• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.138-138
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• 2017

차세대 CMOS 소자의 지속적인 고직접화를 위해서는 높은 gate capacitance와 낮은 gate leakage current를 확보를 위한, 적절한 metal gate electrode와 high-k dielectric 물질의 개발이 필수적으로 요구된다. 특히, gate dielectric으로 적용하기 위한 다양한 high-k dielectric 물질 후보군 중에서, 높은 dielectric constant와, 낮은 leakage current, 그리고 Si과의 우수한 열적 안정성을 가지는 Zr silicates 또는 Hf silicates(ZrSiO4와 HfSiO4) 물질이 높은 관심을 받고 있으며, 이를 원자층 증착법을 통해 구현하기 위한 노력들이 있어왔다. 그러나, 현재까지 보고된 원자층 증착법을 이용한 Zr silicates 및 Hf silicates 공정의 경우, 개별적인 Zr(또는 Hf)과 Si precursor를 이용하여 ZrO2(또는 HfO2)과 SiO2를 반복적으로 증착하는 방식으로 Zr silicates 또는 Hf silicates를 형성하고 있어, 전체 공정이 매우 복잡해지는 문제점 뿐 아니라, gate dielectric 내에서 Zr과 Si의 국부적인 조성 불균일성을 야기하여, 제작된 소자의 신뢰성을 떨어뜨리는 문제점을 나타내왔다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위하여, 하나의 precursor에 Zr (또는 Hf)과 Si 원소를 동시에 가지고 있는 DNS-Zr과 DNS-Hf bimetallic precursor를 이용하여 새로운 ZrSiO4와 HfSiO4 ALD 공정을 개발하고, 그 특성을 살펴보고자 하였다. H2O와 O3을 reactant로 사용한 원자층 증착법 공정을 통하여, Zr:Si 또는 Hf:Si의 화학양론적 비율이 항상 일정한 ZrSiO4와 HfSiO4 박막을 형성할 수 있었으며, 이들의 전기적 특성 평가를 진행하였으며, dielectric constant 및 leakage current 측면에서 우수한 특성을 나타냄을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로, bimetallic 전구체를 이용한 ALD 공정은 차세대 고성능 논리회로의 게이트 유전물질에 응용이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.573-578
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• 2004

Newly developed silicide materials for ULSI should have the appropriate electrical property of low resistant as well as process compatibility in conventional CMOS process. We prepared $NiCoSi_x$ silicides from 15 nm-Co/15 nm-Ni/Si structure and performed contact dry etch process to confirm the dry etch stability and compatibility of $NiCoSi_x$ layers. We dry etched the photoresist/SiO/silicide/silicon patterns with $CF_4\;and\;CHF_3$ gases with varying powers from 100 to 200 W, and pressures from 45 to 65 mTorr, respectively. Polysilicon and silicon active layers without silicide were etched $0\sim316{\AA}$ during over etch time of 3min, while silicon layers with proposed $NiCoSi_x$ silicide were not etched and showed stable surfaces. Our result implies that new $NiCoSi_x$ silicides may replace the conventional silicides due to contact etch process compatibility.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.111-116
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• 2001

Poly-Si TFT's(Polysilicon thin filmtransistors) have been actively studied due to their applications in active matrix liquid crystal displays and active pull-up devices of CMOS SRAM's. For such applications, the leakage current has to be in the range of sub-picoampere. However, poly-Si TFT's suffer from anomalous high leakage currents, which is attributed to the emission of the traps present at gain boundaries in the drain junction. The leakage current has been analyzed by the field emission via grain-boundary traps and thermionic field emission over potential barrier located at the grain boundary. We found that the models proposed before are not consistent with the experimental results at far as drain-offset poly-Si TFT's we fabricated concern. In this paper, leakage current of drain-offset poly-Si TFT's with different offset lengths was studied. A conduction model based on the thermionic emission of the tunneling electrons is developed to identify the leakage mechanism. It was found that the effective grain size of the drain-offset region is important factor in the leakage current. A good agreement between experimental and simulated results of the leakage current is obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.175-177
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• 2002

