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  1. (Department of Electronic Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Mohyeon-eup, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 17035, Korea)



FB PD-SOI, SOI MOSFET, RF inductive effect, kink effect, S-parameter

I. Introduction

High resistivity (HR) partially depleted (PD) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MOSFETs have a great advantage in RF SoC fabrication due to low cross-coupling, low cross-talk noise, and low leakage current. When the drain-source voltage VDS becomes higher in floating body (FB) PD SOI n-MOSFETs, the impact ionization hole current Iimp generated in the pinch-off region flows into the grounded source, causing an increase in the internal body voltage VBi as shown in Fig. 1(a). This rise in VBi leads to a decrease in the threshold voltage Vth, resulting in an increase in the channel current Ich, so called ``kink effect'' [1-5].

Fig. 1. The cross-section of (a) FB PD-SOI n-MOSFET; (b) BCT PD-SOI n-MOSFET.

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The DC kink voltage Vkink, which indicates the VDS value at which the kink effect starts to occur, decreases as the channel length decreases due to the reduction in the drain-source saturation voltage VDSAT, and the sub-bandgap Vkink decreases to 0.6V below Eg/q of 1.12V in Si as the mask gate length Lg is scaled down to 0.13μm [6].

PD-SOI n-MOSFETs used in this study have the body doping concentration of 6×1017cm3, the Si body thickness of 80 nm, and the gate oxide thickness of 2.8~nm. In order to reduce the parasitic gate resistance for the purpose of improving RF and noise performances, the devices use multi-finger geometry with multiple polysilicon gate fingers. In Fig. 2, which shows the IDSVDS curve of a multi-finger FB PD-SOI n-MOSFET with the gate length Lg of 0.1 μm, unit gate finger width Wu of 10 μm, and the number of gate finger Nf of 16, Vkink is measured to be approximately 0.55V at VGS=0.5V.

Fig. 2. Comparison between measured IDSVDS curves of FB and BCT PD-SOI n-MOSFETs.

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This reduction in Vkink may be a significant issue when designing low-power ICs that require a lower operating voltage. The significantly increased breakdown current at VDS>1.7V shown in Fig. 2 appears to be caused by the punch-through leakage current that arises from merged source-body and drain-body depletion regions at the high VDSrange.

To mitigate the non-linearity caused by the kink effect, body contact (BCT) PD-SOI devices in Fig. 1(b) have been utilized [7-16]. However, as the Wu/Lg ratio of gate finger increases, an increase in IDS still occurs at a much higher VDS (Vkink=1.2V at VGS=0.5V) than that in FB devices as shown in Fig. 2. This phenomenon, similar to the kink effect, is caused by an increase in the internal body voltage (VBi=IimpRbody) across the body resistance Rbody that linearly increases with the Wu/Lg of BCT devices in Fig. 1(b) [14]. The increase in VBi leads to a decrease in Vth, resulting in the rise of Ich, so called a substrate current-induced body effect (SCBE) [14].

Recently, in the BCT device, it has been demonstrated that an anomalous RF inductive effect originating from negative capacitance by SCBE appears at the drain when a higher VDS than Vkink is applied [14]. Due to this effect, the S21 and S22-parameters rotate clockwise in the lower and upper semicircles on the Smith chart, respectively, as the frequency increases. Also, research has been conducted to analyze this effect physically and to model it using a small-signal equivalent circuit [14]. In addition, research has been conducted on how to effectively extract these parameters using a simple RF inductive model with an RLC resonant circuit in BCT devices [15,16].

Fig. 3 shows the measured S22-parameters of our FB and BCT PD-SOI n-MOSFETs with the IDSVDS characteristics in Fig. 2. In Fig. 3, similar RF inductive effects are observed in both FB and BCT devices. As shown in Fig. 3, the starting point at the minimum measurement frequency (10MHz) in the rotating trajectory shifts to the left as VDS increases. Additionally, this trajectory rotates in a clockwise direction and its radius increases. As verified previously in a BCT device [14], this RF inductive effect in the FB device is also caused by the negative capacitance shown in Fig. 4, where the output drain-source capacitance of Cout is determined from (1/ω)Imag(Y22) converted from measured S-parameters. It is revealed that this negative capacitance arises from impact ionization, using an output AC equivalent circuit of Fig. 5 that is similar to one in a BCT device [14], with the only difference being that Rbody becomes infinite in the FB device.

