Author Affiliations
1Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices under Special Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electric Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. (Color online) The structure diagram of nFinFET. (a) A 3D model of bulk FinFET. (b) A cross-section view along A–A’ direction[13].
Fig. 2. (Color online) Degradation of VT for nFinFETs with different numbers of fins under HCI stress for samples with a 60 nm gate length.
Fig. 3. (Color online) Degradation of saturation current (IDSAT) for nFinFETs with different numbers of fins under HCI stress for samples with a 60 nm gate length.
Fig. 4. (Color online) IDS–VGS curves as a function of the irradiation dose for nFinFET with 8 fins and a 60 nm gate length biased at the ON state.
Fig. 5. (Color online) Degradation of VT as a function of stress time for un-irradiated nFinFETs and for irradiated nFinFETs in different bias conditions during irradiation. (a) For 4 fin samples with a 60 nm gate length. (b) For 8 fin samples with a 60 nm gate length.
Fig. 6. (Color online) Degradation of IDSAT as a function of stress time for un-irradiated nFinFETs and for irradiated nFinFETs in different bias condition during irradiation. (a) For 4 fin samples with a 60 nm gate length. (b) For 8 fin samples with a 60 nm gate length.
Fig. 7. (Color online) A schematic diagram showing that total dose irradiation causes trap holes in STI[15].
Device | Un-irradiated | OFF irradiated | TG irradiated | ON irradiated |
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Lgate = 60 nm, 4 fin
| 30.15% | 27.31% | 25.63% | 4.00% | Lgate = 60 nm, 8 fin
| 17.32% | 14.46% | 11.29% | 7.69% |
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Table 1. VT degradation percentage of un-irradiated devices, OFF-bias irradiated devices, TG-bias irradiated devices, and ON-bias irradiated devices in different groups after 6000 s hot carrier stress.
Device | Un-irradiated | OFF irradiated | TG irradiated | ON irradiated |
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Lgate = 60 nm, 4 fin
| 9.56% | 7.39% | 3.88% | 1.24% | Lgate = 60 nm, 8 fin
| 4.5% | 3.68% | 3% | 1.67% |
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Table 2. IDSAT degradation percentage of un-irradiated devices, OFF-bias irradiated devices, TG-bias irradiated devices, and ON-bias irradiated devices in different groups after 6000 s hot carrier stress.