MOS Avalanche and Tunneling Effects in Silicon Surfaces
Avalanche generation of minority carriers was studied under pulsed-field conditions in thermally oxidized silicon surfaces. In the doping range between 5×1016 and 1×1018 cm−3 avalanche breakdown voltages and fields are in agreement with step-junction results. For lower doping, breakdown voltages are...
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Published in | Journal of applied physics Vol. 38; no. 12; pp. 4582 - 4588 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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01.11.1967
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Summary: | Avalanche generation of minority carriers was studied under pulsed-field conditions in thermally oxidized silicon surfaces. In the doping range between 5×1016 and 1×1018 cm−3 avalanche breakdown voltages and fields are in agreement with step-junction results. For lower doping, breakdown voltages are below the expected values. Avalanche light-emission observations revealed this effect to be due to field concentration at the contact edges. In the higher doping range between 1018 and 1019 cm−3 minority carriers are produced by Zener tunneling. Band bending for tunneling is 1.1 V, independent of doping. |
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ISSN: | 0021-8979 1089-7550 |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.1709189 |