Reliability and Electrical Fluctuations in Advanced SOI CMOS Devices

With SOI to be adapted as a mainstream technology in the forthcoming years, two issues are still of a critical interest regarding circuit applications: low frequency noise behavior and hot-carrier reliability, in state-of-the art SOI MOSFETs. Both are thoroughly investigated in this paper and a set of recent results in advanced CMOS SOI devices is given.

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