Effects of gate structures on the RF performance in PD SOI MOSFETs

The radio-frequency (RF) performance of PD silicon-on-insulator metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors with T-gate and H-gate structures has been investigated. Our measurement shows that H-gate devices have larger cutoff frequency and smaller minimum noise figure than T-gate devices. This improved RF performance in H-gate devices can be explained mainly by the enhancement of transconductance resulting from the gate extension induced inversion charges and the low gate resistance. We conclude that the H-gate structure is superior to the T-gate structure for the design of the low-noise amplifier (LNA).     

Comparison of hot carrier-induced RF performance degradation in H-gate and T-gate SOI MOSFETs

The RF performance degradation of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MOSFETs with H-gate and T-gate structures after hot carrier stressing has been investigated. Our experimental results show that the RF performance degradation is more significant than the dc performance degradation after hot carrier stressing. Also, the degradation of the H-gate device is more significant than that of the T-gate device due to the higher drain current. Since the degradation of minimum noise figure is the most significant, the hot carrier effects should be taken into account in the design of LNA using the H-gate device although its RF performance is better than that of the T-gate device.     

Using layout technique and direct-tunneling mechanism to promote DC performance of partially depleted SOI devices

This paper reports the dc performance enhancements of partially depleted (PD) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) devices with lower subthreshold swing and higher driving capability, kink-onset voltage, and transconductance simultaneously. Based on the measured results, by using layout technique, for floating-body PD SOI pMOSFETs with ultrathin gate-oxide thickness, H-gate configuration with the partial n/sup +/ poly-gate shows the best floating-body characteristics as compared to that in T-gate and three-terminal configurations. Owing to the direct-tunneling mechanism in the partial n/sup +/ poly-gate, the conduction-band electron tunneling current will make the floating-body potential biased in strong inversion region raised. In addition, due to the larger oxide voltage drop across the partial n/sup +/ poly-gate in subthreshold region, the valence-band hole substrate current will result in lower floating-body potential. These dc performance enhancements advantage in both digital and analog designs.     

Characterization issues of gate geometry in multifinger structurefor RF-SOI MOSFETs

In this letter, we propose that f_T and f_max properties in partially depleted SOI devices were analyzed in terms of gate electrode layout, body instability, and body resistance of multifinger structure. The speed characteristics were a strong function of the number of fingers and gate types such as T-gate and H-gate structures and were evaluated by g_m variation (Δg_m ), extra parasitic capacitance (ΔC_gs), and ac body instability     

边缘注入对H型栅SOI pMOSFETs亚阈值泄漏电流的影响

就不同边缘注入剂量对H型栅SOI pMOSFETs亚阈值泄漏电流的影响进行了研究。实验结果表明不足的边缘注入将会产生边缘背栅寄生晶体管,并且在高的背栅压下会产生明显的泄漏电流。分析表明尽管H型栅结构的器件在源和漏之间没有直接的边缘泄漏通路,但是在有源扩展区部分,由于LOCOS技术引起的硅膜减薄和剂量损失仍就促使了边缘背栅阈值电压的降低。     

PD SOI nMOSFETs中浮体效应对辐照性能的影响

在SIMOX衬底上制备了H形栅和环形栅PD SOI nMOSFETs,并研究了浮体效应对辐照性能的影响.在106rad(Si)总剂量辐照下,所有器件的亚阈特性未见明显变化.环形栅器件的背栅阈值电压漂移比H型栅器件小33%,其原因是碰撞电离使环形栅器件的体区电位升高,在埋氧化层中形成的电场减小了辐照产生的损伤.浮体效应有利于改进器件的背栅抗辐照能力.     

Influence of Floating Body Effect on Radiation Hardness of PD SOI nMOSFETs

H-gate and closed-gate PD SOI nMOSFETs are fabricated on SIMOX substrate,and the influence of floating body effect on the radiation hardness is studied.All the subthreshold characteristics of the devices do not change much after radiation of the total dose of 1e6rad(Si).The back gate threshold voltage shift of closed-gate is about 33% less than that of Hgate device.The reason should be that the body potential of the closed-gate device is raised due to impact ionization,and an electric field is produced across the BOX.The floating body effect can improve the radiation hardness of the back gate transistor.     

一种抗总剂量辐照的新型PD SOI器件

提出了一种具有叠层埋氧层的新栅型绝缘体上硅(SOI)器件.针对SOI器件的抗总电离剂量(TID)加固方案,对绝缘埋氧层(BOX)采用了叠层埋氧方案,对浅沟槽隔离(STI)层采用了特殊S栅方案.利用Sentaurus TCAD软件,采用Insulator Fixed Charge模型设置固定电荷密度,基于0.18 μm ...     

