Long Term NBTI Relaxation Under AC and DC Biased Stress and Recovery

Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) remains one of the leading degradation mechanisms in CMOS devices. Long term NBTI recovery at low-power use conditions following a stress at a higher voltage, high-performance mode, is reported. A new phenomenological NBTI model is proposed, incorporating...

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Main Authors: Mataev, Elnatan, Stathis, James, La Rosa, Giuseppe, Linder, Barry P.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Degradation
Device Degradation
Device Modelling
High-voltage techniques
Low voltage
NBTI
Negative bias temperature instability
Relaxation
Reliability
Semiconductors
Stress
Thermal variables control
Threshold voltage
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Summary:Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) remains one of the leading degradation mechanisms in CMOS devices. Long term NBTI recovery at low-power use conditions following a stress at a higher voltage, high-performance mode, is reported. A new phenomenological NBTI model is proposed, incorporating both stress and recovery at the two modes of operation. We show that the recovery rate under bias is linearly proportional to the difference between the stress and biased relaxation voltages. We further reveal that, unlike the zero-bias recovery case, devices under low-voltage bias relaxation are expected to re-degrade at longer times, which may be beyond the typical 10-year lifetime. A method for forecasting the re-degradation time is proposed. Finally, we show that for combinations of AC/DC stress and relaxation, the latter bias conditions dictate the final NBTI shift.
ISSN:1938-1891
DOI:10.1109/IRPS.2019.8720442