30 research outputs found

    Robustness Analysis of Controllable-Polarity Silicon Nanowire Devices and Circuits

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    Substantial downscaling of the feature size in current CMOS technology has confronted digital designers with serious challenges including short channel effect and high amount of leakage power. To address these problems, emerging nano-devices, e.g., Silicon NanoWire FET (SiNWFET), is being introduced by the research community. These devices keep on pursuing Mooreâs Law by improving channel electrostatic controllability, thereby reducing the Off âstate leakage current. In addition to these improvements, recent developments introduced devices with enhanced capabilities, such as Controllable-Polarity (CP) SiNWFETs, which make them very interesting for compact logic cell and arithmetic circuits. At advanced technology nodes, the amount of physical controls, during the fabrication process of nanometer devices, cannot be precisely determined because of technology fluctuations. Consequently, the structural parameters of fabricated circuits can be significantly different from their nominal values. Moreover, giving an a-priori conclusion on the variability of advanced technologies for emerging nanoscale devices, is a difficult task and novel estimation methodologies are required. This is a necessity to guarantee the performance and the reliability of future integrated circuits. Statistical analysis of process variation requires a great amount of numerical data for nanoscale devices. This introduces a serious challenge for variability analysis of emerging technologies due to the lack of fast simulation models. One the one hand, the development of accurate compact models entails numerous tests and costly measurements on fabricated devices. On the other hand, Technology Computer Aided Design (TCAD) simulations, that can provide precise information about devices behavior, are too slow to timely generate large enough data set. In this research, a fast methodology for generating data set for variability analysis is introduced. This methodology combines the TCAD simulations with a learning algorithm to alleviate the time complexity of data set generation. Another formidable challenge for variability analysis of the large circuits is growing number of process variation sources. Utilizing parameterized models is becoming a necessity for chip design and verification. However, the high dimensionality of parameter space imposes a serious problem. Unfortunately, the available dimensionality reduction techniques cannot be employed for three main reasons of lack of accuracy, distribution dependency of the data points, and finally incompatibility with device and circuit simulators. We propose a novel technique of parameter selection for modeling process and performance variation. The proposed technique efficiently addresses the aforementioned problems. Appropriate testing, to capture manufacturing defects, plays an important role on the quality of integrated circuits. Compared to conventional CMOS, emerging nano-devices such as CP-SiNWFETs have different fabrication process steps. In this case, current fault models must be extended for defect detection. In this research, we extracted the possible fabrication defects, and then proposed a fault model for this technology. We also provided a couple of test methods for detecting the manufacturing defects in various types of CP-SiNWFET logic gates. Finally, we used the obtained fault model to build fault tolerant arithmetic circuits with a bunch of superior properties compared to their competitors

    Modeling and Mitigation of Soft Errors in Nanoscale SRAMs

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    Energetic particle (alpha particle, cosmic neutron, etc.) induced single event data upset or soft error has emerged as a key reliability concern in SRAMs in sub-100 nanometre technologies. Low operating voltage, small node capacitance, high packing density, and lack of error masking mechanisms are primarily responsible for the soft error susceptibility of SRAMs. In addition, since SRAM occupies the majority of die area in system-on-chips (SoCs) and microprocessors, different leakage reduction techniques, such as, supply voltage reduction, gated grounding, etc., are applied to SRAMs in order to limit the overall chip leakage. These leakage reduction techniques exponentially increase the soft error rate in SRAMs. The soft error rate is further accentuated by process variations, which are prominent in scaled-down technologies. In this research, we address these concerns and propose techniques to characterize and mitigate soft errors in nanoscale SRAMs. We develop a comprehensive analytical model of the critical charge, which is a key to assessing the soft error susceptibility of SRAMs. The model is based on the dynamic behaviour of the cell and a simple decoupling technique for the non-linearly coupled storage nodes. The model describes the critical charge in terms of NMOS and PMOS transistor parameters, cell supply voltage, and noise current parameters. Consequently, it enables characterizing the spread of critical charge due to process induced variations in these parameters and to manufacturing defects, such as, resistive contacts or vias. In addition, the model can estimate the improvement in critical charge when MIM capacitors are added to the cell in order to improve the soft error robustness. The model is validated by SPICE simulations (90nm CMOS) and radiation test. The critical charge calculated by the model is in good agreement with SPICE simulations with a maximum discrepancy of less than 5%. The soft error rate estimated by the model for low voltage (sub 0.8 V) operations is within 10% of the soft error rate measured in the radiation test. Therefore, the model can serve as a reliable alternative to time consuming SPICE simulations for optimizing the critical charge and hence the soft error rate at the design stage. In order to limit the soft error rate further, we propose an area-efficient multiword based error correction code (MECC) scheme. The MECC scheme combines four 32 bit data words to form a composite 128 bit ECC word and uses an optimized 4-input transmission-gate XOR logic. Thus MECC significantly reduces the area overhead for check-bit storage and the delay penalty for error correction. In addition, MECC interleaves two composite words in a row for limiting cosmic neutron induced multi-bit errors. The ground potentials of the composite words are controlled to minimize leakage power without compromising the read data stability. However, use of composite words involves a unique write operation where one data word is written while other three data words are read to update the check-bits. A power efficient word line signaling technique is developed to facilitate the write operation. A 64 kb SRAM macro with MECC is designed and fabricated in a commercial 90nm CMOS technology. Measurement results show that the SRAM consumes 534 ÎĽW at 100 MHz with a data latency of 3.3 ns for a single bit error correction. This translates into 82% per-bit energy saving and 8x speed improvement over recently reported multiword ECC schemes. Accelerated neutron radiation test carried out at TRIUMF in Vancouver confirms that the proposed MECC scheme can correct up to 85% of soft errors

