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Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) EBB424E Dr. Sabar D. Hutagalung School of Materials & Mineral Resources Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia

MOS (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) Assume work function of metal and semiconductor are same.

MOS materials

MOS structure Shown is the semiconductor substrate with a thin oxide layer and a top metal contact, also referred to as the gate. A second metal layer forms an Ohmic contact to the back of the semiconductor, also referred to as the bulk. The structure shown has a p-type substrate. We will refer to this as an n-type MOS capacitor since the inversion layer contains electrons.

Structure and principle of operation To understand the different bias modes of an MOS we consider 3 different bias voltages. (1) below the flatband voltage, VFB (2) between the flatband voltage and the threshold voltage, VT, and (3) larger than the threshold voltage. These bias regimes are called the accumulation, depletion and inversion mode of operation.

Structure and principle of operation Charges in a MOS structure under accumulation, depletion and inversion conditions

Four modes of MOS operation The four modes of operation of an MOS structure: Flatband, Depletion, Inversion and Accumulation. Flatband conditions exist when no charge is present in the semiconductor so that the Si energy band is flat. Surface depletion occurs when the holes in the substrate are pushed away by a positive gate voltage. A more positive voltage also attracts electrons (the minority carriers) to the surface, which form the so-called inversion layer. Under negative gate bias, one attracts holes from the p-type substrate to the surface, yielding accumulation

MOS capacitor structure

MOS capacitor- accumulation

MOS capacitor- accumulation Accumulation occurs typically for -ve voltages where the -ve charge on the gate attracts holes from the substrate to the oxide-semiconductor interface. Depletion occurs for positive voltages. The +ve charge on the gate pushes the mobile holes into the substrate. Therefore, the semiconductor is depleted of mobile carriers at the interface and a -ve charge, due to the ionized acceptor ions, is left in the space charge region.

MOS capacitor- flat band

MOS capacitor- flat band The voltage separating the accumulation and depletion regime is referred to as the flatband voltage, VFB. The flatband voltage is obtained when the applied gate voltage equals the workfunction difference between the gate metal and the semiconductor. If there is a fixed charge in the oxide and/or at the oxide-silicon interface, the expression for the flatband voltage must be modified accordingly.

MOS capacitor- depletion

MOS capacitor- inversion

MOS capacitor- inversion Inversion occurs at voltages beyond the threshold voltage. In inversion, there exists a negatively charged inversion layer at the oxide-semiconductor interface in addition to the depletion-layer. This inversion layer is due to minority carriers, which are attracted to the interface by the positive gate voltage.

MOS Capacitance CV measurements of MOS capacitors provide a wealth of information about the structure, which is of direct interest when one evaluates an MOS process. Since the MOS structure is simple to fabricate, the technique is widely used. To understand CV measurements one must first be familiar with the frequency dependence of the measurement. This frequency dependence occurs primarily in inversion since a certain time is needed to generate the minority carriers in the inversion layer. Thermal equilibrium is therefore not immediately obtained.

MOS Capacitance Capacitance depends on frequency of applied signal. If speed of variation is slow enough so that electrons can be generated by thermal generation fast enough to be created in phase with applied signal, then Cs is very large If variation is too high a frequency, electron concentration remains fixed at the average value and capacitance depends on capacitance of depletion region

Influence of gate on surface potential

Gate-depletion capacitive divider

Capacitance in series

CV Curve

CV Curve

CV Curve

C-V characteristic of p-type Semiconductor nMOS C-V characteristic of p-type Semiconductor

C-V characteristic of n-type Semiconductor pMOS C-V characteristic of n-type Semiconductor

Low frequency capacitance of an nMOS capacitor. Shown are the exact solution for the low frequency capacitance (solid line) and the low and high frequency capacitance obtained with the simple model (dotted lines). Na = 1017 cm-3 and tox = 20 nm.

