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An Electrical Repair Circuit for Yield Increment of High Density Memory (고집적 메모리의 yield 개선을 위한 전기적 구제회로)

  • 김필중;김종빈
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.273-279
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    • 2000
  • Electrical repair method which has replaced laser repair method can replace defective cell by redundancy’s in the redundancy scheme of conventional high density memory. This electrical repair circuit consists of the antifuse program/read/latch circuits, a clock generator a negative voltage generator a power-up pulse circuit a special address mux and etc. The measured program voltage of made antifuses was 7.2~7.5V and the resistance of programmed antifuses was below 500 Ω. The period of clock generator was about 30 ns. The output voltage of a negative voltage generator was about 4.3 V and the current capacity was maximum 825 $mutextrm{A}$. An antifuse was programmed using by the electric potential difference between supply-voltage (3.3 V) and output voltage generator. The output pulse width of a power-up pulse circuit was 30 ns ~ 1$mutextrm{s}$ with the variation of power-up time. The programmed antifuse resistance required below 44 ㏀ from the simulation of antifuse program/read/latch circuit. Therefore the electrical repair circuit behaved safely and the yield of high densitymemory will be increased by using the circuit.

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Improvement of Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Protection Performance through Structure Modification of N-Type Silicon Controlled Rectifier Device (N형 실리콘 제어 정류기 소자의 구조 변형을 통한 정전기 보호성능의 향상에 대한 연구)

  • Yang, Jun-Won;Seo, Yong-Jin
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.124-129
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    • 2013
  • An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device, so called, N-type SCR with P-type MOSFET pass structure (NSCR_PPS), was analyzed for high voltage I/O applications. A conventional NSCR_PPS device shows typical SCR-like characteristics with extremely low snapback holding voltage, which may cause latch-up problem during normal operation. However, a modified NSCR_PPS device with counter pocket source(CPS) and partial p-type well(PPW) structure demonstrates highly latch-up immune current-voltage characteristics.

A Study of The Electrical Characteristics of Small Fabricated LTEIGBTs for The Smart Power ICs (스마트 파워 IC에의 활용을 위한 소형 LTEIGBT의 제작과 전기적인 특성에 관한 연구)

  • 오대석;김대원;김대종;염민수;강이구;성만영
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.07a
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    • pp.338-341
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    • 2002
  • A new small size Lateral Trench Electrode Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (LTEIGBT) is proposed and fabricated to improve the characteristics of device. The entire electrode of LTEIGBT is placed to trench type electrode. The LTEIGBT is designed so that the width of device is 19$\mu\textrm{m}$. The latch-up current density of the proposed LTEIGBT is improved by 10 and 2 times with those of the conventional LIGET and LTIGBT The forward blocking voltage of the LTEIGBT is 130V. At the same size, those of conventional LIGBT and LTIGBT are 60V and 100V, respectively. Because that the electrodes of the proposed device is formed of trench type, the electric field in the device are crowded to trench oxide. We fabricated He proposed LTEIGBT after the device and process simulation was finished. When the gate voltage is applied 12V, the forward conduction currents of the proposed LTEIGBT and the conventional LIGBT are 80mA and 70mA, respectively, at the same breakdown voltage of 150V,

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A Novel Lateral Trench Electrode IGBT for Suprior Electrical Characteristics (인텔리전트 파워 IC의 구현을 위한 횡형 트렌치 전극형 IGBT의 제작 및 그 전기적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • 강이구;오대석;김대원;김대종;성만영
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.15 no.9
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    • pp.758-763
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    • 2002
  • A new small size Lateral Trench Electrode Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (LTEIGBT) is proposed and fabricated to improve the characteristics of device. The entire electrode of LTEIGBT is placed to trench type electrode. The LTEIGBT is designed so that the width of device is 19w. The latch-up current density of the proposed LTEIGBT is improved by 10 and 2 times with those of the conventional LIGBT and LTIGBT. The forward blocking voltage of the LTEIGBT is 130V. At the same size, those of conventional LIGBT and TIGBT are 60V and 100V, respectively. Because the electrodes of the proposed device is formed of trench type, the electric field in the device are crowded to trench oxide. When the gate voltage is applied 12V, the forward conduction currents of the proposed LTEIGBT and the conventional LIGBT are 80mA and 70mA, respectively, at the same breakdown voltage of 150V.

Effect of Channel Variation on Switching Characteristics of LDMOSFET

  • Lee, Chan-Soo;Cui, Zhi-Yuan;Kim, Kyoung-Won
    • Journal of Semiconductor Engineering
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.161-167
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    • 2022
  • Electrical characteristics of LDMOS power device with LDD(Lightly Doped Drain) structure is studied with variation of the region of channel and LDD. The channel in LDMOSFET encloses a junction-type source and is believed to be an important parameter for determining the circuit operation of CMOS inverter. Two-dimensional TCAD MEDICI simulation is used to study hot-carrier effect, on-resistance Ron, breakdown voltage, and transient switching characteristic. The voltage-transfer characteristics and on-off switching properties are studied as a function of the channel length and doping levels. The digital logic levels of the output and input voltages are analyzed from the transfer curves and circuit operation. Study indicates that drain current significantly depends on the channel length rather than the LDD region, while the switching transient time is almost independent of the channel length. The high and low logic levels of the input voltage showed a strong dependency on the channel length, while the lateral substrate resistance from a latch-up path in the CMOS inverter was comparable to that of a typical CMOS inverter with a guard ring.

