• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.538-542
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• 1999

ESD(Electro-Static Discharge) 보호회로용 nMOSFET에 대하여 TCAD 시뮬레이션을 수행하기 위한 새로운 parameter calibration 방법론을 제안하였다. ESD 특성 측정방법의 하나인 TLP (Transmission Line Pulsing)측정을 이용하는 경우, ESD 입력에 대하여 시간변화에 따른 소자의 특성을 파악할 수 있기 때문에 최근 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 TLP 측정의 해석방법과 TCAD simulation, 그리고 parameter calibration의 방법론을 제시하였다.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.36-43
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 고전압에서 동작하는 DDIC(display driver IC) 칩의 정전기 보호소자로 사용되는 GG_EDNMOS 소자의 고전류 특성 및 더블 스냅백 메커니즘이 분석되었다. 이온주입 조건을 달리하는 매트릭스 조합에 의한 수차례의 2차원 시뮬레이션 및 TLP 특성 데이타를 비교한 결과, BJT 트리거링 후에 더블 스냅백 현상이 나타났으나 웰(well) 및 드리프트(drift) 이온주입 조건을 적절히 조절함으로써 안정적인 ESD 보호성능을 얻을 수 있었다. 즉, 최적의 백그라운드 캐리어 밀도를 얻는 것이 고전압 동작용 정전기보호소자의 고전류 특성에 매우 중요한 영향을 주는 임계인자(critical factor)임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.18-24
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 ESD 방지를 위한 최적 방법론에 목표하여 확장된 드레인을 갖는 EDNMOS 소자의 더블 스냅백 현상 및 백그라운 도핑 농도 (BDC)의 영향을 조사하였다. 고전류 영역에서 낮은 BDC를 가진 EDNMOS 소자는 강한 스냅백으로 인해 취약한 ESD 성능과 높은 래치업 위험을 가지게 되나, 높은 BDC를 가진 EDNMOS 소자는 스냅백을 효과적으로 방지할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 BDC 제어로 안정적인 ESD 방지 성능과 래치업 면역을 구현할 수 있음을 밝혔다.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2013

기존의 NEDSCR 소자는 매우 낮은 스냅백 홀딩전압과 낮은 온-저항을 가져 정상적인 동작 동안 래치업을 초래하므로 ESD 보호소자로 사용하는데 어려움이 있었다. 본 연구에서는 NEDSCR 소자의 시뮬레이션 및 TLP 테스트를 통해 이러한 단점들을 극복할 수 있는 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 매우 우수한 ESD 보호 성능과 높은 래치업 면역 특성을 구현하기 위해 N+ 소오스 확산영역을 둘러싸는 P형의 CPS 이온주입공정을 추가함으로써 NEDSCR 소자의 스냅백 홀딩전압과 온 저항을 증가시켜 정전기 보호 성능을 개선시킬 수 있는 것으로 입증되었다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.495-502
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• 2014

Fast recovery diodes (FRDs) were developed using the $p^{{+}{+}}/n^-/n^{{+}{+}}$ epitaxial layers grown by low temperature epitaxy technology. We investigated the effect of electrostatic discharge (ESD) stresses on their electrical and switching properties using current-voltage (I-V) and reverse recovery time analyses. The FRDs presented a high breakdown voltage, >450 V, and a low reverse leakage current, < $10^{-9}$ A. From the temperature dependence of thermal activation energy, the reverse leakage current was dominated by thermal generation-recombination and diffusion, respectively, at low and high temperature regions. By virtue of the abrupt junction and the Pt drive-in for the controlling of carrier lifetime, the soft reverse recovery behavior could be obtained along with a well-controlled reverse recovery time of 21.12 ns. The FRDs exhibited excellent ESD robustness with negligible degradations in the I-V and the reverse recovery characteristics up to ${\pm}5.5$ kV of HBM and ${\pm}3.5$ kV of IEC61000-4-2 shocks. Likewise, transmission line pulse (TLP) analysis reveals that the FRDs can handle the maximum peak pulse current, $I_{pp,max}$, up to 30 A in the forward mode and down to - 24 A in the reverse mode. The robust ESD property can improve the long term reliability of various power applications such as automobile and switching mode power supply.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제27권11호
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• pp.686-689
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• 2014

