Effect of Device Variants in 32 nm and 45 nm SOI on SET Pulse Distributions

Author

Maharrey, J.A. ; Quinn, R.C. ; Loveless, T.D. ; Kauppila, J.S. ; Jagannathan, Sarangapani ; Atkinson, N.M. ; Gaspard, N.J. ; Zhang, E.X. ; Alles, Michael L. ; Bhuva, B.L. ; Holman, W.T. ; Massengill, Lloyd W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN, USA

Volume

60

Issue

6

fYear

2013

fDate

Dec. 2013

Firstpage

4399

Lastpage

4404

Abstract

Single-Event Transient (SET) pulse widths were obtained from the heavy-ion irradiation of inverters designed in 32 nm and 45 nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI). The effects of threshold voltage and body contact are shown to significantly impact the SET response of advanced SOI technologies. Also, the reverse cumulative distribution is extracted from the count distribution for several targets and is shown to be a useful aid in selecting the temporal filtering for radiation-hardened circuitry.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; logic circuits; logic design; logic gates; radiation hardening (electronics); silicon-on-insulator; SET pulse distributions; SET response; SOI; Si; advanced SOI technology; body contact; device variants; heavy-ion irradiation; inverters; radiation-hardened circuitry; reverse cumulative distribution; silicon-on-insulator; single-event transient pulse widths; size 32 nm; size 45 nm; temporal filtering; threshold voltage; Radiation effects; Radiation hardening (electronics); Silicon-on-insulator; Single event transients; Threshold voltage; Transient analysis; 32 nm; 45 nm; Body contact; SET; SOI; cumulative cross section; pulse width; single-event transient; threshold voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2013.2288572

Filename

6678079