E. Pop, C. English, F. Xiong, Feifei Lian, A. Serov, Zuanyi Li, S. Islam, V. Dorgan
{"title":"Energy efficiency and conversion in 1D and 2D electronics","authors":"E. Pop, C. English, F. Xiong, Feifei Lian, A. Serov, Zuanyi Li, S. Islam, V. Dorgan","doi":"10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948751","url":null,"abstract":"We review our recent studies at the intersection of energy, nanomaterials and nanoelectronics. Through careful high-field studies of two-dimensional (2D) devices based on graphene and MoS2, we have uncovered details regarding their physical properties and band structure. We have investigated thermoelectric effects in graphene transistors and phase-change memory (PCM) elements for low-power electronics. We find that low-power transistors and memory could be enhanced by built-in thermoelectric effects which are particularly pronounced at nanometer length scales. We have also examined heat flow in composites based on one-dimensional (1D) carbon nanotubes, and uncovered both the lower (diffusive) and upper (ballistic) limits of heat flow in 1D and 2D nanomaterials. Our results suggest fundamental limits and new applications that could be achieved through the co-design of geometry, interfaces, and selection of 1D and 2D nanomaterials.","PeriodicalId":262652,"journal":{"name":"2014 44th European Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC)","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122935012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Ferreiro, Antonio Martinez, M. Aldegunde, J. Barker
{"title":"Impact of discrete dopants on an ultra-scaled FinFET using quantum transport simulations","authors":"R. Ferreiro, Antonio Martinez, M. Aldegunde, J. Barker","doi":"10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948831","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we study the effect of random discrete dopants in the source/drain on the performance of a 6.6 nm channel length silicon FinFET. Due to the small dimensions of the FinFET, a quantum transport formalism based on the Non-equilibrium Greens Functions has been deployed. The transfer characteristics for several devices, which differ in location and number of dopants have been simulated. Our calculations demonstrated that discrete dopants modify the effective channel length and the height of the source/drain barrier, consequently changing the channel control of the charge. As a consequence, there is a strong effect on the variability of the off-current, sub-threshold slope and threshold voltage. Finally, we have calculated the mean and standard deviation of these parameters to quantify their variability.","PeriodicalId":262652,"journal":{"name":"2014 44th European Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116523540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Edwards, Niu Jin, F. Hou, L. J. Choi, T. Krakowski, K. Joardar
{"title":"Temperature dependence of threshold voltage fluctuations in CMOS transistors incorporating halo implant","authors":"H. Edwards, Niu Jin, F. Hou, L. J. Choi, T. Krakowski, K. Joardar","doi":"10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948848","url":null,"abstract":"We report a device physics theory and compact model that predicts the threshold voltage mismatch for CMOS transistors using the halo implant. This model is able to fit CMOS VT mismatch across temperature and device geometry, validating the underlying physical argument. A bias method is presented and shown to recover part of the matching degradation due to the halo implant.","PeriodicalId":262652,"journal":{"name":"2014 44th European Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134352549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Leon, X. Perpiñà, M. Vellvehí, X. Jordà, P. Godignon
{"title":"Study of surface weak spots on SiC Schottky Diodes under specific operating regimes by Infrared Lock-in sensing","authors":"J. Leon, X. Perpiñà, M. Vellvehí, X. Jordà, P. Godignon","doi":"10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948841","url":null,"abstract":"Several Silicon Carbide Schottky Barrier Diodes (SBDs) were inspected by Infrared Lock-In Thermography to study and determine the origin of structural weak spots resulting from their manufacturing and electro-thermal stressing tests. These spots are frequency modulated following three different approaches representative of their operating conditions and detected by their infrared emission, as they behave as hot spots. Such weak spots could have originated from barrier modification due to wire-bonding process, non-uniform active area resistance for bad metallization electrical contact, deep level traps creation due to high energy implantation in the edge termination, and internal crack propagation during thermal cycling.","PeriodicalId":262652,"journal":{"name":"2014 44th European Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133205911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Tosi, M. Sanzaro, Niccolo Calandri, A. Ruggeri, F. Acerbi
