A Comprehensive Investigation of Analog Performance for Uniaxial Strained PMOSFETs

Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive investigation of the analog performance for uniaxial strained PMOSFETs with sub-100 nm gate length. Through a comparison between co-processed strained and unstrained devices regarding important analog metrics such as transconductance to drain current ratio (g(m)/I(d)), dc gain, linearity, low-frequency noise, and device mismatch, the impact of process-induced uniaxial strain on the analog performance of MOS devices has been assessed and analyzed. Our results indicate that, although the drain current noise spectral density and drain current mismatch of the strained device under low gate voltage overdrive are increased because of the larger gate-bias sensitivity of carrier mobility, the strained device has almost the same low frequency and mismatch performance as the unstrained one at a given g(m)/I(d). This paper may provide insights for analog design using advanced strained devices.