Impact of self-heating effect on hot carrier degradation in high-voltage LDMOS

Abstract

Self-heating induced transient hot carrier effects in high-voltage n-LDMOS are investigated. A novel LDMOS structure incorporating a metal contact in the bird's beak region is fabricated, which allows us to probe an internal voltage transient in hot carrier stress. The AC stress-frequency dependence of device degradation is characterized and evaluated by a two-dimensional numerical simulation. Our result shows that drain current degradation in AC stress is more serious than in DC stress because of the reduction. of self-heating effect.