• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2011년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.20.1-20.1
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• 2011

The nano-sized quantum structure has been an attractive candidate for investigations of the fundamental physical properties and potential applications of next-generation electronic devices. Metal nano-particles form deep quantum wells between control and tunnel oxides due to a difference in work functions. The charge storage capacity of nanoparticles has led to their use in the development of nano-floating gate memory (NFGM) devices. When compared with conventional floating gate memory devices, NFGM devices offer a number of advantages that have attracted a great deal of attention: a greater inherent scalability, better endurance, a faster write/erase speed, and more processes that are compatible with conventional silicon processes. To improve the performance of NFGM, metal nanocrystals such as Au, Ag, Ni Pt, and W have been proposed due to superior density, a strong coupling with the conduction channel, a wide range of work function selectivity, and a small energy perturbation. In the present study, bismuth metal nanocrystals were self-assembled within high-k $Bi_2Mg_{2/3}Nb_{4/3}O_7$ (BMN) films grown at room temperature in Ar ambient via radio-frequency magnetron sputtering. The work function of the bismuth metal nanocrystals (4.34 eV) was important for nanocrystal-based nonvolatile memory (NVM) applications. If transparent NFGM devices can be integrated with transparent solar cells, non-volatile memory fields will open a new platform for flexible electron devices.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2008

We fabricated nano-particles of ZnO, $In_2O_3$ and $SnO_2$ by using the chemical reaction between metal thin films and polyamic acid. The average size and density of these ZnO, $In_2O_3$ and $SnO_2$ nano-particles was approximately 10, 7, and 15 nm, and $2{\times}10^{11},\;6{\times}10^{11},\;2.4{\times}10^{11}cm^{-2}$, respectively. Then, we fabricated nano-floating gate memory (NFGM) devices with ZnO and $In_2O_3$ nano-particles embedded in the devices' polyimide dielectrics and silicon dioxide layers as control and tunnel oxides, respectively. We measured the current-voltage characteristics, endurance properties and retention times of the memory devices using a semiconductor parameter analyzer. In the $In_2O_3$ NFGM, the threshold voltage shift (${\Delta}V_T$) was approximately 5 V at the initial state of programming and erasing operations. However, the memory window rapidly decreased after 1000 s from 5 to 1.5 V. The ${\Delta}V_T$ of the NFGM containing ZnO was approximately 2 V at the initial state, but the memory window decreased after 1000 s from 2 to 0.4 V. These results mean that metal-oxide nano-particles have feasibility to apply NFGM devices.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제12권4호통권37호
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• pp.359-363
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• 2005

유기 박막트랜지스터 (OTFT)를 제작하기 위하여 게이트 절연막으로서 PVP 계통의 유기막을 갖는 MIM(metal-insulator-metal)구조의 유기 절연층 소자를 제작하였다. 유기 절연층의 형은 ITO/Glass 기판위에 polyvinyl 계열의 PVP(poly-4-vinylphenol)를 용질로, PGMEA (propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate)를 용매로 사용하여 co-polymer PVP를 제조하였다. 또한 열경화성 수지인 poly(melamine-co-formaldehyde)를 경화제로 사용하여 cross-linked PVP 절연막을 합성하였다. 유기 절연층의 전기적 특성은 co-polymer PVP 소자에 비해 cross-link 방식으로 제조된 소자에서 약 300 pA의 낮은 누설전류와 상대적으로 낮은 잡음전류의 특성을 나타내었다. 또한 cross-linked PVP 절연막에서 보다 양호한 표면형상 (거칠기)이 관찰되었으며 정전용량 값은 약 0.11${\~}$0.18 nF의 값을 나타내었다.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2007

휨성 유기박막트랜지스터(organic thin film transistor, OTFT)를 제작하기 위하여 게이트 절연막으로 PVP(poly-4-vinylphenol) 유기막을 이용하여 MIM (metal-insulator-metal) 구조의 캐패시터 소자를 제작하였다. 유기 절연층의 형성은 Al/PES (polyethersulfone) 기판과 ITO/Glass 기판 위에 PVP를 용질로, PGMEA(propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate)를 용매로 사용하였다 또한 열경화성 수지인 poly(melamine-co-(ormaldehyde)를 사용하여 cross-linked PVP 절연막을 합성하여 스핀코팅법으로 소자를 형성하였다. 제작된 소자에 대해 절연막 두께와 기판 종류에 따른 전기적 특성을 조사한 결과 Al/PES 기판을 사용하였을때 누설전류는 1.3 nA로 ITO/glass 기판을 사용했을때의 27.5 nA보다 크게 개선되었다. 또한 제작된 모든 캐패시터 소자의 정전용량은 $1.0{\sim}1.2nF/cm^2$ 범위로 나타났으며 계산값과 매우 유사한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.16
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• pp.3-6
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• 2003

