Calibration of process parameters for electromagnetic field analysis of CMOS devices up to 330 GHz

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a calibration method for the parameters of a CMOS process and the structures of transmission lines used in the calibration. The process parameters of each dielectric layer can be determined separately using this method. To verify the proposed method, test structures of four types of transmission lines were fabricated using a 40 nm CMOS process. It was shown that the results of EM simulation using the process parameters calibrated by the proposed method were in good agreement with the measurement results up to 330 GHz.