Simulation and Analysis of the Statistical Variability of Metal Gate Granularity and Random Telegraph Signals Induced Threshold Voltage Shift in Nanoscale FinFETs / 奈米級鰭狀場效電晶體之金屬閘極顆粒度製程變異及隨機擾動訊號引致臨界電壓偏移模擬分析

碩士 / 國立交通大學 / 電子研究所 / 106 / In current semiconductor device process, the process variability is a crucial issue. For all characteristics associated with process variation, random variation of threshold voltage is especially important. In this thesis, with the help of commercial 3D technology computer-aided design (TCAD) Sentaurus, we build up our simulation structure calibrated with respect to Intel published 14-nm technology node FinFET device. TiN is chosen to be the metal gate material. We assume metal gate granularity (MGG) as the main source of process variation to simulate the distribution of threshold voltage variation. Meanwhile, we also discuss the effect of different average grain size (AGS). Furthermore, with the consideration of MGG, we add an oxide charged trap at the interface to induce random telegraph noise (RTN), and consequently cause threshold voltage shift (ΔVth). We find that with the device scaling, the correlation between maximum RTN ΔVth and process variation grows stronger. Besides, the impact of RTN becomes significant enough to compete with the process variation as device shrinks and AGS decreases. In addition, we perform simulations on ΔVth variation due to multiple traps induced by BTI stressing. We analyze the relation between it and trap density under conditions of different device scales and AGS. Through this statistical simulation work, we provide a reference for device designing.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106NCTU5428062
Date January 2017
CreatorsWeng, Heng-Jui, 翁珩瑞
ContributorsChen, Ming-Jer, 陳明哲
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format41

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