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jason_class

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Vth Shift( Positive or Negative?)
Feb 22^nd, 2006, 11:29pm

Hello All

I would like to seek advice on threshold voltage shift of cmos.
Let's say there is sodium contamination on the cmos device, will both nmos and pmos experience positve threshold voltage shift (both with increasing Vth?)?
I try to relate the sodium contamination with Qi/Ci where Qi is the charge in oxide.
As flat band voltage is Vfb= Vms - Qi/Ci , so I guess both will show the decreasing or increasing threshold voltage.

Kindly enlighten.
Thank you all

best regards
Jason

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Re: Vth Shift( Positive or Negative?)
Reply #1 - Feb 28^th, 2006, 1:49pm

Qi/Ci is positive for both PMOS and NMOS (the interface charge, Qi, is positive). So, the Vfb term you mentioned is more negative for a larger contamination (Qi/Ci is bigger)

Vfb = Vms - Qi/Ci
Vth = Vfb + ...

For NMOS, Vth is more negative (threshold is lower).
For PMOS, Vth is more negative (threshold is higher, since it has a more negative Vth)

I.e.

VthNMOS = 1 - 0.1 = 0.9 (better)
VthPMOS = -1 - 0.1 = -1.1 (worse)

I assume you want minimum threshold voltages. This might not be desirable for low leakage currents.

I hope that cleared things up.

Cheers,
Marc

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jason_class Community Member Offline Posts: 39 singapore	Re: Vth Shift( Positive or Negative?) Reply #2 - Mar 2^nd, 2006, 5:05am Hi Murphy That explains everything clearly ! Thank you so much best regards jason
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