Characterization, Modeli:ng, and Minimization of Transient Threshold Vdti~ge Shifts h MOSFET’s

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  • Theodore L. Tewksbury
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MOSFET’S subjected to large-signal gate+ource voltage pulses on microsecond to millisecond time scales exhibit transient threshold voltage shifts which relax over considerably longer periods of time. This problem is important in highaccuracy analog circuits where it can cause errors at the 12 b level and above. In thk paper, transient threshold voltage shifts are characterized with respect to their dependence on stress tamplitude and duration, relaxation time, gate bias, substrate bias, drain voltage, temperature, and channel width and length. In camtrast to previous studies, threshold voltage shifts are measured ak time and voltage scales relevant to analog circuits, and are shown to occur even when the effects of Fowler–Nordheim tunneling, avalanche injection, hot carriers, trap generation, self-htating, mobile ions, and dipolar polarizations are absent. A new model is proposed in which channel charge carriers tunnel to and from near-interface oxide traps by one of three parallel pathways. Transitions may occur elastically, by direct tunneling between the silicon band edges and an oxide trap, or inelastically, by tunneling in conjunction with a thermal transition in the insulator or at the Si-SiOz interface. Simulations based on this model show excellent agreement with experimental results. The threshold voltage shifts are also shown to be correlated with l/f noise, in corrobawation of the tunneling model. Techniques for the minimization and modeling of errors in circuits are presented.

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تاریخ انتشار 1994