Trapping noise in semiconductor devices: A method for determining the noise spectrum as a function of the trap position
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- 15 November 1995
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 78 (10) , 6283-6297
Abstract
This work deals with the study of the ‘‘trapping noise,’’ that is the low frequency noise caused by the random capture and release of carriers by localized traps. A numerical method, based on the linearization of the semiconductor device equations, is presented which allows one to determine the parameters of the Lorentzian noise spectrum due to a single trap inside a semiconductor device as a function of the position of the trap, of its activation energy and of the biasing conditions. The occupied trap is simulated by adding a single ionized shallow acceptor at the position of the trap. The method allows one to also determine the spectral density of the noise due to a general distribution of noninteracting traps inside the considered device. Numerical tests on elementary semiconductor devices are included to validate the proposed scheme and the trapping noise is then studied on a simple junction field effect transistor.Keywords
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