Kim, Jiyoung
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Jiyoung Kim serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His research interests include:
- Gate Stack Engineering for the Next Generation Complementary
- Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Applications
- Nano-structure Materials and Devices for Nanoelectronics
- Novel Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Applications
- Novel Memory Device Materials, Fabrication and Applications
- Nano-sensor Fabrication and Applications
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Engineering The Palladium-WSe₂ Interface Chemistry for Field Effect Transistors with High-Performance Hole Contacts
(Amer Chemical Soc, 2018-12-07)Palladium has been widely employed as a hole contact to WSe₂ and has enabled, at times, the highest WSe₂ transistor performance. However, there are orders of magnitude variation across the literature in Pd-WSe₂ contact ... -
Ferroelectric Hf₀․₅Zr₀․₅O₂ Thin Films: A Review of Recent Advances
(Springer, 2018-09-28)Ferroelectricity in HfO₂-based materials, especially Hf₀․₅Zr₀․₅O₂ (HZO), is today one of the most attractive topics because of its wide range of applications in ferroelectric random-access memory, ferroelectric field-effect ... -
Realization of Spatially Addressable Library by a Novel Combinatorial Approach on Atomic Layer Deposition: A Case Study of Zinc Oxide
(American Chemical Society, 2019-05-07)Though the synthesis of libraries of multicomponent metal oxide systems is prevalent using the combinatorial approach, the combinatorial approach has been rarely realized in studying simple metal oxides, especially applied ... -
ZnO Composite Nanolayer with Mobility Edge Quantization for Multi-Value Logic Transistors
(Nature Publishing Group, 2019-04-30)A quantum confined transport based on a zinc oxide composite nanolayer that has conducting states with mobility edge quantization is proposed and was applied to develop multi-value logic transistors with stable intermediate ... -
High-κ Dielectric on ReS₂: In-Situ Thermal Versus Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of Al₂O₃
(MDPI AG, 2019-03-30)We report an excellent growth behavior of a high-κ dielectric on ReS₂ , a two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD). The atomic layer deposition (ALD) of an Al₂O₃ thin film on the UV-Ozone pretreated surface ... -
Top-Down Fabrication of High-Uniformity Nanodiamonds by Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Masks
Nanodiamonds hosting colour centres are a promising material platform for various quantum technologies. The fabrication of non-aggregated and uniformly-sized nanodiamonds with systematic integration of single quantum ... -
Ferroelectric TiN/Hf₀.₅Zr₀.₅O₂/Tin Capacitors with Low-Voltage Operation and High Reliability for Next-Generation FRAM Applications
In this study, we investigated the ferroelectric properties of Hf₀.₅Zr₀.₅O₂ (HZO) thin films with different thicknesses (5-20 nm) deposited by atomic layer deposition for the development of future ferroelectric random ... -
Effect of Film Thickness on the Ferroelectric and Dielectric Properties of Low-Temperature (400 ⁰C) Hf₀.₅Zr₀.₅O₂ Films
We report on the effect of the Hf₀.₅Zr₀.₅O₂ (HZO) film thickness on the ferroelectric and dielectric properties using pulse write/read measurements. HZO films of thicknesses ranging from 5 to 20 nm were annealed at 400 ... -
Large Ferroelectric Polarization of TiN/Hf₀․₅Zr₀․₅0₂ Capacitors Due to Stress-Induced Crystallization at Low Thermal Budget
(Amer Inst Physics, 2018-10-22)We report on atomic layer deposited Hf₀․₅Zr₀․₅0₂ (HZO)-based capacitors which exhibit excellent ferroelectric (FE) characteristics featuring a large switching polarization (45 μC/cm²) and a low FE saturation voltage (~1.5V) ... -
Nucleation and Growth of WSe₂: Enabling Large Grain Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2017-09-22)The limited grain size (< 200 nm) for transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) reported in the literature thus far is unsuitable for high-performance device applications. In this work, ... -
Impurity and Silicate Formation Dependence on O₃ Pulse Time and the Growth Temperature in Atomic-Layer-Deposited La₂O₃ Thin Films
(American Institute of Physics Inc, 2018-09-24)Atomic-layer-deposited La₂O₃ films were grown on Si with different O₃ pulse times and growth temperatures. The interfacial reactions and impurity behaviors were observed using in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. ... -
Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Semiconductor Thin Films Deposited Using Molecular-Atomic Layer Deposition (MALD)
Molecular-atomic layer deposition (MALD) is employed to fabricate hydroquinone (HQ)/diethyl zinc (DEZ) organic-inorganic hybrid semiconductor thin films with accurate thickness control, sharp interfaces, and low deposition ... -
Hydroquinone-ZnO Nano-Laminate Deposited by Molecular-Atomic Layer Deposition
In this study, we have deposited organic-inorganic hybrid semiconducting hydroquinone (HQ)/zinc oxide (ZnO) superlattices using molecular-atomic layer deposition, which enables accurate control of film thickness, excellent ... -
Low Temperature Synthesis of Graphite on Ni Films Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Enhanced CVD
Controlled synthesis of graphite at low temperatures is a desirable process for a number of applications. Here, we present a study on the growth of thin graphite films on polycrystalline Ni films at low temperatures, about ... -
A Crystalline Oxide Passivation for Al₂O₃/AlGaN/GaN
In situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and low energy electron diffraction are performed to study the formation of a crystalline oxide on the AlGaN surface. The oxidation of the AlGaN surface is prepared by annealing and ... -
Investigation of Arsenic and Antimony Capping Layers, and Half Cycle Reactions During Atomic Layer Deposition of Al₂O₃ on GaSb(100)
In-situ monochromatic x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, low energy electron diffraction, ion scattering spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy are used to examine the GaSb(100) surfaces grown by molecular beam ... -
MoS₂ Functionalization for Ultra-Thin Atomic Layer Deposited Dielectrics
The effect of room temperature ultraviolet-ozone (UV-O₃) exposure of MoS₂ on the uniformity of subsequent atomic layer deposition of Al₂O₃ is investigated. It is found that a UV-O₃ pre-treatment removes adsorbed carbon ... -
In Situ Study of the Role of Substrate Temperature during Atomic Layer Deposition of HfO2 on InP
(2013-10-16)The dependence of the "self cleaning" effect of the substrate oxides on substrate temperature during atomic layer deposition (ALD) of HfO₂ on various chemically treated and native oxide InP (100) substrates is investigated ... -
Selective Atomic Layer Deposition with Electron-Beam Patterned Self-Assembled Monolayers
The authors selectively deposited nanolines of titanium oxide (TiO(2)) through atomic layer deposition (ALD) using an octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) self-assembled monolayer (SAM) as a nucleation inhibition layer. Electron-beam ... -
Investigation of interfacial oxidation control using sacrificial metallic Al and La passivation layers on InGaAs
(2012-05-25)The ability of metallic Al and La interlayers to control the oxidation of InGaAs substrates is examined by monochromatic x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and compared to the interfacial chemistry of atomic layer ...