Bias- and Temperature-Dependent Accumulated Stress Modeling of Mixed-Mode Damage in SiGe HBTs

Abstract

This paper uses a physics-based TCAD degradation model to examine the accumulated stress damage of SiGe HBTs under pseudodynamic mixed-mode stress as a function of both electrical stress bias and temperature. The temperature dependence of mixed-mode stress damage is fully explored, beginning with impact-ionization calibration, and then by identifying and calibrating the dependence of scattering length and hydrogen diffusion parameters of the degradation model. After calibrating the model across electrical bias and temperature, the effectiveness and limitations of accumulated stress damage while varying electrical bias and while varying temperature are identified, and the implications of this aging model for circuit designers are discussed.