• DocumentCode
    453118
  • Title

    Effects of hot carrier stress and oxide breakdown on RF characteristics of MOSFETs

  • Author

    Chen, Kun-Ming ; Yang, Dao-Yen ; Huang, Sheng-Yi ; Huang, Guo-Wei ; Chang, Li-Hsin ; Liang, Victor ; Tseng, Hua-Chou ; Chang, Chun-Yen

  • Author_Institution
    National Nano Device Labs., Taiwan, China
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    4-7 Dec. 2005
  • Abstract
    Effects of hot carrier stress and oxide breakdown on the main figures-of-merit of RF MOSFETs are examined in this paper. We found that the degradations of cutoff frequency and power performance after hot carrier stress are larger than that after oxide breakdown. However, the minimum noise figure degradation is more significant after oxide breakdown. Those observations are important and should be concerned when designing an RF front-end circuit.
  • Keywords
    MOSFET; hot carriers; semiconductor device breakdown; semiconductor device models; RF MOSFET; RF front-end circuit; cutoff frequency degradation; hot carrier stress; noise figure degradation; oxide breakdown; power performance degradation; Breakdown voltage; CMOS technology; Degradation; Electric breakdown; Hot carriers; MOSFETs; Noise figure; Radio frequency; Semiconductor device noise; Stress;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference Proceedings, 2005. APMC 2005. Asia-Pacific Conference Proceedings
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9433-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APMC.2005.1606451
  • Filename
    1606451