• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.1001-1006
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• 2005

A new fabrication method is proposed to form the stacked polysilicon gate by nitridation in $N_2$ atmosphere using conventional LP-CVD system. Two step stacked layers with an amorphous layer on top of a polycrystalline layer as well as three step stacked layers with polycrystalline films were fabricated using the proposed method. SIMS profile showed that the proposed method would successfully create the nitrogen-rich layers between the stacked polysilicon layers, thus resulting in effective retardation of dopant diffusion. It was observed that the dopants in stacked films were piled-up at the interface. TEM image also showed clear distinction of stacked layers, their plane grain size and grain mismatch at interface layers. Therefore, the number of stacked polysilicon layers with different crystalline structures, interface position and crystal phase can be easily controlled to improve the device performance and reliability without any negative effects in nano-scale CMOSFETs.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.33-40
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• 1998

The composite SiO$_2$/Si$_3$N$_4$/SiO$_2$(ONO) film formed by oxidation on nitride film has been widely studied as DRAM stacked capacitor multi-dielectric films. Load lock(L/L) LPCVD system by HF cleaning is used to improve electrical capacitance and to scale down of effective thickness for memory device, but is brings a new problem. Nitride film deposited using HF cleaning shows selective deposition on poly silicon and oxide regions of capacitor. This problem is avoidable by carpeting chemical oxide using $H_2O$$_2$cleaning before nitride deposition. In this paper, we study the limit of nitride thickness for abnormal oxidation and the initial deposition time for nitride deposition dependent on underlayer materials. We proposed an advanced fabrication process for stacked capacitor in order to avoid selective deposition problem and show the usefulness of nitride deposition using L/L LPCVD system by $H_2O$$_2$cleaning. The natural oxide thickness on polysilicon monitor after HF and $H_2O$$_2$cleaning are measured 3~4$\AA$, respectively. Two substrate materials have the different initial nitride deposition times. The initial deposition time for polysilicon is nearly zero, but initial deposition time for oxide is about 60seconds. However the deposition rate is constant after initial deposition time. The limit of nitride thickness for abnormal oxidation under the HF and $H_2O$$_2$cleaning method are 60$\AA$, 48$\AA$, respectively. The results obtained in this study are useful for developing ultra thin nitride fabrication of ONO scaling and for avoiding abnormal oxidation in stacked capacitor application.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.53-62
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• 1999

Micro polysilicon actuators, which are widely used in the field of MEMS (Microelectromechanical System) technology, were fabricated using polysilicon thin layers. Polysilicon deposition were carried out to have symmetrical layer structures with a LPCVD (Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition) system, and we have measured physical characteristics by micro test patterns, such as bridges and cantilevers to verify minimal mechanical stress and stress gradient in the polysilicon layers according to the methods of mutilayer deposition, doping, and thermal treatment, also, analyzed the properties of each specimen, which have a different process condition, by XRD, and SIMS etc.. Finally, the fabricated planar polysilicon resonator, symmetrically stacked to $6.5{\mu}m$ thickness, showed Q of 1270 and oscillation ampitude of $5{\mu}m$ under DC 15V, AC 0.05V, and 1000 mtorr pressure. The developed micro polysilicon resonator can be utilized to micro gyroscope and accelerometer sensor.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.1128-1135
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• 2001

In this paper, a new HSG-Si formation technology, "seeding method', which employs Si$_2$H$_{6}$-molecule irradiation and annealing, was applied for realizing 64Mbit DRAMs. By using this technique, grain size controlled HSG-Si can be fabricated on in-situ phosphorous-doped amorphous-Si electrode. The new HSG-Si fabrication technology achieves twice the storage capacitance with high reliability for the stacked capacitors. In this technique, optimum process conditions of the phosphorous concentration, storage polysilicon deposition temperature and thickness of hemispherical grain silicon are in the range of 3.0-4.0E19atoms/㎤, 53$0^{\circ}C$ and 400$\AA$, respectively. In the 64M bit DRAM capacitor using optimum process conditions, limit thickness of dielectric nitride is about 65$\AA$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.126-126
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• 2011

삼차원 구조의 낸드 플래시 메모리 소자는 기존 이차원 구조의 메모리 소자를 비례 축소할 때 발생하는 단채널 효과와 간섭효과를 최소화 하면서 집적도를 높일 수 있는 장점 때문에 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 그러나, 삼차원 구조의 낸드 플래시 메모리 소자는 공정 과정이 복잡하고 주변 회로 연결이 어려울 뿐만 아니라 금속 접촉에 필요한 면적이 넓은 단점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 Vertical-Stacked-Array-Transistor (VSAT) 구조를 갖는 플래시 메모리 소자가 제안되었으나, VSAT 구조 역시 드레인 전류량이 적고 program과 erase 동작 시게이트 양쪽의 전하 트랩층에 전자와 정공을 비효율적으로 포획해야 하는 문제점을 가진다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 VSAT 구조의 문제점을 개선하면서 집적도를 증가한 삼차원 구조의 고집적낸드 플래시 메모리 소자를 제안하였다. 본 연구에서 제안한 플래시 메모리 소자의 구조는 기존 VSAT 구조에서 수직 방향의 두 string 사이에 존재하는 polysilicon을 제거하고 두 string 사이에 절연막을 증착하였다. 삼차원 시뮬레이션 툴인 Sentaurus를 사용하여 이 소자의 동작특성을 시뮬레이션 하였다. 소스와 드레인 사이의 유효 채널 길이가 감소하였기 때문에 기존의 VSAT 구조를 갖는 메모리 소자에 비해 turn-on 상태의 드레인 전류가 증가하였다. 제안한 플래시 메모리 소자의 subthreshold swing (SS)가 기존의 VSAT 구조를 갖는 메모리 소자의 SS 에 비해 낮아, 소자의 스위칭 특성이 향상하였다. 프로그램 전후의 문턱전압의 변화량이 기존의 VSAT 구조를 갖는 메모리 소자에 비해 크기 때문에 멀티 레벨 동작이 가능하다는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.605-610
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• 2010

The devices based on electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) structure are proposed for the detection of external electric charges. A large size charge contact window (CCW) extended from the floating gate is employed to immobilize external charges, and a control gate with stacked metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor is adapted for a standard single polysilicon CMOS process. When positive voltage is applied to the capacitor of CCW of an n-channel EEPROM, the drain current increases due to the negative shift of its threshold voltage. Also when a pre-charged external capacitor is directly connected to the floating gate metal of CCW, the positive charges of the external capacitor make the drain current increase for n-channel, whereas the negative charges cause it to decrease. For an p-channel, however, the opposite behaviors are observed by the external voltage and charges. With the attachment of external charges to the CCW of EEPROM inverter, the characteristic inverter voltage behavior shifts from the reference curve dependent on external charge polarity. Therefore, we have demonstrated that the EEPROM inverter is capable of detecting external immobilized charges on the floating gate. and these devices are applicable to sensing the pH's or biomolecular reactions.