Mechanical stress effect of etch-stop nitride and its impact on deep submicron transistor design
- 11 November 2002
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 247-250
- https://doi.org/10.1109/iedm.2000.904303
Abstract
This paper, focusing on the effect of a plasma-enhanced CVD (PECVD) nitride contact-etch-stop layer, reports that process-induced mechanical stress affects the performance of short-channel CMOSFETs. We argue that the internal stress in the nitride layer changes transconductance (G/sub m/), thereby degrading NMOSFET performance by up to 8% and improving PMOSFET performance up to 7%. These performance changes are caused by changes of the electron and hole mobilities, so a precise transistor model considering this mobility change is necessary for deep-submicron transistor design.Keywords
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