Flicker noise in thin film fully depleted SOI MOSFETs

Author

Hsu, Jen-Tai ; Wang, Janet ; Woo, Jason ; Viswanathan, C.R.

Author_Institution

California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

1-3 Oct 1991

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

31

Abstract

The low-frequency noise behavior in both the linear and saturation regimes of operation for fully depleted (FD) thin film SOI (silicon-on-insulator) MOSFETs is presented and compared to the noise of partially depleted (PD) thin film MOSFETs. Noise measurements were performed on n⁺ polysilicon gate n-channel transistors fabricated on SIMOX substrates with a buried oxide thickness of 3500 Å. In the linear region, the FD transistor was found to exhibit a dependence on the front gate voltage whereas in the saturation region the noise was found to be independent of gate bias. The PD device, on the other hand, exhibited noise characteristics which were independent of gate bias in both regimes of operation. The linear region noise characteristics of the FD MOSFET exhibited a dependence on the front and back gate bias due to the increase of the front surface electric field and a corresponding increase in the fraction of inversion charge at the surface

Keywords

electron device noise; insulated gate field effect transistors; random noise; semiconductor device testing; semiconductor-insulator boundaries; SIMOX substrates; flicker noise; front gate voltage; front surface electric field; gate bias; linear regime; low-frequency noise behavior; polysilicon gate n-channel transistors; saturation regimes; surface inversion charge; thin film fully depleted SOI MOSFETs; 1f noise; Low-frequency noise; MOSFETs; Noise measurement; Performance evaluation; Semiconductor thin films; Silicon on insulator technology; Substrates; Transistors; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SOI Conference, 1991. Proceedings, 1991., IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vail Valley, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0184-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOI.1991.162841

Filename

162841