Electric Breakdown Through Nano Dielectric Films

Effect of Microstructure on Dielectric Breakdown in Amorphous HfO2 Films

1. Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, ACT-0200, Australia 2. Centre for Advanced Microscopy, The Australian National University, ACT-0200, Australia 3. Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University, ACT-0200, Australia 4. Department of Physics, The University of Chitt...

Differentiation between Electric Breakdowns and Dielectric Breakdown in Thin Silicon Oxides

It has been known for some time that non-destructive electric breakdowns precede destructive thermal dielectric breakdown. We have been studying both processes in oxides between 5 nm and 80 nm in thickness. We have shown that the electric breakdowns can trigger dielectric breakdown under certain conditions. This triggering of dielectric breakdown causes TDDB distributions to be nonunique. The T...

A Study of Electric Breakdown Theory to Model Dielectric Surface Flashover

Electric flashover on power system apparatus and safety equipment can result in destruction to equipment and injury to workers, as well as pose a danger to anyone in the vicinity of this occurring. This phenomenon still continues to be an issue today despite over 100 years of research into the problem. It was determined that an exhaustive literature review should be performed to investigate mat...

Dielectric breakdown I : A review of oxide breakdown

T he properties o f thin dielectrics remain very important tbr the reliability o f semiconductor devices. In the first place we think of the gate oxide in integrated circuits. It is well known that defects, contamination and metal impurities are hazardous for a sufficient lifetime of the integrated circuits. Therefore, a large effort is spent on the construction of better clean rooms, in the fi...

Dielectric breakdown and failure of anodic aluminum oxide films for electrowetting systems