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Diffusion Currents in the Amorphous Structure of Zinc Tin Oxide and Crystallinity-Dependent Electrical Characteristics

  • Oh, Teresa
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.225-228
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    • 2017
  • In this study, zinc tin oxide (ZTO) films were prepared on indium tin oxide (ITO) glasses and annealed at different temperatures under vacuum to investigate the correlation between the Ohmic/Schottky contacts, electrical properties, and bonding structures with respect to the annealing temperatures. The ZTO film annealed at $150^{\circ}C$ exhibited an amorphous structure because of the electron-hole recombination effect, and the current of the ZTO film annealed at $150^{\circ}C$ was less than that of the other films because of the potential barrier effect at the Schottky contact. The drift current as charge carriers was similar to the leakage current in a transparent thin-film device, but the diffusion current related to the Schottky barrier leads to the decrease in the leakage current. The direction of the diffusion current was opposite to that of the drift current resulting in a two-fold enhancement of the cut-off effect of leakage drift current due to the diffusion current, and improved performance of the device with the Schottky barrier. Hence, the thin film with an amorphous structure easily becomes a Schottky contact.

A Study on the Current-Voltage Characteristics of Self-Assembled Nitro-group and Methoxy-group Organic Molecules by Using STM (STM을 이용한 자기조립된 니트로기와 메톡시기 유기분자의 전압-전류 특성 연구)

  • Kim, Seung-Un;Park, Sang-Hyun;Park, Jae-Chul;Shin, Hoon-Kyu;Kwon, Young-Soo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.212-214
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    • 2004
  • In this study, we fabricated the organic thin film by self-assembly method by using nitro-group and methoxy-group organic molecule. Also, we selected the organic single molecule in organic thin film and measured current-voltage characteristics by using scanning tunneling microscopy. The Organic molecules that use in an experiment is 4,4'-(diethynylphenyl)-2'-nitro-1-benzen ethiol and 4-[2,5-dimethoxy-4-ph enylethynylphenyl]ethynylphenylethanthiol. 4,4'-(dimet hynylphenyl)-2'-nitro-1-benzenethiol is applied widely in molecular electronic device and 4-[2,5-dime thoxy-4-phenylethynylphenyl]ethynylphenylethanthiol composed in Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology. To be confirmed the formation of the self-assembled monolayers, we observed the real time frequency shift of the QCM and investigated surface of the self-assembled monolayers the using STM. With this, we measured current to the organic single molecule, in condition of the air state. As a result, we confirmed in constant voltage that properties of negative differential resistance. Using properties of negative differential resistance to get from this study, application is expected to be molecular switching device, memory device and logic device.

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Single-Electron Pass-Transistor Logic with Multiple Tunnel Junctions and Its Hybrid Circuit with MOSFETs

  • Cho, Young-Kyun;Jeong, Yoon-Ha
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.669-672
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    • 2004
  • To improve the operation error caused by the thermal fluctuation of electrons, we propose a novel single-electron pass-transistor logic circuit employing a multiple-tunnel junction (MTJ) scheme and modulate a parameters of an MTJ single-electron tunneling device (SETD) such as the number of tunnel junctions, tunnel resistance, and voltage gain. The operation of a 3-MTJ inverter circuit is simulated at 15 K with parameters $C_g=C_T=C_{clk}=1\;aF,\;R_T=5\;M{\Omega},\;V_{clk}=40\;mV$, and $V_{in}=20\;mV$. Using the SETD/MOSFET hybrid circuit, the charge state output of the proposed MTJ-SETD logic is successfully translated to the voltage state logic.

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Optoelectronics based on 2D semiconductor heterostructures

  • Lee, Cheol-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2016.02a
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    • pp.101.1-101.1
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    • 2016
  • Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures built from two-dimensional layered materials provide an unprecedented opportunity in designing new material systems because the lack of dangling bonds on the vdW surfaces enables the creation of high-quality heterointerfaces without the constraint of atomically precise commensurability. In particular, the ability to build artificial heterostructures, combined with the recent advent of transition metal dichalcogenides, allows the fabrication of unique semiconductor heterostructures in an ultimate thickness limit for fundamental studies as well as novel device applications. In this talk, we will present the characterization of the electronic and optoelectronic properties of atomically thin p-n junctions consisting of vertically stacked WSe2 and MoS2 monolayers. We observed gate-tunable diode-like current rectification and a photovoltaic response across the p-n interface. Unlike conventional bulk p-n junctions, the tunneling-assisted interlayer recombination of the majority carriers is responsible for the tenability of the charge transport and the photovoltaic response. Furthermore, we will discuss the enhanced optoelectronic characteristics in graphene-sandwiched vdW p-n junctions.

