Investigation of Heavy-Ion Induced Single-Event Transient in 28 nm Bulk Inverter Chain

Autor: Anquan Wu, Bin Liang, Yaqing Chi, Zhenyu Wu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Symmetry, Vol 12, Iss 4, p 624 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-8994
DOI: 10.3390/sym12040624
Popis: The reliability of integrated circuits under advanced process nodes is facing more severe challenges. Single-event transients (SET) are an important cause of soft errors in space applications. The SET caused by heavy ions in the 28 nm bulk silicon inverter chains was studied. A test chip with good symmetry layout design was fabricated based on the 28 nm process, and the chip was struck by using 5 kinds of heavy ions with different linear energy transfer (LET) values on heavy-ion accelerator. The research results show that in advanced technology, smaller sensitive volume makes SET cross-section measured at 28 nm smaller than 65 nm by an order of magnitude, the lower critical charge required to generate SET will increase the reliability threat of low-energy ions to the circuit, and high-energy ions are more likely to cause single-event multiple transient (SEMT), which cannot be ignored in practical circuits. The transients pulse width data can be used as a reference for SET modeling in complex circuits.
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