Fig. 3. Admittance Smith chart for the measured S22 -parameters of (a) FB PD-SOI n-MOSFET; (b) BCT PD-SOI n-MOSFET at VGS=0.5V , with varying VDS in the frequency range of 0.01∼20 GHz.

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In the case of a BCT device with Lg=0.25μm, it has been previously reported that the rotational trajectory of S22-parameter apparently begins to appear at the DC Vkink of around 1.7V [14-16]. In our BCT device with Lg=0.1μm in Fig. 2, it is also observed that the RF inductive effect starts from the DC Vkink of around 1.2V in Fig. 3(b). This is very reasonable because the negative capacitance originates from impact ionization leading to the occurrence of the kink effect.

However, in the FB device, the rotational locus of S22-parameter from 10 MHz is observed in Fig. 3(a) only when VDS1.2V, which is significantly higher than the DC Vkink of 0.55V in Fig. 2. Unlike the BCT devices where the starting voltage of the inductive effect is about same as DC Vkink, this VDS dependent RF inductive effect in the FB device, which occurs at about two times higher VDS than DC Vkink, is anomalous because the negative capacitance caused by the kink effect still exists down to 0.6V in Fig. 4. This anomalous effect may be advantageous in the design of low-power RF ICs because the inductive locus in Fig. 3 disappears up to the operating voltage of 1.1V. However, the physical reason for the discrepancy between DC Vkink and the voltage at which the RF inductive effect begins to appear has not been studied yet.

Fig. 4. Measured curve of COUT versus frequency at different VDS for an FB PD-SOI n-MOSFET.

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Therefore, in this paper, we newly analyze the VDS-dependent RF inductive effect to reveal the origin of this anomalous discrepancy in the FB device. We focus on the analysis of the rotation trajectory in the S22-parameter, based on the pole frequency fpand the maximum magnitude of the output susceptance.

II. RF Inductive Effect

Fig. 5 shows the physical output equivalent circuit that considers the impact ionization and parasitic BJT [14] for an FB PD-SOI MOSFET, where Cgd  is the gate-drain capacitance, gdso is the drain-source output conductance, Cbox is the buried oxide coupling capacitance [17], Cbd is the body-drain junction capacitance, Cbs is the body-source capacitance, gbs is the dynamic body-source conductance, gmb is the body transconductance, gmp is the transconductance of parasitic BJT, and gmi is the conductance for impact ionization current. The parasitic resistances (Rs, Rd) are omitted in Fig. 5, because these have a negligible frequency effect on the Y22-parameter within a few GHz in the Fig. 7 and 8.

Fig. 5. A physical output equivalent circuit for an FB PD-SOI MOSFET with kink effect in the saturation region. Since the body is floating, Rbody is removed from the output equivalent circuit for a BCT PD-SOI MOSFET [14].

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Fig. 6. A simple output equivalent circuit for modeling the RF inductive effect.

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Fig. 7. Measured Gout versus frequency curves at different VDS for an FB PD-SOI n-MOSFET.

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After deriving the negative drain-source capacitance Cdsb equation from Fig. 5, it is converted into the equivalent drain-source inductance Ldsb using 1/(ω2Cdsb)and approximated at fgbs/[2π(Cbs+Cbd)] as follows [14]:

(1)
Ldsb Cbs+Cbdgmi (gmb+gmp)

In order to analyze the VDS - dependence of the RF inductive effect in the FB device effectively, we uses a simple RLC output equivalent circuit [15,16] in Fig. 6, where Lk is the effective inductance defined by (1), Rk is the kink resistance, gdso is the non-kink drain-source conductance, and Ctot is the total output capacitance in Fig. 5.

