Title
VSP – A gate stack analyzer
Abstract
An efficient software tool for investigations on novel stacked gate dielectrics with emphasis on reliability has been developed. The accumulation, depletion, and inversion of carriers in MOS capacitors is properly considered for n- and p-substrates. The effect of carrier quantization on the electrostatics and the leakage current is included by treating carriers in quasi-bound states (QBS) and continuum states. The effect of interface traps and bulk traps in arbitrarily stacked gate dielectrics is taken into account. Trap assisted tunneling (TAT) is incorporated assuming an inelastic single step tunneling process. A brief overview of implemented models is given. The capabilities of our tool are demonstrated by several examples.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.microrel.2007.01.059
Microelectronics Reliability
Keywords
Field
DocType
bound states,leakage current
Electrostatics,Tunnel effect,Quantum tunnelling,Capacitor,Leakage (electronics),Electronic engineering,Engineering,Quantization (signal processing),Spectrum analyzer,Quantum Hall effect
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
47
4
0026-2714
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Karner141.32
A. Gehring201.35
M. Wagner300.34
Robert Entner400.68
S. Holzer500.34
W. Goes611.16
M. Vasicek700.68
T. Grasser863.12
H. Kosina98018.07
S. Selberherr1016348.53