Hot Carrier Degradation in Semiconductor Devices

Part I: Beyond Lucky Electrons -- From Atoms to Circuits: Theoretical and Empirical Modeling of Hot Carrier Degradation -- The Energy Driven Hot Carrier Model -- Hot-Carrier Degradation in Decananometer -- Physics-based Modeling of Hot-carrier Degradation -- The Spherical Harmonics Expansion Method for Assessing Hot Carrier Degradation -- Recovery from Hot Carrier Induced Degradation Through Temperature Treatment -- Characterization of MOSFET Interface States Using the Charge Pumping Technique -- Part II: CMOS and Beyond -- Channel Hot Carriers in SiGe and Ge pMOSFETs -- Channel Hot Carrier Degradation and Self-Heating Effects in FinFETs -- Characterization and Modeling of High-Voltage LDMOS Transistors -- Compact modelling of the Hot-carrier Degradation of Integrated HV MOSFETs -- Hot-Carrier Degradation in Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors.