Abstract
The lateral double-diffusion MOS with split shallow trench isolation structure (split-STI LDMOS) in the drift region has been investigated under two hotcarrier stresses including the maximum bulk current stress (I <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">bulkmax</sub> ) and maximum operating gate stress (V <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">gmax</sub> ). For the I <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">bulkmax</sub> stress condition, the main damage point causing the degradation of RON is found at the STI corner closest to the source with the interface state generation. In addition, the hot hole injection is found at the edge of the shrinking poly-gate region. For the V <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">gmax</sub> stress condition, the main damage point causing the degradation of R <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ON</sub> is found at the two STI corners with interface state generation. Due to the more serious degradation of R <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ON</sub> , the I <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">bulkmax</sub> stress condition is regarded as the worst-case stress condition. The novel structure with the H-shape STI in the drift region is proposed. It is demonstrated that the H-shape STI structure is effectively helpful to alleviate the hot-carrier degradation without altering the tradeoff between the OFF-state breakdown voltage and specific ON-resistance.
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