The output admittance Y22 of Fig. 6 can be expressed as follows:

(2)
Gout=Real(Y22)=gdso+RkRk2+ω2Lk2
(3)
Bout=Imag(Y22)=ω{CtotLkRk2+ω2Lk2}

As the frequency increases, the output conductance Gout of (2) rapidly decreases beyond the pole frequency fp, which is calculated as Rk/(2πLk). After that, Gout becomes a constant gdso. Similarly, the output susceptance Bout of (3) decreases in a negative direction and then increases again in a positive direction. These trends agree well with the frequency-dependent curves shown in Fig. 7 and 8.

On the other hand, in the admittance Smith chart plot shown in Fig. 3, the S22-parameter is represented by the intersection of the constant conductance circle and the constant susceptance circle. As the frequency increases, the conductance and susceptance change exhibits a rotational locus on the Smith chart. In Fig. 7 and 8, it is observed that as the frequency increases, Gout decreases rapidly and then becomes a constant, while the magnitude of negative Bout(|Bout|) increases and reaches its peak at fmin. According to the frequency dependencies of Gout and Bout, the S22-parameter moves in a clockwise direction on the upper side of the real axis, as shown in Fig. 3.

As the value of Gout decreases in Fig. 7, Real(S22) shifts toward the right. When Bout reaches zero, Gout is almost minimized, and Real(S22) stops moving at the right end. Thus, the frequency trace of the S22-parameter in Fig. 3 is shown as a clockwise-rotating curve.

To determine the VDS dependence of this RF inductive effect of the FB device shown in Fig. 3(a), we need to consider the frequency-dependence of Gout and Bout. Specifically, we utilize the magnitude of the minimum Bout(|Bout(min)|) and the corresponding frequency fmin. This is because the rotation radius of the S22-parameter trajectory in Fig. 3 is determined by |Bout(min)|, and the rotation angle is determined by fp. As shown in Fig. 3, the rotation radius and angle for the S22-parameter decrease as VDS decreases. As a result, the RF inductive effect does not appear at VDS1.1V on the Smith chart.

Fig. 8. Measured Bout versus frequency curves at different VDS for an FB PD-SOI n-MOSFET.

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Firstly, to determine |Bout(min)| in Fig. 8, we need to find fmin at which dBout/df=0 and substitute it into (3). However, this process is quite complex and difficult to derive. To avoid this problem, we can simplify (3) by ignoring Ctot, which is much smaller than Lk/(Rk2+ω2Lk2). The fmin obtained in this way is approximated by fp in (2):

(4)
fminRk2πLk=fp.

Accordingly, substituting (4) into (3) yields:

(5)
Bout(min)RkLkCtot12Rk.

In Fig. 7, the kink effect that causes the increase in Gout disappears at high frequencies (HFs) where ffp, and Gout(HF)gdso as shown in (2). Therefore, the low-frequency (LF) kink conductance Gk(LF)(=1/Rk) is extracted by subtracting Gout(HF) from the Gout(LF) value at the minimum measurement frequency of 10MHz. However, the measured Gout at 10MHz below VDS=1.4V is lower than the DC value. As a result, the extracted Gk(LF) value is inaccurate at VDS<1.4V. However, accurate Gk(LF) values can be extracted at VDS=1.51.9V.

Fig. 9 displays the extracted values of Gk(LF)/2 compared with Bout(min) measured from Fig. 8. In Fig. 9, 0.5Gk(LF) shows good agreement with the measured Bout(min), with an error rate within 10%. This indicates that the term of (Rk/Lk)Ctot in (5) is much smaller than 0.5Gk(LF). Thus, we can approximate Bout(min) as Gk(LF)/2.

Fig. 9. Measured Bout(min) and extracted -Gk(LF) as a function of VDS for an FB PD-SOI n-MOSFET.

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Since |Bout(min)| is progressively reduced at lower VDS in Fig. 9, the rotation radius of the S22-parameter trajectory also continuously decreases in Fig. 3. To explain the anomalous disappearance of the S22-parameter trajectory for the FB device as VDS decreases in Fig. 3(a), we will conduct a physical analysis of the dependencies of VDS on Gk(LF) and fp in the next section.

III. Analysis of Bias-dependence

The primary purposes of this section are to analyze the VDS - dependence of Gk(LF) and fp in order to explain the invisibility of the S22-parameter trajectory of the FB device at the bias region of 0.6VVDS1.1V in Fig. 3(a) using the rotation radius and angle for the S22- parameter.

