Analysis of hot-electron reliability and device performance in80-nm double-gate SOI n-MOSFET's |
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Authors: | Williams S.C. Kim K.W. Littlejohn M.A. Holton W.C. |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we employ a comprehensive Monte Carlo-based simulation method to model hot-electron injection, to predict induced device degradation, and to simulate and compare the performance of two double-gate fully depleted silicon-on-insulator n-MOSFET's (one with a lightly-doped channel and one with a heavily-doped channel) and a similar lightly-doped single-gate design. All three designs have an effective channel length of 80 nm and a silicon layer thickness of 25 mm. Monte Carlo simulations predict a spatial retardation between the locations of peak hot-electron injection into the front and back oxides. Since the observed shift is a significant portion of the channel length, the retardation effect greatly influences induced degradation in otherwise well-designed SOI devices. This effect may signal an important consideration for sub-100-nm design strategy. Simulations were also conducted to compare transistor performance against a key figure of merit. Evaluation of reliability and performance results indicate that the double-gate design with a lightly doped channel offers the best tradeoff in immunity to hot-electron-induced degradation and performance |
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