Electrical characteristics of the Si-O superlattice diode as a function of annealing conditions have been studied. The nanocrystalline silicon/adsorbed oxygen superlattice formed by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system. Consequently, the experimental results of superlattice diode with multilayer Si-O structure showed the stable and good insulating behavior with high breakdown voltage. This is very useful promise for Si-based optoelectronic and quantum device as well as for the replacement of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) in ultra high speed and lower power CMOS devices in the future, and it can be readily integrated with silicon ULSI processing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1994.05a
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• pp.116-119
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• 1994

The characteristics of the Si-SiO$_2$ interface and the degradation in the short channel(L${\times}$W=1.7$\mu\textrm{m}$${\times}$15$\mu\textrm{m}$) SONOSFET nonvolatile memory devices, fabricated on the basis of the existing n-well CMOS processing technology for 1 Mbit DRAM with the 1.2$\mu\textrm{m}$ m design rule, were investigated using the charge pumping method. The SONOSFET memories have the tripple insulated-gate consisting of 30${\AA}$ tunneling oxide 205${\AA}$ nitride and 65${\AA}$ blocking oxide, The acceleration method which square voltage pulses of t$\_$p/=10msec, Vw=+19V and V$\_$E/=-22V continue to be alternatly applied to gale, was used to investigate the degradation of SONOSFET memories with the write/erase cycle. The degradation characteristics were ascertained by observing the change in the energy and spatial distributions of the interface trap density.

• Vacuum Magazine
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.15-18
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• 2016

In future wearable electronic systems, 3-dimensional (3D) devices have attracted much attention due to their high density integration and low-power functionality. Among 3D devices, gate-all-around (GAA) nanowire transistor provides superior gate controllability, resulting in suppressing short channel effect and other drawbacks in 2D metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are the most promising building block for GAA structure device due to their compatibility with the current Si-based ultra large scale integration (ULSI) technology. Moreover, the theoretical limit for subthreshold swing (SS) of MOSFET is 60 mV/dec at room temperature, which causes the increase in Ioff current. To overcome theoretical limit for the SS, it is crucial that research into new types of device concepts should be performed. In our present studies, we have experimentally demonstrated feedback FET (FBFET) and tunnel FET (TFET) with sub-60 mV/dec based on SiNWs. Also, we fabricated SiNW based complementary TFET (c-TFET) and SiNW complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) inverter. Our research demonstrates the promising potential of SiNW electronic devices for future wearable electronic systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.66-66
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• 1999

