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The suggestion of tunneling information and detail requirements for EPB shield machine design (토압식 쉴드TBM 장비설계를 위한 설계항목과 세부 요구사양의 구성에 관한 제안)

  • Kim, Ki-Hwan;Kim, Hyouk;Kim, Seong-Cheol;Kang, Si-On;Mun, Cheol-Hwa
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.611-622
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    • 2020
  • Recently, tunneling projects using shield TBM are increasing in Korea, but the information of client for machine design and manufacturing considering the characteristics of the tunneling phase is not formal, and it is difficult to optimized machine for suitable tunneling works. This paper suggest as for reference the required terms that can be used in Korea on the design items and detailed requirements for ordering of EPB shield TBM based on overseas case study. It would be hope that the TBM user can request the overall tunneling plan and required machine specification when ordering TBM, and the TBM supplier can design and manufacturing that is clear condition and suitable machine for the successful project, so that there are no residential civil complaints and for safe tunneling as well, shield TBM tunneling method will be activated.

Electron Tunneling and Electrochemical Currents through Interfacial Water Inside an STM Junction

  • Song, Moon-Bong;Jang, Jai-Man;Lee, Chi-Woo
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.71-74
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    • 2002
  • The apparent barrier height for charge transfer through an interfacial water layer between a Pt/Ir tip and a gold surface has been measured using STM technique. The average thickness of the interfacial water layer inside an STM junction was controlled by the amount of moisture. A thin water layer on the surface was formed when relative humidity was in the range of 10 to 80%. In such a case, electron tunneling through the thin water layer became the majority of charge transfers. The value of the barrier height for the electron tunneling was determined to be 0.95 eV from the current vs. distance curve, which was independent of the tip-sample distance. On the other hand, the apparent barrier height for charge transfer showed a dependence on tip-sample distance in the bias range of 0.1-0.5 V at a relative humidity of approximately 96%. The non-exponentiality for current decay under these conditions has been explained in terms of electron tunneling and electrochemical processes. In addition, the plateau current was observed at a large tip-sample distance, which was caused by electrochemical processes and was dependent on the applied voltage.

Characteristics of Si Nano-Crystal Memory

  • Kwangseok Han;Kim, Ilgweon;Hyungcheol Shin
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.40-49
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    • 2001
  • We have developed a repeatable process of forming uniform, small-size and high-density self-assembled Si nano-crystals. The Si nano-crystals were fabricated in a conventional LPCVD (low pressure chemical vapor deposition) reactor at $620^{\circ}c$ for 15 sec. The nano-crystals were spherical shaped with about 4.5 nm in diameter and density of $5{\times}l0^{11}/$\textrm{cm}^2$. More uniform dots were fabricated on nitride film than on oxide film. To take advantage of the above-mentioned characteristics of nitride film while keeping the high interface quality between the tunneling dielectrics and the Si substrate, nitride-oxide tunneling dielectrics is proposed in n-channel device. For the first time, the single electron effect at room temperature, which shows a saturation of threshold voltage in a range of gate voltages with a periodicity of ${\Delta}V_{GS}\;{\approx}\;1.7{\;}V$, corresponding to single and multiple electron storage is reported. The feasibility of p-channel nano-crystal memory with thin oxide in direct tunneling regime is demonstrated. The programming mechanisms of p-channel nano-crystal memory were investigated by charge separation technique. For small gate programming voltage, hole tunneling component from inversion layer is dominant. However, valence band electron tunneling component from the valence band in the nano-crystal becomes dominant for large gate voltage. Finally, the comparison of retention between programmed holes and electrons shows that holes have longer retention time.

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Switching and sensing molecular spins by chemical reactions on metal surfaces

  • Kahng, Se-Jong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2015.08a
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    • pp.63.2-63.2
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    • 2015
  • Controlling and sensing spin states of magnetic molecules such as metallo-porphyrins at the single molecule level is essential for spintronic molecular device applications. Axial coordinations of diatomic molecules to metallo-porphyrins also play key roles in dynamic processes of biological functions such as blood pressure control and immune response. However, probing such reactions at the single molecule level to understand their physical mechanisms has been rarely performed. Here we present on our single molecule association and dissociation experiments between diatomic and metallo-porphyrin molecules on Au(111) describing its adsorption structures, spin states, and dissociation mechanisms. We observed bright ring shapes in NO adsorbed metallo-porphyrin compelxes and explained them by considering tilted binding and precession motion of NO. Before NO exposure, Co-porphryin showed a clear zero-bias peak in scanning tunneling spectroscopy, a signature of Kondo effect in STS, whereas after NO exposures it formed a molecular complex, NO-Co-porphyrin, that did not show any zero-bias feature implying that the Kondo effect was switched off by binding of NO. Under tunneling junctions of scanning tunneling microscope, both positive and negative energy pulses. From the observed power law relations between dissociation rate and tunneling current, we argue that the dissociations were inelastically induced with molecular orbital resonances. Our study shows that single molecule association and dissociation can be used to probe spin states and reaction mechanisms in a variety of axial coordination between small molecules and metallo-porphyrins.

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Contact Area-Dependent Electron Transport in Au/n-type Ge Schottky Junction

  • Kim, Hogyoung;Lee, Da Hye;Myung, Hye Seon
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.26 no.8
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    • pp.412-416
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    • 2016
  • The electrical properties of Au/n-type Ge Schottky contacts with different contact areas were investigated using current-voltage (I-V) measurements. Analyses of the reverse bias current characteristics showed that the Poole-Frenkel effect became strong with decreasing contact area. The contribution of the perimeter current density to the total current density was found to increase with increasing reverse bias voltage. Fitting of the forward bias I-V characteristics by considering various transport models revealed that the tunneling current is dominant in the low forward bias region. The contributions of both the thermionic emission (TE) and the generation-recombination (GR) currents to the total current were similar regardless of the contact area, indicating that these currents mainly flow through the bulk region. In contrast, the contribution of the tunneling current to the total current increased with decreasing contact area. The largest $E_{00}$ value (related to tunneling probability) for the smallest contact area was associated with higher tunneling effect.

Scaling theory to minimize the roll-off of threshold voltage for ultra fine MOSFET (미세 구조 MOSFET에서 문턱전압 변화를 최소화하기 위한 최적의 스켈링 이론)

  • 정학기;김재홍;고석웅
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.719-724
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we have presented the simulation results about threshold voltage of nano scale lightly doped drain (LDD) MOSFET with halo doping profile. Device size is scaled down from 100nm to 40nm using generalized scaling. We have investigated the threshold voltage for constant field scaling and constant voltage scaling using the Van Dort Quantum Correction Model (QM) and direct tunneling current for each gate oxide thickness. We know that threshold voltage is decreasing in the constant field scaling and increasing in the constant voltage scaling when gate length is reducing, and direct tunneling current is increasing when gate oxide thickness is reducing. To minimize the roll off characteristics for threshold voltage of MOSFET with decreasing channel length, we know $\alpha$ value must be nearly 1 in the generalized scaling.

Fabrication and Characteristics of Magnetic Tunneling Transistors using the Amorphous n-Type Si Films (비정질 n형 Si 박막을 이용한 자기터널링 트랜지스터 제작과 특성)

  • Lee, Sang-Suk;Lee, Jin-Yong;Hwang, Do-Guwn
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.276-283
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    • 2005
  • Magnetic tunneling transistor (MTT) device using the amorphous n-type Si semiconductor film for base and collector consisting of the [CoFe/NiFe](free layer) and Si(top layer) multilayers was used to study the spin-dependent hot electron magnetocurrent (MC) and tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) at room temperature. A large MC of 40.2 % was observed at the emitter-base bias voltage ( $V_{EB}$ ) of 0.62 V. The increasing emitter hot current and transfer ratio ( $I_{C}$/ $I_{E}$) as $V_{EB}$ are mainly due to a rapid increase of the number of conduction band states in the Si collector. However, above the $V_{EB}$ of 0.62 V, the rapid decrease of MC was observed in amorphous Si-based MTT because of hot electron spin-dependent elastic scattering across CoFe/Si interfaces.

Fabrication of Au(111) substrate and tunneling current characteristics of self-assembled Viologen molecule (Au(111) 기판 제작과 자기조립된 Viologen 분자의 tunneling current 특성)

  • Lee, Nam-Suk;Choi, Won-Suk;Qian, Dong-Jin;Kwon, Young-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.255-256
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    • 2006
  • The electrical properties of viologen ($VC_8SH$) were studied in terms of the tunneling current characteristics using self-assembling techniques and ultra high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy (UHV-STM). We fabricated the Au substrate were deposited by thermal evaporation system($420^{\circ}C$). Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) were prepared on Au(111), which had been thermally deposited onto freshly cleaved, heated mica. The Au substrate was exposed to a 1 mM/L solution of Octanethiol in ethanol for 24 h to form a monolayer. After through rinsing the sample, it was exposed to a 0.1 mM/L solution of $VC_8SH$ in ethanol for 30 min. We measurement of the morphology on the single viologen molecule. The current-voltage (I-V) properties were measured at arbitary configured points on the surface of the sample by using a STS.

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System dynamics of scanning tunneling microscope unit

  • Yamada, Hikaru;Endo, Toshiro;Tsunetaka-Sumomogi;Fujita, Toshizo;Morita, Seizo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1988.10b
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    • pp.794-797
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    • 1988
  • G. Binnig and H. Rohrer introduced the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) in 1982 and developed it into a powerful and not to be missed physical tool. Scanning tunneling Microscopy is a real space surface imaging method with the atomic or subatomic resolution in all three dimensions. The tip is scanned over the surface by two piezo translators mounted parallel (X-piezo and Y-piezo) to the surface and perpendicular to each other. The voltage applied to the third piezo (Z-piezo) translator mounted perpendicular to the surface to maintain the tunneling current through the gap at a constant level reflects then the topography of the surface. The feed back control loop for the constant gap current is designed using the automatic control technique. In the designing process of the feed back loop, the identification of the gap dynamics is very complex and has difficulty. In this research, using some suitable test signals, the system dynamics of the gap including the Z-piezo are investigated. Especially, in this paper, a system model is proposed for the gap and Z-piezo series system. Indicial response is used to find out the model. The driving voltage of the Z-piezo and the tunneling current are considered as input and output signals respectively.

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