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Thermal behavior and its effect on RF large signal aging is extensively studied using Power Amplifier. While strong Iddq increase in linear region is seen, no significant change in RF is observed in compression. RF stress at three different VDD and Tj is reported. Thermal imaging results validate  TA Vs Tj  at Pdiss. Time domain peak voltage swings at different Tj demonstrate that HCIand off-state TDDB are key degradation mechanisms demonstrating excellent thermal behavior.

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Thermal considerations on RF reliability and aging in SOI CMOS based Power Amplifiers

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The IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS) is the premiere conference for engineers and scientists to present new and original work in the area of microelectronics reliability. IRPS seeks to understand the reliability of semiconductor devices, integrated circuits, and microelectronic assemblies through an improved understanding of both the physics of failure as well as the application environment. 

This paper proposes a virtual FA (vFA), a new methodology that helps identify failures in field using the telemetry data. The telemetry data refers to the information that is generated when DRAM product is deployed in customer’s data center and information is generated and collected when faults occur in the field. Through this, risk can be accurately predicted and improvement activities can be carried out quickly.

Virtual FA methodology for DRAM: Real-time analysis and prediction method using Telemetry, Field data

Cryogenic CMOS circuitry is inevitable to drive and read out qubits for the realization of scalable Quantum Computers (QCs). Analog circuits such as current mirrors and Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) are basic building blocks of the control circuits in QCs. In this work, we explore the impact of self-heating (SH) on 5 nm FinFETs and analog circuits for control electronics in QCs using cryogenic-aware BSIM-CMG compact model at both cryogenic and room temperatures.

Impact of Self-Heating in 5 nm FinFETs at Cryogenic Temperatures for Reliable Quantum Computing: Device-Circuit Interaction

RTN in FinFET at cryogenic temperature is charaterized and RTN caused by traps near Metal/HfO2 interface interacting with gate can be observed, which is often overwhelmed by background noise at room temperature. Combining TCAD, the trap location can be determined. Furthermore, full quantumcalculations and compact modeling considering band tail states and interface trap states are conducted to obtain accurate trap parameters. The results reveal a remarkable variety of traps at cryogenic temperature.

New Insights into the Random Telegraph Noise (RTN) in FinFETs at Cryogenic Temperature

In this work, a RTN analysis has been carried out to characterize the defects activated by forward-biased gate stress in GaN-HEMTs with Schottky p-GaN gate. The RTN signal, measured after each stress phase up to time-dependent gate breakdown, revealed four 1/f2 components. Three have been observed on both IG and ID, suggesting defects in the AlGaN barrier, whereas the last one showed up only on IG, possibly related to the Schottky depletion region.

Analysis of RTN Induced by Forward Gate Stress in GaN HEMTs with a Schottky p-GaN Gate

We present a characterization methodology for on-resistance and threshold voltage extraction through pulsed IV, where the transition from off-state to measurement phase is tuned to move from soft- to hard-switching. Results demonstrate that: i) RON may show significant increase (with saturation) moving from soft- to hard-switching; ii) VTH is strongly affected by hard-switching; iii) improved passivation results in lower on-resistance increase; iv) gate field plate length impacts RON increase with marginal effect on VTH shift.

Ron and Vth extraction in Hard-Switched E-mode GaN HEMTs: impact of passivation and layout

We show that thanks to the existence of NBTI, pFETs can be used to build a physical reservoir. We demonstrate this using the Compact-Physical (Comphy) framework for BTI modeling and substantiate it with a gait and voice authentication example. Subsequently, a hardware demonstration reveals that only 9 pFETs are sufficient to distinguish gait signals from different subjects. Notably, this implementation obviates the need for specialized device engineering, allowing for direct utilization of CMOS technology.

Exploiting Bias Temperature Instability for Reservoir Computing in Edge Artificial Intelligence Applications

The reliability issues of the In-3D-NAND approximate searching system for Hamming distance computing are evaluated and solved by optimized high VT level, recovery healing process, and reliability tracking array. The chip with optimized high Vt level can pass the commercial 3D-NAND retention criteria. Recovery healing can mitigate over-program issue in high data update situations. Tracking array enables sensing level calibration for long-term operations. The chip provides reliable in-memory database processing function suitable for neuromorphic computing.

Reliability Assessment for an In-3D-NAND Approximate Searching Solution

Compared to FinFET, MBCFET has significant structural differences such as nanosheet channel with variable width and dielectric spacer between inner gate and highly doped diffusion region. Nanosheet width and spacer architecture play a crucial role in device performance and enable the design of devices with different advantages and disadvantages. We overview the impact of MBCFET 's unique structures on device characteristics and also analyze the reliability impact of MBCFET's unique structures. 

Device Design and Reliability of GAA MBCFET

PBTI for scaled E-Mode High-K GaN-Transistors with ultra-thin Tox &lt; 21.5Å on 300mm diameter GaN-on-Si wafer is studied for the first time. PBTI-degradation rate is shown to decrease over time to reach saturation. Study indicates prevalence of near-interface-traps generated during stress. A phenomenological model is introduced to describe the saturating BTI-degradation dynamics. Despite PBTI-degradation with DVT saturating at ~350mV, the GaN-MOSHEMT Figure-of-Merit gain is projected to be &gt;~15X better than industry-standard Si LDMOS and pGaN-HEMT/GaN-JFET.

PBTI in Scaled Oxide Submicron Enhancement Mode High-K Gallium Nitride Transistors

We show FeFET-based reservoir computing with notable robustness against charge trapping-induced interface degradation in silicon FeFETs, which is known to be critical when operating as nonvolatile memory devices. This reliability concern is mitigated when employed for reservoir computing, which leverages the dynamic property instead of the static property of FeFETs. A degradation-robust FeFET reservoir can be trained to classify spoken-digit dataset, where gt;10k of write operations were applied during data processing, with high classification accuracy.

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