… necessary for studies of hotcarrier effects. This chapter begins with a short historical
narrative on MOS devices and proceeds with a complete treatment of the MOS diode. The …

… In this work, hot carrier effects in both p- and nchannel MOS devices … of hot carrier degradation
behavior over wide temperature range is presented. A thorough investigation of hot carrier …

… It has been reported that the Hot-carrier effect also depends on other process parameters …
Thus evaluating other processes as to their susceptibility to hot-carrier effects, will allow the …

… Despite many experiments and analyses [6] on AC hot-carrier effects, noise caused by the
… current) hot-carrier effects, an universal guideline on AC hot-carrier effects is proposed from …

… of hot-carrier effects in submicrometre MOS VLSIs are described: (a) the hot-carrier injection
mechanism, (b) device … ), (c) the device structure that will lead to an attenuation of hotcarrier …

… of MOS devices has several advantages, it has been pointed out that the hot-carrier effect
is … Therefore, at present a major concern is the hot-carrier limitation in submicrometerchannel …

… Hot-carrier effects were observed by operating these devices for several days in liquid
nitrogen and a supply voltage of 20 V. Only a 1-percent decrease in frequency was observed. …

… From a comparison of IV curves before and after the hot carrier … effect of such a hot carrier
stress we measured the time dependence of transistor characteristics on many single devices …

… The hot-carrier data for both device types clearly showed the three current regimes we
reported earlier [3], [4]. Data from the first two regimes were only considered here, to correspond …

… A review of the channel hot carrier (CHC) mechanism and its effects on n-MOSFET devices
of … of hot carrier behavior for n-MOSFET devices at or below the 180 nm technology node. …