Electrostatic discharge has been considered as a major reliability problem in the semiconductor industry. ESD reliability is an important issue for these products. Therefore, each I/O (Input/Output) PAD must be designed with a protection circuitry that creates a low impedance discharge path for ESD current. This paper presents a novel Lateral Insulated Gate Bipolar (LIGBT)-based ESD protection circuit with latch-up immunity and high robustness. The proposed circuit is fabricated by using 0.18 um BCD (bipolar-CMOS-DMOS) process. Also, TLP (transmission line pulse) I-V characteristic of proposed circuit is measured. In the result, the proposed ESD protection circuit has latch-up immunity and high robustness. These characteristics permit the proposed circuit to apply to power clamp circuit. Consequently, the proposed LIGBT-based ESD protection circuit with a latch-up immune characteristic can be applied to analog integrated circuits.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.339-344
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• 2014

This paper presents a novel bipolar junction transistor (BJT) based electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device. This protection device was designed for 20V power clamps and fabricated by a process with Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) $0.18{\mu}m$. The current-voltage characteristics of this protection device was verified by the transmission line pulse (TLP) system and the DC BV characteristic was verified by using a semiconductor parameter analyzer. From the experimental results, the proposed device has a trigger voltage of 29.1V, holding voltage of 22.4V and low on-resistance of approximately $1.6{\Omega}$. In addition, the test of ESD robustness showed that the ESD successfully passed through human body model (HBM) 8kV. In this paper, the operational mechanism of this protection device was investigated by structural analysis of the proposed device. In addition, the proposed device were obtained as stack structures and verified.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.109-113
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• 2005

It has been reported that the failure phenomenon and variation of electrical characteristic due to the effect of electrostatic discharge(ESD) in silicon devices. But we had fess reports about the phenomenon due to the ESD in the compound semiconductors. So there are a lot of difficulty to the phenomenon analysis and to select the protection method of main circuits or the devices. It has not been reported that the relation between the ESD stress and GaN devices, which is remarkable to apply the operation in high temperature and high voltage due to the superior material characteristic. We studied that the characteristic variation of the AlGaN/GaN HEMT current, the leakage current, the transconductance(gm) and the failure phenomenon of device due to the ESD stress. We have applied the ESD stress by transmission line pulse(TLP) method, which is widely used in ESD stress experiments, and observed the variation of the electrical characteristic before and after applying the ESD stress. The on-current trended to increase after applying the ESD stress. The leakage current and transconductance were changed slightly. The failure point of device was mainly located in middle and edge sides of the gate, was considered the increase of temperature due to a leakage current. The GaN devices have poor thermal characteristic due to usage of the sapphire substrate, so it have been shown to easily fail at low voltage compared to the conventional GaAs devices.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.196-200
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• 2016

We have developed new electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection devices with, bidirectional flip chip transient voltage suppression. The devices differ in their epitaxial (epi) layers, which were grown by reduced pressure chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD). Their ESD properties were characterized using current-voltage (I-V), capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurement, and ESD analysis, including IEC61000-4-2, surge, and transmission line pulse (TLP) methods. Two BD-FCTVS diodes consisting of either a thick (12 μm) or thin (6 μm), n-Si epi layer showed the same reverse voltage of 8 V, very small reverse current level, and symmetric I-V and C-V curves. The damage found near the corner of the metal pads indicates that the size and shape of the radius governs their failure modes. The BD-FCTVS device made with a thin n- epi layer showed better performance than that made with a thick one in terms of enhancement of the features of ESD robustness, reliability, and protection capability. Therefore, this works confirms that the optimization of device parameters in conjunction with the doping concentration and thickness of epi layers be used to achieve high performance ESD properties.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.601-607
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• 2015

A set of novel silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) devices' characteristics have been analyzed and verified under the electrostatic discharge (ESD) stress. A ring-shaped diffusion was added to their anode or cathode in order to improve the holding voltage (Vh) of SCR structure by creating new current discharging path and decreasing the emitter injection efficiency (${\gamma}$) of parasitic Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT). ESD current density distribution imitated by 2-dimensional (2D) TCAD simulation demonstrated that an additional current path exists in the proposed SCR. All the related devices were investigated and characterized based on transmission line pulse (TLP) test system in a standard $0.5-{\mu}m$ 24 V CDMOS process. The proposed SCR devices with ring-shaped anode (RASCR) and ring-shaped cathode (RCSCR) own higher Vh than that of Simple SCR (S_SCR). Especially, the Vh of RCSCR has been raised above 33 V. What's more, their holding current is kept over 800 mA, which makes it possible to design power clamp with SCR structure for on chip ESD protection and keep the protected chip away from latch-up risk.