论文信息 - Experimental study of gate voltage scaling for TDDB under direct tunneling regime

Experimental study of gate voltage scaling for TDDB under direct tunneling regime

Systematic experiments of time-to-breakdown (T/sub BD/) of thin gate oxides are carried out in this paper for quantitative understanding of gate voltage scaling for TDDB under the direct tunneling regime. It is found that the slope of ln T/sub BD/ has a nonlinear relationship to gate oxide voltage, V/sub ox/, and thus, the conventional constant voltage acceleration model is not applicable for lifetime prediction. A simple model to explain the experimental voltage acceleration factor is proposed based on the anode hole injection (AHI) concept. It is shown that the significant decrease in hole generation due to lowering of the electron energy injected to the anode greatly helps the TDDB reliability.

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