Investigation of Single Event Transient Effects in Junctionless Accumulation Mode MOSFET

Abstract

The Junctionless Accumulation Mode Double Gate MOSFET (JAM DG MOSFET) is a promising novel architecture for future nano-scaled devices because of its outstanding electrical characteristics, e.g., lower subthreshold swing, lower drain induced barrier lowering, i.e., lower short channel effects and higher I <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ON</sub> /I <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">OFF</sub> ratio. In this paper, a comprehensive analysis of the effects of single-event transient on JAM DG MOSFET has been performed using the sentaurus TCAD simulator. The result shows that the transient drain current peak obtained after the heavy-ion strike for JAM DG MOSFET is small at lower value linear energy transfer (LET) and high for the larger value of LET. Collected charge at different LET values has also been investigated. Moreover, the sensitive region of the device, e.g., source to channel junction, channel, and channel to drain junction has been studied. It has been found that the drain to channel junction is more sensitive to the linear energy than the channel and source to channel junction. The electrical characteristics have also been compared with JL DG MOSFET.