三维数值仿真研究锗硅异质结双极晶体管总剂量效应

为探索锗硅异质结双极晶体管(SiGe HBT)总剂量效应的损伤机理,采用半导体器件三维模拟工具(TCAD),建立电离辐照总剂量效应损伤模型,分析比较电离辐射在SiGe HBT不同氧化层结构的不同位置引入陷阱电荷缺陷后,器件正向Gummel特性和反向Gummel特性的退化特征,获得SiGe HBT总剂量效应损伤规律,并与⁶⁰Coγ辐照实验进行对比.结果表明:总剂量辐照在SiGe HBT器件中引入的氧化物陷阱正电荷主要在pn结附近的Si/SiO₂界面处产生影响,引起pn结耗尽区的变化,带来载流子复合增加,最终导致基极电流增大、增益下降;其中EB Spacer氧化层中产生的陷阱电荷主要影响正向Gummel特性,而LOCOS隔离氧化层中的陷阱电荷则是造成反向Gummel特性退化的主要因素.通过数值模拟分析获得的SiGe HBT总剂量效应损伤规律与不同偏置下⁶⁰Coγ辐照实验的结论符合得较好.     

CMOS电路总剂量效应最劣偏置甄别

采用电路分析和解析建模方法研究了CMOS电路中甄别总剂量效应最劣辐照与测试偏置的问题。通过引入小规模模拟电路和数字电路的例子进行具体分析,获取了不同电路的最劣偏置情况。对于数字电路,引入了敏感因子的概念用于定量计算不同辐照与测试偏置组合下电路的总剂量效应敏感程度。利用实测数据或电路仿真结果对甄别结果进行了一一验证,得到相一致的结论,证明了该研究思路的正确性。     

同步动态随机存储器辐射效应测试系统研制

在分析同步动态随机存储器(SDRAM)辐射效应主要失效现象的基础上,研制了具备了读写功能测试、刷新周期测试及功耗电流测试三种功能的SDRAM辐射效应在线测试系统,并开展了SDRAM的总剂量效应实验研究。结果表明,总剂量效应会导致SDRAM器件的数据保持时间不断减小,功耗电流不断增大以及读写功能失效。实验样品MT48LC8M32B2的功能失效主要由外围控制电路造成,而非存储单元翻转。数据保持时间虽然随着辐照剂量的累积不断减小,但不是造成该器件功能失效的直接原因。     

随机静态存储器低能中子单粒子翻转效应

 建立了中子单粒子翻转可视化分析方法,对不同特征尺寸（0.13~1.50 μm）CMOS工艺商用随机静态存储器(SRAM)器件开展了反应堆中子单粒子翻转效应的实验研究,获得了SRAM器件的裂变谱中子单粒子翻转截面随特征尺寸变化的变化趋势。研究结果表明:SRAM器件的特征尺寸越小,其对低能中子导致的单粒子翻转的敏感性越高。     

Sensitivity of heavy-ion-induced single event burnout in SiC MOSFET

The energy deposition and electrothermal behavior of SiC metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor(MOSFET)under heavy ion radiation are investigated based on Monte Carlo method and TCAD numerical simulation.The Monte Carlo simulation results show that the density of heavy ion-induced energy deposition is the largest in the center of the heavy ion track.The time for energy deposition in SiC is on the order of picoseconds.The TCAD is used to simulate the single event burnout(SEB)sensitivity of SiC MOSFET at four representative incident positions and four incident depths.When heavy ions strike vertically from SiC MOSFET source electrode,the SiC MOSFET has the shortest SEB time and the lowest SEB voltage with respect to direct strike from the epitaxial layer,strike from the channel,and strike from the body diode region.High current and strong electric field simultaneously appear in the local area of SiC MOSFET,resulting in excessive power dissipation,further leading to excessive high lattice temperature.The gate-source junction area and the substrate-epitaxial layer junction area are both the regions where the SiC lattice temperature first reaches the SEB critical temperature.In the SEB simulation of SiC MOSFET at different incident depths,when the incident depth does not exceed the device's epitaxial layer,the heavy-ion-induced charge deposition is not enough to make lattice temperature reach the SEB critical temperature.     

