19/1995 – 1/2001 STANFORD UNIVERTY, Stanford, CA Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering (Advisor: Robert Sinclair) Thesis title: Reactions and microstructural behavior at the Cu/Ta interfaces.
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34/1998 – 1/2000 STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA. Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (Advisor: S. Simon Wong) - Analog/mixed circuit design, - Device physics and silicon technology.
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53/88 – 2/1990 KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Seoul, Korea Master of Science degree in Materials Science and Engineering (Advisor: Jai-Young Lee) – Hydrogen storage metals and their applications to the heat pump.
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73/1984 – 2/1988 SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Seoul, Korea Bachelor of Science degree in Metallurgical Engineering - Physical metallurgy and solid state physics.
EXPERIENCE
13/2007 – present Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea Professor, College of Information and Communication Engineering – High Speed Serial Interface: USB, HDMI, LVDS, Inductive Link – Energy Harvesting System, PMIC/BMIC – Design for Testability (DFT) of 3-D IC. – Standards and Specification. – Cross-Point Memory Architecture with Resistive Memory Cells – Non-Volatile Memory IP.
13/2006 – 2/2007 Hanyang University, Ansan, KOREA. Assistant Professor, Division of Materials and Chemical Engineering – Electronic Materials and Devices Lab.
11/2001 – 3/2006 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD, Hwaseong, KOREA. Principal Design Engineer in Advanced Technology Development Team (2/2005 – 2/2006) – In charge of low power technology (Transistor, circuit & logic level approaches) Principal Design Engineer in DRAM Design Team (1/2001 – 2/2005) – Super High Performance DRAM design (tRC of 10ns, 10Gbps Data Rate) – Advanced DRAM design including Direct Rambus DRAM and XDR DRAM. – New memory development (PRAM, Scalable Gain-Cell Memory, Multimedia DRAM) – Core circuit design for DRAM.
16/2000 – 1/2001 MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS, Sunnyvale, CA Associate Member of Technical Staff – 16-bit D/A converter design. – Digital potentiometer design
16/1999 – 9/1999 INTEL Corporation, Portland, OR, Summer Intern – Diffusion and drift of copper in intermetallic dielectrics. – Life time test (Bias Temperature Stressing) of intermetallic dielectrics. – Copper/tantalum interaction at high temperature.
12/1990 – 7/1995 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., Semiconductor R&D Center, Kiheung, Korea Staff Engineer – In charge of developing thin capacitor dielectric films (SiO2, SiN, Ta2O5 and [BaSr]TiO3) – Process modules to fabricate three dimensional capacitor structures for DRAM applications. – Maintenance of chemical vapor deposition systems, furnaces, and sputters. Leading member – Joint development project with LAM RESEARCH CO., Fremont, CA (5/1991 – 11/1992) – Development of CVD system for Ta2O5 thin film. Acting member – Joint 256Mb DRAM development project with NEC, Tokyo, Japan (1/1994 – 6/1995). – Members: D. Chin, C.-G. Hwang, M.-Y. Lee, S.-T. Ahn, S.-W. Kim, E.S. Kim, & myself