• DocumentCode
    1258024
  • Title

    Hot carrier-induced SOI MOSFET degradation under AC stress conditions

  • Author

    Lee, Jae-Ki ; Choi, Nag-Jong ; Hyun, Yun-Bong ; Yu, Chong-Gun ; Colinge, Jean-Pierre ; Park, Jong-Tae

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Incheon Univ., South Korea
  • Volume
    23
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    157
  • Lastpage
    159
  • Abstract
    The hot-carrier-induced device degradation in partially depleted silicon-on-insulator (SOI) devices has been investigated under AC stress conditions. The device degradation of both floating-body SOI devices and body contacted SOI devices have been measured and analyzed for different AC stress frequencies and gate bias voltages. Possible degradation mechanisms are suggested.
  • Keywords
    MOSFET; hot carriers; impact ionisation; semiconductor device breakdown; semiconductor device reliability; silicon-on-insulator; AC stress conditions; SOI CMOS process; SOI MOSFET; body contacted SOI devices; degradation mechanisms; enhancement-mode n-channel MOSFET; floating-body SOI devices; hot-carrier-induced device degradation; impact ionization; semiconductor device reliability; Degradation; Fluctuations; Frequency measurement; Hot carriers; MOS devices; MOSFET circuits; Resistors; Silicon on insulator technology; Stress measurement; Threshold voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Device Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0741-3106
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/55.988823
  • Filename
    988823