(a) The threshold voltage and the ideal MOS structure (b) In practice, there are several charges in the oxide and at the oxide-semicond interface that effect the threshold voltage: Qmi = mobile ionic charge, Qot = trapped oxide charge, Qf = fixed oxide charge, Qit = charge trapped at the interface.

Effects of Real Surfaces

Charge Distribution

Key Definitions

Potential Definition

Depletion Width

Gate Voltage (depletion case)

δ-depletion capacitance

δ-depletion capacitance

n-Si

p-Si

Exact capacitance

C vs f

C vs f

C vs scan rate

Parallel plate capacitance

Parallel plate capacitance An n-channel MOS transistor. The gate-oxide thickness, TOX, is approximately 100 angstroms (0.01 mm). A typical transistor length, L = 2 l. The bulk may be either the substrate or a well. The diodes represent pn-junctions that must be reverse-biased

Parallel plate capacitance The channel and the gate form the plates of a capacitor, separated by an insulator - the gate oxide. We know that the charge on a linear capacitor, C, is Q = C V The channel charge, Q.

Parallel plate capacitance At lower plate, the channel, is not a linear conductor. Charge only appears on the lower plate when the voltage between the gate and the channel, VGC, exceeds the n-channel threshold voltage. For nonlinear capacitor we need to modify the equation for a linear capacitor to the following: Q = C(VGC – Vt)

Parallel plate capacitance The lower plate capacitor is resistive and conducting current, so that the VGC varies. In fact, VGC = VGS at the source and VGC = VGS – VDS at the drain. What we really should do is find an expression for the channel charge as a function of channel voltage and sum (integrate) the charge all the way across the channel, from x = 0 (at the source) to x = L (at the drain). Instead we shall assume that the channel voltage, VGC(x), is a linear function of distance from the source and take the average value of the charge, which is Q = C [(VGS – Vt) – 0.5 VDS]

Parallel plate capacitance The gate capacitance, C, is given by the formula for a parallel-plate capacitor with length L , width W , and plate separation equal to the gate-oxide thickness, Tox. Thus the gate capacitance is C = (W L eox)/Tox = W L Cox where eox is the gate-oxide dielectric permittivity For SiO2 , eox ~ 3.45 x 10–11 Fm–1, so that, for a typical gate-oxide thickness of 100 Å (= 10 nm), the gate capacitance per unit area, Cox ~ 3 fFmm–2.

The channel charge of transistor The channel charge in terms of the transistor parameters Q = WL Cox [(VGS – Vt) – 0.5 VDS] The drain–source current is IDS = Q/tf = (W/L) mn Cox [(VGS – Vt) – 0.5 VDS] VDS = (W/L)k'n [(VGS – Vt) – 0.5 VDS] VDS ......(*) The tf is time of flight - sometimes called the transit time is the time that it takes an electron to cross between source and drain. mn is the electron mobility (mp is the hole mobility)

The channel charge of transistor The constant k'n is the process transconductance parameter (or intrinsic transconductance ): k'n = mn Cox We also define bn , the transistor gain factor (or just gain factor ) as bn = k'n (W/L) The factor W/L is the transistor shape factor.

The channel charge of transistor Equation (*) describes the linear region (or triode region) of operation. This equation is valid until VDS = VGS – Vt and then predicts that IDS decreases with increasing VDS. At VDS = VGS – Vt = VDS(sat) (the saturation voltage ) there is no longer enough voltage between the gate and the drain end of the channel to support any channel charge. Clearly a small amount of charge remains or the current would go to zero, but with very little free charge the channel resistance in a small region close to the drain increases rapidly and any further increase in VDS is dropped over this region. Thus for VDS > VGS – Vt (the saturation region, or pentode region, of operation) the drain current IDS remains approximately constant at the saturation current, IDS(sat) , where IDS(sat) = (bn/2)(VGS – Vt)2;    VGS > Vt ..... (**)

