D. Guerra, D. Ferry, S. Goodnick, M. Saraniti, F. A. Marino
{"title":"Large-signal full-band Monte Carlo device simulation of millimeter-wave power GaN HEMTs with the inclusion of parasitic and reliability issues","authors":"D. Guerra, D. Ferry, S. Goodnick, M. Saraniti, F. A. Marino","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035056","url":null,"abstract":"We report for the first time the simulation of the large-signal dynamic load-line of high-Q matched mm-wave power amplifiers obtained through a Monte Carlo particle-based device simulator. Due to the long transient time of large reactive circuit elements, the time-domain solution of power amplifier high-Q matching networks requires prohibitive simulation time for the already time-consuming Monte Carlo technique. However, by emulating the high-Q matching network and the load impedance through an active load-line, we show that, in combination with our fast Cellular Monte Carlo algorithm, particle-based accurate device simulations of the large signal operations of AlGaN/GaN HEMTS are possible in a time-effective manner. Reliability issues and parasitic elements (such as dislocations and contact resistance) are also taken into account by, respectively, exploiting the accurate carrier dynamics description of the Monte Carlo technique and self-consistently coupling a Finite Difference Time Domain network solver with our device simulator code.","PeriodicalId":264913,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122029555","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}
Xiaoying Shen, S. Chong, Daesung Lee, R. Parsa, R. Howe, H. Wong
{"title":"2D analytical model for the study of NEM relay device scaling","authors":"Xiaoying Shen, S. Chong, Daesung Lee, R. Parsa, R. Howe, H. Wong","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035070","url":null,"abstract":"NEM relay is a promising class of device to overcome the power crisis of CMOS circuits. To design these devices and predict their scaling properties, an analytical model highlighting the fundamental physics of the relay operation is highly desired. This work presents a new 2D analytical model for the study of NEM relay scaling. The model retains the physical insights for NEM relays and yet has the simplicity close to the commonly used 1D model. The error as compared to a finite element model is reduced from ∼25% (1D model) to ∼3% (this work) by introducing a ratio R(a) to account for 2D effects in the 1D formulation. Besides the fundamental mechanical and electrical properties, the model also takes into account surface forces in the operation of NEM relay devices. The impact of surface forces on the operation voltage as devices are scaled down is discussed.","PeriodicalId":264913,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128165073","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. Kasai, S. Aspera, H. Kishi, N. Awaya, S. Ohnishi, Y. Tamai
{"title":"First principles study on the switching mechanism in Resistance Random Access Memory devices","authors":"H. Kasai, S. Aspera, H. Kishi, N. Awaya, S. Ohnishi, Y. Tamai","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035088","url":null,"abstract":"The role of Resistance Random Access Memory (RRAM) is recently becoming extremely important in the field of developing non-volatile memory devices. The foreseen relevance of RRAM in this field is attributed to the switching of the electronic properties from metal to insulator, and vice versa, of the transition metal oxides (TMOs) included in RRAM by a set and reset pulse voltage. However, conclusive clarifications on the switching mechanism have not yet been fully realized. In this study, by using first principles calculation based on density functional theory, we investigated RRAM's switching mechanism through analysis of the change in the electronic properties of the bulk TMOs resulting from oxygen vacancies and charge carrier trapping for two known TMOs materials used in RRAM, HfO2 and CoO. We found that an oxygen vacancy row with charge carrier trapping creates a conduction path and therefore the transition from insulator to metal. In addition, we perform calculations for slab models of the TMOs in contact with Ta electrodes and hence investigate the effects of oxygen vacancies at the interface between the TMO layers and the electrode layer. From the obtained results, we confirmed that our investigations on activation energy barrier for oxygen vacancy migration are consistent with the experimental data of voltages required for switching.","PeriodicalId":264913,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130679459","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}
{"title":"Thermoelectromechanical simulation of GaN HEMTs","authors":"M. Ancona, S. Binari","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035062","url":null,"abstract":"As a tool for studying the critical issue of reliability in GaN HEMTs we develop a multi-dimensional device simulator based on a continuum formulation in which the electrical, mechanical, thermal and transport variables are fully coupled. The new simulator is illustrated with various examples involving HEMT operstion and failure.","PeriodicalId":264913,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131723749","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}
T. Nakahagi, D. Sugiyama, S. Yukuta, M. Miyake, M. Miura-Mattausch, S. Miyano