1. Kink Conductance

From Fig. 5, Gk is derived as a function of frequency as follows [14]:

(6)
Gk=(gmb+gmp)[gmigbs+ω2Cbd(Cbs+Cbd)gbs2+ω2(Cbs+Cbd)2].

In (6), fp is given by:

(7)
fp=gbs2π(Cbs+Cbd).

In (6), Gk(LF) in the low-frequency region where ffp is approximated as:

(8)
Gk(LF)(gmb+gmp)gmigbs.

According to the kink effect, which causes the RF inductive effect, the impact ionization body current IB(Iimp), generated by VDS in the pinch-off region, flows to the internal body-source junction in the FB device. Due to the impact ionization process [5,18], IB is defined as IDS(M1), where the low-voltage thermally-assisted impact ionization multiplication factor M is expressed by the following equation [6].

(9)
M1=M0exp{[q(VDSVDSAT)Eg]mkT}

where M0 is the value of M1 at VDS=VDSAT+Eg/q, Eg is the energy gap in Si, and m is the ideality factor of impact ionization.

Using (9), gmi under the condition of qIDS/(mkT)gdso is defined as:

(10)

gmi=dIBdVDS=d[IDS(M1)]dVDS

=gdso(M1)+IDSd(M1)dVDSqIBmkT.

The I-V characteristic equation of the body-source junction where IB flows is expressed as:

(11)
IB=Ibo[exp(qVBiηkT)1]

where Ibo is the reverse saturation base current and η is the ideality factor of the body-source junction.

Using (11), gbs is defined as

(12)
gbs=dIBdVBSqIBηkT.

Using (9), (10) and (12), the following equation is obtained:

(13)

gmi=ηmgbs

=qmkTIDSM0exp{[q(VDSVDSAT)Eg]mkT}.

Since gmp is much smaller than gmb in the kink bias [14], Gk(LF) in (8) can be approximated as (η/m)gmb using (13). This gmb can be obtained using the following formula in the saturation region:

(14)
IDS=μnCoxWuNf2Lg(VGSVth)2(1+cVDS)

where μn is the electron mobility, c is the channel length modulation parameter, and the threshold voltage Vth is expressed as [19]:

(15)
Vth=VFB+2ΨB+2ϵsqNch(2ΨBVBi)/Cox

where VFB is the flat-band voltage, ΨB is the surface potential, ϵs is the permittivity of Si, Nch is the channel doping concentration, and Coxis the gate oxide capacitance per unit channel area.

Using (14) and (15), gmb is defined as follows:

(16)

gmb=(dIDS/dVth)(dVth/dVBi)

=gmCoxϵsqNch2(2ΨBVBi)

where gm is the MOSFET transconductance given by:

(17)
gm=μnCoxWuNfLg(VGSVth)(1+cVDS).

As VBi increases due to IB generated at high VDS, gmb also increases in (16). In order to accurately calculate the VDS-dependent effect of gmb instead of VBi, a relational expression between VBi and VDS is required.

Since IDS(M1) is equal to (11), the following expression at VDS>Vkink is defined as [6]:

(18)
VDS=mVBiη+mkTqln(IboIDSM0)+Egq+VDSAT

where m, η, Ib0, M0, and VDSAT are independent of VDS.

As VDS increases in the kink region, IDS increases and the second term of (18) involving a logarithmic function decreases. However, this decrease is much smaller compared to the increase of VBi in the first term. Therefore, (18) can be expressed as a linear function of VDSaVBi+b. Substituting this linear function back into (16), we obtain the VDS-dependent equation of gmb=a(1+cVDS)(bVDS)0.5. According to this equation, the value of Gk(LF)(η/m)gmb is reduced as VDS decreases, as shown in Fig. 10.

Fig. 10. Extracted Gk(LF) data from Fig. 7 as a function of VDS for an FB PD-SOI n-MOSFET.