Direct tunneling-induced floating-body effect in 90-nm pseudo-kink-free PD SOI pMOSFETs with DTMOS-like behavior and low input power consumption

This paper reports the investigation of the direct tunneling-induced floating-body effect in 90-nm H-gate floating body partially depleted (PD) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) pMOSFETs with dynamic-threshold MOS (DTMOS)-like behavior and low input power consumption. Based on this paper, with the decrease of the gate-oxide thickness, the direct-tunneling current will dominate the floating body potential of H-gate PD SOI pMOSFETs, which makes the floating body potential highly gate voltage dependent like DTMOS behavior with a larger drain current. However, the input power consumption is still kept lower. Simultaneously, the highly gate voltage dependent direct-tunneling current will reduce the influence of the impact ionization current on the neutral region with a higher kink onset-voltage. It contributes to the pseudo-kink-free phenomenon in 90-nm H-gate floating body PD SOI pMOSFETs.     

环栅CMOS/SOI的X射线总剂量辐射效应研究

采用硅离子注入工艺对注氧隔离(SIMOX)绝缘体上硅(SOI)材料作出改性,分别在改性材料和标准SIMOXSOI材料上制作部分耗尽环型栅CMOS/SOI器件,并采用10keVX射线对其进行了总剂量辐照试验。实验表明,同样的辐射总剂量条件下,采用改性材料制作的器件与标准SIMOX材料制作的器件相比,阈值电压漂移小得多,亚阈漏电也得到明显改善,说明改性SIMOXSOI材料具有优越的抗总剂量辐射能力。     

Investigation of temperature-dependent small-signal performances of TB SOI MOSFETs

This paper investigated the temperature dependence of the cryogenic small-signal ac performances of multi-finger partially depleted (PD) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs), with T-gate body contact (TB) structure. The measurement results show that the cut-off frequency increases from 78 GHz at 300 K to 120 GHz at 77 K and the maximum oscillation frequency increases from 54 GHz at 300 K to 80 GHz at 77 K, and these are mainly due to the effect of negative temperature dependence of threshold voltage and transconductance. By using a simple equivalent circuit model, the temperature-dependent small-signal parameters are discussed in detail. The understanding of cryogenic small-signal performance is beneficial to develop the PD SOI MOSFETs integrated circuits for ultra-low temperature applications.     

Analytical I–V model of SOI and SON MOSFETs: a comparative analysis

A generalised three-interface compact capacitive threshold voltage model for horizontal silicon-on-insulator/silicon-on-nothing (SOI/SON) MOSFET has been developed. The model includes different threshold voltage-modifying short-channel phenomena like fringing field, junction-induced 2D-effects, etc. Based on the threshold voltage model, an analytical current voltage model is formulated from the basic charge control analysis of MOSFET. In order to provide a better explanation to various observations and applicable to short-channel SOI and SON structures, the present current voltage model includes the effect of carrier velocity saturation and channel length modulation. Identical structures for both the devices, SOI and SON, are considered but for SON MOSFET, the buried oxide layer is replaced by air. The performance of the two devices are studied and compared in terms of threshold voltage roll-off, subthreshold slope, drain current and drain conductance. The SON MOSFET technology is found to offer devices with further scalability and enhanced performance in terms of threshold voltage roll-off, sub-threshold slope and greater current derivability, thereby providing scope for further miniaturisation of devices and much better performance improvement.     

Reduced reverse narrow channel effect in thin SOI nMOSFETs

The effects of narrow channel width on the threshold voltage of deep submicron silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nMOSFETs with LOCOS isolation have been investigated. The reverse narrow channel effect (RNCE) in SOI devices is found to be dependent on the thickness of the active silicon film. A thinner silicon film is found to depict less threshold voltage fall-off. These results can be explained by a reduced oxide/silicon interface area in the transistor width direction, thus the boron segregation due to silicon interstitials with high recombination rate is reduced     

H型栅SOIMOS作为静电保护器件的维持电压的研究(英文)

对绝缘体上硅工艺来说,静电保护可靠性是一个关键且具有挑战性的问题。着重于研究H型栅SOIMOS的维持电压,通过实验发现此器件的维持电压与栅宽紧密联系。结合TCAD仿真解释了器件的工作机理,通过建立集约模型并由HSPICE仿真,揭示了体电阻与维持电压之间的关系。     

