Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

The Industry & Academic Cooperation in Chungnam National University (iac)

Jongmin Lee

Byoung-Gue Min

Seong-Il Kim

Hyung Sup Yoon

Dong Min Kang

Sang-Heung Lee

Eun Soo Nam

Hae Cheon Kim

Jong-Won Lim

Hong Gu Ji

Kyu Jun Cho

Woojin Chang

Jae Kyoung Mun

Hokyun Ahn

Dong-Young Kim

Jae Won Do

Yoo Jin Jang

Sungjae Chang

Hyunwook Jung

Min Jeong Shin

Chull Won Ju

Hyung Seok Lee

Jongseo Baek

Jeong Jin Kim

Donghan Lee

Jong Yul Park

Ilsun Yoon

Disclosed is a switch circuit for an ultra-high frequency band, which includes a transistor including a first terminal connected to an input stage, a second terminal connected to an output stage, and a gate terminal, an inductor connected to the transistor in parallel, between the input stage and the output stage, a variable gate driver to apply a gate input voltage to the gate terminal and, an input resistor connected between the variable gate driver and the gate terminal. The variable gate driver adjusts the gate input voltage to be in one of a first voltage level for turning on the transistor and a second voltage level for turning off the transistor. The second voltage level varies depending on a capacitance between the first terminal and the second terminal, when the transistor is in a turn-off state.

Switch circuit for ultra-high frequency band

Disclosed is a frequency mixer. The frequency mixer includes a first matching circuit that generates a matched local oscillator (LO) signal based on an LO signal, a non-linear circuit that generates a non-linear LO signal based on the matched LO signal, a second matching circuit that generates a matched radio frequency (RF) signal based on an RF signal, a mixing circuit that generates a mixed signal based on a mixing of the non-linear LO signal and the matched RF signal, a third matching circuit that generates an intermediate frequency (IF) signal based on the mixed signal, wherein the non-linear circuit includes a non-linear transistor, a bias transistor, and an internal matching circuit connected in series.

Frequency mixer including non-linear circuit

Provided is an amplification circuit for amplifying an input signal. The amplification circuit includes an input stage including an input matching circuit that receives the input signal and an input attenuation circuit that attenuates a gain for the input signal outside an operating frequency band of the amplification circuit, a transistor that amplifies the input signal provided from the input stage, and an output stage including an output matching circuit that receives a signal amplified by the transistor and an output attenuation circuit that attenuates the gain for the input signal outside the operating frequency band of the amplification circuit, and the input attenuation circuit includes a first resistor and a second resistor that are connected to a ground voltage, a first passive element connected between the input matching circuit and the second resistor, and a second passive element connected between the first passive element and the first resistor.

Microwave amplification circuit

A surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrate includes a floating-type first metal nanoparticle; a support body for supporting the first metal nanoparticle; and a second metal film which forms a nano gap with the first metal nanoparticle and is surrounding the circumference of the first metal nanoparticle, wherein a first metal of the first metal nanoparticle and a second metal of the second metal film, respectively, can be a metal generating surface plasmons thereon.

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrate, element for detecting molecule including the same, and method for manufacturing the same

Provided is a semiconductor device including a substrate in which an insulation layer is disposed between a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer, a through-hole penetrating through the substrate, the through-hole having a first hole penetrating through the first semiconductor layer and a second hole penetrating through the insulation layer and the second semiconductor layer from a bottom surface of the first hole, an epi-layer disposed inside the through-hole, a drain electrode disposed inside the second hole and contacting one surface of the epi-layer, and a source electrode and a gate electrode which are disposed on the other surface of the epi-layer.

Semiconductor device having a drain electrode contacting an epi material inside a through-hole and method of manufacturing the same

Provided is a cascode circuit including first and second transistors connected between a drain terminal and a source terminal in cascode form, a level sifter configured to change a voltage level of a switching control signal applied to a gate terminal and provide the changed switching control signal to a gate of the first transistor, a buffer configured to delay the switching control signal and provide the delayed switching control signal to a gate of the second transistor, and a first resistor connected between the level shifter and the gate of the first transistor.

Cascode switch circuit including level shifter

A field effect transistor is provided. The transistor may include a source electrode and a drain electrode provided spaced apart from each other on a substrate and a '+'-shaped gate electrode provided on a portion of the substrate located between the source and drain electrodes.

Transistor and method of fabricating the same

Provided are vertical capacitors and methods of forming the same. The formation of the vertical capacitor may include forming input and output electrodes on a top surface of a substrate, etching a bottom surface of the substrate to form via electrodes, and then, forming a dielectric layer between the via electrodes. As a result, a vertical capacitor with high capacitance can be provided in a small region of the substrate.

Vertical capacitors and methods of forming the same

Provided are a monolithic microwave integrated circuit device and a method for forming the same. The method include: forming an HBT on a substrate; forming a wiring of the HBT and a bottom electrode of a capacitor on the substrate, with a first metal, the bottom electrode being spaced apart from the HBT; forming a first insulation layer on the substrate to cover the HBT and the bottom electrode; and forming a top electrode of the capacitor on the first insulation layer and forming a resistance pattern on the substrate, with a second metal, the resistance pattern being spaced apart from the capacitor, wherein an edge of the top electrode is spaced apart from an edge of the bottom electrode.

Monolithic microwave integrated circuit device and method for forming the same

Provided is a power amplifier device. The power amplifier device includes: a cutoff unit cutting off a direct current (DC) component of a signal delivered from a signal input terminal; a circuit protecting unit connected to the cutoff unit and stabilizing a signal delivered from the cutoff unit; and an amplification unit connected to the circuit protecting unit and amplifying a signal delivered from the circuit protecting unit, wherein the amplification unit comprises a plurality of transistors connected in parallel to the circuit protecting unit and the circuit protecting unit comprises resistors connected to between bases of the plurality of transistors.

Power amplifier device

Provided are a monolithic microwave integrated circuit device and a method for forming the same. The method includes: forming an sub-collector layer, a collector layer, a base layer, an emitter layer, and an emitter cap layer on a Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) region and a PIN diode region of a substrate; forming an emitter pattern and an emitter cap pattern in the HBT region and exposing the base layer by patterning the emitter layer and the emitter cap layer; and forming an intrinsic region by doping a portion of the collector layer of the PIN diode region with a first type impurity, the PIN diode region being spaced apart from the HBT region.

Monolithic microwave integrated circuit device and method of forming the same

Provided is an inductor. The inductor includes a first to a fourth conductive terminals formed in one direction within a semiconductor substrate, a first conductive line formed on one side of the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the second and third conductive terminals interiorly positioned among the first to fourth conductive terminals, a second conductive line formed on the one side of the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the first and fourth conductive terminals exteriorly positioned among the first to fourth conductive terminals, and a third conductive line formed on the other side of the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the first and third conductive terminals among the first to fourth conductive terminals.

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Jongmin Lee