Abstract
Degradation of device characteristics due to hot-carrier injection in submicron pMOSFETs (p-metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors) is discussed. pMOSFETs suffer significantly from enhanced device degradation in the submicron range due to the hot-electron-induced-punchthrough (HEIP) effect, the swapped pulse stress, and the gate-induced drain leakage current. As a result, the hot-carrier lifetime of pMOSFETs becomes shorter than that of LDD (lightly doped drain) nMOSFETs. Therefore, use of the LDD structure is essential in submicron pMOSFETs at 5-V supply voltage. The use of surface-channel pMOSFETs with p+ poly gate would mitigate the hot-carrier-induced device degradation if problems inherent to p+ poly gate were solved. The use of a gate-drain-overlapped LDD structure might become necessary in sub-half-micron pMOSFETs to improve the hot-carrier reliability without sacrificing the device performance.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 312-316 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Publication status | Published - 1989 Dec 1 |
Event | International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications - Proceedings of Technical Papers - Taipei, Taiwan Duration: 1989 May 17 → 1989 May 19 |
Other
Other | International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications - Proceedings of Technical Papers |
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City | Taipei, Taiwan |
Period | 89/5/17 → 89/5/19 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)