{"title":"Low dark count rate and low timing jitter InGaAs/InP Single-Photon Avalanche Diode","authors":"A. Tosi, M. Sanzaro, Niccolo Calandri, A. Ruggeri, F. Acerbi","doi":"10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948763","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the design and characterization of a new InGaAs/InP Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) for single-photon detection at 1.55 μm with high detection efficiency, low noise and low timing jitter. The design and fabrication have been optimized to reduce the defects (responsible for dark counts and afterpulsing). Zinc diffusion is a key step and we optimized the profile, pattern and reactor parameters to achieve uniform sensitivity in the active area, low noise and low timing jitter. The active area diameter of the device here described is 25 μm and no floating guard rings are present. It is operated in gated mode, with passive quenching, for the characterization. The dark count rate is in the order of few kilo-counts per second at 225 K and 5 V of excess bias. The photon timing resolution, measured as the full-width at half maximum of the response to a 20 ps pulsed laser, is about 90 ps, with a clean exponential tail whose time constant is about 60 ps. The photon detection efficiency is about 30% at 1550 nm. These specifications make our InGaAs/InP SPAD a good candidate for advanced time-correlated singlephoton counting applications at wavelengths up to 1700 nm.","PeriodicalId":262652,"journal":{"name":"2014 44th European Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC)","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132282387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Vaziri, A. Smith, G. Lupina, M. Lemme, M. Östling
{"title":"PDMS-supported graphene transfer using intermediary polymer layers","authors":"S. Vaziri, A. Smith, G. Lupina, M. Lemme, M. Östling","doi":"10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948822","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a graphene transfer method based on chemical vapor deposited (CVD) graphene grown on copper foils. This transfer method utilizes a combination of a silicone elastomer (PDMS) and different intermediate polymer layers depending on the process requirements. We use polystyrene and polystyrene/photoresist intermediary layers for dry and wet graphene release. PMMA intermediary layer is applied for bubbling-assisted graphene transfer. The elastomer layer serves as an excellent solid support for electrochemical graphene delamination. Graphene-based field effect transistors (GFETs) were fabricated and characterized using this process. Raman spectroscopy was used in order to verify a successful transfer.","PeriodicalId":262652,"journal":{"name":"2014 44th European Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC)","volume":"985 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133070308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Alshahed, Zili Yu, H. Rempp, H. Richter, C. Harendt, J. Burghartz
{"title":"Thermal characterization and modeling of ultra-thin silicon chips","authors":"M. Alshahed, Zili Yu, H. Rempp, H. Richter, C. Harendt, J. Burghartz","doi":"10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948844","url":null,"abstract":"Manufacturing ultra-thin chip is an emerging field in semiconductor technology that is driven by 3-D integrated circuits and flexible electronics. Unlike bulk silicon (Si) chips with thickness greater than 400 μm, the thermal management of ultra-thin Si chips with thickness smaller than 20 μm is challenging due to the increased lateral thermal resistance implying stringent cooling requirements. Therefore, a reasonable prediction of temperature gradients in such chips is necessary. In this work, a thermal chip is implemented in an ultra-thin 0.5 μm CMOS technology to be employed in surface steady-state and transient temperature measurement. Test chips are either packaged in a Pin Grid Array (PGA) ceramic package or attached to a flexible polyimide substrate. The experimental results show an on-chip temperature gradient