Innovative ESD protections for UTBB FD-SOI technology

Yohann Solaro, P. Fonteneau, Charles-Alexandre Legrand, David Marin-Cudraz, Jérémy Passieux, P. Guyader, L. Clement, C. Fenouillet-Béranger, P. Ferrari, Sorin Cristoloveanu

2013 · 39 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

We present an innovative set of UTBB (Ultra-Thin Body and BOX) ESD protection devices, which achieves remarkable performance in terms of leakage current and triggering control. Ultra-low leakage current below 0.1 pA/μm and adjustable triggering (1.1V <; V <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">t1</sub> <; 2.6V) capability are demonstrated. These devices rely on gate-controlled injection barriers and match the 28nm UTBB-FDSOI ESD design window by triggering before the nominal breakdown voltage of digital core MOS transistors.

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