Dispersive transport and negative bias temperature instability: Boundary conditions, initial conditions, and transport models

IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-96

  Grasser, Tibor ^a,b   Gös, Wolfgang ^b   Kaczer, Ben ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Analytical models boundary condition; Bias temperature instability; Dispersive transport; Initial condition; Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI); Numerical solution; Power law; Stretched exponential

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION; HYDROGEN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PASSIVATION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ANALYTICAL MODELS BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BIAS TEMPERATURE INSTABILITY; DISPERSIVE TRANSPORT; NEGATIVE BIAS TEMPERATURE INSTABILITY (NBTI); POWER LAWS; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL;

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 40549129742     PISSN: 15304388     EISSN: 15304388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDMR.2007.912779     Document Type: Article

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