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Tatsuya Ohguro - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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In this study, embedded die packaging technology was used to evaluate device characteristics and package-level reliability tests of 40V-rated Si MOSFETs for automotive applications. Initially, electrical and thermal simulations were performed to optimize the package design, followed by fabrication of a prototype package under optimal conditions. These results showed that increasing the number of l...Show More
We provide the method to estimate intrinsic Qrr ($Q_{r_{-}\text{int}})$ without parasitic inductance in the measurement system for the first time. In this paper, we analyze parasitic inductance dependence of Qrr by TCAD simulation and we propose the method for removing the parasitic inductance effect as well as calculating the carrier of recombination and discharge (qr_into).Show More
To accelerate the development of low voltage MOSFET, we designed a test element group pattern that enables on-resistance measurement at wafer level. We confirmed that the on-resistance can be measured at wafer level by optimizing the device size and contact method to eliminate the influence of parasitic resistance.Show More
Stacked chip of! Si power device is useful for both lower on-resistance and small packaged size for reduction of system size and high power efficiency. In this paper, some structures and procedure to measure parasitic resistance of the stacked chip are described.Show More
Stacked chip is the one of the candidate structure to realize low on-resistance, small package. In order to minimize the chip size, it is required to overlap two gate and two source electrodes between two stacked chips, respectively. However, it is impossible to overlap them when wire bonding are used. We completely overlapped these electrodes between two chips by Cu clips. Additionally, double si...Show More
We investigated characteristics impact of alpha-particles irradiation to power MOSFETs and demonstrated alpha-particle shielding effect of thick copper plating film on a power MOSFET. We used americium-241 alpha-source for irradiating alpha-particles to the surface of the power MOSFET die. Irradiation under gate-source bias caused threshold voltage (Vth) decrease due to generated trapped holes in ...Show More
Methods of both evaluation and analysis of current collapse (C/C) in GaN HEMTs are discussed. Recently, guidelines to the methods of evaluation of C/C in comparing device characteristics have been required as the increase in on-resistance resulting from C/C depends significantly on stress conditions and the applied method. Therefore, as a guideline, we propose the DC voltage stress and inductance ...Show More
We propose Multi Gate Oxide - Dual Work-Function (MGO-DWF)-MOSFET which is suitable for low power AB-class RF power amplifier (RF PA). This was examined for the first time by comparing with a standard Cascode connection circuitry composed of LV- and HVMOSFETs. Dramatically improved FMAX (150 GHz) with sufficient drain break-down voltage (VBD) was experimentally confirmed in a practical device stru...Show More
Unified transient and frequency domain noise simulation of random telegraph noise and flicker noise is conducted using a multiphonon-assisted model that considers tunneling probabilities and energy transitions of discretized traps in the gate insulator of MOSFETs. The proposed model is able to concurrently represent the dynamic behavior of electron and hole trapping and detrapping via interactions...Show More
Dual Work Function (DWF)-MOSFET of 100 nm gate length device with self-aligned integration scheme was demonstrated utilizing conventional CMOS platform process for the first time. Here, we obtained not only the improved transconductance (GM) and drain conductance (GD), but also the enlarged operation voltage window employing multi gate oxide structure combined with DWF gate stack. Also, the discri...Show More
In planar MOSFET, the optimization of finger length should be carried out with considering fT, fmax and flicker noise because the noise degradation at STI edge effect appears below 1μm. In FinFET, the optimization of not only finger length but also the distance between gate and source, drain contact region and fin pitch are necessary to reduce parasitic resistance and capacitance. According to our...Show More
Physical modeling of transient and frequency domain noise simulation for random telegraph noise (RTN) is conducted, considering discretized traps and energy transition in insulator. The models are implemented in a 3D device simulator to consider the device structure effect and bias effect universally. Trap density and trap distribution in insulator are predicted quantitatively with comparison of m...Show More
This paper presents an RF MEMS tunable capacitor that achieves excellent power-handling property with relatively low actuation voltage. The tunable capacitor consists of two fixed MIM (Metal-Insulator-Metal) capacitors and two MEMS capacitor elements, all connected in series. This quadruple series capacitor (QSC) structure enables to reduce the actuation voltage without sacrificing the power-handl...Show More
This paper presents an RF MEMS tunable capacitor that achieves an excellent power-handling property with relatively low actuation voltage. The tunable capacitor consists of two fixed MIM (Metal-Insulator-Metal) capacitors and two MEMS capacitor elements, all connected in series. This quadruple series capacitor (QSC) structure enables reduction of the actuation voltage without sacrificing the power...Show More
It is difficult to realize the built-in antenna for wideband systems, because a frequency bandwidth of the low profile antenna is narrow. A frequency tunable antenna is a technique for wideband characteristics. In this paper a low profile double resonance frequency tunable antenna using MEMS variable capacitors is presented. It has high efficiency over a wide frequency band. Through both resonant ...Show More
In this paper, detailed analysis of Fin width and temperature dependence of flicker noise for bulk-FinFET are described. The FinFET with narrow fin width such as below 30 nm is attractive for scaled CMOS because of double gate structure. Additionally, the flicker noise of FinFET decreases and the temperature dependence of the noise become smaller as the fin width becomes narrower. According to our...Show More
This paper presents a detailed analysis of latch-up characteristics for 90 nm RF CMOS on high-resistivity substrate with 400 ohm-cm for the first time. According to our measurement and simulation results, latch-up dependence of PNP base and NPN emitter injection mode on Si substrate resistivity is small. On the other hand, PNP emitter and NPN base injection modes are sensitive to the resistivity b...Show More
In this paper, we report a thin-film encapsulation technology for wafer-level microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) variable capacitor package. The electrical characteristics of MEMS are adversely affected by moisture. In order to prevent moisture from permeating into a package, the top surface was protected with a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PE-CVD) SiN layer. The developed package...Show More
High-resistivity substrate with beyond 1000 ohm-cm realizes high performance in terms of inductor, antenna, MIM capacitor and substrate noise for high- frequency applications. However, this wafer has serious problems for mixed-signal, RF and digital circuits. Those are reduction of high resistivity during sinter process such as 400degC, larger leakage current between nwells, extreme lower snap-bac...Show More
A 3 V operation RF MEMS variable capacitor using hybrid actuation of piezoelectric and electrostatic forces is presented. Bending of the piezoelectric actuator is controlled by a lithographical pattern formed on top of the actuator. The hybrid actuation and the optimized bending enabled 2.6 V pull- in voltage with the pull-out voltage as high as 2.0 V The measured capacitance ratio is 14.Show More
Si surface properties and electrical characteristics in n- and p-MOSFETs with 2-6 degree tilted off-axis (110) channel were investigated for the first time. The transconductance of p-MOSFET with off-axis channel was significantly degraded than that of normal channel on (110) plane, whereas that of n-MOSFET was slightly improved than that of normal channel. The changes were larger than those observ...Show More
STARC (Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center) is a research consortium co-founded by major Japanese semiconductor companies, whose mission is to contribute to the growth of the Japanese semiconductor industry by developing leading-edge SoC design technologies. One of the achievements enabled by the academia collaboration is HiSIM (Hiroshima University STARC IGFET Model) an advanced MOS...Show More
We have developed MOSFETs noise models for the 1/f, thermal and induced-gate noise based on self-consistent surface-potential description. Consideration of non-uniform mobility and carrier distributions arising from the surface potential distribution along the channel is indispensable for accurate noise modeling for RF applications. The developed noise models are implemented in the complete surfac...Show More