The Understanding and Compact Modeling of Reliability in Modern Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors: From Single-Mode to Mixed-Mode …

Z Sun, S Chen, L Zhang, R Huang, R Wang - Micromachines, 2024 - mdpi.com
With the technological scaling of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors
(MOSFETs) and the scarcity of circuit design margins, the characteristics of device reliability …

Hot carrier injection reliability in nanoscale field effect transistors: Modeling and simulation methods

Y Wang, Y Li, Y Yang, W Chen - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hot carrier injection (HCI) can generate interface traps or oxide traps mainly by dissociating
the Si-H or Si-O bond, thus affecting device performances such as threshold voltage and …

Reliability and variability of advanced CMOS devices at cryogenic temperatures

A Grill, E Bury, J Michl, S Tyaginov… - 2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we present time-zero variability and degradation data obtained from a large set
of on-chip devices in specifically designed arrays, from room temperature to 4K. We show …

treatment of silicon-hydrogen bond rupture at interfaces

M Jech, AM El-Sayed, S Tyaginov, AL Shluger… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Even after more than 50 years of development, a major issue in silicon-based technology is
the understanding of the Si/SiO 2 interface and its defects, particularly the unsaturated …

Integrated modeling of self-heating of confined geometry (FinFET, NWFET, and NSHFET) transistors and its implications for the reliability of sub-20 nm modern …

W Ahn, SH Shin, C Jiang, H Jiang, MA Wahab… - Microelectronics …, 2018 - Elsevier
The evolution of transistor topology from planar to confined geometry transistors (ie, FinFET,
Nanowire FET, Nanosheet FET) has met the desired performance specification of sub-20 nm …

Simulation comparison of hot-carrier degradation in nanowire, nanosheet and forksheet FETs

M Vandemaele, B Kaczer, S Tyaginov… - 2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Forksheet (FS) FETs are a novel transistor architecture consisting of vertically stacked nFET
and pFET sheets at opposite sides of a dielectric wall. The wall allows reducing the p-to …

Hot carrier degradation-induced dynamic variability in FinFETs: Experiments and modeling

Z Yu, Z Sun, R Wang, J Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the dynamic variability induced by hot carrier degradation (HCD) in FinFETs is
studied with decomposing the variation contributions of multiple types of traps. The …

A Generic Framework for MOSFET Reliability—Part II: Gate and Drain Stress—HCD

S Mahapatra, H Diwakar, K Thakor… - … on Electron Devices, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Reaction Diffusion Drift (RDD) model is incorporated in the Sentaurus Technology CAD
(TCAD) framework and coupled with carrier and lattice heating to calculate the generation of …

Evaluating forksheet FET reliability concerns by experimental comparison with co-integrated nanosheets

E Bury, A Chasin, B Kaczer… - 2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel forksheet (FSH) FET architecture has been proposed earlier, consisting of vertically
stacked n-and p-type sheets at opposing sides of a dielectric wall, particularly beneficial for …

Hot-carrier degradation in FinFETs: Modeling, peculiarities, and impact of device topology

A Makarov, SE Tyaginov, B Kaczer… - 2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We perform a comprehensive analysis of hot-carrier degradation (HCD) in FinFETs. To
accomplish this goal we employ our physics-based HCD model and validate it against …