First principles simulation technique for characterizing single event effects

This paper develops a new simulation technique to characterize single event effects on semiconductor devices. The technique used to calculate the single event effects is developed according to the physical interaction mechanism of a single event effect. An application of the first principles simulation technique is performed to predict the ground-test single event upset effect on field-programmable gate arrays based on 0.25 μm advanced complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology. The agreement between the single event upset cross section accessed from a broad-beam heavy ion experiment and simulation shows that the simulation technique could be used to characterize the single event effects induced by heavy ions on a semiconductor device.     

质子和中子在硅中位移损伤等效性计算

基于蒙特卡罗软件Geant4,探讨质子与硅的库仑散射和核反应及中子与硅的核反应产生反冲原子沉积非电离能量的过程,建立质子和中子在硅中的非电离能量阻止本领计算方法。在此方法中,描述了原子间库仑散射的物理过程,模拟带电粒子与晶格原子之间的屏蔽库仑散射。计算得到不同能量质子和中子在硅中因库仑散射和核反应产生反冲原子的非电离能量沉积及阻止本领的等效性,计算结果与中子ASTM标准及文献计算得到的质子数据符合很好。     

Scaling effects of single-event gate rupture in thin oxides

The dynamics of the excess carriers generated by incident heavy ions are considered in both SiO2 and Si substrate. Influences of the initial radius of the charge track, surface potential decrease, external electric field, and the LET value of the incident ion on internal electric field buildup are analyzed separately. Considering the mechanisms of recombination, impact ionization, and bandgap tunneling, models are verified by using published experimental data. Moreover, the scaling effects of single-event gate rupture in thin gate oxides are studied, with the feature size of the MOS device down to 90 nm. The walue of the total electric field decreases rapidly along with the decrease of oxide thickness in the first period （1 2 nm to 3.3 nm）, and then increases a little when the gate oxide becomes thinner and thinner （3.3 nm to 1.8 nm）.     

累积辐照影响静态随机存储器单粒子翻转敏感性的仿真研究

基于解析分析对比了大尺寸与深亚微米尺度下静态随机存取存储器(static random access memory, SRAM)单元单粒子翻转敏感性的表征值及引入累积辐照后的变化趋势. 同时借助仿真模拟计算了0.18 μm工艺对应的六管SRAM单元在对应不同累积剂量情况下, 离子分别入射不同中心单管时的电学响应变化, 计算结果与解析分析所得推论相一致, 即只有当累积辐照阶段与单粒子作用阶段存储相反数值时, SRAM单元的单粒子翻转敏感性才会增强. 关键词： 累积辐照 单粒子翻转 静态随机存储器 器件仿真