• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.183-184
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• 2005

In this paper. a new small size Lateral Trench Electrode Power IGBT is proposed. The entire electrode of proposed LIGBT is placed in trench oxide. The forward blocking voltage of the proposed LIGBT is improved by 1.6 times with that of the conventional LIGBT. The forward blocking voltage of proposed LIGBT is 500V. At the same size. a increase of the forward blocking voltage of about 1.6 times relative to the conventional LIGBT is observed by using TMA-MEDICI which is used for analyzing device characteristics. Because the electrodes of the proposed device are formed in trench oxide. the electric field in the device are crowded to trench oxide. We observed that the characteristics of i the proposed device was improved by using TMA-MEDICI and that the fabrication of the proposed device is possible by using TMA-TSUPREM4.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.32-38
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• 2001

A new small sized Lateral Trench electrode Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor(LTEIGBT) was proposed to improve the characteristics of conventional Lateral IGBT (LIGBT) and Lateral Trench gate IGBT (LTIGBT). The entire electrode of LTEIGBT was replace with trench-type electrode. The LTEIGBT was designed so that the width of device was no more than 19 ㎛. The Latch-up current densities of LIGBT, LTIGBT and the proposed LTEIGBT were 120A/㎠, 540A/㎠, and 1230A/㎠, respectively. The enhanced latch-up capability of the LTEIGBT was obtained through holes in the current directly reaching the cathode via the p+ cathode layer underneath n+ cathode layer. The forward blocking voltage of the LTEIGBT is 130V. Conventional LIGBT and LTIGBT of the same size were no more than 60V and 100V, respectively. Because the the proposed device was constructed of trench-type electrodes, the electric field moved toward trench-oxide layer, and punch through breakdown of LTEIGBT is occurred, lately.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.99-100
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• 2006

절연 게이트 바이폴라 트랜지스터 (Insuialed atc Bipolar Transistor : IGBT)는 높은 전류구동 능력과 높은 입력 임피던스 특성으로 인해 대전력 스위칭 소자로 널리 응용되고 있다. 특히, 대용량 모터 구동을 위해 응용되는 경우, 모터의 부하 특성상, 모터의 단락에 의한 단락 회로 (Short-circuit fault) 현상을 비롯한 클램핑 다이오드의 파손으로 인한 unclamped 유도성 부하 스위칭 (UIS) 상황에서 견딜 수 있도록 설계되어야 한다. 이를 위해, 이전 연구를 통해 Floating p-well을 600V급 IGBT에 도입함으로써 UIS 상황에서 IGBT가 견딜 수 있는 에너지(항복 에너지)륵 증가시키고 Floating p-weil 전압을 감지함으로써 단락 회로 상황에서 IGBT가 보호될 수 있도록 보호회로를 제안하고 검증하였다. 그러나 이 보호회로는 수평형 금속 산화막 반도체 전계 효과 트랜지스터 (Latcral MOSFET)로 제작됨으로써 보호회로 기능을 수행하기 위해서는 넓은 면적을 요구하였다. 또한, 정상적인 동작 상황에서 오류를 감지 (오류 감지: False detection)하는 동작으로 인해 추가적인 filter를 요구함으로써 보호회로 동작 속도를 감소시켰다. 이러한 단점을 해결하기 위해, 수평형 절연 게이트 바이폴라 트랜지스터 (Lateral IGBT : LIGBT)를 보호회로에 적용함으로써 LIGBT의 높은 전류 구동능력을 이용하여 기존 보호회로 면적의 30% 수준의 보호회로를 구현하였다. 또한, 구현된 보호회로는 오류 감지 현상을 제거함으로써 보호회로의 동작 속도를 개선하였다. 제안된 보호회로와 1200V급 IGBT는 7장의 마스크를 이용한 표준 수평형 IGBT 공정을 이용하여 제작되었으며, 특히, 전자빔 조사를 이하여 턴오프 속도를 개선함으로써 고속 스위칭에 적합하도록 최적화 되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.371-375
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• 2000

In this paper a new conductivity modulated power transistor called the Lateral Insulated Gated Bipolar Transistor which included n+ ring and p-channel gate is presented. A new lateral IGBT structure is proposed to suppress latch-up and to improve turn off time by imploying n+ ring and p-channel gate and verified by MEDICI. The simulated I-V characteristics at $V_{G}$=15V show that the latch up occurs at $V_{A}$=18V and 6.9$\times$10$^{-5}$ A/${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ for the proposed LIGBT while the conventional LIGBT latches at $V_{A}$=1.3V and 1.96${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$10$^{-5A}$${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. It is shown that turn off characteristic of new LIGBT is 8 times than that of conventional LIGBT. And noble LIGBT is not n+ buffer layer because that It includes p channel gate and n+ ring. Therefore Mask for the buffer layer isn’t needed. The concentration of n+ ring is and the numbers of n+ ring and p channel gate are three for the optimal design.n.n.n.n.

• 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.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.161-166
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• 1999

We investigate the device characteristics of the separated shorted-anode LIGBT (SSA-LIGBT), which suppresses effectively the negative differential resistance regime, by 2-dimensional numerical simulation. The SSA-LIGBT increases the pinch resistance by employing the highly resistive n-drift region as an electron conduction path instead of the lowly resistive n buffer region of the conventional SA-LIGBT. The negative differential resistance regime of the SSA-LIGBT is significantly suppressed as compared with that of the conventional SA-LIGBT. The SSA-LIGBT shows the lower forward voltage drop than that of the conventional SA-LIGBT.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.342-345
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• 2002

A new lateral trench electrode IGBT with p+ diverter was Proposed to suppress latch-up of LTIGBT. The p+ diverter was placed between the anode and cathode electrode. The latch-up of LTEIGBT with a p+ diverter was effectively suppressed to sustain an anode voltage of 8.7V and a current density of 1453A/$\textrm{cm}^2$ while in the conventional LTIGBT, latch-up occurred at an anode current density of 540A/$\textrm{cm}^2$. And the forward blocking voltage of the proposed LTEIGBT with a p+ diverter was about 140V. That of the conventional LTIGBT of the same size was no more than 105V. When the gate voltage is applied 12V, the forward conduction currents of the Proposed LTEIGBT with a p+ diverter and the conventional LIGBT are 90mA and 70mA, respectively, at the same breakdown voltage of 150V.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.750-757
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• 2002

A new lateral trench LTEIGBT with p+ diverter was proposed to suppress latch-up of LTIGBT The p+ diverter was placed between the anode and cathode electrode. The latch-up of LTEICBT with a p+ diverter was effectively suppressed to sustain an anode voltage of 8.7V and a current density of 1453A/$\textrm{cm}^2$ while in the conventional LTIGBT, latch-up occured at an anode current density of 540A/$\textrm{cm}^2$. In addition, the forward blocking voltage of the proposed LTEIGBT with a p+ diverter was about 140V. The forward blocking voltage of the conventional LTIGBT of the same size was no more than 105V, We fabricated the proposed LTEIGBT with a p+ diverter after the device and process simulation was finished. When the gate voltage is applied 12V, the forward conduction currents of the proposed LTEIGBT with a p+ diverter and the conventional LIGBT are 90㎃ and 70㎃, respectively, at the same breakdown voltage of 150V.