Title
Reliability of ESD protection devices designed in a 3D technology.
Abstract
A 3D technology is used to design ESD protection devices. These planar bidirectional components, based on back-to-back diodes, are dedicated to first stage, external ESD protection. The main feature consists in using deep micro-holes, usually dedicated to the manufacturing of high-value capacitors, to design 3D diode. Two different layouts have been studied and one of them is the improvement of the other one. These devices present an unexpected behavior when they are submitted at cumulative ESD stress. Failure mechanisms are not the same and we propose an optimized configuration based on deep trenches that improves cumulative ESD stress robustness. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.microrel.2014.07.136
MICROELECTRONICS RELIABILITY
Keywords
Field
DocType
ESD,Back-to-back diode,Trench,Well
Capacitor,Diode,Electronic engineering,Robustness (computer science),Planar,Trench,Engineering,Electrical engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
SP9-10
0026-2714
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bertrand Courivaud100.34
Nicolas Nolhier242.28
Gilles Ferru300.34
M. Bafleur477.06
Fabrice Caignet5797.99