{"title":"Modeling of enhanced 1/ƒ noise in TFT with trap charges","authors":"T. Nakahagi, D. Sugiyama, S. Yukuta, M. Miyake, M. Miura-Mattausch, S. Miyano","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6034969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6034969","url":null,"abstract":"We have investigates influence of existing trap states of TFT on device characteristics with use of the compact model HiSIM-TFT. Special focus is given on the 1/ƒ noise characteristics, where it is found the Vgs dependence of the 1/ƒ noise characteristics is very sensitive to the trap density distributions. We have successfully extracted high density of the shallow trap states with the measured 1/ƒ noise characteristics.","PeriodicalId":264913,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125731789","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}
K. Fukuda, M. Nishizawa, T. Tada, L. Bolotov, Kaina Suzuki, Shigeo Sato, H. Arimoto, T. Kanayama
{"title":"3D modeling based on current continuity for STM carrier profiling of semiconductor devices","authors":"K. Fukuda, M. Nishizawa, T. Tada, L. Bolotov, Kaina Suzuki, Shigeo Sato, H. Arimoto, T. Kanayama","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035074","url":null,"abstract":"Current continuity based 3D modeling of STM carrier profiling of semiconductor devices is achieved for the first time. Tunnel currents between probe tip and devices are solved consistently with current continuity consideration. It is revealed that tunnel current is reduced in current continuity model under depletion conditions. Spatial resolution achieved in the model is discussed in comparison to potential based modeling. Influence of discrete dopants is also discussed in concern with Coulomb potential fluctuations in nanoscale systems, which is a key issue of nano devices.","PeriodicalId":264913,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116576099","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}
K. Kawabata, M. Tanizawa, K. Ishikawa, Y. Inoue, M. Inuishi, T. Nishimura
{"title":"Study of current induced magnetic domain wall movement with extremely low energy consumption by micromagnetic simulation","authors":"K. Kawabata, M. Tanizawa, K. Ishikawa, Y. Inoue, M. Inuishi, T. Nishimura","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035048","url":null,"abstract":"We study the velocity and energy consumption of current induced magnetic domain wall (DW) movement, which is a new paradigm in spintronics devices such as a next generation MRAM and race track memory, by LLG (Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert) micromagnetic simulation. It is found that DW velocity is almost the same in current in magnetic thin film plane(CIP) and current perpendicular to plane (CPP-Perp.). On the other hand, the energy consumption is much lower in CPP-Perp. than CIP. These results show that the CPP-Perp. structure has potential solutions for high speed and low energy consumption applications","PeriodicalId":264913,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132822033","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}
{"title":"Low-dimensional quantum transport models in atomistic device simulations","authors":"G. Mil'nikov, N. Mori, Y. Kamakura","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035033","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a method for atomistic quantum transport simulations in nanowire (NW) MOSFETs. The original tight-binding (TBM) Hamiltonian of the nanostructure is replaced with an approximate model which reproduces the transport properties at atomistic level. Small size of the equivalent model (EM) makes the atomistic transport simulation computationally cheap and allows the inelastic scattering effects to be incorporated easily. The method is applied to various p-SiNW and n-SiNW MOSFETs.","PeriodicalId":264913,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices","volume":"379 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124106697","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}
P. Kulkarni, Q. Liu, A. Khakifirooz, Y. Zhang, K. Cheng, F. Monsieur, P. Oldiges
{"title":"Impact of substrate bias on GIDL for thin-BOX ETSOI devices","authors":"P. Kulkarni, Q. Liu, A. Khakifirooz, Y. Zhang, K. Cheng, F. Monsieur, P. Oldiges","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035060","url":null,"abstract":"We present a detailed analysis of substrate bias (Vbb) impact on gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) for thin-BOX extremely thin silicon-on-insulator (ETSOI) with BOX thickness (TBOX) ranging from 10 to 50 nm and inversion layer thicknesses (TINV) ranging from 1.1 to 1.3 nm. The GIDL behavior for thin-BOX under various substrate biases (Vbb) and partially depleted SOI (PDSOI) devices with different body doping are compared.","PeriodicalId":264913,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125175646","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}
{"title":"Multi scale modeling of multi phonon hole capture in the context of NBTI","authors":"F. Schanovsky, O. Baumgartner, T. Grasser","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035038","url":null,"abstract":"We report on a novel approach to the modeling of non-radiative multi phonon transitions in semiconductor devices. Using line shapes calculated from density functional theory, the hole capture rate due to a non-radiative multi phonon process is computed for an MOS structure. The charge carriers in the MOS structure are described using a non-equilibrium Green's function formalism that makes it possible to treat the device as an open quantum system. The dependence of the hole capture rate on the gate voltage and the temperature are calculated for the oxygen vacancy and the hydrogen bridge defect at different positions in the gate oxide.","PeriodicalId":264913,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121820872","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}