• DocumentCode
    1361939
  • Title

    Investigation of Switching-Time Variations for Nanoscale MOSFETs Using the Effective-Drive-Current Approach

  • Author

    Wu, Yu-Sheng ; Fan, Ming-Long ; Su, Pin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    162
  • Lastpage
    164
  • Abstract
    This letter investigates the impacts of random dopant fluctuation (RDF) and line edge roughness (LER) on the switching-time (ST) variation for nanoscale MOSFETs using the effective-drive-current (1 eff) approach that decouples the ST variation into transition-charge (??Q) and 1 eff variations. Although the RDF has been recognized as the main variation source to the threshold-voltage variation, this letter indicates that the relative importance of LER increases as the ST variation is considered.
  • Keywords
    MOSFET; effective-drive-current approach; line edge roughness; nanoscale MOSFET; random dopant fluctuation; switching-time variations; threshold-voltage variation; Line edge roughness (LER); MOSFET; random dopant fluctuation (RDF); switching time (ST);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Device Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0741-3106
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LED.2009.2037247
  • Filename
    5357416