An Accurate Model for the Short Channel Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistor.

Abstract

An accurate short channel Insulated gate field-effect transistor (IGFET) model is described which includes the effect of the drain depletion region on device characteristics in both triode and saturation regions. Calculation of deviations from the classical triode and saturation equations caused by interaction between the drain depletion region and the surface inversion region in devices constructed on lightly doped (< 10 to the 16th power/cu cm) substrates is reduced from an analytically untractable two-dimensional field problem to the solution of two simple one-dimensional field problems. In the saturation region, deviation from the classical saturation response is computed from a simple but accurate analytic expression for channel length as modified by the drain depletion region. This bias dependent channel length modifies the forward transfer coefficient of the device such that Beta' = f (V sub G, V sub D). Continuity between triode and saturation characteristics is utilized to define a bias dependent effective threshold voltage V sub TE = f (V sub G, V sub D), which replaces the classical turn-on voltage in the triode region equation. The overall result is a simple, physically derived model which is shown to accurately describe the terminal characteristics of short channel IGFETs in terms of the geometrical channel length of the device. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0723215

Entities

People

  • Dewitt Paul Smith

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coefficients
  • Continuity
  • Equations
  • Field Effect Transistors
  • Inversion
  • Saturation
  • Substrates
  • Terminals
  • Transistors
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics