The role of hydrogen in negative bias temperature instability of pMOSFET
Li Zhong-He (李忠贺), Liu Hong-Xia (刘红侠), Hao Yue (郝跃)
Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Wide Band-Gap Semiconductor Materials and Devices,School of Microelectronics, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
Abstract The NBTI degradation phenomenon and the role of hydrogen during NBT stress are presented in this paper. It is found that PBT stress can recover a fraction of Vth shift induced by NBTI. However, this recovery is unstable. The original degradation reappears soon after reapplication of the NBT stress condition. Hydrogen-related species play a key role during a device's NBT degradation. Experimental results show that the diffusion species are neutral, they repassivate Si dangling bond which is independent of the gate voltage polarity. In addition to the diffusion towards gate oxide, hydrogen diffusion to Si-substrate must be taken into account for it also has important influence on device degradation during NBT stress.
Received: 06 October 2005
Revised: 07 November 2005
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(Charge carriers: generation, recombination, lifetime, and trapping)
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 60206006), the Hi-Tech Research & Development Program of China (Grant No 2004AA1Z1070) and the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (Grant No 104172).
Cite this article:
Li Zhong-He (李忠贺), Liu Hong-Xia (刘红侠), Hao Yue (郝跃) The role of hydrogen in negative bias temperature instability of pMOSFET 2006 Chinese Physics 15 833
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