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Since |Bout(min)|0.5Gk(LF) in (5), it is verified that the reduction of |Bout(min)| with decreasing VDS in Fig. 9 is primarily due to the VDS - dependence of gmb in (16). Accordingly, the gmb equation provides a theoretical explanation for the decrease in the rotation radius of the S22-parameter trajectory. Based on Gk(LF) in Fig. 10, it is confirmed that the rotation radius decreases largely from 1.8V to 1.7V, and then gradually decreases further below 1.6V.

2. Pole Frequency

Meanwhile, Gout in Fig. 7 is measured from the minimum measurement frequency of 10MHz in our vector network analyzer. If fp is less than 10MHz, the Gout measured at 10MHz is much smaller than the Gk(LF) value at DC, and the Bout(min) at fp can’t be measured. Thus, the measured |Bout| at 10MHz, which is much less than |Bout(min)|, only represents the latter part of the entire rotation trajectory of the S22-parameter in Fig. 3. Therefore, in order to accurately understand the VDS-dependency of the S22-parameter rotation trajectory, fp should be measured, and it is necessary to analyze the VDS -dependency on fp in (7).

To determine the accurate values of fp, we utilize a novel curve-fitting method [20] based on the simple frequency-dependent Gout equation derived from (6) :

(19)
Gout=Gk+ gdso=H1+(f/fp)2+K.

where

(20)
H=Gk(LF)[1(fp/fz)2]
(21)
K=(gmb+gmp)CbdCbs+Cbd+gdso

where fz is the zero frequency of Gk in (6) and is expressed as:

(22)
fz=12πgmigbsCbd(Cbs+Cbd).

Under the kink bias, CbdCbs, because the body-drain junction is reverse-biased and the body-source junction is forward-biased in the parasitic BJT. Under the condition of CbdCbs, it is satisfied that gdso(gmb+gmp)Cbd/(Cbs+Cbd) in (21), thus resulting in Gout(HF)=K gdso. Since H  Gk(LF) at fpfz in (20), Gk(LF)Gout(LF)Gout(HF) in Fig. 7.

Since H and K at the fixed bias are constant values that are independent of frequency, the VDS-dependent fp data is easily extracted by fitting (19) to match with the Gout versus frequency data in Fig. 7. When VDS1.1V, the extraction of fp data is impossible because it is less than 10MHz. Thus, only fp data extracted at voltages above 1.2V is shown in Fig. 11. The log(fp) increases linearly when VDS>1.2V and gradually saturates after VDS reaches 1.5V.

Under the kink bias region, (7) can be expressed as fpgbs/Cbs, where Cbs is the sum of the depletion capacitance Cjs and the diffusion capacitance Cdiff. Under forward bias, Cjs and Cdiff are expressed as:

(23)
Cjs=Cjso(1+MjsVBi/Vbuilt_in)
(24)
Cdiff=qβFIboτFkTexp(qVBikT)

where Cjso is the value of Cjs when VBi=0V, Mjd is the junction grading coefficient, Vbuilt_in is the built-in potential, βF is the common-emitter(source) current gain, and τF is the forward transit time.

In Fig. 11, when VBi is lower than Vbuilt_in of the body-source junction, Cbs is primarily influenced by Cjs because CdiffCjs. Since VDS and VBi have a linear relationship in (18), Cjs in (23) is also a linear function of VDS. Additionally, gbs exponentially increases due to impact ionization as VDSrises in (13). Thus, ln(fp) is expressed as ln(gbs)ln(Cjs)CVDSDln(VDS)+E. Sinceln(gbs) increases more rapidly than ln(Cjs) with rising VDS, the slope in Fig. 11 becomes approximately linear at VDS1.5V. However, when VBi is higher than Vbuilt_in, Cdiff in (24) becomes dominant (CdiffCjs). Therefore, the value of fpgbs/Cdiff becomes saturated at very high VDS values.

In Fig. 11, it is evident that fp is less than 10 MHz for VDS values lower than 1.1V. Accordingly, the measured Gk at 10MHz becomes negligible at VDS1.1V in Fig. 7, as Gout decreases rapidly for f>fp. Thus, the values of |Bout| at frequencies above 10MHz at VDS1.1V are much lower than |Bout(min)| shown in Fig. 9. Since fp10MHz at VDS1.1V, the rotation angle of the frequency trajectory in the S22-parameter in Fig. 3 is substantially reduced at VDS1.1V compared to 180 at very high VDS.