Temperature dependence of threshold voltage in thin-film SOIMOSFETs

A first-order model for the temperature dependence of threshold voltage in thin-film silicon-on-insulator (SOI) n-MOSFETs is described. The temperature dependence of the threshold voltage of thin-film SOI n-channel MOSFETs is analyzed. Threshold voltage variation with temperature is significantly smaller in thin-film (fully depleted) devices than in thick-film SOI and bulk devices. The threshold voltage is shown to be dependent on the depletion level of the device, i.e. whether it is fully depleted or not. There exists a critical temperature below which the device is fully depleted, and above which the device operates in the thick-film regime     

Process-variation- and random-dopants-induced threshold voltage fluctuations in nanoscale CMOS and SOI devices

In this paper, we investigate the threshold voltage fluctuation for nanoscale metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) devices. The threshold voltage fluctuation comes from random dopant and short channel effects. The random-dopant-induced fluctuation is due to the random nature of ion implantation. The gate-length deviation and the line-edge roughness are mainly resulted from the short-channel effect. For the SOI devices, we should also consider the body thickness variation. In our investigation, the metal gate with high-κ material MOSFET is a good choice to reduce fluctuation of threshold voltage when comparing to the poly gate MOSFET and thin-body SOI devices.     

Orientation and ion-implanted transverse effects in self-aligned GaAs MESFET's

The orientation dependence of the threshold voltage and device transconductance of ion-implanted GaAs FET's has been investigated and modeled. The threshold voltages of the devices along the [011] and [01bar{1}] directions are different when the gate length is short (≤ 3 µm). Experimental results and theoretical calculations show that this is primarily due to the strain in the active channel, induced by the dielectric overlayer. For the short self-aligned gate structure, the lateral spread of the ion-implanted n⁺layer is important as well. When these two effects are taken into account, calculated results agree well with the experimental data for standard self-aligned gate structures, and self-aligned structures with a sidewall or T-gate, fabricated using lamp- or furnace-annealing processes. This model also allows us to simulate the threshold voltage and transconductance dependence on the annealing time for different device parameters (such as gate length and channel doping)and process variables (i.e., sidewall or T-gate dimensions and impurity diffusion constant). We also calculated the gate length dependence of the transconductance for devices fabricated using a sidewall process. Results of this calculation are compared with the experimental data for different sidewall thicknesses.     

RF characterization of metal T-gate structure in fully-depleted SOI CMOS technology

The metal T-gate structure in fully-depleted (FD) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MOSFET's is investigated from the RF perspective. With the expected low gate resistance R/sub G/, the metal T-gate FD-SOI MOSFET achieves a higher f/sub max/ of 67 GHz as compared with 12.5 GHz in the silicided polysilicon gate counterpart. However, the metal T-gate FD-SOI MOSFET has a lower f/sub T/ of 35 GHz as compared with 44 GHz for the self-aligned polysilicon gate. The extracted parameters reveal that the T-gate structure results in an extra 40% and 80% increase in the parasitic capacitances C/sub gs/ and C/sub gd/ respectively. The metal gate structure together with the source-drain structure have to be co-optimized to boost the RF performance of FD-SOI MOSFET. A simple guideline to optimize the structure is included.     

Evaluation of graded-channel SOI MOSFET operation at high temperatures

This paper presents a comparative analysis between graded-channel (GC) and conventional fully depleted SOI MOSFETs devices operating at high temperatures (up to 300 °C). The electrical characteristics such as threshold voltage and subthreshold slope were obtained experimentally and by two-dimensional numerical simulations. The results indicated that GC transistors present nearly the same behavior as the conventional SOI MOSFET devices with similar channel length. Experimental analysis of the g_m/I_DS ratio and Early voltage demonstrated that in GC devices the low-frequency open-loop gain is significantly improved in comparison to conventional SOI devices at room and at high-temperature due to the Early voltage increase. The multiplication factor and parasitic bipolar transistor gain obtained by two-dimensional numerical simulations allowed the analysis of the breakdown voltage, which was demonstrated to be improved in the GC as compared to conventional SOI transistors in thin silicon layer devices in the whole temperature range under analysis.     

Deep submicrometer double-gate fully-depleted SOI PMOS devices: aconcise short-channel effect threshold voltage model using a quasi-2Dapproach

This paper reports a concise short-channel effect threshold voltage model using a quasi-2D approach for deep submicrometer double-gate fully-depleted SOI PMOS devices. By considering the hole density at the front and the back channels simultaneously, the analytical threshold voltage model provides an accurate prediction of the short-channel threshold voltage behavior of the deep submicrometer double-gate fully-depleted SOI PMOS devices as verified by 2D simulation results. The analytical short-channel effect threshold voltage model can also be useful for SOI NMOS devices