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Fabrication and Electrical Properties of MIM Devices In Self-assembled Organic Thin Film (자기조립 유기박막의 제작과 MIM소자의 전기적 특성)

  • Son, Jung-Ho;Shin, Hoon-Kyu;Kwon, Young-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.05b
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    • pp.24-26
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, we discuss the electrical properties of self-assembled (2'-amino-4,4-di(ethynylphenyl)-5'-nitro-l-(thioacetyl)benzene), which has been well known as a conducting molecule having possible application to molecular level NDR device. The phenomenon of negative differential resistance (NDR) is characterized by decreasing current through a junction at increasing voltage. also fabrication of MIM-type molecular electronic and the Molecular Level Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

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Local Photoswitching Effects of Cytochrome c/Viologen/GFP Hetero-Thin Film

  • Yu, Chang-Jun;Choe, Jeong-U;Park, Se-Jeong;Nam, Yun-Seok;O, Byeong-Geun;Lee, Won-Hong
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.11a
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    • pp.823-826
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    • 2001
  • In the initial process of photosynthesis, a biological electron transfer system, photoelectric conversion occurs and then long-range electron transfer takes place very efficiently in one direction through the biomolecules. The metal/insulator/metal structured device consisting of GFP, viologen, cytochrome c hetero-thin film was presented based on the biomimesis. GFP, viologen, and cytochrome c was used as an electron sensitizer, a mediator, and an electron acceptor. Cytochrome c molecules and viologen molecules were deposited by Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique, and GFP molecules were adsorbed by self-assembly method (SAM). Surface morphology of hetero-thin film was analyzed by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Local photoswitching effects of a proposed photodiode were verified by current-voltage measurements using hybrid STM/I-V measurement system.

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Electrical properties variations of nitrided, reoxided MOS devices by nitridation condition (질화와 재산화 조건에 따른 모스 소자의 전기적 특성변화)

  • 이정석;이용재
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 1998.06a
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    • pp.343-346
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    • 1998
  • Ultra-thin gate oxide in MOS devices are subjected to high-field stress during device operation, which degrades the oxide and exentually causes dielectric breakdown. In this paper, we investigate the electrical properties of ultra-thin nitrided oxide (NO) and reoxidized nitrided oxide(ONO) films that are considered to be promising candidates for replacing conventional silicon dioxide film in ULSI level integration. We study vriations of I-V characteristics due to F-N tunneling, and time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) of thin layer NO and ONO depending on nitridation and reoxidation condition, and compare with thermal $SiO_{2}$. From the measurement results, we find that these NO and ONO thin films are strongly depending on its condition and that optimized reoxided nitrided oxides (ONO) films show superior dielectric characteristics, and breakdown-to-change ( $Q_{bd}$ ) performance over the NO films, while maintaining a similar electric field dependence compared to NO layer.

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Electrical Characteristics of Staggered Capacitor ($Si_3N_4$ / HfAlO) for High Performance of Non-volatile Memory

  • Lee, Se-Won;Cho, Won-Ju
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.358-358
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    • 2010
  • To improve the programming/erasing speed and leakage current of multiple dielectric stack tunnel barrier engineering (TBE) Non-volatile memory, We propose a new concept called staggered structure of TBE memory. In this study, We fabricated staggered structure capacitor on $Si_3N_4$ stacked HfAlO and measured C-V curve that can observe tunneling characteristic of this device as various annealing temperature compared with that of single layer $SiO_2$ capacitor.

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Magnetic and Thermal Evaluation of a Magnetic Tunneling Junction Current Sensor Package

  • Rhod, Eduardo;Peter, Celso;Hasenkamp, Willyan;Grion, Agner
    • Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2016
  • Nowadays there are magnetic sensors in a wide variety of equipment such as computers, cars, airplanes, medical and industrial instruments. In many of these applications the magnetic sensors offer safe and non-invasive means of detection and are more reliable than other technologies. The electric current in a conductor generates a magnetic field detected by this type of sensor. This work aims to define a package dedicated to an electrical current sensor using a MTJ (Magnetic Tunnel Junction) as a sensing device. Four different proposals of packaging, three variations of the chip on board (CoB) package type and one variation of the thin small outline package (TSOP) were analyzed by COMSOL modeling software by simulating a brad range of current injection. The results obtained from the thermal and magnetic analysis has proven to be very important for package improvements, specially for heat dissipation performance.

A model for neural trigger circuit using AlGaAs/GaAs MQW-IMD (AlGaAs/GaAs MQW-IMD를 사용하는 신경구동회로의 모델)

  • Song, Chung-Kun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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    • v.32A no.4
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    • pp.47-56
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    • 1995
  • In this paper the model of the MQE-IMD-based neural trigger circuit is improved, where MQW-IMD is a new semiconductor device proposed and experimentally demonstrated by the author for the hardware implementation of the neural networks. The electron energy of AlXGa1-XAsbarrier is calculated by Ensemble Monte Carlo simulation according to the variation of Al mole fraction x and the applied electric field, whtich had been roughly estimated in the previous paper because of the difficulty to get the data. And in the consideration of the tunneling of the confined electrons within the quantum well the accuracy of the impact ionization rate is enhaned. Finally, the dependance of the frequency of pulse-train on the number of quantum wells can be calculated by modelling the effect of the distance of the induced positive charge from the cathode on the electric field at the cathode.

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