1 |
Electrical mechanism on Low Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon TFT and Nonvolatile memory TFTChuang, Ying-shao 23 June 2010 (has links)
In this work, electrical mechanism of Low Temperature Poly-Si Thin-Film Transistors (LTPS TFTs) and Nonvolatile memory TFTs was investigated.
First, relationship between trap states in grain boundary and capacitance-voltage (C-V) transfer characteristic curve would be discussed. The experimental results reveal that the C-V curves were a function with the trap state distribution and the measured frequency. The threshold voltage was increased with increasing measured frequency and temperature. Besides, anomalous capacitance was generated in p-channel LTPS TFTs when the device was operated at off-state. In general, the effective capacitance of the LTPS TFTs was only dependent with the overlap area between gate and source/drain under the off-state. However, the experimental results reveal that the off-state capacitance was increased with decreasing measured frequency and/or with increasing measurement temperature. By fitting the curve of drain current versus electric field under off-state region, it was verified that the TAGIDL is consisted of the Pool-Frenkel emission and thermal field emission. In addition, the charge density calculated from the Cch-Vg measurement also
the same dependence with electric field. This result demonstrates that the anomalous capacitance is mainly due to the trap-assisted-gate-induced-drain-leakage (TAGIDL). In order to suppress the anomalous capacitance, a band-to-band hot electron (BTBHE) stress was utilized to reduce the vertical electric field between the gate and the drain. The electric field simulation was also performed by ISE-TCAD software.
In addition, the degradation mechanism in Nonvolatile memory TFTs under DC stress was discussed. The gate insulator of the Nonvolatile memory TFTs was stacked with oxide-nitride-oxide and the thickness was
40nm-20nm-10nm, respectively. The polarities of the gate insulator were included fresh state, programmed state and erased state. In order to compare the ONO with the STD TFTs, the STD TFTs was also discussed
with the same DC stress condition. The experimental results reveal that the degradation phenomenon was not only oxide trapping (Nox) but alsointerface trap (Nit). Besides, the simulation software ISE-TCAD was used to demonstrate these results. This main degradation phenomenon was caused by carrier injecting into oxide which was due to the coulomb force. The Nox and Nit were increased while carrier injected into the gate oxide.
On the other hand, there were showed identical degradation mechanism in fresh state and erase state SONOS TFTs under the positive gate bias
stress, but in which were not consistent with the program state. In program state, the vertical electric field was released due to trapping electrons in nitride. Therefore, the electric property would slightly
improve during the positive gate bias stress and the main degradation mechanism was become to the carrier detrapped from nitride to gate terminal.
Beside, the off state C-V curve was slightly increased under the positive gate bias stress in program state. This result was contributed to the electrons trapped in the oxide near the gate insulator edge cause by
the electric field corner effect. And then, the electric field corner effect was also verified by the simulation software ISE-TCAD.
Finally, the TAGIDL in fresh and erase states is increased with increasing the stress time. On contrary, the situation in program state is decreased with increasing the stress time. These results are contributed to a large number electrons injection into the overlapped insulator region between the gate and S/D and enhancing the band bending in the overlapped region when SONOS TFT is operated at fresh and erase states. However, in program state, the electrons trapped in the nitride are flowed to the gate due to the positive bias.
|
2 |
Intelligent Data Layer: : An approach to generating data layer from normalized database model.Buzo, Amir January 2012 (has links)
Model View Controller (MVC) software architecture is widely spread and commonly used in application’s development. Therefore generation of data layer for the database model is able to reduce cost and time. After research on current Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tools, it was discovered that there are generating tools like Data Access Object (DAO) and Hibernate, however their usage causes problems like inefficiency and slow performance due to many connections with database and set up time. Most of these tools are trying to solve specific problems rather than generating a data layer which is an important component and the bottom layer of database centred applications. The proposed solution to the problem is an engineering approach where we have designed a tool named Generated Intelligent Data Layer (GIDL). GIDL tool generates small models which create the main data layer of the system according to the Database Model. The goal of this tool is to enable and allow software developers to work only with object without deep knowledge in SQL. The problem of transaction and commit is solved by the tool. Also filter objects are constructed for filtering the database. GIDL tool reduced the number of connections and also have a cache where to store object lists and modify them. The tool is compared under the same environment with Hibernate and showed a better performance in terms of time evaluations for the same functions. GIDL tool is beneficial for software developers, because it generates the entire data layer.
|
Page generated in 0.0201 seconds