The Delay time of CMOS inverter gate cell for design on digital system (디지털 시스템설계를 위한 CMOS 인버터게이트 셀의 지연시간)

  • 여지환
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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    • 2002.06a
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    • pp.195-199
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    • 2002
  • This paper describes the effect of substrate back bias of CMOS Inverter. When the substrate back bias applied in body, the MOS transistor threshold voltage increased and drain saturation current decreased. The back gate reverse bias or substrate bias has been widely utilized and the following advantage has suppressing subthreshold leakage, lowering parasitic junction capacitance, preventing latch up or parasitic bipolar transistor, etc. When the reverse voltage applied substrate, this paper stimulated the propagation delay time CMOS inverter.

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Design of 3V a Low-Power CMOS Analog-to-Digital Converter (3V 저전력 CMOS 아날로그-디지털 변환기 설계)

  • 조성익;최경진;신홍규
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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    • v.36C no.11
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    • pp.10-17
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, CMOS IADC(Current-mode Analog-to-Digital Converter) which consists of only CMOS transistors is proposed. Each stages is made up 1.5-bit bit cells composed of CSH(Current-mode Sample-and-Hold) and CCMP(Current Comparator). The differential CSH which designed to eliminate CFT(Clock Feedthrough), to meet at least 9-bit resolution, is placed at the front-end of each bit cells, and each stages of bit cell ADSC (Analog-to-Digital Subconverter) is made up two latch CCMPs. With the HYUNDAI TEX>$0.65\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS parameter, the ACAD simulation results show that the proposed IADC can be operated with 47 dB of SINAD(Signal to Noise- Plus-Distortion), 50dB(8-bit) of SNR(Signal-to-Noise) and 37.7 mW of power consumption for input signal of 100 KHz at 20 Ms/s.

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An analysis on the simulation model for minimization of latch-up current of advanced CMOS devices (차세대 CMOS 소자의 래치업 전류 최소화를 위한 모의 모델 해석)

  • 조소행;강효영;노병규;강희원;홍성표;오환술
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 1998.06a
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    • pp.347-350
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    • 1998
  • 차세대 CMOS 구조에서 래치업 최소화를 위하여 고에너지 이온주입을 이용한 retrograde well 과 매몰층의 최적 공정 설계 변수 값들을 설정하였다. 본 논문에서는 두 가지의 모듸 모델 구조를 제안하고 silvaco 틀에 의한 시뮬레이션 결과를 비교 분석하엿다. 첫 번째 모델은 매몰층과 retrograde well을 조합한 구조이며, p+ injection trigger current가 600.mu.A/.mu.m 이상의 결과를 얻었고, 두번째 모델은 twin retrograde well을 이용하여 p+ injection 유지전류가 2500.mu.A/.mu.m이상의 결과를 얻었다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 두 모델 모두 도즈량이 많을수록 래치업 면역 특성이 좋아짐을 보았다. 시뮬레이션 조건에서 두 모델 모두 n+/p+ 간격은 2..mu.m 로 고정하였다.

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초 저 소비전력 및 저 전압 동작용 FULL CMOS SRAM CELL에 관한 연구

  • 이태정
    • The Magazine of the IEIE
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.38-49
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    • 1997
  • 0.4mm Resign Rule의 Super Low Power Dissipation, Low Voltage. Operation-5- Full CMOS SRAM Cell을 개발하였다. Retrograde Well과 PSL(Poly Spacer LOCOS) Isolation 공정을 사용하여 1.76mm의 n+/p+ Isolation을 구현하였으며 Ti/TiN Local Interconnection을 사용하여 Polycide수준의 Rs와 작은 Contact저항을 확보하였다. p-well내의 Boron이 Field oxide에 침적되어 n+/n-well Isolation이 취약해짐을 Simulation을 통해 확인할 수 있었으며, 기생 Lateral NPN Bipolar Transistor의 Latch Up 특성이 취약해 지는 n+/n-wellslze는 0.57mm이고, 기생 Vertical PNP Bipolar Transistor는 p+/p-well size 0.52mm까지 안정적인 Current Gain을 유지함을 알 수 있었다. Ti/TiN Local Interconnection의 Rs를 Polycide 수준으로 낮추는 것은 TiN deco시 Power를 증가시키고 Pressure를 감소시킴으로써 실현할 수 있었다. Static Noise Margin분석을 통해 Vcc 0.6V에서도 Cell의 동작 Margin이 있음을 확인할 수 있었으며, Load Device의 큰 전류로 Soft Error를 개선할수 있었다. 본 공정으로 제조한 1M Full CMOS SRAM에서 Low Vcc margin 1.0V, Stand-by current 1mA이하(Vcc=3.7V, 85℃기준) 를 얻을 수 있었다.

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The modified HSINFET using the trenched hybrid injector (트렌치 구조의 Hybrid Schottky 인젝터를 갖는 SINFET)

  • 김재형;김한수;한민구;최연익
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.230-234
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    • 1996
  • A new trenched Hybrid Schottky INjection Field Effect Transistor (HSINFET) is proposed and verified by 2-D semiconductor device simulation. The feature of the proposed structure is that the hybrid Schottky injector is implemented at the trench sidewall and p-n junction injector at the upper sidewall and bottom of a trench. Two-dimensional simulation has been performed to compare the new HSINFET with the SINFET, conventional HSINFET and lateral insulated gate bipolar transistor(LIGBT). The numerical results shows that the current handling capability of the proposed HSINFET is significantly increased without sacrificing turn-off characteristics. The proposed HSINFET exhibits higher latch-up current density and much faster switching speed than the lateral IGBT. The forward voltage drop of the proposed HSINFET is 0.4 V lower than that of the conventional HSINFET and the turn-off time of the trenched HSINFET is much smaller than that of LIGBT.

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