Fig. 11. Extracted fp data from Fig. 7 using (19) as a function of VDS for an FB PD-SOI n-MOSFET.

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3. Physical Origin

When VDS decreases, Gk(LF) gradually reduces due to gmb. Thus, |Bout(min)| that is approximated by Gk(LF)/2 decreases, leading to a reduction in the rotation radius of the S22-parameter trajectory, as shown in Fig. 3. In Fig. 11, it is confirmed that fp decreases below 10MHz due to the reduction of gbs at VDS1.1V. Thus, |Bout| at 10MHz becomes very small, leading to the rotation angle of the S22-parameter being negligible when VDS<1.1V. Accordingly, the rotational trajectory cannot be seen in the frequency response of the S22-parameter when VDS=0.61.1V in Fig. 3, even though VDS is greater than the DC Vkink of 0.55V. Through these analyses, the origin of the invisibility of the S22-parameter trajectory in the bias region of 0.6VVDS1.1V,where negative capacitance exists, is clearly identified for the first time.

IV. Conclusion

In order to reveal the physical origin of the anomalous VDS - dependence in the RF inductive effect of FB PD-SOI n-MOSFETs for the first time, the variation of the rotation trajectory of the S22-parameter on the Smith chart at different VDS values is newly analyzed. This new analysis is based on the frequency-dependent equations of Gout and Bout, which are derived from an output equivalent circuit. The accuracy of |Bout(min)|Gk(LF)/2, derived from the simple RLC circuit, is verified using the Gk(LF) extracted from the measured Gout data. We also physically proved that Gk(LF)(η/m)gmb. Using the physically derived equation for VDS-dependent gmb, it is confirmed that the decreased turning radius of the S22-parameter at lower VDS is caused by the reduction of gmb. In addition, it has been found that fp decreases below the minimum frequency of 10MHz when VDS1.1V. This reduction in fp is caused by the exponential decrease in gbs as VDS decreases. Due to the reduction in gmb and fp at lower VDS, the RF inductive effect in the S22-parameter of FB devices does not appear at VDS=0.61.1V, which is larger than the DC Vkink, even though negative capacitance exists.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Research Fund of 2023, and by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) (No. 2021R1A2C1095133).

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Kyeongjun Kim
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Kyeongjun Kim was born in Yongin, Korea, in 1995. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Korea, in 2022 and 2024, respectively. His current research work is focused on simulation, characterization, and SPICE modeling for RF MOSFETs.

Seonghearn Lee
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Seonghearn Lee was born in Junjoo, Korea, in 1962. He received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering in 1985 from Korea University, Seoul, Korea, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1989 and 1992, res-pectively. His doctoral dissertation work involved the design, fabrication, and parameter extraction of AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors. From 1992 to 1995, he was a Senior Member of the Research Staff with the Semiconductor Technology Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Korea, where he worked on the development of polysilicon emitter bipolar transistors and Si/SiGe/Si heterojunction bipolar transistors. Since 1995, he has been with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Yongin, Korea, where he is currently a Professor. In 1996 and 1998, he was an Invited Member of the Research Staff with ETRI, where he worked on RF CMOS modeling in wireless communications applications. He served as the director of the Institute of Information Industrial Engineering at HUFS in 2019. Since 1996, he has carried out research on RF CMOS and bipolar compact modeling and parameter extraction for the RF IC design. In 2013, he successfully developed SPICE model library for SOI RF CMOS Process at the National Nanofab Center, Daejeon, Korea. In 2020, he built a novel RF harmonic distortion breakdown model of HRS-SOI MOSFETs for RF switch IC design through a research and development project funded by DB HiTek, Bucheon, Korea. His research interests are in the field of characterization, parameter extraction, and compact modeling of silicon devices for use in high-frequency ICs. Prof. Lee is a senior member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and a member of IEIE. He served as a subcommittee chair at the Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS) from 2012 to 2013. He received the HUFS Excellence in Research Award in 2001, 2003, and 2004. He has been listed in Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in Asia. He is named a Top Scholar by ScholarGPS in 2024.