Abstract

This paper presents the effect of area bumping on device degradation in scaled metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). We have investigated the gate channel length dependence of g m degradation after stud bumping above the MOSFETs and changes in the charge pumping currents for those devices. The von Mises’s equivalent stress is used to simulate the distribution of mechanical stress at the gate edges. From the relationship between the distribution of the von Mises’s equivalent stress and the change in the charge pumping currents after stud bumping, we show that stress concentrates within 0.1 μm of the gate edges. Furthermore, by estimating the amount of increased interface-state density we predicted that stud bumping stress greatly influences the device degradation of scaled MOS devices.

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