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Modeling gate and substrate currents due to conduction- and valence-band electron and hole tunneling [CMOS technology]

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In this paper, a model is proposed to quantify the tunneling currents through ultra-thin gate oxides, which can accurately predict the gate and substrate currents and all the subcomponents in dual-gate CMOS devices.
Abstract
A model is proposed to quantify the tunneling currents through ultra-thin gate oxides. With a proper set of effective mass and barrier height, this new model can accurately predict the gate and substrate currents and all the subcomponents in dual-gate CMOS devices. This model can also be employed to extract T/sub ox/ for thin oxide from I-V data with 0.1/spl Aring/ sensitivity, where C-V extraction can be difficult or impossible.

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Quantum-mechanical modeling of electron tunneling current from the inversion layer of ultra-thin-oxide nMOSFET's

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Polarity dependent gate tunneling currents in dual-gate CMOSFETs

TL;DR: In this paper, the gate tunneling current in dual-gate CMOSFETs is studied over a gate oxide range of 2-6 nm, and it is shown that, when measured in accumulation, the I/sub g/ versus V/ sub g/ characteristics for the p/sup +/pMOSFet are essentially identical to those for the n/sup+/nMOSFLT; however, when measuring in inversion, the p /sup + /pMosFLT exhibits much lower gate current for the same |V/subg
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Submicron transferred-substrate heterojunction bipolar transistors

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Molecular-dynamics simulations of polyampholytes: Instabilities due to excess charges and external fields

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