A device-to-system perspective regarding self-heating enhanced hot carrier degradation in modern field-effect transistors: A topical review

MA Alam, BK Mahajan, YP Chen, W Ahn… - … on Electron Devices, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As foreseen by Keyes in the late 1960s, the self-heating effect has emerged as an important
concern for device performance, output power density, run-time variability, and reliability of …

The Understanding and Compact Modeling of Reliability in Modern Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors: From Single-Mode to Mixed-Mode …

Z Sun, S Chen, L Zhang, R Huang, R Wang - Micromachines, 2024 - mdpi.com
With the technological scaling of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors
(MOSFETs) and the scarcity of circuit design margins, the characteristics of device reliability …

Improvement in self-heating characteristic by incorporating hetero-gate-dielectric in gate-all-around MOSFETs

YS Song, JH Kim, G Kim, HM Kim… - IEEE Journal of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For improving self-heating effects (SHEs) in gate-all-around metal-oxide-semiconductor field-
effect transistors (GAA MOSFETs), hetero-gate-dielectric (HGD) is utilized. The HGD consists …

Security closure of physical layouts ICCAD special session paper

J Knechtel, J Gopinath, J Bhandari… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computer-aided design (CAD) tools traditionally optimize for power, performance, and area
(PPA). However, given a vast number of hardware security threats, we call for secure-by …

Investigation of trap density effect in gate-all-around field effect transistors using the finite element method

M Belkhiria, F Aouaini, S A. Aldaghfag, F Echouchene… - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Trap density refers to the density of electronic trap states within dielectric materials that can
capture and release charge carriers (electrons or holes) in a semiconductor channel …

Impact of High-k Gate Dielectric on Self-Heating Effects in PiFETs Structure

M Belkhiria, F Echouchene, N Jaba… - … on Electron Devices, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a 2-D study for investigating the self-heating effect in new partially
insulated field-effect transistors (PiFETs) based on high-k gate dielectrics. The thermal …

A new characterization model of FinFET self-heating effect based on FinFET characteristic parameter

Y Wang, H Liang, H Zhang, D Li, Y Lu, M Yi… - Microelectronic …, 2024 - Elsevier
The characterization of the self-heating effect (SHE) has been an important research topic in
advanced technology, but the existing characterizations are few and the characterization …

Minimizing excess timing guard banding under transistor self-heating through biasing at zero-temperature coefficient

S Salamin, VM Van Santen, M Rapp, J Henkel… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-Heating Effects (SHE) is known as one of the key reliability challenges in FinFET and
beyond. Large timing guard bands are necessary, which we try to reduce. In this work, we …

Determining the zero-temperature-coefficient point from device simulation to circuit for improving temperature variation immunity

W Chen, M Zheng, Y Lyu, L Cai - IEEE Transactions on Electron …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thermal issue emerges as one of the critical reliability concerns in integrated circuit design,
especially for advanced technology. To improve the temperature immunity and reduce the …

On the workload dependence of self-heating in finfet circuits

VM Van Santen, H Amrouch, P Kumari… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-heating effect (SHE) is a major reliability concern in current and upcoming technology
nodes due to its ability to increase the channel's temperature of transistor and leading to …