A substrate hot holes injection method is used to quantitatively examine the roles of electrons and holes separately in thin gate oxides breakdown.The shift of threshold voltage under different stress is discussed.It ...A substrate hot holes injection method is used to quantitatively examine the roles of electrons and holes separately in thin gate oxides breakdown.The shift of threshold voltage under different stress is discussed.It is indicated that positive charges are trapped in SiO 2 while hot electrons are necessary for SiO 2 breakdown.The anode holes injection model and the electron traps generation model is linked into a consistent model,describing the oxide wearout as an electron correlated holes trap creation process.The results show that the limiting factor in thin gate oxides breakdown depends on the balance between the amount of injected hot electrons and holes.The gate oxides breakdown is a two step process.The first step is hot electron's breaking Si-O bonds and producing some dangling bonds to be holes traps.Then the holes are trapped and a conducted path is produced in the oxides.The joint effect of hot electrons and holes makes the thin gate oxides breakdown complete.展开更多
The saturation behavior of stress current is studied.The three types of precursor sites for trap generation are also introduced by fitting method based on first order rate equation.A further investigation by statistic...The saturation behavior of stress current is studied.The three types of precursor sites for trap generation are also introduced by fitting method based on first order rate equation.A further investigation by statistics experiments shows that there are definite relationships among time constant of trap generation,the time to breakdown,and stress voltage.It also means that the time constant of trap generation can be used to predict oxide lifetime.This method is faster for TDDB study compared with usual breakdown experiments.展开更多
By measurement,we investigate the characteristics and location of gate oxide damage induced by snapback stress. The damage incurred during stress causes device degradation that follows an approximate power law with st...By measurement,we investigate the characteristics and location of gate oxide damage induced by snapback stress. The damage incurred during stress causes device degradation that follows an approximate power law with stress time. Oxide traps generated by stress will cause the increase of stress-induced leakage current and the decrease of Qbd （charge to breakdown）,and it may also cause the degradation of off-state drain leakage current. Stress-induced gate oxide damage is located not only in the drain side but also in the source side. The tertiary electrons generated by hot holes move toward Si-SiO2 interface under the electrical field toward the substrate,which explains the source side gate oxide damage.展开更多
文摘A substrate hot holes injection method is used to quantitatively examine the roles of electrons and holes separately in thin gate oxides breakdown.The shift of threshold voltage under different stress is discussed.It is indicated that positive charges are trapped in SiO 2 while hot electrons are necessary for SiO 2 breakdown.The anode holes injection model and the electron traps generation model is linked into a consistent model,describing the oxide wearout as an electron correlated holes trap creation process.The results show that the limiting factor in thin gate oxides breakdown depends on the balance between the amount of injected hot electrons and holes.The gate oxides breakdown is a two step process.The first step is hot electron's breaking Si-O bonds and producing some dangling bonds to be holes traps.Then the holes are trapped and a conducted path is produced in the oxides.The joint effect of hot electrons and holes makes the thin gate oxides breakdown complete.
文摘The saturation behavior of stress current is studied.The three types of precursor sites for trap generation are also introduced by fitting method based on first order rate equation.A further investigation by statistics experiments shows that there are definite relationships among time constant of trap generation,the time to breakdown,and stress voltage.It also means that the time constant of trap generation can be used to predict oxide lifetime.This method is faster for TDDB study compared with usual breakdown experiments.
文摘By measurement,we investigate the characteristics and location of gate oxide damage induced by snapback stress. The damage incurred during stress causes device degradation that follows an approximate power law with stress time. Oxide traps generated by stress will cause the increase of stress-induced leakage current and the decrease of Qbd （charge to breakdown）,and it may also cause the degradation of off-state drain leakage current. Stress-induced gate oxide damage is located not only in the drain side but also in the source side. The tertiary electrons generated by hot holes move toward Si-SiO2 interface under the electrical field toward the substrate,which explains the source side gate oxide damage.