The channel charge of transistor Figure below shows the n-channel transistor I-V characteristics for a generic 0.5 mm CMOS process that we shall call G5 . We can fit Eq.(**) to the long-channel transistor characteristics (W = 60 mm, L = 6 mm). If IDS(sat) = 2.5 mA (with VDS = 3.0 V, VGS = 3.0 V, Vt = 0.65 V, Tox =100 Å), the intrinsic transconductance is

The channel charge of transistor MOS n-channel transistor characteristics for a generic 0.5 mm process (G5). (a) A short-channel transistor, with W=6 mm and L=0.6 mm (drawn) and a long-channel transistor (W=60 mm, L=6 mm) (b) The 6/0.6 characteristics represented as a surface. (c) A long-channel transistor obeys a square-law characteristic between IDS and VGS in the saturation region (VDS = 3 V). A short-channel transistor shows a more linear characteristic due to velocity saturation. Normally, all of the transistors used on an ASIC have short channels. (a)

The channel charge of transistor MOS n-channel transistor characteristics for a generic 0.5 mm process (G5). (a) A short-channel transistor, with W=6 mm and L=0.6 mm (drawn) and a long-channel transistor (W=60 mm, L=6 mm) (b) The 6/0.6 characteristics represented as a surface. (c) A long-channel transistor obeys a square-law characteristic between IDS and VGS in the saturation region (VDS = 3 V). A short-channel transistor shows a more linear characteristic due to velocity saturation. Normally, all of the transistors used on an ASIC have short channels. (b)

The channel charge of transistor MOS n-channel transistor characteristics for a generic 0.5 mm process (G5). (a) A short-channel transistor, with W=6 mm and L=0.6 mm (drawn) and a long-channel transistor (W=60 mm, L=6 mm) (b) The 6/0.6 characteristics represented as a surface. (c) A long-channel transistor obeys a square-law characteristic between IDS and VGS in the saturation region (VDS = 3 V). A short-channel transistor shows a more linear characteristic due to velocity saturation. Normally, all of the transistors used on an ASIC have short channels. (c)

The channel charge of transistor k'n = [2(L/W) IDS(sat)] /(VGS – Vt)2 = [2(6/60) (2.5x10–3 )]/[(3.0 – 0.65)2] = 9.05 x 10–5 AV–2 ~ 90 mAV–2 This value of k'n, calculated in the saturation region, will be different (typically lower by a factor of 2 or more) from the value of k'n measured in the linear region. We assumed the mobility, mn, and the threshold voltage, Vt, are constants.

The channel charge of transistor For the p-channel transistor in the G5 process, IDS(sat) = –850 mA (VDS = –3.0 V, VGS = –3.0 V, Vt = –0.85 V, W = 60 mm, L = 6 mm). Then k'p = [2(L/W) IDS(sat)] /(VGS – Vt)2 = [2(6/60) (850x10–6)]/[(–3.0 – (–0.85))2] = 3.68 x 10–5 AV–2

P-channel MOS transistor The source and drain of CMOS transistors look identical. The source of an n-channel transistor is lower in potential than the drain and vice versa for a p-channel transistor. In an n-channel transistor the threshold voltage, Vt, is normally positive, and the terminal voltages VDS and VGS are also usually positive. In a p-channel transistor Vt is normally negative and we have a choice: We can write everything in terms of the magnitudes of the voltages and currents or we can use negative signs in a consistent fashion.

P-channel MOS transistor

P-channel MOS transistor Here are the equations for a p -channel transistor using negative signs: IDS = –k'p (W/L)[(VGS–Vt) – 0.5 VDS] VDS ;    VDS > VGS – Vt IDS(sat) = – bp/2 (VGS – Vt)2; VDS < VGS – Vt In these two equations Vt is negative, and VDS & VGS are also normally negative (–3 V < –2 V, for example). The IDS is then negative, corresponding to conventional current flowing from source to drain of a p-channel transistor (and hence the negative sign for IDS(sat)).

MOSFET Capacitances

Overlap Capacitance