• DocumentCode
    1462807
  • Title

    Enhanced Carrier-Mobility-Fluctuation Origin Low-Frequency Noise in Uniaxial Strained PMOSFETs

  • Author

    Kuo, Jack J -Y ; Chen, William P -N ; Su, Pin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    5/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    497
  • Lastpage
    499
  • Abstract
    This letter reports our new findings on the impact of uniaxial strain on the low-frequency-noise characteristics in nanoscale PMOSFETs. It is found that the normalized drain current noise of the strained device in the high-gate-overdrive (V gst) regime is larger than its control counterpart. In addition, the enhanced carrier-mobility-fluctuation origin 1/f noise for the strained device in the high-|V gst| regime indicates that the carrier mobility in the strained device is more phonon limited, which represents an intrinsic strain effect on the low-frequency noise.
  • Keywords
    1/f noise; MOSFET; carrier mobility; nanoelectronics; 1/f noise; carrier-mobility-fluctuation origin low-frequency noise; high-gate-overdrive regime; nanoscale PMOSFET; normalized drain current noise; strain effect; strained device; uniaxial strained PMOSFET; Carrier mobility fluctuation; low-frequency noise; process-induced strain; uniaxial strained PMOSFET;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Device Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0741-3106
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LED.2010.2044138
  • Filename
    5443530