    Variability-aware design of CMOS nanopower reference circuits

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    Questo lavoro è inserito nell'ambito della progettazione di circuiti microelettronici analogici con l'uso di tecnologie scalate, per le quali ha sempre maggiore importanza il problema della sensibilità delle grandezze alle variazioni di processo. Viene affrontata la progettazione di generatori di quantità di riferimento molto precisi, basati sull’uso di dispositivi che sono disponibili anche in tecnologie CMOS standard e che sono “intrinsecamente” più robusti rispetto alle variazioni di processo. Questo ha permesso di ottenere una bassa sensibilità al processo insieme ad un consumo di potenza estremamente ridotto, con il principale svantaggio di una elevata occupazione di area. Tutti i risultati sono stati ottenuti in una tecnologia 0.18μm CMOS. In particolare, abbiamo progettato un riferimento di tensione, ottenendo una deviazione standard relativa della tensione di riferimento dello 0.18% e un consumo di potenza inferiore a 70 nW, sulla base di misure su un set di 20 campioni di un singolo batch. Sono anche disponibili risultati relativi alla variabilità inter batch, che mostrano una deviazione standard relativa cumulativa della tensione di riferimento dello 0.35%. Abbiamo quindi progettato un riferimento di corrente, ottenendo anche in questo caso una sensibilità al processo della corrente di riferimento dell’1.4% con un consumo di potenza inferiore a 300 nW (questi sono risultati sperimentali ottenuti dalle misure su 20 campioni di un singolo batch). I riferimenti di tensione e di corrente proposti sono stati quindi utilizzati per la progettazione di un oscillatore a rilassamento a bassa frequenza, che unisce una ridotta sensibilità al processo, inferiore al 2%, con un basso consumo di potenza, circa 300 nW, ottenuto sulla base di simulazioni circuitali. Infine, nella progettazione dei blocchi sopra menzionati, abbiamo applicato un metodo per la determinazione della stabilità dei punti di riposo, basato sull’uso dei CAD standard utilizzati per la progettazione microelettronica. Questo approccio ci ha permesso di determinare la stabilità dei punti di riposo desiderati, e ci ha anche permesso di stabilire che i circuiti di start up spesso non sono necessari

    Local Characterization of Resistance Switching Phenomena in Transition Metal Oxides

