Constant Voltage Trimming of Heavily Doped Polysilicon Resistors

Abstract
Constant voltage trimming (CVT) characteristics of heavily doped polysilicon resistors are analyzed using the melting-segregation model which has already been proposed to explain the mechanism of constant current trimming (CCT). The stability of CVT is found to be ensured by the exsistence of grain resistance in polysilicon which plays no role in CCT. The theoretical expression for CVT characteristics derived from the melting-segregation model, modified by the temperature dependence of grain resistance, agrees well with experimental data.

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