Title :
Degradation of refresh time in dynamic MOS RAM by irradiation of alpha particles
Author :
Yoshihara, Tsutomu ; Takano, Satoshi ; Kimata, Masafumi ; Nakano, Takao
Author_Institution :
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan
fDate :
10/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Alpha particles with sufficiently high energy cause a degradation of the refresh time as well as soft errors in dynamic MOS RAM. Physical defects induced by the radiation damage of alpha particle irradiation increase the generation current of the storage cell. The increasing rate of the generation current by the irradiation was 8.89 × 10-5pA/alpha.
Keywords :
Alpha particles; Capacitance; Capacitors; Current density; Degradation; Electrons; Packaging; Particle measurements; Read-write memory; Threshold voltage;
Journal_Title :
Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/T-ED.1981.20511