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    The development of neuromorphic computing systems that emulate the analog charge states and plasticity of the brain’s neuron-synapse architecture has been a major driver of resistance switching materials exploration. Materials that demonstrate changes in conductance with tunable ratios and volatility of resistance states within a single layer are highly desirable. Although excellent resistance switching device performance has been demonstrated in a range of transition metal oxides, a lack of understanding of the fundamental microscale evolution of a material during resistance switching presents a key limitation to controlling switching parameters. Here, we examine the role of materials defects on local resistance switching structures in two representative transition metal oxide materials: HfOv2 thin films and hydrothermally synthesized VOv2 single crystals. In each material, we seek to clarify the structure of resistance switching domains and the kinetics of domain formation resulting from intentional defect introduction. This thesis is therefore divided into two main parts concerning (1) the introduction of planar defects in HfOv2 filamentary resistance switching devices, and (2) the impact of introduction of point defects on the metal-insulator transition in VOv2 single crystals. Part I (Sections 2 – 3) details investigation of Cu ion migration rates in Cu/HfOv2/p+Si and Cu/HfOv2/TiN devices in which oxide microstructure varies between amorphous, polycrystalline, and oriented polycrystalline. Ion migration across the oxide layer is shown to be rate limiting and faster in polycrystalline layers than in amorphous HfO2 layers at equivalent electric field. Moreover, the 3D shape of conductive filaments is investigated by a scribing atomic force microscopy experiment in Cu/HfOv2/p+Si devices and reveals a broad range of filament shapes under identical electrical stress conditions. Thermal dissipation is interpreted as the principal determinant of filament area, while oxide microstructure is shown to direct the location of filaments within the device. In part II (Sections 4 – 5), the hysteresis of the metal-insulator transition (switching volatility) in VOv2 is shown to intrinsically derive from nucleation limited transformations in individual particles. Here, hysteresis is a strong function of particle size, but may be increased or decreased by synthesis techniques that affect the concentration and potency of intrinsic point defects. Upon chemical doping with boron at interstitial lattice sites, a unique kinetic effect on the hysteresis of the current driven metal-insulator transition in two terminal BxVOv2 devices is observed. Dependence of the critical switching current on thermal relaxation time and temperature is characterized and recommendations for further kinetic testing are made. Finally, a few experimental extensions of the work presented in this thesis are made in Section 6

    Ancient and historical systems

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    Intégration 3D de dispositifs SET dans le Back-End-Of-Line en technologies CMOS 28 nm pour le développement de capteurs ultra basse consommation