of ~15 °C for a dissipated power of 0.4 W in the case of the PGA package and ~30 °C for the polyimide substrate. The time constants are ~50 s and ~ 1 s for the PGA and the polyimide packages respectively. The measurements are complemented by FEM simulations using ANSYS 14.5 workbench. In addition, a lumped-element thermal circuit model is developed and used for the surface temperature prediction, which is compared to measurement results.","PeriodicalId":262652,"journal":{"name":"2014 44th European Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115307748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Rossetto, F. Rampazzo, S. Gerardin, M. Meneghini, M. Bagatin, A. Zanandrea, A. Paccagnella, G. Meneghesso, E. Zanoni, C. Dua, M. Forte-Poisson, R. Aubry, M. Oualli, S. Delage
{"title":"Degradation of dc and pulsed characteristics of InAlN/GaN HEMTs under different proton fluences","authors":"I. Rossetto, F. Rampazzo, S. Gerardin, M. Meneghini, M. Bagatin, A. Zanandrea, A. Paccagnella, G. Meneghesso, E. Zanoni, C. Dua, M. Forte-Poisson, R. Aubry, M. Oualli, S. Delage","doi":"10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948840","url":null,"abstract":"Displacement-damage induced degradation in InAlN/GaN structures is studied for different proton fluences, from 110<sup>14</sup> p/cm<sup>2</sup> to 410<sup>14</sup> p/cm<sup>2</sup>, at 3MeV. DC analysis reveals that devices experience a V<sub>TH</sub> positive shift and an increase of the R<sub>ON</sub>, following a linear trend with the proton radiation fluence, as a consequence of the creation of acceptor-like traps. Furthermore an increase of the diode gate current is noticed. Pulsed measurements indicate an increase of the so called “current collapse”, especially when a high gate drain voltage difference is applied, as a consequence of the performances variation in the dynamic max g<sub>m</sub>, V<sub>TH</sub> shift and R<sub>ON</sub>.","PeriodicalId":262652,"journal":{"name":"2014 44th European Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115834559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Villa, D. Bronzi, M. Vergani, Yu Zou, A. Ruggeri, F. Zappa, A. D. Mora
{"title":"Analog SiPM in planar CMOS technology","authors":"F. Villa, D. Bronzi, M. Vergani, Yu Zou, A. Ruggeri, F. Zappa, A. D. Mora","doi":"10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948818","url":null,"abstract":"Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are emerging single photon detectors used in many applications requiring large active area, photon number resolving capability and immunity to magnetic fields. We developed planar analog SiPMs in a reliable and cost-effective CMOS technology with a total photosensitive area of about 1×1 mm2. Three devices with different active areas, and fill-factor (21%, 58.3%, 73.7%), have been characterized. The maximum photon detection efficiency is in the near-UV and tops at 38% (fill-factor included), with a dark count rate of 125 kcps. Gain and crosstalk depend on the active area size and are comparable to those of commercial best-in-class custom-technology SiPMs. However our full CMOS processing enables advanced SiPM single-chip systems where transistors and further on chip electronics can be integrated together with the detectors.","PeriodicalId":262652,"journal":{"name":"2014 44th European Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116023472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Medjdoub, E. Okada, Bertrand Grimbert, D. Ducatteau, Riccardo Silvestri, M. Meneghini, E. Zanoni, G. Meneghesso
{"title":"High performance high reliability AlN/GaN DHFET","authors":"F. Medjdoub, E. Okada, Bertrand Grimbert, D. Ducatteau, Riccardo Silvestri, M. Meneghini, E. Zanoni, G. Meneghesso","doi":"10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSDERC.2014.6948779","url":null,"abstract":"We report on AlN/GaN double heterostructures for high frequency applications. 600 hours preliminary reliability assessment has been performed on these emerging RF devices, showing promising millimeter-wave 100 nm gate length GaN-on-Si device stability for the first time. A 150 nm AlN/GaN double heterostructure has been developed and evaluated on SiC substrate. State-of-the-art CW power-added-efficiencies (PAE) at 10 and 18 GHz have been achieved on ultrathin barrier (6 nm) GaN devices while operating at a drain bias exceeding 30 V.","PeriodicalId":262652,"journal":{"name":"2014 44th European Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127180070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}