A Split Island Layout Style of Butting/Inserted Substrate Pickups for NMOSFET ESD Reliability

Autor: Chih-Yao Huang, Fu-Chien Chiu, Bo-Chen Lin, Po-Kung Song
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol 2015 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1687-8434
1687-8442
DOI: 10.1155/2015/691403
Popis: Butting/inserted pickup layout style could result in severe ESD degradation of NMOS devices beyond deep submicron technology. A split island layout style of butting/inserted substrate pickups is designed for a multifinger NMOS structure to enhance its ESD reliability. This layout style divides the substrate pickup diffusion bands along the whole polygate finger direction into segmented diffusion islands in the source area. This layout technique could improve the TLP second breakdown current of the 1.8 V butting pickup structure by 58~66% and 1.8 V/3.3 V inserted pickup case by 2.8 times. This style also shows excellent enhancement for the ESD/HBM levels of the 1.8 V and 3.3 V butting pickup case by 2.1~2.3 times and 18%~6 times, respectively, and the 1.8 V and 3.3 V inserted pickup case by 2.4~2.9 times and 13%~6 times, respectively. This simple technique could restore the ESD threshold level of the butting/inserted pickup layout style back to that of the normal GGNMOS without any further area consumption or fabrication cost.
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