Title: The impact of gate-oxide breakdown on common-source-amplifiers with diode-connected active load in low-voltage CMOS processes
Authors: Chen, Jung-Sheng
Ker, Ming-Dou
電機學院
College of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords: analog integrated circuit;common-source amplifier;dielectric breakdown;gate-oxide reliability;hard breakdown;soft breakdown
Issue Date: 1-Nov-2007
Abstract: The influence of gate-oxide reliability on common-source amplifiers with diode-connected active load is investigated with the nonstacked and stacked structures under analog application in a 130-nm low-voltage CMOS process. The test. conditions of this work include the dc stress, ac stress with dc offset, and large-signal transition stress under different frequencies and signals. After overstresses, the small-signal parameters, such as small-signal gain, unity-gain frequency, phase margin, and output dc voltage levels, are measured to verify the impact of gate-oxide reliability on circuit performances of the common-source amplifiers with diode-connected active load. The small-signal parameters of the common-source amplifier with the nonstacked diode-connected active-load structure are strongly degraded than that with the stacked diode-connected active-load structure due to a gate-oxide breakdown under analog and digital applications. The common-source amplifiers with diode-connected active load are not functionally operational under digital application due to the gate-oxide breakdown. The impact of soft and hard gate-oxide breakdowns on the common-source amplifiers with nonstacked and stacked diode-connected active-load structures has been analyzed and discussed. The hard breakdown has more serious impact on the common-source amplifiers with diode-connected active load.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TED.2007.906938
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/10142
ISSN: 0018-9383
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2007.906938
Journal: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES
Volume: 54
Issue: 11
Begin Page: 2860
End Page: 2870
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