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Differences in Design Considerations between InGaN and Conventional High-Brightness Light-Emitting Diodes

  • Lee, Song-Jae
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.13-21
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    • 1998
  • Based on the escape cone concepts, high-brightness light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been analyzed. In AlGaAs or InGaAlP LEDs, photon absorption in the ohmic region under the electrode is known to be significant. Thus, ins general, a thick window layer (WL) and a transparent substrate (TS) would minimize photon shielding by the electrodes and considerably improve photon output coupling efficiency. However, the schemes do not seem to be necessary in InGaN system. Photon absorption in ohmic contact to a wide bandgap semiconductor such as GaN may be negligible and, as a result, the significant photon shielding by the electrodes will not degrade the photon output coupling efficiency so much. The photon output coupling efficiency estimated in InGaN LEDs is about 2.5 - 2.8 times that of the conventional high-brightness LED structures based on both WL and TS schemes. As a result, the extenal quantum efficiency in InGaN LEDs is as high as 9% despite the presumably very low internal quantum efficiency.

Properties of CdS Thin Films Prepared by Chemical Bath Deposition as a Function of Thiourea/CdAc2 Ratio in Solution (CBD법으로 제작된 CdS 박막의 thiourea/CdAc2 농도비에 따른 특성)

  • Song, Woo-Chang
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.28-32
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    • 2008
  • In this paper CdS thin films, which were widely used window layer of the CdS/CdTe and the CdS/$CuInSe_2$ heterojunction solar cell, were grown by chemical bath deposition, which is a very attractive method for low-cost and large-area solar cells, and the structural, optical and electrical properties of the films was studied. As the thiourea/$CdAc_2$ mole ratio was increased, the deposition rate of CdS films prepared by CBD was increased due to increasing reaction velocity in solution and the optical bandgap was increased at higher thiourea/$CdAc_2$ mole ratio due to larger grain size and continuous microstructure. The minimum resistivity of the films was at thiourea/$CdAc_2$ mole ratio of 3.

CMOS Temperature Sensor with Ring Oscillator for Mobile DRAM Self-refresh Control (링 오실레이터를 가진 CMOS 온도 센서)

  • Kim, Chan-kyung;Lee, Jae-Goo;Kong, Bai-Sun;Jun, Young-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.485-486
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    • 2006
  • This paper proposes a novel low-cost CMOS temperature sensor for controlling the self-refresh period of a mobile DRAM. In this temperature sensor, ring oscillators composed of cascaded inverter stages are used to obtain the temperature of the chip. This method is highly area-efficient, simple and easy for IC implementation as compared to traditional temperature sensors based on analog bandgap reference circuits. The proposed CMOS temperature sensor was fabricated with 80 nm 3-metal DRAM process. It occupies a silicon area of only about less than $0.02\;mm^2$ at $10^{\circ}C$ resolution with under 5uW power consumption at 1 sample/s processing rate. This area is about 33% of conventional temperature sensor in mobile DRAM.

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Enhanced Properties of IZO Thin Film Prepared by Nano-Powder Target

  • Ji, Seung-Hun;Youn, Hyun-Oh;Seo, Sung-Bo;Kim, Mi-Sun;Sohn, Sun-Young;Kim, Jong-Jae;Kim, Hwa-Min
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.1428-1429
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    • 2009
  • Compared to the indium zinc oxide (IZO) film fabricated by micro-powder target, the IZO film with nano-powder target exhibited improved optoelectronic properties of wide bandgap, high transmittance, surface uniformity, and low sheet resistance due to the high film density.

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Status of Silicon Carbide as a Semiconductor Device (SiC 반도체 기술현황과 전망)

  • 김은동
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2001.11a
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    • pp.13-16
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    • 2001
  • 반도체 동작시에 파워 손실을 최소화하는 것은 2000년대의 에너지, 산업전자, 정보통신 산업분야에서의 가장 주요한 요구 사항중의 하나이다. 실리콘계 반도체 소자들은 완전히 새로운 구동기구의 소자가 개발되지 않는 한, 실리콘 재료의 낮은 열 전도율이나 낮은 절연파괴전계와 같은 물리적 특성한계 때문에 이러한 요구를 만족시키는 것이 불가능한 실정이다. 따라서 21세기를 위한 대안으로 고열전도율의 WBG(Wide Band-Gap) 물질 그 중에서도 탄화규소(SiC) 반도체가 제시되고 있다. SiC 반도체는 실리콘에 비하여 밴드 갭(band gap: E$_{g}$)이 높을 뿐만이 아니라 절연파괴강도(E$_{B}$)가 한 자릿수 이상 그리고 전자의 포화 drift 속도, v$_{s}$ 및 열전도도 k가 3배 가량 크다. 따라서 SiC는 고온 동작 내지는 고내압, 대전류, 저손실 반도체를 제작하는데 아주 유리하다. 본고에서는 응용성이 넓고, 단결정 제조가 비교적 용이한 SiC 반도체의 기술현황 에 대하여 살펴보고자 한다.

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Characteristics of InN thin films fabricated by reactive sputtering (반응성 스퍼터링에 의해 제작된 InN 박막의 특성)

  • 김영호;정성훈;문동찬;송복식;김선태
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1997.11a
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    • pp.173-176
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    • 1997
  • The III-V nitride semiconductor InN thin films which have the direct bandgap in visible light wavelength region have been deposited on Si(100) substrates and AIN/Si(100) substrates by rf reactive sputtering. InN thin films have been investigated on the structural, and electrical properties according to the sputtering parameters such as total pressure, rf power, and substrate temperature. It is found that optimal conditions required for fabricating InN thin films with high crystal Quality, low carrier concentration, high Hall mobility are total pressure 5mTorr, rf power 60W, substrate temperature 6$0^{\circ}C$ . InN thin films deposited on the AIN(60min.)/Si(100) substrates arid AIN(120min.)/Si(100) substrates showed remarkably high crystal quality and electrical properties. It is known that AIN buffer layer is to decrease free energy at interface between InN film and Si substrate, and then promoting lateral growth of InN films.

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Ag/a-$Se_{75}$$Ge_{25}$박막의 Ag Doping Mechaism 해석[I]

  • 김민수;이현용;정홍배;이영종
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1994.05a
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    • pp.113-115
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    • 1994
  • We considered the ion and photo-induced properties as a function of wavelength by exposing the light over the band gap of a-Ag/a-$Se_{75}$$Ge_{25}$ and the low-energy defocused $Ga^{+}$ ion beam on Ag/a-$Se_{75}$$Ge_{25}$ thin film. This film acts as a negative resist for photo or ion beam lithography. We observed that the absorbance coefficient decreased with increasing the photo-exposing time and exposing the ion beam. The bandgap shifts toward longer wavelength called a "darkening effect" are observed in the films exposed to both photons and ions. We suggest that a primary step in the Ag layer and a secondary step is in a-$Se_{75}$$Ge_{25}$ film layer.

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Free exciton transitions and Varshni′s coeffecients for GaN epitaxial layers grown by horizontal LP - MOCVD

  • Lee, Joo-in;Leem, Jae-Young;Son, J.S.;Viswanath, A. Kasi
    • Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.63-67
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    • 2000
  • We have studied the photoluminescence properties of undoped epitaxial layers of GaN on sapphire substrate grown by horizontal low pressure metal organic chemical vapor deposition method in the temperature range of 9-300 K. At 9 K the spectra are dominated by the well resolved interband free excitons A and B as well as bound excitons. Temperature dependence of free exciton transitions was studied and Varshni's coefficients for the temperature variation of bandgap were determined.

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Inductance-Enhanced Corrugated Ground Planes for Miniaturization and Common Mode Noise Suppression of Differential Line in High-Speed Packages and PCBs (고속 반도체 패키지 및 PCB 내 공통 모드 잡음 감쇠를 위한 소형화 된 인덕턴스 향상 파형 접지면 기반 차동 신호선)

  • Tae-Soo Park;Myunghoi Kim
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.246-249
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    • 2024
  • In this paper, we present a miniaturized differential line (DL) using inductance-enhanced corrugated ground planes (LCGP) for effective common-mode (CM) noise suppression in high-speed packages and printed circuit boards. The LCGP-DL demonstrates the CM noise suppression in the frequency range from 2.09 GHz to 3.6 GHz. Furthermore, to achieve the same low cutoff frequency, the LCGP-DL accomplishes a remarkable 23.2% reduction in size compared to a reference DL.

0.35㎛ CMOS Low-Voltage Current/Voltage Reference Circuits with Curvature Compensation (곡률보상 기능을 갖는 0.35㎛ CMOS 저전압 기준전류/전압 발생회로)

  • Park, Eun-Young;Choi, Beom-Kwan;Yang, Hee-Jun;Yoon, Eun-Jung;Yu, Chong-Gun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2016.10a
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    • pp.527-530
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents curvature-compensated reference circuits operating under low-voltage condition and achieving low-power consumption with $0.35-{\mu}m$ standard CMOS process. The proposed circuit can operate under less than 1-V supply voltage by using MOS transistors operating in weak-inversion region. The simulation results shows a low temperature coefficient by using the proposed curvature compensation technique. It generates a graph-shape temperature characteristic that looks like a sine curve, not a bell-shape characteristic presented in other published BGRs without curvature compensation. The proposed circuits operate with 0.9-V supply voltage. First, the voltage reference circuit consumes 176nW power and the temperature coefficient is $26.4ppm/^{\circ}C$. The current reference circuit is designed to operate with 194.3nW power consumption and $13.3ppm/^{\circ}C$ temperature coefficient.

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