TY - GEN
T1 - Origins and implications of increased channel hot carrier variability in nFinFETs
AU - Kaczer, B.
AU - Franco, J.
AU - Cho, M.
AU - Grasser, T.
AU - Roussel, Ph J.
AU - Tyaginov, S.
AU - Bina, M.
AU - Wimmer, Y.
AU - Procel, L. M.
AU - Trojman, L.
AU - Crupi, F.
AU - Pitner, G.
AU - Putcha, V.
AU - Weckx, P.
AU - Bury, E.
AU - Ji, Z.
AU - De Keersgieter, A.
AU - Chiarella, T.
AU - Horiguchi, N.
AU - Groeseneken, G.
AU - Thean, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/5/26
Y1 - 2015/5/26
N2 - Channel hot carrier (CHC) stress is observed to result in higher variability of degradation in deeply-scaled nFinFETs than bias temperature instability (BTI) stress. Potential sources of this increased variation are discussed and the intrinsic time-dependent variability component is extracted using a novel methodology based on matched pairs. It is concluded that in deeply-scaled devices, CHC-induced time-dependent distributions will be bimodal, pertaining to bulk charging and to interface defect generation, respectively. The latter, high-impact mode will control circuit failure fractions at high percentiles.
AB - Channel hot carrier (CHC) stress is observed to result in higher variability of degradation in deeply-scaled nFinFETs than bias temperature instability (BTI) stress. Potential sources of this increased variation are discussed and the intrinsic time-dependent variability component is extracted using a novel methodology based on matched pairs. It is concluded that in deeply-scaled devices, CHC-induced time-dependent distributions will be bimodal, pertaining to bulk charging and to interface defect generation, respectively. The latter, high-impact mode will control circuit failure fractions at high percentiles.
KW - Bias Temperature Instability (BTI)
KW - Channel Hot Carriers (CHC)
KW - FinFETs
KW - Time-Dependent Variability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84942879285&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IRPS.2015.7112706
DO - 10.1109/IRPS.2015.7112706
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:84942879285
T3 - IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium Proceedings
SP - 3B51-3B56
BT - 2015 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium, IRPS 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium, IRPS 2015
Y2 - 19 April 2015 through 23 April 2015
ER -