標題: | Numerical confirmation of inelastic trap-assisted tunneling (ITAT) as SILC mechanism |
作者: | Kang, TK Chen, MJ Liu, CH Chang, YJ Fan, SK 電子工程學系及電子研究所 Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics |
關鍵字: | flash;gated-diode;inelastic tunneling;MOSFET;oxide breakdown;percolation;SILC;stress-induced leakage current;trap-assisted tunneling |
公開日期: | 1-十月-2001 |
摘要: | This paper presents a quite comprehensive procedure covering both the stress-induced leakage current (SILC) and oxide breakdown, achieved by balancing systematically the modeling and experimental works. The underlying model as quoted in the literature features three key parameters: the tunneling relaxation time tau, the neutral electron trap density N-t, and the trap energy level E-t. First of all, 7-nm thick oxide MOS devices with wide range oxide areas are thoroughly characterized in terms of the optically induced trap filling, the charge-to-breakdown statistics, the gate voltage developments with the time, and the SILC I-V. The former three are involved together with a percolation oxide breakdown model to build N-t explicitly as function of the stress electron fluence. Then the overall tunneling probability is calculated, with which a best fitting to SILC I-V furnishes tau of 4.0 x 10(-13) s and E-t of 3.4 eV. The extracted tau is found to match exactly that extrapolated from existing data. Such striking consistencies thereby provide evidence that inelastic trap-assisted tunneling (ITAT) is indeed the SILC mechanism. Differences and similarities of the involved physical parameters between different studies are compared as well. |
URI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/16.954471 http://hdl.handle.net/11536/29348 |
ISSN: | 0018-9383 |
DOI: | 10.1109/16.954471 |
期刊: | IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 10 |
起始頁: | 2317 |
結束頁: | 2322 |
顯示於類別: | 期刊論文 |