Study of Line Edge Roughness Induced Threshold Voltage Fluctuations in Double-Gate MOSFET

SR Sriram, B Bindu - 2018 15th IEEE India Council …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The statistical variability in nano-scaled devices due to line-edge roughness (LER) is a
major challenge for further scaling of device dimensions in multi-gate FETs. The LER in …

Line edge roughness induced threshold voltage variability in nano-scale FinFETs

RS Rathore, R Sharma, AK Rana - Superlattices and Microstructures, 2017 - Elsevier
In aggressively scaled devices, the FinFET technology has become more prone to line edge
roughness (LER) induced threshold voltage variability. As a result, nano scale FinFET …

A physics-based model for LER-induced threshold voltage variations in double-gate MOSFET

SR Sriram, B Bindu - Journal of Computational Electronics, 2020 - Springer
The line-edge roughness (LER) has become one of the dominant sources of process
variations in multi-gate transistors. The estimation of threshold voltage distribution due to …

Study of LER/LWR induced VT variability of an EδDC n-channel MOS transistor

S Sengupta, S Pandit - 2017 Devices for Integrated Circuit …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present a simple model to study the threshold voltage variability due to line
edge roughness (LER) for an n-channel EδDC MOS transistor. The concept of propagation …

TCAD-based statistical analysis and modeling of gate line-edge roughness effect on nanoscale MOS transistor performance and scaling

SD Kim, H Wada, JCS Woo - IEEE transactions on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effects of line edge roughness (LER) of nanometer scale gate pattern on the MOS
transistor parameter fluctuations and their technology scaling are investigated using the …

Random threshold voltage variability induced by gate-edge fluctuations in nanoscale metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors

AT Putra, A Nishida, S Kamohara… - Applied physics …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
A very rapid method of estimating the effect of gate-edge fluctuation on threshold voltage (V
th) variability in metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) is proposed …

Understanding LER-Induced MOSFET Variability—Part I: Three-Dimensional Simulation of Large Statistical Samples

D Reid, C Millar, S Roy… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, using computationally intensive 3-D simulations in a grid computing
environment, we perform a detailed study of line-edge-roughness (LER)-induced threshold …

Gate line edge roughness effects in 50-nm bulk MOSFET devices

S Xiong, J Bokor, Q Xiang, P Fisher… - … and Process Control …, 2002 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We studied gate line edge roughness (LER) and its effect on electrical characteristics of
50nm bulk MOSFETs. Using simulation, we studied the underlying mechanism of three …

An investigation on the effect of LER on threshold voltage and On Current of SOI, bulk and GAA FinFETs

TEA Khan, S Sheena… - … Conference on Emerging …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A device level way to quantitatively assess the influence of Line Edge Roughness (LER) on
different fin based structures is considered. We know FinFETs have high drive current and …

[PDF][PDF] Random Vth Variation Induced by Gate Edge Fluctuations in Nanoscale MOSFETs

AT Putra, A Nishida, S Kamohara… - Silicon Nanoelectronics …, 2007 - researchgate.net
The fluctuation of the gate length corresponding to the Line Width Roughness (LWR) has the
strongest affect on the Vth variation. We have measured the characteristics width (= 35nm) of …