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Associate Professor : Yang-Kyu Choi |
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Division of Electrical Engineering,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701,
Republic of Korea
Office) Nano Fab Center #511
Tel) 042-350-3477
E-mail) ykchoi_at_ee.kaist.ac.kr |
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Education |
2006 - 2010 : |
Associate Professor at KAIST |
2004 - 2005 : |
Assistant Professor at KAIST |
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2001
- 2003 : |
Post-doctoral researcher in the
University of California, Berkeley
- Nano-scale novel devices in the department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
(Advisor : Jeffrey Bokor)
- Nano-scale Bio-electronics and Bio-Sensors in
the department of Bio-Engineering
(Advisor : Luke P. Lee)
- Nano-catalysts in the department of Chemistry
(Advisor : G.A. Somorjai) |
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1999
- 2001 : |
University of California, Berkeley
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences (December 2001)
- Research Advisor : Chenming Hu
- Thesis : Nanofabrication Technologies and Novel
Device Structures for Nanoscale CMOS
- Demonstration of Sub-30nm ultra-thin body MOSFET
and sub-20nm double gate FinFET
(Both devices got much attraction from industries
and have been fabricated by TSMC, Intel, AMD,
Motorola, Texas Instrument, and IBM now).
- Minors : Optical-electronics (Inside) and physics
(Outside)
- Broad courseworks including : IC processing
and layout, quantum electronics,
Light-wave devices, optics, electro-magnetics,
MEMS, flat panel displays, device physics,
quantum theory of solid, analog and digital IC
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1997
- 1999 : |
University of California, Berkeley
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, December 1999
- Thesis : Ultra-thin-body SOI MOSFET for Deep-sub-tenth
Micron Era |
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1985
- 1991 : |
Seoul National University (Korea)
- M.S. in Physics, February 1991
- B.S. in Physics Education, February 1989 |
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Professional Experience |
2004 - 2010 : |
Assistant Professor at KAIST |
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2001 -
2003 : |
Postdoctoral Researcher |
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1999
- 2001 : |
Hynix (Hyundai Electronics),
Inc Korea
- Section manager of 2nd generation synchronous
64M DRAM
- 5th generation 4M DRAM development
- 2nd generation~5th Generation 16M DRAM development
- 4M Video DRAM and 8M Graphics RAM development
- 64M DRAM development
- 256M DRAM development
- 1G DRAM development
- 64M DRAM transference for mass production
- Device characterization and failure analysis
- Reliability test
- Yield analysis and control of mass production
- Experts in the process integration
- 1993 ~1996 : Technical coordinator and section
manager for joint development of 64M DRAM
with Fujitsu
- Research experiences from the very beginning
stage of device development to mass production
- Coordinator between circuit design and unit
process development |
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Awards and Honors |
U.S.
5,500,080, Yang Kyu Choi, "Process of Forming
Contact Holes", 1996.
U.S. 5,510,289, Yang Kyu Choi, "Method for
Fabricating Stack Capacitor of Semiconductor Device",
1996.
U.S. 5,466,640, Yang Kyu Choi, "Method for
Forming a Metal Wire of Semiconductor Device",
1995.
U.S. 5,783,499, Yang Kyu Choi, "Method for
the Fabrication of a Semiconductor Device",
1998.
U.S. 5,804,504, Yang Kyu Choi, "Method for
Forming Wiring of Semiconductor Device" , 1998.
U.S. 6,413,802, C. Hu, T.-J. King, V. Subramanian,
L. Chang, W.-C. Lee, X. Huang, J. Kedzierski, N.
Lindert,
Y.-K. Choi,“FinFET transistor structures having
a double gate channel extending vertically from
a substrate and methods of manufacture”, 2002.
Professor Yang-Kyu Choi received an award "The Scientist of The Month for July 2006.
* 5 Japan, 5 British, 5 France, 5 German, 99 Korea
patents. |
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