Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Jin Gun Koo

Sang Gi Kim

Jong Dae Kim

Dae Woo Lee

Tae Moon Roh

Yong Sun Yoon

Seong Wook Yoo

Kee Soo Nam

Jong Moon Park

Byung Won Lim

Yoon Kyu Bae

Yil Suk Yang

Sang Heung Lee

Jin Yeong Kang

Bo Woo Kim

Il Yong Park

Kun Sik Park

Mun Yang Park

Won Chul Song

Sang Ki Kim

Il-yong Park

Kun Sik Pakr

Ju Wook Lee

Roh Tae Moon

Boo Woo Kim

Yang Yil Suk

Q Sang Song

Provided is an image sensor having a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) and a method of fabricating the same. The image sensor is fabricated by SiGe BiCMOS technology. In the image sensor, a PD employs a floating-base-type SiGe HBT. A floating base of the SiGe HBT produces a positive voltage with respect to a collector during an exposure process, and the HBT performs a reverse bipolar operation due to the positive voltage so that the collector and an emitter exchange functions. The SiGe HBT can sense an optical current signal and also amplify the optical current signal. The image sensor requires only three transistors in a pixel so that the degree of integration can increase. The image sensor has an improved sensitivity of signals in the short wavelength region and a sensing signal has excellent linearity such that both a sensing mechanism and control circuit are very simple.

Image sensor having heterojunction bipolar transistor and method of fabricating the same

Provided are a high-quality CMOS image sensor and a photo diode, which can be fabricated in sub-90 nm regime using nanoscale CMOS technology. The photo diode includes: a p-type well; an internal n-type region formed under a surface of the p-type well; and a surface p-type region including a highly doped p-type SiGeC epitaxial layer or a polysilicon layer deposited on a top surface of the p-type well over the internal n-type region. The image sensor includes: a photo diode including an internal n-type region and a surface p-type region; a transfer transistor for transmitting photo-charges generated in the photo diode to a floating diffusion node; and a driving transistor for amplifying a variation in an electric potential of the floating diffusion node due to the photo-charges. The image sensor further includes a floating metal layer for functioning as the floating diffusion node and applying an electric potential from a drain of the transfer transistor to a gate of the driving transistor.

High-quality CMOS image sensor and photo diode

Provided is a wafer exposure apparatus used in a semiconductor device manufacturing process, the exposure apparatus including: a reflective mirror for reflecting light provided from a light source; an optical path changer for changing a path of the light provided from the reflective mirror; first mirrors installed at both sides of the optical path changer to change the path of the light; second mirrors installed at both sides of a material to change the path of the light; and third mirrors installed at both sides of a mask to enter the light reflected by the first mirrors to the mask and to enter the light passed through the mask into the second mirrors, whereby it is possible to continuously expose one surface, both surfaces or a specific surface of a wafer in a state that the wafer is once aligned.

Exposure apparatus

Provided is a photodetector in which a transparent nonconductive material having an interface charge and a trapped charge is deposited on a semiconductor surface so as to form a depletion region on the surface of the semiconductor, and the depletion region is employed as an optical detecting region, thereby not only improving detection with respect to light having a wavelength of ultraviolet and blue ranges but also filtering light having a wavelength of visible and infrared ranges, and in which a fabricating process thereof is compatible with a universal silicon CMOS process.

Semiconductor photodetector for detecting light having a wavelength in the ultraviolet blue ranges

Provided is a method of fabricating a T-type gate including the steps of: forming a first photoresist layer, a blocking layer and a second photoresist layer to a predetermined thickness on a substrate, respectively; forming a body pattern of a T-type gate on the second photoresist layer and the blocking layer; exposing a predetermined portion of the second photoresist layer to form a head pattern of the T-type gate, and performing a heat treatment process to generate cross linking at a predetermined region of the second photoresist layer except for the head pattern of the T-type gate; performing an exposure process on an entire surface of the resultant structure, and then removing the exposed portion; and forming a metal layer of a predetermined thickness on an entire surface of the resultant structure, and then removing the first photoresist layer, the blocking layer, the predetermined region of the second photoresist layer in which the cross linking are generated, and the metal layer, whereby it is possible to readily perform a compound semiconductor device manufacturing process, and to reduce manufacturing cost by means of the increase of manufacturing yield and the simplification of manufacturing processes.

Method of fabricating T-type gate

The present invention relates to a method of fabricating a high-voltage high-power integrated circuit device using a substrate of a SOI structure in which an insulating film and a silicon layer are sequentially stacked on a silicon substrate. The method comprising the steps of sequentially forming an oxide film and a photoresist film on the silicon layer and then performing a photolithography process using a trench mask to pattern the photoresist film; patterning the oxide film using the patterned photoresist film as a mask and then removing the photoresist film remained after the patterning; etching the silicon layer using the patterned oxide film as a mask until the insulating film is exposed to form a trench; forming a nitride film on the entire surface including the trench, performing an annealing process and depositing polysilicon on the entire surface so that the trench is buried; and sequentially removing the polysilicon and the nitride film until the silicon layer is exposed to flatten the surface, thus forming a device isolating film for electrical isolation between devices within the trench. Therefore, the present invention can effectively reduce the isolation area of the trench between the high-voltage high-power device and the logic CMOS device and can easily control the concentration of a deep well.

