• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.51-58
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• 2008

This paper is a study of a prevention of power folding controller's thermal degradation. Power folding technology has been applied for many fields such as side rear vision mirror of vehicles, windshield wiper, antenna, power window. These controllers have been comprised with traditional DC moors, Switching electronic devices, and relays. But this methods have a limitation to overcome such problems of product reliability, endurance, noise margins. Therefore on this paper, to detect the movement of motor, sensing motor brush noise on a load sensing part has been used and controlling a precise RC timing control minimizes the thermal deterioration of motor. And using MOS FETs as a electronic switching device increases life-time and liability of control circuit. After testing such circuit and control method, repetition of operating time, cut-off time, wide operation voltage, power noise margin ware increased over eleven-fold.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.1137-1144
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• 2012

In this paper, a 2.6 GHz switched parasitic array(SPA) antenna is designed to resolve the device interference in the femtocell. The designed SPA antenna structure consists of a central ${\lambda}/4$ monopole antenna as a radiator and surrounding four parasitic elements operating as a reflector or a director depending on the switching state. In addition, open state monopoles around the parasitic elements are placed to improve the directivity. The designed antenna utilizes RF FETs as switching elements instead of conventional PIN diodes, which enables beam steering with a simple structure consuming low power. To select the proper FET switch, the performance of the SPA antenna depending on the switch characteristics is analyzed. The fabricated antenna has 65 mm radius and 35 mm height, which shows about 15 dB front-back-ratio(FBR) at 2.6 GHz and enables eight-directional beam steering.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.323-331
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• 1997

In this paper, the high efficiency balanced amplifier is presented as high efficiency power amplifier. This amplifier is basically composed of two FETs, an input power divider, output power combiner, input matching circuits, output matching circuits, second harmonic interconnection circuit and lowpass filter. The second harmonic interconnection circuit is composed of second harmonic frequency bandpass filter and transmission line. This circuit is inserted between the output terminals of the two FEF's output matching circuit, there is a second harmonic standing wave generated between two FET outputs. The electric wall termination is equivalent to the short circuit termination. As a result, the FET output termination condition needed to attain high efficiency is realized. Experimental high efficiency balanced amplifier is constructed to determine its practically attainable efficiency. The input VSWR is 1.27, and the output VSWR is 1.18. Power added efficiency of 75% is attained at 1.75 GHz band about 3W to balanced amplifier.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.82-86
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• 2010

In this paper, a power amplifier module for WCDMA base-station applications is designed and implemented using GaN field-effect transistors (FETs), which uses an envelope tracking bias system. The designed module consists of an high gain MMIC amplifier, a driver amplifier, a power amplifier, and bias circuits for envelope tracking applications. Especially, a FET bias sequencing circuit and two isolators are integrated for stable RF operations. All circuits are assembled within a single housing, so its dimension is just $17.8{\times}9.8{\times}2.0\;cm3$. Measured results show that the developed power amplifier module has good envelope tracking capability: the power-added efficiency of 35% at the output power range from 30dBm to 40dBm over a wide range of drain bias.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.42-47
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• 2000

Long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) detectors made of self-assembled quantum dots embedded in the channel region of high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) is demonstrated. Above 180 K, the detector shows low dark currents due to strong confinement effect of electrons in InAs quantum dots and exhibits the broad spectral response ranging from 7 mm to 11 mm. The peak detectivity ($D^*$) of $1.93{\times}10^{10}cmHz^{1/2}/W$ is obtained at 9.4 mm. The photocurrent characteristics as a function of applied bias are similar to that of normal FETs, while the photocurrent decreases as the applied electric field exceeds $2{\times}10^3V/cm$ because of the increased dark current.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.217-221
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• 2003

In this work, we used a novel RF-CSP to develop a broadband amplifier MMIC, including all the matching and biasing components, for Ku and K band applications. By utilizing an ACF for the RF-CSP, the fabrication process for the packaged amplifier MMIC could be simplified and made cost effective. STO (SrTiO$_3$) capacitors were employed to integrate the DC biasing components on the MMIC. A pre-matching technique was used for the gate input and drain output of the FETs to achieve a broadband design for the amplifier MMIC. The amplifier CSP MMIC exhibited good RF performance (Gain of 12.5$\pm$1.5 dB, return loss less than -6 dB, PldB of 18.5$\pm$1.5 dBm) over a wide frequency range. This work is the first report of a fully integrated CSP amplifier MMIC successfully operating in the Ku/K band.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.147-151
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• 2016

