Ji Won Kim

Mr. Ji Won Kim


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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10 July 2026 in Electronics
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JKJi Won Kim
Ji Won Kim
DCDong Hun Cha
Dong Hun Cha
SLSeung Hwan Lee
Seung Hwan Lee
KEKyungsik Eom
Kyungsik Eom
SLSanghoon Lee
Sanghoon Lee
JPJeong Hoan Park
Jeong Hoan Park
Microscopic magnetic stimulation (MSTI) induces electric fields without direct charge injection and can shape localized field gradients with asymmetric micro-coils. Most demonstrations still rely on external drivers, off-chip hardware, or separated coil validation, so the CMOS integration boundary remains poorly characterized. This work presents a fabricated 2×1 mm2 0.18 μm CMOS magnetic-stimulation SoC that co-integrates ASK-compatible command decoding, FSM and register-based parameter control, a programmable current–voltage–current triangular driver, and a bent top-metal micro-coil, and it characterizes the on-chip driver-to-coil path together with a substrate-aware field model. Sensing-load reconstruction confirms command-to-waveform programmability, including duration-window decoding, burst-count control, and polarity reversal, with measured slew targets that give a peak current of Ipk=3.72–21.6 mA. A quantitative comparison contrasts the current-mode triangular driver with conventional electrode stimulators, a coil-impedance measurement shows the coil stays resistive across 1 to 10 MHz, and the measured total SoC power is about 41 mW. Substrate-aware simulation at a 15 μm target plane shows that the grounded p-substrate retains 35.1–40.5% of the no-substrate peak x-directed field-gradient metric. The prototype establishes this electrical programmability and the substrate-aware gradient-transfer loss as a compact design-margin metric for CMOS-integrated magnetic stimulation. Direct biological activation is not claimed and is left to future in vitro validation.