Understanding Strain Effects on Double-Gate FinFET Drive-Current Enhancement, Hot-Carrier Reliability and Ring-Oscillator Delay Performance via Uniaxial Wafer Bending Experiments Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Strain induced drive current enhancement on Double-Gate (DG) FinFETs from Contact Etch Stop Liners (CESLs) is modeled by performing wafer bending experiments. Longitudinal piezoresistance co-efficients for DG - FinFETs are extracted and shown to be different from the bulk Si values. This understanding is further used to gain insight into strain effects on FinFET Ring-Oscillator (RO) delay performance. FinFET hot-carrier degradation is observed to be enhanced for both tension and compression, and is explained to be due to increased irapactionization from strain induced bandgap narrowing at the drain-body junction. 2008 IEEE.

name of conference

  • 2008 International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications (VLSI-TSA)

published proceedings

  • 2010 IEEE International Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference

author list (cited authors)

  • Suthram, S., Harris, H. R., Hussain, M. M., Smith, C., Young, C. D., Yang, J., ... Thompson, S. E.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Suthram, Sagar||Harris, HR||Hussain, MM||Smith, C||Young, CD||Yang, J-W||Mathews, K||Freeman, K||Maihi, P||Tseng, H-H||Jammy, R||Thompson, Scott E

publication date

  • January 2008