• DocumentCode
    1553071
  • Title

    Time-dependent degradation law for reliable lifetime prediction in sub-0.25 μm bulk silicon N-MOSFETs

  • Author

    Szelag, B. ; Kubicek, S. ; Meyer, K. De ; Balestra, F.

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. de Phys. des Composants a Semicond., ENSERG, Grenoble, France
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    16
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    8/5/1999 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1385
  • Lastpage
    1386
  • Abstract
    The hot-carrier-induced degradation of sub-0.25 μm bulk Si MOSFETs is studied. A new degradation law is proposed and compared to the main existing models. This comparison shows that the new model gives more accurate results. Using this degradation law, the maximum drain voltage for a 10% transconductance degradation after 10 years has been extracted. A reduced Vdmax as compared to the values given by the previous laws, which overestimate Vdmax for deep submicrometre devices, is determined
  • Keywords
    MOSFET; elemental semiconductors; hot carriers; semiconductor device models; semiconductor device reliability; silicon; 0.25 micron; NMOSFET; Si; bulk Si N-MOSFETs; deep submicron devices; device lifetime; hot-carrier-induced degradation; maximum drain voltage; model; n-channel MOSFET; reliable lifetime prediction; time-dependent degradation law; transconductance degradation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19990954
  • Filename
    790069