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    La forte demande et le besoin d’intégration hétérogène de nouvelles fonctionnalités dans les systèmes mobiles et autonomes, tels que les mémoires, capteurs, et interfaces de communication doit prendre en compte les problématiques d’hétérogénéité, de consommation d’énergie et de dissipation de chaleur. Les systèmes mobiles intelligents sont déjà dotés de plusieurs composants de type capteur comme les accéléromètres, les thermomètres et les détecteurs infrarouge. Cependant, jusqu’à aujourd’hui l’intégration de capteurs chimiques dans des systèmes compacts sur puce reste limitée pour des raisons de consommation d’énergie et dissipation de chaleur principalement. La technologie actuelle et fiable des capteurs de gaz, les résistors à base d’oxyde métallique et les MOSFETs (Metal Oxide Semiconductor- Field Effect Transistors) catalytiques sont opérés à de hautes températures de 200–500 °C et 140–200 °C, respectivement. Les transistors à effet de champ à grille suspendu (SG-FETs pour Suspended Gate-Field Effect Transistors) offrent l’avantage d’être sensibles aux molécules gazeuses adsorbées aussi bien par chemisorption que par physisorption, et sont opérés à température ambiante ou légèrement au-dessus. Cependant l’intégration de ce type de composant est problématique due au besoin d’implémenter une grille suspendue et l’élargissement de la largeur du canal pour compenser la détérioration de la transconductance due à la faible capacité à travers le gap d’air. Les transistors à double grilles sont d’un grand intérêt pour les applications de détection de gaz, car une des deux grilles est fonctionnalisée et permet de coupler capacitivement au canal les charges induites par l’adsorption des molécules gazeuses cibles, et l’autre grille est utilisée pour le contrôle du point d’opération du transistor sans avoir besoin d’une structure suspendue. Les transistors monoélectroniques (les SETs pour Single Electron Transistors) présentent une solution très prometteuse grâce à leur faible puissance liée à leur principe de fonctionnement basé sur le transport d’un nombre réduit d’électrons et leur faible niveau de courant. Le travail présenté dans cette thèse fut donc concentré sur la démonstration de l’intégration 3D monolithique de SETs sur un substrat de technologie CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) pour la réalisation de la fonction capteurs de gaz très sensible et ultra basse consommation d’énergie. L’approche proposée consiste à l’intégration de SETs métalliques à double grilles dans l’unité de fabrication finale BEOL (Back-End-Of-Line) d’une technologie CMOS à l’aide du procédé nanodamascene. Le système sur puce profitera de la très élevée sensibilité à la charge électrique du transistor monoélectronique, ainsi que le traitement de signal et des données à haute vitesse en utilisant une technologie de pointe CMOS disponible. Les MOSFETs issus de la technologie FD-SOI (Fully Depleted-Silicon On Insulator) sont une solution très attractive à cause de leur pouvoir d’amplification du signal quand ils sont opérés dans le régime sous-le-seuil. Ces dispositifs permettent une très haute densité d’intégration due à leurs dimensions nanométriques et sont une technologie bien mature et modélisée. Ce travail se concentre sur le développement d’un procédé de fonctionnalisation d’un MOSFET FD-SOI comme démonstration du concept du capteur de gaz à base de transistor à double grilles. La sonde Kelvin a été la technique privilégiée pour la caractérisation des matériaux sensibles par le biais de mesure de la variation du travail de sortie induite par l’adsorption de molécules de gaz. Dans ce travail, une technique de caractérisation des matériaux sensibles alternative basée sur la mesure de la charge de surface est discutée. Pour augmenter la surface spécifique de l’électrode sensible, un nouveau concept de texturation de surface est présenté. Le procédé est basé sur le dépôt de réseaux de nanotubes de carbone multi-parois par pulvérisation d’une suspension de ces nanotubes. Les réseaux déposés servent de «squelettes» pour le matériau sensible. L’objectif principal de cette thèse de doctorat peut être divisé en 4 parties : (1) la modélisation et simulation de la réponse d’un capteur de gaz à base de SET à double grilles ou d’un MOSFET FD-SOI, et l’estimation de la sensibilité ainsi que la puissance consommée; (2) la caractérisation de la sensibilité du Pt comme couche sensible pour la détection du H[indice inférieur 2] par la technique de mesure de charge de surface, et le développement du procédé de texturation de surface de la grille fonctionnalisée avec les réseaux de nanotubes de carbone; (3) le développement et l’optimisation du procédé