AlGaN/GaN高电子迁移率晶体管器件中子位移损伤效应及机理

针对AlGaN/GaN高电子迁移率晶体管器件和异质结构在西安脉冲反应堆上开展了中子位移损伤效应研究,等效1MeV中子注量为1×10¹⁴n/cm².测量了器件在中子辐照前后的直流特性和1/f噪声特性,并对测试结果进行理论分析,结果表明:中子辐照在器件内引入体缺陷,沟道处的体缺陷通过俘获电子和散射电子,造成器件电学性能退化,主要表现为阈值电压正漂、输出饱和漏电流减小以及栅极泄漏电流增大.经过低频噪声的测试计算得到,中子辐照前后,器件沟道处的缺陷密度由1.78×10¹²cm^–3·eV–1增大到了1.66×1014cm^–3·eV^–1.采用C-V测试手段对肖特基异质结进行测试分析,发现沟道载流子浓度在辐照后有明显降低,且平带电压也正向漂移.分析认为中子辐照器件后,在沟道处产生了大量缺陷,这些缺陷会影响沟道载流子的浓度和迁移率,进而影响器件的电学性能.     

Dependence of single event upsets sensitivity of low energy proton on test factors in 65 nm SRAM

In order to accurately predict the single event upsets(SEU) rate of on-orbit proton, the influence of the proton energy distribution, incident angle, supply voltage, and test pattern on the height, width, and position of SEU peak of low energy protons(LEP) in 65 nm static random access memory(SRAM) are quantitatively evaluated and analyzed based on LEP testing data and Monte Carlo simulation. The results show that different initial proton energies used to degrade the beam energy will bring about the difference in the energy distribution of average proton energy at the surface and sensitive region of the device under test(DUT), which further leads to significant differences including the height of SEU peak and the threshold energy of SEU. Using the lowest initial proton energy is extremely important for SEU testing with low energy protons. The proton energy corresponding to the SEU peak shifts to higher average proton energies with the increase of the tilt angle, and the SEU peaks also increase significantly. The reduction of supply voltage lowers the critical charge of SEU, leading to the increase of LEP SEU cross section. For standard 6-transitor SRAM with bit-interleaving technology,SEU peak does not show clear dependence on three test patterns of logical checkerboard 55 H, all "1", and all "0". It should be noted that all the SEUs in 65 nm SRAM are single cell upset in LEP testing due to proton's low linear energy transfer(LET) value.     

Discussion of the metric in characterizing the single-event effect induced by heavy ions

The single-event effect(SEE) is the most serious problem in space environment.The modern semiconductor technology is concerned with the feasibility of the linear energy transfer(LET) as metric in characterizing SEE induced by heavy ions.In this paper,we calibrate the detailed static random access memory(SRAM) cell structure model of an advanced field programmable gate array(FPGA) device using the computer-aided design tool,and calculate the heavy ion energy loss in multi-layer metal utilizing Geant4.Based on the heavy ion accelerator experiment and numerical simulation,it is proved that the metric of LET at the device surface,ignoring the top metal material in the advanced semiconductor device,would underestimate the SEE.In the SEE evaluation in space radiation environment the top-layers on the semiconductor device must be taken into consideration.     

锗硅异质结双极晶体管单粒子效应加固设计与仿真

本文设计了一种通过在版图布局中引入伪集电极的方法来提高锗硅异质结双极晶体管(SiGe HBT)抗单粒子性能的方法. 利用半导体器件模拟工具, 针对加固前后的SiGe HBT开展了单粒子效应仿真模拟, 分析了伪集电极对SiGe HBT电荷收集机理的影响. 结果表明, 引入的伪集电极形成的新的集电极-衬底结具有较大的反偏能力, 加固后SiGe HBT伪集电极通过扩散机理, 大量收集单粒子效应产生的电荷, 有效地减少了实际集电极的电荷收集量, 发射极、基极电荷收集量也有不同程度的降低, 加固设计后SiGe HBT 的单粒子效应敏感区域缩小, 有效的提高了SiGe HBT 器件抗单粒子效应辐射性能. 此项工作的开展为SiGe HBT电路级单粒子效应抗辐射加固设计打下良好的基础.