최근 들어 다결정 SiGe은 MOS(Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor)에서 기존에 사용되던 다결정 Si 공정과의 호환성 및 여러 장점으로 인하여 다결정 Si 대안으로 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 고농도로 도핑된 P type의 다결정 SiGe은 Ge의 함량에 따른 일함수의 조절과 낮은 비저항으로 submicrometer CMOS 공정에서 게이트 전극으로 이용하려는 연구가 진행되고 있으며, 55$0^{\circ}C$ 이하의 낮은 온도에서도 증착이 가능하고, 도펀트의 활성화도가 높아서 TFT(Thin Film Transistor)에서도 유용한 재료로 검토되고 있다. 현재까지 다결정 SiGe의 증착은 MBE, APCVD, RECVD. HV/LPCVD 등 다양한 방법으로 이루어지고 있다. 이중 HV/LPCVD 방법을 이용한 증착은 반도체 공정에서 게이트 전극, 유전체, 금속화 공정 등 다양한 공정에서 사용되고 있는 방법으로 현재 사용되고 있는 반도체 공정과의 호환성의 장점으로 다결정 SiGe 게이트 전극의 증착 공정에 적합하다고 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 HV/LPCVD 방법을 이용하여 게이트 전극으로의 활용을 위한 다결정 SiGe의 증착 메카니즘을 분석하고 Ex-situ implantation 후 열처리에 따라 나타나는 활성화 정도를 분석하였다. 도펀트를 첨가하지 않은 다결정 SiGe을 주성엔지니어링의 EUREKA 2000 장비를 이용하여, 1000$\AA$의 열산화막이 덮혀있는 8 in 웨이퍼에 증착하였다. 증착 온도는 55$0^{\circ}C$에서 6$25^{\circ}C$까지 변화를 주었으며, 증착압력은 1mtorr-4mtorr로 유지하였다. 낮은 증착압력으로 인한 증착속도의 감소를 방지하기 위하여 Si source로서 Si2H6를 사용하였으며, Ge의 Source는 수소로 희석된 10% GeH4와 100% GeH4를 사용하였다. 증착된 다결정 SiGe의 Ge 함량은 RBS, XPS로 분석하였으며, 증착된 박막의 두께는 Nanospec과 SEM으로 관찰하였다. 또한 Ge 함량 변화에 따른 morphology 관찰과 변화 관찰을 위하여 AFM, SEM, XRD를 이용하였으며, 이온주입후 열처리 온도에 따른 활성화 정도의 관찰을 위하여 4-point probe와 Hall measurement를 이용하였다. 증착된 다결정 SiGe의 두게를 nanospec과 SEM으로 분석한 결과 Gem이 함량이 적을 때는 높은 온도에서의 증착이 더 빠른 증착속도를 나타내었지만, Ge의 함량이 30% 되었을 때는 온도에 관계없이 일정한 것으로 나타났다. XRD 분석을 한 결과 Peak의 위치가 순수한 Si과 순수한 Ge 사이에 존재하는 것으로 나타났으며, ge 함량이 많아짐에 따라 순수한 Ge쪽으로 옮겨가는 경향을 보였다. SEM, ASFM으로 증착한 다결정 SiGe의 morphology 관찰결과 Ge 함량이 높은 박막의 입계가 다결정 Si의 입계에 비해 훨씬 큰 것으로 나타났으며 근 값도 증가하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.06b
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• pp.347-350
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• 2004

The substrate parameters of Si MOSFET equivalent circuit model were directly extracted from measured S-Parameters in the GHz region by using simple 2-port parameter equations. Using the above extract ion method, bias and gate length dependent curves of substrate parameters in the RF region are obtained by varying drain voltage at several short channel devices with various gate lengths. These extract ion data will greatly contribute to scalable RF nonlinear substrate modeling.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.921-926
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• 1997

SOI(Silicon On lnsulator) technology is many advantages in the gabrication of MOS(Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) and CMOS(Complementary MOS) structures. These include high speed, lower dynamic power consumption,greater packing density, increased radiation tolearence et al. In smiple form of bonded SOL wafer manufacturing, creation of a bonded SOI structure involves oxidizing at least one of the mirror polished silicon surfaces, cleaning the oxidized surface and the surface of the layer to which it will be bonded,bringing the two cleanded surfaces together in close physical proximity, allowing the subsequent room temperature bonding to proceed to completion, and than following this room temperature joining with some form of heat treatment step,and device wafer is thinned to the target thickness. This paper has been performed to investigate the possibility of the bonded SOI wafer manufacturing Especially, we focused on the bonding quality and thinning method. Finally,we achieved the bonded SOI wafer that Si layer thickness is below 3 .mu. m and average roughness is below 5.angs.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.895-898
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• 1999

Recently, small signal modeling of CMOS device becomes more difficult because the design rule goes into deep submicron. De-embedding of substrate parameters is important in order to use CMOS devices at RF frequencies. In this paper, we suggest a new de-embedding model with refined physical meaning and accuracy. In GaAs IC’s, the substrate is almost an insulator but Si substrate has the semiconducting characteristics. It offers some troubles if it is treated like GaAs substrate. The conducting substrate is modeled with five resistances, which leads to very accurate modeling so long as the pad layout is symmetrical. Frequency range is up to 39㎓ and fitting accuracy is as small as 0.00037 on least square errors.