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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2002
Steve S. Chung, Hsin-Chu, TW;
Shang-Jr Chen, Ping-Tung Hsien, TW;
Chien-Kuo Yang, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Der-Yuan Wu, Hsin-Chu, TW;
United Microelectronics Corp., Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
A low leakage charge pumping (CP) method has been implemented for direct determination of interface traps in ultra-short gate length MOS devices with ultra-thin gate oxide in the direct tunneling regime. The leakage current in a 12 Å-16 Å gate oxide can be removed from the measured CP current, which enables accurate determination of the interface traps. This method has been demonstrated successfully for variousRTNO grown and RPN treated oxide CMOS devices with very thin gate oxide. It can be used as a good monitor of ultra-thin gate oxide process and the evaluations of device reliabilities in relation to the interface trap generation. In addition, the current method can be used to determine the physical channel length of CMOS devices.