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An improved MOS device model is derived based upon a first-order model for the dependency of MOS surface mobility on surface field and lateral drain field. A comparison with experimental data shows that a consistent set of physical parameters can be used to describe both long-channel nMOS devices and short-channel devices. The model can form the basis for improved compact MOS models for circuit an...Show More
A novel intrinsic mobility extraction methodology for high-/spl kappa/ gate stacks that only requires a capacitance-voltage and pulsed I/sub d/-V/sub g/ measurement is demonstrated on SiO/sub 2/ and high-/spl kappa/ gate dielectric transistors and is benchmarked to other reported mobility extraction techniques. Fast transient charging effects in high-/spl kappa/ gate stacks are shown to cause the ...Show More
To adjust the capacitance of an accumulation-mode MOS varactor, a voltage is applied to the drain/source with the gate grounded. In this novel arrangement, a voltage is applied to the gate V/sub gate/ and another to the substrate V/sub sub/ with the drain/source grounded. Applying V/sub sub/ between the p/sup +/-type substrate and the varactor's n-well adjusts the minimum capacitance C/sub min/ an...Show More
This paper examines the high-frequency behavior of the enhancement-mode pseudomorphic high electron-mobility transistor (epHEMT) gate. During this study, no bias was applied between the drain and source. Rather, the gate was forward biased with either the drain, source, or channel (drain and source connected together) grounded. While applying positive voltage V/sub g/ to the gate, one-port S-param...Show More
The vertical scaling requirements for gate stacks and for shallow extension junctions are reviewed. For gate stacks, considerable progress has been made in optimizing oxide/nitride and oxynitride dielectrics to reduce boron penetration and dielectric leakage compared to pure SiO2 in order to allow sub-2-nm dielectrics. Several promising alternative material candidates exist for 1-nm equivalent oxi...Show More
The replacement of SiO/sub 2/ by an alternative dielectric is a formidable task and one must consider the task as an integrated task involving not only the gate dielectric but the equally important areas of gate dielectric-silicon interface, gate contact material and the interface between the gate contact material and the gate dielectric. Especially important is the dielectric-silicon interface as...Show More
The application of low-frequency charge pumping to obtain near-interface, or bulk trap densities, on thin stacked gate dielectrics is studied. A review of the theory governing the low-frequency charge pumping technique, developed to extract bulk trap densities from metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) fabricated with thick SiO/sub 2/ dielectrics, is given. In this study, th...Show More
The effects of remote charge scattering on the electron mobility of n-MOSFETs with ultrathin gate oxides from 1.5 nm to 3.2 nm have been estimated. By calculating the scattering rate of the two-dimensional (2-D) electron gas at the Si/silicon dioxide interface due to the ionized doping impurities at the poly-Si/silicon dioxide interface, the remote charge scattering mobility has been calculated. E...Show More
Based on two-dimensional (2-D) numerical simulation, a pulsed-drain current (PDC) measurement technique in weak inversion is investigated as an alternative to the standard charge-pumping technique for the extraction of interface trap density using small geometry MOSFETs. The PDC technique was found particularly useful for small MOSFETs with sub-20 /spl Aring/ oxides to avoid high gate tunneling cu...Show More
In this work, five methods for measuring the thickness of ultra-thin gate oxide layers in MOS structures were compared experimentally on n/sup +/ poly-SiO/sub 2/-p-Si structures. Three methods are based on electrical capacitance-voltage (C-V) and current-voltage (I-V) data and the other two methods are HRTEM and optical measurement. MOS capacitors with oxide thickness in the range 17-55 /spl Aring...Show More
In this work, we demonstrate that the magnitude of flatband voltage (V/sub FB/) shift for ultrathin (<2 nm) silicon dioxide-silicon nitride (ON) gate stacks in MOSFET's depends on the Fermi level position in the gate material. In addition, a fixed positive charge at the oxide-nitride interface was observed.Show More
The purpose of this study, based on two-dimensional (2-D) simulation, was to scale effective channel length and series resistance extraction routines for sub-100 nm CMOS devices. We demonstrate that L/sub eff/- and R/sub sd/-gate-bias dependence extracted using a modified shift-and-ratio (M-S&R) method may not give accurate results because of a nonnegligible effective mobility dependence on gate b...Show More
