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Characterizations of nitrided gate oxides by fowler-nordheim tunneling electron injection (Fowler-nordheim 터널링 전자주입에 의한 질화 게이트 산화막의 특성 분석)

  • 장성수;문성근;노관종;노용한;이칠기
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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    • v.35D no.7
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    • pp.79-87
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    • 1998
  • Nitrided oxides which have been investigated as alternative gate oxide for metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect devices were grown by two-step process using N$_{2}$O gas, and were chaacterized via a fowler-nordheim tunneling(FNT) electron injection technique. Electrical characteristics of nitrided gate oxides were superior to that of control oxides.Further, the FNT electron injection into the nitrided gate oxides reveals that gate oxides degrade more both if electrons were foreced to inject from the gate metal and if thicker nitrided gate oxides were used in the thickness range of 90~130.angs.. Models are suggested to explain these phenomena.

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Oxygen-Silver Junction Formation for Single Molecule Conductance

  • Jo, Han Yeol;Yoo, Pil Sun;Kim, Taekyeong
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.59 no.1
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    • pp.18-21
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    • 2015
  • We use a scanning tunneling microscope based break-junction technique to measure the conductance of a 4,4'-dimethoxybiphenyl molecular junction formed with Ag and Au electrodes. We observe the formation of a clear molecular junction with Ag electrodes that result from stable Ag-oxygen bonding structures. However we have no molecular bonding formation when using Au electrodes, resulting in a tunneling current between the top and bottom metal electrodes. We also see a clear peak in the conductance histogram of the Ag-oxygen molecular junctions, but no significant molecular features are seen with Au electrodes. Our work should open a new path to the conductance measurements of single-molecule junctions with oxygen linkers.

Conductance of a Single Molecule Junction Formed with Ni, Au, and Ag Electrodes

  • Kim, Taekyeong
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.58 no.6
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    • pp.513-516
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    • 2014
  • We measure the conductance of a 4,4'-diaminobiphenyl formed with Ni electrodes using a scanning tunneling microscope-based break-junction technique. For comparison, we use Au or Ag electrodes to form a metal-molecular junction. For molecules that conduct through the highest occupied molecular orbital, junctions formed with Ni show similar conductance as Au and are more conductive than those formed with Ag, consistent with the higher work function for Ni or Au. Furthermore, we observe that the measured molecular junction length that is formed with the Ni or Au electrodes was shorter than that formed with the Ag electrodes. These observations are attributed to a larger gap distance of the Ni or Au electrodes compared to that of the Ag electrodes after the metal contact ruptures. Since our work allows us to measure the conductance of a molecule formed with various electrodes, it should be relevant to molecular electronics with versatile materials.

Two-dimensional Chiral Honeycomb Structures of Unnatural Amino Acids on Au(111)

  • Yang, Sena;Jeon, Aram;Lee, Hee-Seung;Kim, Sehun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2014.02a
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    • pp.191.1-191.1
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    • 2014
  • Crystallization has become the most popular technique for the separation of enantiomers since the Pasteur's discovery. To investigate mechanism of crystallization of chiral molecules, it is necessary to study self-assembled structures on two-dimensional surface. Here, we have studied two-dimensional self-assembled structures of an unnatural amino acid, (S)-${\beta}$-methyl naphthalen-1-${\gamma}$-aminobutyric acid (${\gamma}^2$-1-naphthylalanine) on Au(111) surface at 150 K using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). At initial stage, we found two chiral honeycomb structures which are counter-clockwise and clockwise configurations in one domain. The molecules are arranged around molecular vacancies, dark hole. By further increasing the amounts of adsorbed ${\gamma}^2$-1-naphthylalanine, a well-ordered square packed structure was observed. In addition, we found the other structure that molecules were trapped in the pore of the hexagonal molecular assembly.

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Analytical Surface Potential Model with TCAD Simulation Verification for Evaluation of Surrounding Gate TFET

  • Samuel, T.S. Arun;Balamurugan, N.B.;Niranjana, T.;Samyuktha, B.
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.655-661
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, a new two dimensional (2D) analytical modeling and simulation for a surrounding gate tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) is proposed. The Parabolic approximation technique is used to solve the 2-D Poisson equation with suitable boundary conditions and analytical expressions for surface potential and electric field are derived. This electric field distribution is further used to calculate the tunneling generation rate and thus we numerically extract the tunneling current. The results show a significant improvement in on-current characteristics while short channel effects are greatly reduced. Effectiveness of the proposed model has been confirmed by comparing the analytical results with the TCAD simulation results.