de fabrication des SETs à double grilles dans l’entité BEOL d’un substrat CMOS; et (4) la fonctionnalisation d’un MOSFET FD-SOI avec du Pt pour réaliser la fonction de capteur de H[indice inférieur 2].Abstract : The need of integration of new functionalities on mobile and autonomous electronic systems has to take into account all the problematic of heterogeneity together with energy consumption and thermal dissipation. In this context, all the sensing or memory components added to the CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) processing units have to respect drastic supply energy requirements. Smart mobile systems already incorporate a large number of embedded sensing components such as accelerometers, temperature sensors and infrared detectors. However, up to now, chemical sensors have not been fully integrated in compact systems on chips. Integration of gas sensors is limited since most used and reliable gas sensors, semiconducting metal oxide resistors and catalytic metal oxide semiconductor- field effect transistors (MOSFETs), are generally operated at high temperatures, 200–500 °C and 140–200° C, respectively. The suspended gate-field effect transistor (SG-FET)-based gas sensors offer advantages of detecting chemisorbed, as well as physisorbed gas molecules and to operate at room temperature or slightly above it. However they present integration limitations due to the implementation of a suspended gate electrode and augmented channel width in order to overcome poor transconductance due to the very low capacitance across the airgap. Double gate-transistors are of great interest for FET-based gas sensing since one functionalized gate would be dedicated for capacitively coupling of gas induced charges and the other one is used to bias the transistor, without need of airgap structure. This work discusses the integration of double gate-transistors with CMOS devices for highly sensitive and ultra-low power gas sensing applications. The use of single electron transistors (SETs) is of great interest for gas sensing applications because of their key properties, which are its ultra-high charge sensitivity and the ultra-low power consumption and dissipation, inherent to the fundamental of their operation based on the transport of a reduced number of charges. Therefore, the work presented in this thesis is focused on the proof of concept of 3D monolithic integration of SETs on CMOS technology for high sensitivity and ultra-low power gas sensing functionality. The proposed approach is to integrate metallic double gate-single electron transistors (DG-SETs) in the Back-End-Of-Line (BEOL) of CMOS circuits (within the CMOS interconnect layers) using the nanodamascene process. We take advantage of the hyper sensitivity of the SET to electric charges as well from CMOS circuits for high-speed signal processing. Fully depleted-silicon on insulator (FD-SOI) MOSFETs are very attractive devices for gas sensing due to their amplification capability when operated in the sub-threshold regime which is the strongest asset of these devices with respect to the FET-based gas sensor technology. In addition these devices are of a high interest in terms of integration density due to their small size. Moreover FD-SOI FETs is a mature and well-modelled technology. We focus on the functionalization of the front gate of a FD-SOI MOSFET as a demonstration of the DGtransistor- based gas sensor. Kelvin probe has been the privileged technique for the investigation of FET-based gas sensors’ sensitive material via measuring the work function variation induced by gas species adsorption. In this work an alternative technique to investigate gas sensitivity of materials suitable for implementation in DG-FET-based gas sensors, based on measurement of the surface charge induced by gas species adsorption is discussed. In order to increase the specific surface of the sensing electrode, a novel concept of functionalized gate surface texturing suitable for FET-based gas sensors are presented. It is based on the spray coating of a multi-walled-carbon nanotubes (MW-CNTs) suspension to deposit a MW-CNT porous network as a conducting frame for the sensing material. The main objective of this Ph.D. thesis can be divided into 4 parts: (1) modelling and simulation of a DG-SET and a FD-SOI MOSFET-based gas sensor response, and estimation of the sensitivity as well as the power consumption; (2) investigation of Pt sensitivity to hydrogen by surface charge measurement technique and development of the sensing electrode surface texturing process with CNT networks; (3) development and optimization of the DG-SET integration process in the BEOL of a CMOS substrate, and (4) FD-SOI MOSFET functionalization with Pt for H[subscript 2] sensing