This paper describes the interface stability of Ta-Mo alloy metal on $SiO_2$ Alloy was formed by co-sputtering method, and the alloy composition was varied by controlling Ta and Mo sputtering power. When the atomic composition of Ta was about 91%, the measured work function was 4.2eV that is suitable for NMOS gate. To identify interface stability between Ta-Mo alloy metal and $SiO_2$, C-V, FE-SEM(Field Emission-SEM), and XRD(X-ray diffraction) were performed on the samples annealed with rapid thermal processor between $600^{\circ}C$ and $900^{\circ}C$. Even after $900^{\circ}C$ rapid thermal annealing, excellent interface stability and electrical properties were observed. Also, thermodynamic analysis was studied to compare with experimental results.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제38권10호
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• pp.678-686
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• 2001

CaAs metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) 소자의 전달컨덕턴스 분산 (transconductance dispersion) 현상과 게이트 누설 전류의 원인을 capacitance deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) 측정을 이용하여 해석하였다. DLTS 스펙트럼에서는 활성화 에너지가 각각 0.65×0.07 eV와 0.88 × 0.04 eV인 두개의 표면 결함과 0.84 × 0.01 eV의 활성화 에너지를 갖는 EL2를 관찰하였다. 전달컨덕턴스 분산 측정 결과, 전달컨덕턴스는 5.5 Hz ∼ 300 Hz의 주파수 영역에서 감소하였다. 전달컨덕턴스 분산을 온도의 함수로 측정한 결과, 온도가 증가할수록 전이 주파수는 증가하였고 전이 주파수의 온도 의존성으로부터 0.66 ∼ 0.02 eV의 활성화 에너지를 구할 수 있었다. 게이트 누설 전류 측정에서는 0.15 V 이하의 게이트 전압에서 순 방향과 역 방향 게이트 전압이 일치하는 오믹 전류-전압 특성을 나타내었고 게이트 누설 전류의 온도 의존성으로부터 구한 활성화 에너지는 0.63 ∼ 0.01 eV로 계산되었다. 서로 다른 방법으로 구한 활성화 에너지의 비교로부터 표면 결함 H1이 주파수에 따라서 감소하는 전달컨덕턴스 분산 및 게이트 누설 전류의 원인임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.433-439
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• 2011

Poly Si TFTs (poly silicon thin film transistors) with p channel those are annealed HT (high temperature) with gate poly crystalline silicon and LT (low temperature) with metal gate electrode were fabricated on quartz substrate using the analyzed data and compared according to the activated grade silicon thin films and the size of device channel. The electrical characteristics of HT poly-Si TFTs increased those are the on current, electron mobility and decrease threshold voltage by the quality of particles of active thin films annealed at high temperature. But the on/off current ratio reduced by increase of the off current depend on the hot carrier applied to high gate voltage. Even though the size of the particles annealed at low temperature are bigger than HT poly-Si TFTs due to defect in the activated grade poly crystal silicon and the grain boundary, the characteristics of LT poly-Si TFTs were investigated deterioration phenomena those are decrease the electric off current, electron mobility and increase threshold voltage. The results of transconductance show that slope depend on the quality of particles and the amplitude depend on the size of the active silicon particles.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.6-6
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• 2009

We present an alternative process whereby deuterium is delivered to the location where the gate oxide reside by an implantation process. Deuterium ions were implanted using different energies to account for the topography of the overlaying layers and placing the D peak at the top of gate oxide. A short anneal at forming gas was performed to remove the D-implantation damage. We have observed that deuterium ion implantation into the gate oxide region can successfully remove the interface states and the bulk defects.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.332.2-332.2
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• 2016

Two dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) semiconductors are attractive materials for optoelectric devices because of their direct energy bandgap and transparency. To investigate the feasibility of transparent p-n junctions, we have fabricated a p-n heterojunction consisting of p-type WSe2 and n-type MoS2 flakes since WSe2 and MoS2 with proper electrode metals exhibit p-type and n-type behaviors, respectively. These heterojunctions exhibits gate-tunable rectifying behaviors and photovoltaic effects (ECE ~ 0.2%) indicating that p-n junctions were formed. In addition, photocurrent and photovoltaic effects were observed under light illumination, which were dependent on the gate voltage. In addition, the photocurrent mapping images indicate that the photovoltaic effects comes from the junction area. Possible origins of gate-tunability are discussed.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권9호
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• pp.1351-1358
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• 2017

In this work, we investigated radiation hardness of GaN-based transistors which are strong candidates for next-generation power electronics. Field effect transistors with three types of gate structures including metal Schottky gate, recessed gate, and p-AlGaN layer gate were fabricated on AlGaN/GaN heterostructure on Si substrate. The devices were irradiated with energetic protons and alpha-particles. The irradiated transistors exhibited the reduction of on-current and the shift of threshold voltage which were attributed to displacement damage by incident energetic particles at high fluence. However, FET operation was still maintained and leakage characteristics were not degraded, suggesting that GaN-based FETs possess high potential for radiation-hardened electronics.