• DocumentCode
    3556874
  • Title

    Investigation and reduction of hot electron induced punchthrough (HEIP) effect in submicron PMOSFETs

  • Author

    Koyanagi, M. ; Lewis, A.G. ; Zhu, J. ; Martin, R.A. ; Huang, T.Y. ; Chen, J.Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Xerox, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
  • Volume
    32
  • fYear
    1986
  • fDate
    1986
  • Firstpage
    722
  • Lastpage
    725
  • Abstract
    Hot carrier reliability in submicron PMOSFETs has been investigated. The punchthrough voltage is seriously reduced due to Hot Electron Induced Punch-through (HEIP) in submicron PMOSFETs. In order to mitigate the HEIP effect, an LDD PMOSFET has been optimized by examining the channel electric field, substrate and gate currents, and the threshold voltage shifts due to hot electron injection. A device lifetime of more than 10 years has been obtained using LDD PMOSFETs with gate lengths of 0.8 µm at the worst case supply voltage (5.5v).
  • Keywords
    CMOS technology; Degradation; Hot carriers; Impact ionization; Integrated circuit reliability; Laboratories; MOSFETs; Stress; Substrate hot electron injection; Threshold voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electron Devices Meeting, 1986 International
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEDM.1986.191295
  • Filename
    1486553