New physics-based analytic approach to the thin-oxide breakdown statistics

A new analytic cell-based approach to the modeling of the oxide breakdown statistics is presented. The new model has the same predictive power as the standard percolation approach and the advantage of providing simple analytic results. The scaling with oxide thickness of the Weibull slope and the mean critical density of defects at breakdown are accounted for correctly.

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