\ddot{o}}dinger$ 방정식을 self-consisnt하게 풀 수 있는 시뮬레이터를 구현하였다. 소자 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 양자 현상으로 인한 소자크기와 게이트 구조에 따른 게이트-채널 커패시턴스 특성을 분석하였다. 소자의 크기가 감소할수록 단위 면적당 게이트-채널 커패시턴스는 증가하였다. 그리고 게이트 구조가 다른 소자에서는 게이트-채널 커패시턴스가 유효게이트 수가 증가할수록 감소하였다. 이런 결과를 실리콘 표면의 전자농도 분포와 인버전 커패시턴스로 설명하였다 또한 인버전 커패시턴스로부터 소자의 크기 및 게이트 구조에 따른 inversion-layer centroid 길이도 계산하였다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.95-103
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• 2011

This paper proposes a 6b 1.2 GS/s 47.8 mW 0.17 $mm^2$ 65 nm CMOS ADC for high-rate wireless personal area network systems. The proposed ADC employs a source follower-free flash architecture with a wide input range of 1.0 $V_{p-p}$ at a 1.2 V supply voltage to minimize power consumption and high comparator offset effects in a nanometer CMOS technology. The track-and-hold circuits without source followers, the differential difference amplifiers with active loads in pre-amps, and the output averaging layout scheme properly handle a wide-range input signal with low distortion. The interpolation scheme halves the required number of pre-amps while three-stage cascaded latches implement a skew-free GS/s operation. The two-step bubble correction logic removes a maximum of three consecutive bubble code errors. The prototype ADC in a 65 nm CMOS demonstrates a measured DNL and INL within 0.77 LSB and 0.98 LSB, respectively. The ADC shows a maximum SNDR of 33.2 dB and a maximum SFDR of 44.7 dB at 1.2 GS/s. The ADC with an active die area of 0.17 $mm^2$ consumes 47.8 mW at 1.2 V and 1.2 GS/s.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

This paper proposes a new input pattern generator for minimal leakage power in the nanometer CMOS technology considering all the leakage current components (sub-threshold leakage, gate tunneling leakage, band-to-band tunneling leakage). Using the accurate macro-model, a heuristic algorithm is developed to generate a input pattern for the minimum leakage. The algorithm applies to ISCAS85 benchmark circuits, and the results are compared with the results of Hspice. The simulation result shows that our method's accuracy is within a 5% difference of the Hspice simulation results. In addition, the simulation time of our method is far faster than that of the Hspice simulation.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.112-118
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• 2015

기존의 동기방식의 회로는 나노미터 영역에서의 공정, 전압, 온도 변이 (PVT variation), 그리고 노화의 영향으로 시스템의 전체 성능을 유지할 수 없을 뿐만 아니라 올바른 동작을 보장할 수도 없다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 여러 가지 변이에 영향을 받지 않는 비동기회로 설계 방식 중에서 타이밍 분석이 요구되지 않고, 설계가 간단한 DI(delay insentive) 방식의 NCL (Null Convention Logic) 설계 방식을 이용하여 디지털 시스템을 설계하고자 한다. 기존의 NCL 게이트들의 회로 구조들은 느린 스피드, 높은 영역 오버헤드, 높은 와이어(wire) 복잡도와 같은 약점을 가지고 있기 때문에 본 논문에서는 빠른 스피드, 낮은 영역 오버헤드, 낮은 와이더 복잡도를 위해서 트랜지스터 레벨에서 설계된 새로운 저전력 고속 NCL 게이트 라이브러리를 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 NCL 게이트들은 동부 0.11um 공정으로 구현된 비동기 방식의 곱셈기의 지연, 소모 전력에 의해서 기존의 NCL 게이트 들과 비교되었다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.159-167
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• 2005

Quantization effects (QEs), which manifests when the device dimensions are comparable to the de Brogile wavelength, are becoming common physical phenomena in the present micro-/nanometer technology era. While most novel devices take advantage of QEs to achieve fast switching speed, miniature size and extremely small power consumption, the mainstream CMOS devices (with the exception of EEPROMs) are generally suffering in performance from these effects. In this paper, an analytical model accounting for the QEs and poly-depletion effects (PDEs) at the silicon (Si)/dielectric interface describing the capacitance-voltage (C-V) and current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of MOS devices with thin oxides is developed. It is also applicable to multi-layer gate-stack structures, since a general procedure is used for calculating the quantum inversion charge density. Using this inversion charge density, device characteristics are obtained. Also solutions for C-V can be quickly obtained without computational burden of solving over a physical grid. We conclude with comparison of the results obtained with our model and those obtained by self-consistent solution of the $Schr{\ddot{o}}dinger$ and Poisson equations and simulations reported previously in the literature. A good agreement was observed between them.