Recent progress in physics-based modeling of electromigration in integrated circuit interconnects

WS Zhao, R Zhang, DW Wang - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The advance of semiconductor technology not only enables integrated circuits with higher
density and better performance but also increases their vulnerability to various aging …

A Review of Reliability in Gate-All-Around Nanosheet Devices

M Wang - Micromachines, 2024 - mdpi.com
The gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet (NS) field-effect-transistor (FET) is poised to replace
FinFET in the 3 nm CMOS technology node and beyond, marking the second seminal shift in …

Modeling and Analysis of PBTI, and HCD in Presence of Self-Heating in GAA-SNS NFETs

N Choudhury, S Mahapatra - IEEE Transactions on Electron …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrafast measurements (10-delay) are done to characterize the time evolution of threshold
voltage shift () due to the positive bias temperature instability (PBTI) and hot carrier …

NSFET performance optimization through SiGe channel design-A simulation study

SL Cheng, C Li, XY Dong, SS Lv, HL You - Microelectronics Reliability, 2023 - Elsevier
In this article, NSFET performances including DC electrical characteristics, analog/RF
metrics and NBTI degradation are studied using 3D fully-calibrated TCAD simulation …

Impact of Aging and Process Variability on SRAM-Based In-Memory Computing Architectures

JB Shaik, X Guo, S Singhal - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the SRAM-based In-memory Computing (IMC) paradigm arises as a promising candidate
to break the memory wall bottleneck and deliver optimal energy efficiency, reliability has …

Gate Length Dependence of Bias Temperature Instabilities up to 400° C in 4H-SiC CMOS Devices

Z Dong, Y Bai, L Qiu, C Yang, J Hao… - IEEE Electron …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter reports the bias temperature instabilities (BTI) of 4H-SiC CMOS devices with
different gate lengths (L) and gate widths (W) for integrated circuits at 400° C for the first …

Challenges of Gate Stack TDDB in Gate-All-Around Nanosheet Towards Further Scaling

H Zhou, M Wang, E Wu - 2024 IEEE International Reliability …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we present a comprehensive study on the gate stack TDDB challenges in Gate-
all-around (GAA) nanosheet (NS) transistors (FETs), including volume-less Multiple Vt (Multi …

Modeling of Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) for Gate-All-Around (GAA) Stacked Nanosheet Technology

L Liu, J Fang, A Pal, P Asenov, M Bajaj… - 2024 IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new modeling framework to describe the negative bias temperature instability (NBTI)
characteristics in gate-all-around (GAA) stacked nanosheet transistor is proposed. Three …

Decoupling of NBTI and Pure HCD Contributions in p-GAA SNS FETs Under Mixed VG/VD Stress

N Choudhury, A Ranjan… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrafast measurements (with 10μs delay) are done to characterize the Negative Bias
Temperature Instability (NBTI) and Hot Carrier Degradation (HCD) induced threshold …

A Review of Reliability in Gate-All-Around Nanosheet Devices

M Wang - IEEE Electron. Device Lett, 2004 - europepmc.org
The gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet (NS) field-effect-transistor (FET) is poised to replace
FinFET in the 3 nm CMOS technology node and beyond, marking the second seminal shift in …