This paper discusses the limitations on MOSFET test structures used in extracting the polysilicon gate doping from capacitance-voltage (C-V) analysis in strong inversion, especially for ultrathin gate oxides. It is shown that for sub-20-/spl Aring/ oxide MOS devices, transistors with channel lengths less than about 10 /spl mu/m will be needed to avoid an extrinsic capacitance roll-off in strong in...Show More
Ultrathin oxynitride using plasma assisted deposition was evaluated against thermal oxide and nitrided thermal oxide as an alternative direct tunneling gate dielectric to thermal oxide in the 2.5-nm regime. The oxynitride showed an enhanced high field effective mobility relative to the thermal oxide although the low field mobility was slightly depressed. The N/sub 2/O nitrided oxide showed an enha...Show More
High-frequency capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurements have been made on ultrathin oxide metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitors. The sensitivity of extracted oxide thickness to series resistance and gate leakage is demonstrated. Guidelines are outlined for reliable and accurate estimation of oxide thickness from C-V measurements for oxides down to 1.4 nm.Show More
This paper introduces a method for the determination of the gate oxide thickness, X/sub ox/, of N- and P-Channel MOSFETs with ultrathin oxides based on the characterization and modeling of the substrate current resulting from valence-band electron tunneling (VBET) in the direct-tunneling (DT) regime. Under certain bias conditions, valence-band electron tunneling becomes the main constituent of the...Show More
Using both quantum mechanical calculations for the silicon substrate and a modified WKB approximation for the transmission probability, direct tunneling currents across ultra-thin gate oxides of MOS structures have been modeled for electrons from the inversion layers in p-type Si substrates. The modeled direct tunneling currents have been compared to experimental data obtained from nMOSFET's with ...Show More
The effect of dielectric constant and barrier height on the WKB modeled tunnel currents of MOS capacitors with effective oxide thickness of 2.0 nm is described. We first present the WKB numerical model used to determine the tunneling currents. The results of this model indicate that alternative dielectrics with higher dielectric constants show lower tunneling currents than SiO/sub 2/ at expected o...Show More
The first ultrathin oxide-nitride (O-N) gate dielectrics with oxide equivalent thickness of less than 2 nm have been deposited and characterized in n-MOSFET's. The O-N gates, deposited by remote plasma-enhanced CVD, demonstrate reduced gate leakage when compared with oxides of equivalent thickness while retaining comparable drive currents.Show More
Summary form only given. A 400 W remote plasma oxidation process has been developed in a cluster tool which uses N/sub 2/O and O/sub 2/ for controlling incorporated amounts of nitrogen within the grown oxide. This technique has been developed for Si/SiO/sub 2/ interface formation for addition of nitrogen at the interface. Verification through in-situ Auger electron spectroscopy demonstrates that n...Show More
MOS capacitance measurements are very fundamental characterization methods for MOS and FET structures. This paper discusses the effects of a finite bias sweep rate on quasi-static and high-frequency (HF) capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurements. As typically measured, a finite sweep rate causes the transition region from inversion to depletion of the quasistatic C-V curve to be shifted by several te...Show More
Typical reconfigurable machines exhibit shortcomings that make them less than ideal for general-purpose computing. The Garp Architecture combines reconfigurable hardware with a standard MIPS processor on the same die to retain the better features of both. Novel aspects of the architecture are presented, as well as a prototype software environment and preliminary performance results. Compared to an...Show More
MOS surface mobility is a fundamental material and device property which has been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally. This work reports on a new technique for extracting surface mobility data from experimentally measured I-V data on large area MOS devices. The approach employs a least squares curve fitting technique for combining theoretical models of inversion layer charge ...Show More
The electric field dependence of electron and hole mobility was investigated in n-channel and p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors with oxynitride gate dielectrics formed using low-pressure rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition with SiH/sub 4/, N/sub 2/O and NH/sub 3/ as the reactive gases. The peak electron mobility was observed to decrease with increasing nitrogen and h...Show More