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Effects of Mask Misalignment and Crystal Defects on the Breakdown characteristics in the PN Junction Isolation (마스크 오정렬 및 결정 결함이 PN 접합 아이솔레이션의 항복 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Jo, Gyeong-Ik;Baek, Mun-Cheol;Song, Seong-Hae
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 1984
  • Breakdown characteristics, specifically, soft breakdown phenomena of the PN junction isolation were studied in terms of their dependence on the mask misaliglment and the amount of process-related defects. Varying the distance between the buried layer and the isolation by intentional misalignment of the isolation masts had no effects on the soft breakdown phenomena except for the change of the breakdown voltage. The soft breakdown phenomena, as characterized as a state of excessive reverse current below the breakdown voltage, were found out to result mainly from the oxidation-induced stacking faults (OSF) introduced during the fabrication process.

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High-Voltage 4H-SiC pn diode with Field Limiting Ring Termination (Field Limiting Ring termination을 이용한 고전압 4H-SiC pn 다이오드)

  • Song, G.H.;Bahng, W.;Kim, H.W.;Kim, N.K.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.396-399
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    • 2003
  • 4H-SiC un diodes with field limiting rings(FLRs) were fabricated and characterized. The dependences of reverse breakdown voltage on the number of FLRs, the distance between p-base main junction and first FLR, and activation temperatures, were investigated. Al and B ions were implanted and activated at high temperature to form p-base region and p+ region in the n-epilayer. We have obtained up to 1782V of reverse breakdown voltage in the un diode with two FLRs on loom thick epilayer. The differential on-resistances of the fabricated diode are $5.3m{\Omega}cm^2$ at $100A/cm^2$ and $2.7m{\Omega}cm^2$ at $1kA/cm^2$, respectively. All pn diodes with FLRs have higher avalanche breakdown voltages than that of diode without an FLR. Regardless of the activation temperature, the un diode with a FLR located 5um apart from main junction has the highest mean breakdown voltage around 1600V among the diodes with one ring. On the other hand, the pn diode with two rings showed different behavior with activation temperature. It reveals that high voltage SiC pn diodes with low on-resistance can be fabricated by using the FLR edge termination.

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Diffusion Process for PN Junction in Solar Cell (PN 접합을 만들기 위한 확산공정)

  • Oh, Teresa
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.196-197
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    • 2011
  • 실리콘 태양전지의 pn 접합 계면특성을 조사하기 위해서 p형 실리콘 기판 위에 전기로를 이용한 $POCl_3$ 공정을 통하여 n형의 불순물을 주입하여 pn접합을 만들었다. n형 불순물의 확산되어 들어가는 공정시간이 길고 공정온도가 높을수록 면저항은 줄어들었다. n형 불순물의 주입이 많아질수록 pn 접합 계면에서의 전자친화도가 줄어들면서 면저항은 감소되었다고 할 수 있다. n형 반도체의 페르미레벨이 높아지면서 공핍층도 생기지만 n형 불순물이 많아지면서 공핍층의 폭은 점점 좁아지고 쇼키 장벽의 높이도 낮아지면서 자유전자와 홀 쌍의 이동이 쉽게 이루어지게 되었다. n형의 불순물 확산공정시간이 긴 태양전지 셀에서 F.F. 계수가 높게 나타났으며, 효율도 높게 나타났다.

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Simulation Study on Heterojunction InGaP/InAlGaP Solar Cell (InGaP/InAlGaP 이종 접합구조 태양전지 시뮬레이션 연구)

  • Kim, Junghwan
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.162-167
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    • 2013
  • An epitaxial layer structure for heterojunction p-InGaP/N-InAlGaP solar cell has proposed. Simulation for current density-voltage characteristics has been performed on p-InGaP/N-InAlGaP structure and the simulation results were compared with p-InGaP/p-GaAs/N-InAlGaP structure and homogeneous InGaP pn junction structure. The simulation result showed that the maximum output power and fill factor have greatly increased by replacing n-InGaP with N-InAlGaP. The thicknesses of p-InGaP and n-InAlGaP were optimized for the epitaxial layer structure of p-InGaP/N-InAlGaP.

A discretization method of the three-dimensional poisson's equation with excellent convergence characteristics (우수한 수렴특성을 갖는 3차원 포아송 방정식의 이산화 방법)

  • 김태한;이은구;김철성
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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    • v.34D no.8
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    • pp.15-25
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    • 1997
  • The integration method of carier concentrations to redcue the discretization error of th box integratio method used in the discretization of the three-dimensional poisson's equation is presented. The carrier concentration is approximated in the closed form as an exponential function of the linearly varying potential in the element. The presented method is implemented in the three-dimensional poisson's equation solver running under the windows 95. The accuracy and the convergence chaacteristics of the three-dimensional poisson's equation solver are compared with those of DAVINCI for the PN junction diode and the n-MOSFET under the thermal equilibrium and the DC reverse bias. The potential distributions of the simulatied devices from the three-dimensional poisson's equation solver, compared with those of DAVINCI, has a relative error within 2.8%. The average number of iterations needed to obtain the solution of the PN junction diode and the n-MOSFET using the presented method are 11.47 and 11.16 while the those of DAVINCI are 21.73 and 23.0 respectively.

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Negative Differential Resistance Devices with Ultra-High Peak-to-Valley Current Ratio and Its Multiple Switching Characteristics

  • Shin, Sunhae;Kang, In Man;Kim, Kyung Rok
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.546-550
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    • 2013
  • We propose a novel negative differential resistance (NDR) device with ultra-high peak-to-valley current ratio (PVCR) by combining pn junction diode with depletion mode nanowire (NW) transistor, which suppress the valley current with transistor off-leakage level. Band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) Esaki diode with degenerately doped pn junction can provide multiple switching behavior having multi-peak and valley currents. These multiple NDR characteristics can be controlled by doping concentration of tunnel diode and threshold voltage of NW transistor. By designing our NDR device, PVCR can be over $10^4$ at low operation voltage of 0.5 V in a single peak and valley current.

Photocurrent Characteristics of Gate/Body-Tied MOSFET-Type Photodetector with High Sensitivity

  • Jang, Juneyoung;Choi, Pyung;Lyu, Hong-Kun;Shin, Jang-Kyoo
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, the photocurrent characteristics of gate/body-tied (GBT) metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)-type photodetector with high sensitivity in the 408 nm - 941 nm range are presented. High sensitivity is important for photodetectors, which are used in several scientific and industrial applications. Owing to its inherent amplifying characteristics, the GBT MOSFET-type photodetector exhibits high sensitivity. The presented GBT MOSFET-type photodetector was designed and fabricated via a standard 0.18 ㎛ complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process, and its characteristics were analyzed. The photodetector was analyzed with respect to its width to length (W/L) ratio, bias voltage, and incident-light wavelength. It was confirmed experimentally that the presented GBT MOSFET-type photodetector has over 100 times higher sensitivity than a PN-junction photodiode with the same area in the 408 nm - 941 nm range.

A study on Ultrashallow PN junction formation by boron implantation in Silicon (실리콘에 Boron 이온 주입에 의한 Ultrashallow PN접합 형성에 관한 연구)

  • 김동수;정원채
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2000.06b
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    • pp.56-59
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, we have made a comparison between secondary ion mass spectroscopy(SIMS) data by the 5kcV-15keV boron implantation and computer simulation results. In order to make electrical activation of implanted carriers, thermal annealing are carried out by RTP method for 30s at 1000$^{\circ}C$ Two dimensional doping concentration distribution from different mask dimensions under inert gas annealing, dry-, and wet-oxidation condition were calculated and simulated with microtec simulator.

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