Abstract:
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 characterizati...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
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 substrate currents in N- and P-MOSFETs. This method has several advantages over other methods for the determination of X/sub ox/, and yields values of X/sub ox/ that agree well with those obtained from modeling capacitance-voltage characteristics, C(V), while taking quantum-mechanical effects into account. Its main advantage is that it is not limited by the oxide thickness.
Date of Conference: 05-08 December 1999
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 06 August 2002
Print ISBN:0-7803-5410-9
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