Graphene has a monolayer crystal structure formed with C-atoms and has been used as a base layer of HETs (hot electron transistors). Graphene HETs have exhibited the operation at THz frequencies and higher current on/off ratio than that of Graphene FETs. In this article, we report on the preliminary results of current characteristics from the HETs which are fabricated utilizing highly doped Si collector, graphene base, and 5 nm thin $Al_2O_3$ tunnel layers between the base and Ti emitter. We have observed E-B forward currents are inherited to tunneling through $Al_2O_3$ layers, but have not noticed the Schottky barrier blocking effect on B-C forward current at the base/collector interface. At the common-emitter configuration, under a constant $V_{BE}$ between 0~1.2V, $I_C$ has increased linearly with $V_{CE}$ for $V_{CE}$ < $V_{BE}$ indicating the saturation region. As the $V_{CE}$ increases further, a plateau of $I_C$ vs. $V_{CE}$ has appeared slightly at $V_{CE}{\simeq}V_{BE}$, denoting forward-active region. With further increase of $V_{CE}$, $I_C$ has kept increasing probably due to tunneling through thin Schottky barrier between B/C. Thus the current on/off ration has exhibited to be 50. To improve hot electron effects, we propose the usage of low doped Si substrate, insertion of barrier layer between B/C, or substrates with low electron affinity.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.169-172
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• 2020

In this paper, the effect of hot carrier injection on an n-bulk fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) is analyzed. The hot carrier injection method is applied to determine the performance change after injection in two ways, channel hot electron (CHE) and drain avalanche hot carrier (DAHC), which have the greatest effect at room temperature. The optimum condition for CHE injection is V_G=V_D, and the optimal condition for DAHC injection can be indirectly confirmed by measuring the peak value of the substrate current. Deterioration by DAHC injection affects not only hot electrons formed by impact ionization, but also hot holes, which has a greater impact on reliability than CHE. Further, we test the amount of drain voltage that can be withstood, and extracted the lifetime of the device. Under CHE injection conditions, the drain voltage was able to maintain a lifetime of more than 10 years at a maximum of 1.25 V, while DAHC was able to achieve a lifetime exceeding 10 years at a 1.05-V drain voltage, which is 0.2 V lower than that of CHE injection conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.66-66
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• 2010

$SnO_2$ 나노선은 n-type 반도체 특성을 띄며 트랜지스터, 가스 센서, pH 센서 등 여러 분야에 걸쳐 다양하게 사용되고 있다. $SnO_2$ 나노선은 그 자체만으로 시계방향의 전기적 히스테리시스를 보이며 이것은 나노선 표면에 흡착된 물이나 산소가 발생시키는 전자 갇힘 현상이 가장 큰 원인으로 작용한다. 특히 고분자를 게이트 절연막으로 사용할 경우 게이트 절연막의 전기적 히스테리시스가 소자 특성에 영향을 미치게 되며, 고분자 절연막의 히스테리시스는 $SnO_2$ 나노선의 히스테리시스와 반대인 반시계 방향의 특성을 보인다. 고분자 내에서 발생하는 히스테리시스는 고분자 사이에 흡착된 물 분자나 고분자의 높은 극성을 가지는 작용기 등이 원인으로 작용한다. 전기적 히스테리시스는 FET소자를 구동하는데 있어 부적절한 특성으로, 이것의 원인을 이해하는 것은 중요하며 히스테리시스의 방향과 크기를 조절할 수 있는 기술 또한 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 폴리이미드(PMDA-ODA)를 게이트 절연막으로 사용하여 플렉시블 기판을 만들고 그 위에 $SnO_2$ 나노선을 슬라이딩 전이 방식으로 정렬하여 플렉시블 FET를 제작하였다. 제작된 소자는 $0.7cm\;{\times}\;0.7cm$ 넓이 안에 300개의 FET가 존재하며 SEM 이미지를 통해 넓이 $50{\mu}m$, 길이 $5{\mu}m$의 FET채널에 약 150개의 나노선이 연결되어 있는 것을 확인했다. 이 소자의 히스테리시스는 폴리이미드의 교차결합 정도에 따라, 그리고 폴리이미드 절연막을 제작할 때의 습도에 따라 변하게 된다. 교차결합이 많아지고 습도가 낮아질수록 폴리이미드 절연막 내부에 흡착되는 물분자가 줄어들게 되고 절연막의 히스테리시스가 사라지며 시계방향의 나노선 히스테리시스가 지배적이 된다. 반대로 교차결합이 줄어들고 습도가 높아질수록 폴리이미드 절연막 내부에 물분자가 늘어 나면서 시계반대방향의 폴리이미드 히스테리시스가 FET의 전기적 특성에서 눈에 띄게 나타난다. 이 실험을 통해 고분자 절연막을 사용한 $SnO_2$ 나노선 FET의 전기적 히스테리시스를 조절할 수 있었으며, 소자의 히스테리시스를 없앨 수 있는 가능성에 대해서 논하고자 한다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.553-559
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• 2022

In this paper, RC snubber circuit design technology for oscillation suppression in half-bridge configuration of cascode gallium nitride (GaN) field effect transistors (FETs) is analyzed. A typical wide band-gap (WBG) device, cascode GaN FET, has excellent high-speed switching characteristics. However, due to such high-speed switching characteristics, a false turn-off problem is caused, and an RC snubber circuit is essential to suppress this. In this paper, the commonly used experimental-based RC snubber design technique and the RC snubber design technique using the root locus method are compared and analyzed. In the general method, continuous circuit changes are required until the oscillation suppression performance requirement is met based on experimental experience . However, in root locus method, the initial value can be set based on the non-oscillation R-C map. To compare the performance of the two aforementioned design methods, a simulation experiment and a switching experiment using an actual double pulse circuit are performed.