    Caractérisation électrique des propriétés d'interface dans les MOSFET nanométriques par des mesures de bruit basse fréquence

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    In this thesis, electrical properties of gate oxide/channel interface in ultra-scaled nanowire (NW) MOSFETs were experimentally investigated by carrier transport and low-frequency noise (LFN) characterizations. NW FETs, which have aggressively downscaled cross-section of the body, are strong candidates for near future CMOS node. However, the interface quality could be a critical issue due to the large surface/volume ratio, the multiple surface orientations, and additional strain technology to enhance the performance. Understanding of carrier transport and channel interface quality in NW FETs with advanced high-k/metal gate is thus particularly important. LFN provides deep insights into the interface properties of MOSFET without lower limit of required channel size. LFN measurement thus can be a powerful technique for ultra-scaled NW FETs. Also, fitting mobility (such as low-field mobility) extraction by Y-function method is an efficient method. Omega-gate NW FETs were fabricated from FD-SOI substrates, and with Hf-based high-k/metal gate (HfSiON/TiN), reducing detrimental effects by device downscaling. In addition, strain technologies to the channel were additively processed. Tensile strained-SOI substrate was used for NMOS, whereas compressive stressors were used for PMOS devices. Strained Si channel for PMOS was processed by raised SiGe S/D and CESL formations. Strained SiGe channel (SGOI) was also fabricated for further high-performance PMOS FETs. Firstly, the most common Id-Vg was characterized in single-channel NW FETs as the basic performance. Reference SOI NWs provided the excellent static control down to short channel of 17nm. Stressors dramatically enhanced on-current owing to a modification of channel energy-band structure. Then, extracted low-field mobility in NWs also showed large improvement of the performance by stressors. The mobility extraction effectively evaluated FET performance even for ultra-scaled NWs. Next, LFN investigated for various technological and architectural parameters. Carrier number fluctuations with correlated mobility fluctuations (CNF+CMF) model described 1/f noise in all our FETs down to the shortest NWs. Drain current noise behavior was basically similar in both N- and PMOS FETs regardless of technological splits. Larger 1/f noise stemming from S/D regions in PMOS FETs was perfectly interpreted by the CNF+CMF model completed with Rsd fluctuations. This observation highlighted an advantage of SGOI NW with the lowest level of S/D region noise. Geometrical variations altered the CNF component with simple impact of device scaling (reciprocal to both Wtot and Lg). No large impact of surface orientation difference between the channel (100) top and (110) side-walls in [110]-oriented NWs was observed. Scaling regularity with both Wtot and Lg, without much quantum effect, could be attributed to the use of HfSiON/TiN gate and carrier transport occurring mostly near top and side-wall surfaces even in NW geometry. Meanwhile, the CMF factor was not altered by decreasing dimensions, while the mobility strongly depends on the impact. Extracted oxide trap density was roughly steady with scaling, structure, and technological parameter impacts. Simple separation method of the contributions between channel top surface and side-walls was demonstrated in order to evaluate the difference. It revealed that oxide quality on (100) top and (110) side-walls was roughly comparable in all the [110]-devices. The density values lie in similar order as the recent reports. An excellent quality of the interface with HfSiON/TiN gate was thus sustained for all our technological and geometrical splits. Finally, our NWs fulfilled 1/f LFN requirements stated in the ITRS 2013 for future MG CMOS logic node. Consequently, we concluded that appropriate strain technologies powerfully improve both carrier transport and LFN property for future CMOS circuits consisting of NW FETs, without any large concern about the interface quality.Dans cette thèse, les propriétés électriques de transistors à nanofils de silicium liées à l'interface oxyde de grille/canal ont été étudiées par le biais de mesures de bruit basse fréquence (bruit 1/f) et de transport dans le canal. Ces transistors nanofils dont les dimensions ont été réduites jusqu'à quelques nanomètres pour la section, représentent une alternative sérieuse pour les futurs nœuds technologiques CMOS. Cependant, la qualité de l'interface oxyde de grille/canal pose question pour transistors dont l'architecture s'étend dans les 3 dimensions, en raison du fort rapport surface/volume inhérent à ces transistors, des différentes orientations cristallographiques de ces interfaces, ou encore des matériaux contraints utilisés pour améliorer les performances électriques. La compréhension des liens entre les propriétés de transport des porteurs dans le canal, qui garantissent en grande partie les performances électriques des transistors, et la qualité de l'interface avec l'oxyde de grille est fond primordiale pour optimiser les transistors nanofils. Les mesures de bruit, associées à l'étude du transport dans le canal, sont un outil puissant et adapté à ces dispositifs tridimensionnels, sans être limité par la taille ultra-réduite des transistors nanofils. Les transistors nanofils étudiés ont été fabriqués à partir de substrats minces SOI, et intègrent un empilement de grille HfSiON/TiN, qui permet de réduire les dimensions tout en conservant les mêmes propriétés électrostatiques. Pour gagner en performances, des contraintes mécaniques ont été introduites dans le canal en silicium : en tension pour les NMOS, par le biais de substrat contraint (sSOI), et en compression pour les PMOS. Un canal en compression uni-axiale peut être obtenu par l'intégration de source/drain en SiGe et/ou par l'utilisation de couches contraintes de type CESL. Des transistors à canal SiGe sur isolant en compression ont également été fabriqués et étudiés. Les caractéristiques électriques des divers transistors nanofils (courbes Id-Vg, compromis Ion-Ioff, mobilité des porteurs) démontrent l'excellent contrôle électrostatique dû à l'architecture 3D, ainsi que l'efficacité de l'ingénierie de contraintes dans les nanofils jusqu'à de faibles longueurs de grilles (~17nm). Des mesures de bruit basse fréquence ont été réalisées sur ces mêmes dispositifs et analysées en fonction des paramètres géométriques de l'architecture nanofils (largeur W, forme de la section, longueur de grille L), et des diverses variantes technologiques. Nous avons démontré que le bruit 1/f dans les transistors nanofils peut être décrit par le modèle de fluctuations du nombre de porteurs (CNF) corrélées aux fluctuations de mobilité (CMF). Le bruit associé aux régions S/D a pu également être intégré dans ce modèle en ajoutant une contribution, en particulier pour les PMOS. Alors que les différentes variantes technologiques ont peu d'effet sur le bruit 1/f, les variations de géométrie en L et W changent la composante de bruit liée aux fluctuations du nombre de porteurs (CNF) de manière inversement proportionnelle à la surface totale (~1/WL). Cette augmentation du bruit est le reflet du transport qui se produit à proximité des interfaces avec l'oxyde. Les différentes orientations des interfaces supérieures et latérales (110) ou (100) présentent la même quantité de pièges d'interface (extrait à partir des mesures de bruit 1/f, en séparant les contributions des différentes faces du nanofil) bien qu'ayant une rugosité différente essentiellement liée au process. En revanche la composante CMF n'est pas altérée par la réduction des dimensions contrairement à la mobilité des porteurs qui décroit fortement avec L. Finalement, les mesures de bruit 1/f ont été comparées aux spécifications ITRS 2013 pour les transistors multi-grilles en vue des futurs nœuds technologiques de la logique CMOS, et démontrent que nos transistors nanofils satisfont les exigences en la matière
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