Nano-Scale Surface Observation of Cyclically Deformed Copper and Cu-Al Single Crystals (반복변형된 Cu 및 Cu-Al 단결정 표면형상의 나노-스케일 관찰)

  • 최성종;이권용
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.389-394
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    • 2000
  • Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) such as Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) and Atomic Force Microscope (AEM) was shown to be the powerful tool for nano-scale characterization of material surfaces. Using this technique, surface morphology of the cyclically deformed Cu or Cu-Al single crystal was observed. The surface became proportionately rough as the number of cycles increased, but after some number of cycles no further change was observed. Slip steps with the heights of 100 to 200 nm and the widths of 1000 to 2000 nm were prevailing at the stage. The slipped distance of one slip system at the surface was not uniform, and formation of the extrusions or intrusions was assumed to occur such place. By comparing the morphological change caused by crystallographic orientation, strain amplitude, number of cycles or stacking fault energy, some interesting results which help to clarify the basic mechanism of fatigue damage were obtained. Furthermore, applicability of the scanning tunneling microscopy to fatigue damage is discussed.

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Alcohol Adsorption on NiAl(110) Deposited by Pulsed Injection

  • Choi, Eun-Yeoung;Lee, Youn-Joo;Lyo, In-Whan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.02a
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    • pp.353-353
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    • 2010
  • Alcohol is a vesatile polar solvent for molecules. As a preparation to deposit large molecules, we studied interaction of solvent molecules on metallic surface. in this work, we report on methanol adsorption on NiAl(110) with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). These alcohol solvent molecules were deposited by a pulse injection method suitable for deposition of thermally unstable molecules. The injection of liquid alcohol onto the substrate in UHV was performed by using a high-speed solenoid valve with the back-pressure reduced down to 100 Torr. This technique allowed precise control over the amount of dosing of molecules to less than 1 L. Alcohol-induced features, attributed to methoxy, were found on bare NiAl(110) surface.

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Solving Time-dependent Schrödinger Equation Using Gaussian Wave Packet Dynamics

  • Lee, Min-Ho;Byun, Chang Woo;Choi, Nark Nyul;Kim, Dae-Soung
    • Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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    • v.73 no.9
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    • pp.1269-1278
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    • 2018
  • Using the thawed Gaussian wave packets [E. J. Heller, J. Chem. Phys. 62, 1544 (1975)] and the adaptive reinitialization technique employing the frame operator [L. M. Andersson et al., J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 35, 7787 (2002)], a trajectory-based Gaussian wave packet method is introduced that can be applied to scattering and time-dependent problems. This method does not require either the numerical multidimensional integrals for potential operators or the inversion of nearly-singular matrices representing the overlap of overcomplete Gaussian basis functions. We demonstrate a possibility that the method can be a promising candidate for the time-dependent $Schr{\ddot{o}}dinger$ equation solver by applying to tunneling, high-order harmonic generation, and above-threshold ionization problems in one-dimensional model systems. Although the efficiency of the method is confirmed in one-dimensional systems, it can be easily extended to higher dimensional systems.

Reliability assessment of EPB tunnel-related settlement

  • Goh, Anthony T.C.;Hefney, A.M.
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.57-69
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    • 2010
  • A major consideration in the design of tunnels in urban areas is the prediction of the ground movements and surface settlements associated with the tunneling operations. Excessive ground movements can damage adjacent building and utilities. In this paper, a neural network model is used to predict the maximum surface settlement, based on instrumented results from three separate EPB tunneling projects in Singapore. This paper demonstrates that by coupling the trained neural network model to a spreadsheet optimization technique, the reliability assessment of the settlement serviceability limit state can be carried out using the first-order reliability method. With this method, it is possible to carry out sensitivity studies to examine the effect of the level of uncertainty of each parameter uncertainty on the probability that the serviceability limit state has been exceeded.

The Regional transferring Model for Multicasting Service based on IP (IP 기반 멀티캐스트 서비스의 지역분할 전송 모델)

  • Jang, Kyung-Sung;Kim, Byung-Ki
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.8C no.5
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    • pp.637-646
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    • 2001
  • The multicasting telecommunication is an important research as an applicable technique in the development of adaptable technique for modern mobile computing and mobile IP, because that is supposed to be a solution for transferring the large-size information on the mobile and wireless network with the narrow bandwidth. This paper will suggest one solution for the bidirectional tunneling and the local re-registration problems to support transferring mobile multicasting datagram by the partitioned network. The bidirectional tunneling technique is in use for mobile host moving around in a region and the local re-registration technique for crossing regions to reduce traffic load caused by transferring datagram along a long distance, and we compare those models with our suggested model by simulation.

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