Statistical evaluation of dynamic junction leakage current fluctuation using a simple arrayed capacitors circuit

We investigate statistical behaviors of steady-state p-n junction leakage currents at source/drain of MOSFET devices (I<inf>leak</inf>s) and dynamic fluctuations of I<inf>leak</inf>s using a newly developed test circuit. The test circuit can acquire the leakage currents from 28,672 n<sup>+</sup>−p diodes in 7.7 s with 10 times averaging with the range from 0.1 fA to 23 fA. We demonstrate that two normal distributions exist in the steady-state (time averaging) I<inf>leak</inf> distributions, which have different temperature dependency. A distribution of the activation energy which extracted from temperature dependence of I<inf>leak</inf> is also revealed. Dynamic fluctuation of I<inf>leak</inf> can be measured precisely with a simple configuration to execute pseudo parallel sampling among numerous samples for a long time. It can clarify a positive correlation between mean values of I<inf>leak</inf> (≪I<inf>leak</inf>≫) and amplitudes of quantum fluctuation of I<inf>leak</inf> (ΔI<inf>leak</inf>).

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