• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.1771-1777
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• 2016

In this thesis, the breakdown voltage characteristics of silicon nanowire N-channel GAA MOSFETs were analyzed through experiments and 3-dimensional device simulation. GAA MOSFETs with the gate length of 250nm, the gate dielectrics thickness of 6nm and the channel width ranged from 400nm to 3.2um were used. The breakdown voltage was decreased with increasing gate voltage but it was increased at high gate voltage. The decrease of breakdown voltage with increasing channel width is believed due to the increased current gain of parasitic transistor, which was resulted from the increased potential in channel center through floating body effects. When the positive charge was trapped into the gate dielectrics after gate stress, the breakdown voltage was decreased due to the increased potential in channel center. When the negative charge was trapped into the gate dielectrics after gate stress, the breakdown voltage was increased due to the decreased potential in channel center. We confirmed that the measurement results were agreed with the device simulation results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.793-798
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• 2016

In this work, the memory window characteristics of vertical nanowire device with asymmetric source and drain was analyzed using bipolar junction transistor mode for 1T-DRAM application. A gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFET with higher doping concentration in the drain region than in the source region was used. The shape of GAA MOSFET was a tapered vertical structure that the source area is larger than the drain area. From hysteresis curves using bipolar junction mode, the memory windows were 1.08V in the forward mode and 0.16V in the reverse mode, respectively. We observed that the latch-up point was larger in the forward mode than in the reverse mode by 0.34V. To confirm the measurement results, the device simulation has been performed and the simulation results were consistent in the measurement ones. We knew that the device structure with higher doping concentration in the drain region was desirable for the 1T-DRAM using bipolar junction mode.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.889-893
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• 2015

In this work, the characteristics of GIDL current in nanowire GAA MOSFET with different channel width and hot carrier stress. When the gate length is fixed as a 250nm the GIDL current with different channel width of 10nm, 50nm, 80nm, and 130nm have been measured and analyzed. From the measurement, the GIDL is increased as the channel width decreaes. However, the derive current is increased as the channel width increases. From measurement results after hot carrier stress, the variation of GIDL current is increased with decreasing channel width. Finally, the reasons for the increase of GIDL current with decreasing channel width and r device. according to hot carrier stress GIDL's variation shows big change when width and the increase of GIDL current after hot carrier stress are confirmed through the device simulation.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2017.03a
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• pp.412-416
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• 2017

CMOS device에서 off leakage current로 인한 power dissipation 문제는 미래 소자에 주어진 주요한 과제이다. Nanowire FET은 이러한 문제를 해결할 주요 미래소자로 각광받고있다. 하지만 nanowire FET을 공정할 때 채널 에칭을 완벽한 원형 구조로 가지는 것이 어렵기 때문에 타원형으로 시뮬레이션을 진행해 볼 필요성이 있다. 본 논문에서는 nanowire의 aspect ratio, crystal orientation의 변화에 따른 nanowire FET의 전압-전류 특성 및 transport 특성을 관찰하는 연구를 진행하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, [100] 방향은 완벽한 원형구조에서 최적인 반면에 [110] 방향은 타원형으로 모델링함에 있어서 장점이 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2014.03a
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• pp.434-438
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• 2014

CMOS의 최종형태로써 Gate-All-Around(GAA) Silicon Nanowire(NW)가 각광받고 있다. 이 논문에서 NW FET(Field Effect Transistor)의 채널 길이와 NW의 폭과 같은 size에 따른 특성변화를 실제 실험 data와 NW FET 특성분석 simulation을 이용해서 비교해보았다. MOSFET(Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor)의 소형화에 따른 쇼트 채널 효과(short channel effect)에 의한 threshold voltage($V_{th}$), Drain Induced Barrier Lowering(DIBL), subthreshold swing(SS) 또한 비교하였다. 이에 더하여, 기존의 상용툴로 NW를 해석한 시뮬레이션 결과와도 비교해봄으로써 NW의 size scaling에 대한 EDISON NW 해석 simulation의 정확도를 파악해보았다.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2015.03a
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• pp.357-364
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• 2015

In this work, we investigate the quantum effects exhibited from ultra-thin GAA(gate-all-around) Nanowire FETs for Sub 14nm Technology. We face designing challenges particularly short channel effects (SCE). However traditional MOSFET SCE models become invalid due to unexpected quantum effects. In this paper, we investigated various performance factors of the GAA Nanowire FET structure, which is promising future device. We observe a variety of quantum effects that are not seen when large scale. Such are source drain tunneling due to short channel lengths, drastic threshold voltage increase caused by quantum confinement for small channel area, leakage current through thin gate oxide by tunneling, induced source barrier lowering by fringing field from drain enhanced by high k dielectric, and lastly the I-V characteristic dependence on channel materials and transport orientations owing to quantum confinement and valley splitting. Understanding these quantum phenomena will guide to reducing SCEs for future sub 14nm devices.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.879-882
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• 2015

In this work, we have analyzed the characteristics of vertical nanowire GAA MOSFET according to channel width and the type of channel doping through the simulation. First, we compared and analyzed the characteristics of designed structures which have tilted shapes that ends of drains are fixed as 20nm and ends of sources are 30nm, 50nm, 80nm and 110nm. Second, we designed the rectangular structure which has uniform width of drain, channel and source as 50nm. We used it as a standard and designed trapezoidal structure which is tilted so that the end of drain became 20nm and reverse trapezoidal structure which is tilted so that the end of source became 20nm. We compared and analyzed the characteristic of above three structures. For the last, we used the rectangular structure, divided its channel as five parts and changed the type of the five parts of doping concentration variously. In the first simulation, when the channel width is the shortest, in the second, when the structure is trapezoid, in the third, when the center of channel is high doped show the best characteristics.

• Vacuum Magazine
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.15-18
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• 2016

In future wearable electronic systems, 3-dimensional (3D) devices have attracted much attention due to their high density integration and low-power functionality. Among 3D devices, gate-all-around (GAA) nanowire transistor provides superior gate controllability, resulting in suppressing short channel effect and other drawbacks in 2D metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are the most promising building block for GAA structure device due to their compatibility with the current Si-based ultra large scale integration (ULSI) technology. Moreover, the theoretical limit for subthreshold swing (SS) of MOSFET is 60 mV/dec at room temperature, which causes the increase in Ioff current. To overcome theoretical limit for the SS, it is crucial that research into new types of device concepts should be performed. In our present studies, we have experimentally demonstrated feedback FET (FBFET) and tunnel FET (TFET) with sub-60 mV/dec based on SiNWs. Also, we fabricated SiNW based complementary TFET (c-TFET) and SiNW complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) inverter. Our research demonstrates the promising potential of SiNW electronic devices for future wearable electronic systems.