Limitations of LDD Types of Structures in Deep-Submicrometer MOS Technology

Al F. Tasch; H. Shin; T. J. Bordelon; Christine M. Maziar

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Limitations of LDD Types of Structures in Deep-Submicrometer MOS Technology

Al F. Tasch, H. Shin, T. J. Bordelon, Christine M. Maziar

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Lightly doped drain (LDD) types of MOSFET structures have been analyzed in detail in order to understand the issues and trade-offs in the application of these structures to deep-submicrometer technology (Lgate ≤ 0.35 μm) in which the minimum feature size of the technology is exploited as the total gate length of the device. Because of considerable channel doping compensation resulting from the desired graded drain profile of the N− region, larger and unacceptable charge-sharing effects are encountered. The problem can be avoided if the LDD N− region is shallow and steeply profiled. However, this leads to unacceptably high hot-carrier generation rates. This major conflict in design requirements (suppression of charge sharing as well as reduction of hot-carrier effects) results in serious limitations of LDD MOSFET’s in their applicability to deep-submicrometer technology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	517-519
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Electron Device Letters
Volume	11
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/55.63018
State	Published - Nov 1990

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