Calculation of heavy ion induced leakage current in n-MOSFETs

This paper presents a new simulation method useful to describe heavy ion induced leakage current semi-permanent failure modes in n-MOSFETs, allowing thus to explain experimental results, and proposes to use it to forecast the sensitivity of future technologies for that specific failure mode.

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