Radiation effects in a post-Moore world

DM Fleetwood - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An overview is presented of the significant influences of Moore's Law scaling on radiation
effects on microelectronics, focusing on historical trends and future needs. A number of …

Total-Ionizing-Dose Effects, Border Traps, and 1/f Noise in Emerging MOS Technologies

DM Fleetwood - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Subthreshold leakage currents and threshold-voltage shifts due to total-ionizing-dose (TID)
irradiation are reviewed briefly for highly scaled devices in emerging MOS technologies …

TID degradation mechanisms in 16-nm bulk FinFETs irradiated to ultrahigh doses

T Ma, S Bonaldo, S Mattiazzo… - … on Nuclear Science, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the total ionizing dose (TID) degradation mechanisms of 16-nm bulk
Si FinFETs at ultrahigh doses. n-and p-FinFETs with several channel lengths are irradiated …

Ionizing-radiation response and low-frequency noise of 28-nm MOSFETs at ultrahigh doses

S Bonaldo, S Mattiazzo, C Enz… - … on Nuclear Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Total ionizing dose (TID) mechanisms are investigated in 28-nm MOSFETs via dc static and
low-frequency noise measurements. nMOSFETs and pMOSFETs are irradiated up to 1 Grad …

DC response, low-frequency noise, and TID-induced mechanisms in 16-nm FinFETs for high-energy physics experiments

S Bonaldo, T Ma, S Mattiazzo, A Baschirotto… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Total-ionizing-dose (TID) mechanisms are evaluated in 16 nm Si bulk FinFETs at
doses up to 1 Grad (SiO 2) for applications in high-energy physics experiments. The TID …

Random telegraph noise in nanometer-scale CMOS transistors exposed to ionizing radiation

S Bonaldo, DM Fleetwood - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Nanometer-scale transistors often exhibit random telegraph noise (RTN) with high device-to-
device variability. Recent experiments up to Grad total ionizing dose (TID) demonstrate …

Total-Ionizing-Dose Effects and Low-Frequency Noise in 16-nm InGaAs FinFETs With HfO2/Al2O3 Dielectrics

S Bonaldo, SE Zhao, A O'Hara… - … on Nuclear Science, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Total-ionizing-dose mechanisms are investigated in 16-nm InGaAs FinFETs with an HfO 2/Al
2 O 3 gate-stack. Transistors are irradiated up to 500 krad (SiO 2) and annealed at high …

TID effects in highly scaled gate-all-around Si nanowire CMOS transistors irradiated to ultrahigh doses

S Bonaldo, M Gorchichko, EX Zhang… - … on Nuclear Science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Total-ionizing-dose (TID) effects are investigated in a highly-scaled gate-all-around (GAA)
FET technology using Si nanowire channels with a diameter of 8 nm. n-and p-FETs are …

Charge buildup and spatial distribution of interface traps in 65-nm pMOSFETs irradiated to ultrahigh doses

S Bonaldo, S Gerardin, X **… - … on Nuclear Science, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a commercial 65-nm CMOS technology is irradiated at ultrahigh ionizing doses
and then annealed at high temperature under different bias conditions. The experimental …

Radiation-induced charge trap** in shallow trench isolations of FinFETs

S Bonaldo, T Wallace, H Barnaby… - … on Nuclear Science, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We provide comprehensive experimental data and technology computer-aided design
(TCAD) simulations to clarify total-ionizing-dose mechanisms in 16-nm Si FinFETs. In n …