Method for fabricating a high-voltage high-power integrated circuit device

A method for fabricating a power semiconductor device having a trench gate structure is provided. An epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type having a low concentration and a body region of a second conductivity type are sequentially formed on a semiconductor substrate of the first conductivity type having a high concentration. An oxide layer pattern is formed on the body region. A first trench is formed using the oxide layer pattern as an etching mask to perforate a predetermined portion of the body region having a first thickness. A body contact region of the second conductivity type having a high concentration is formed to surround the first trench by impurity ion implantation using the oxide layer pattern as an ion implantation mask. First spacer layers are formed to cover the sidewalls of the first trench and the sidewalls of the oxide layer pattern. A second trench is formed using the oxide layer pattern and the first spacer layers as etching masks to perforate a predetermined portion of the body region having a second thickness greater than the first thickness. A source region of the first conductivity type having a high concentration is formed to surround the second trench by impurity ion implantation using the oxide layer pattern and the first spacer layers as ion implantation masks. Second spacer layers are formed to cover the sidewalls of the second trench and the sidewalls of the first spacer layers. A third trench is formed to a predetermined depth of the epitaxial layer using the oxide layer pattern, the first spacer layers, and the second spacer layers as etching masks. A gate insulating layer is formed in the third trench. A gate conductive pattern is formed in the gate insulating layer. An oxide layer is formed on the gate conductive layer pattern. The first and second spacer layers are removed. A first metal electrode layer is formed to be electrically connected to the source region and the body contact region. A second metal electrode layer is formed to be electrically connected to the gate conductive layer pattern. A third metal electrode layer is formed to be electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate.

Method for fabricating power semiconductor device having trench gate structure

The present invention relates to an input and output port circuit. The input and output port circuit comprises a signal register for storing output signals, an input/output register at which an input/output control signal for determining an input/output direction is stored, a plurality of control registers, a power supply switch circuit for selectively supplying a low voltage or a high voltage depending on a power mode control signal, a signal direction control circuit for determining the direction of the signal depending on a value of the signal register and a value of the input/output register, an output control circuit driven depending on the value of the control register and an output of the signal direction control circuit, and an output driving circuit for outputting the low voltage, the high voltage or the ground value depending on an output of the signal direction control circuit and an output of the output control circuit. The high voltage and the low voltage can be simultaneously driven using only a single output driving circuit and the single output driving circuit is constructed in multiple stages and is selectively driven by the output control register. Therefore, the power consumption can be saved.

Input and output port circuit

A method of fabricating a vertical TDMOS power device using sidewall spacers and a self-align technique and a TDMOS power device of the same. The TDMOS is fabricated using only 3 masks and a source is formed using the self-align technique to embody a highly integrated trench formation. During the process, ion implantation of high concentration into the bottom of the trench makes a thick oxide film grow on the bottom and the corner of the gate, so that electrical characteristic, specifically leakage current and breakdown voltage of the device can be improved. Also, process steps can be much decreased to lower process cost, high integration is possible, and reliability of the device can be improved.

Method of fabricating TDMOS device using self-align technique

A semiconductor technique is disclosed. Particularly a low voltage high current power device for use in a lithium ion secondary battery protecting circuit, a DC-DC converter and a motor is disclosed. Further, a method for fabricating a high density trench gate type power device is disclosed. That is, in the present invention, a trench gate mask is used for forming the well and/or source, and for this purpose, a side wall spacer is introduced. In this manner, the well and/or source is defined by using the trench gate mask, and therefore, 1 or 2 masking processes are skipped unlike the conventional process in which the well mask and the source mask are separately used. The decrease in the use of the masking process decreases the mask align errors, and therefore, the realization of a high density is rendered possible. Consequently, the on-resistance which is an important factor for the power device can be lowered.

Method for fabricating high density trench gate type power device

According to a method for manufacturing double RESURF (reduced SURface Field) LDMOS (Lateral Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor) transistors, on-resistance of double RESURF LDMOS transistors has been improved by using a new tapered p top layer on the surface of the drift region of the transistor, thereby decreasing the length of the drift region. Another advantage of the current invention is that the breakdown voltage similar with the on-resistance can be improved by using a reproducible tapered TEOS oxide by use of a multi-layer structure and low temperature annealing process. This is due to the reducing of the current path and impurity segregation in the drift region by using the tapered TEOS oxide instead of LOCOS filed oxide.

Fabrication method of lateral double diffused MOS transistors

The present invention relates to a high voltage driving circuit for preventing an transient current. The high voltage driving circuit including a non-overlap signal generator for generating the first and second non-overlap signals in response to the logic level signal, a satge for generating a first driving signal in response to the logic level signal and the first and second non-overlap signals, a pre-driving circuit which is driven in response to the first non-overlap signal and the first driving signal, and a complementary output circuit for controlling a current flowing toward the output terminal in response to the output signal of the pre-driving circuit and the second non-overlap signal.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Jin Gun Koo