The behavior of medium voltage commercial power MOSFETs, first degraded with increasing c-rays doses and subsequently irradiated with heavy ions, is presented. It is shown that the degradation of the gate oxide caused by the c irradiation severely corrupt the SEE robustness and drastically modify the physical behavior of the device under test after the impact of a heavy ion. A decrease of the critical voltages at which destructive burnouts and gate ruptures appear has been detected in all devices previously irradiated with c-rays, the amount of the critical voltage reduction is strictly related to the amount of the absorbed c-rays dose. Furthermore, at the failure voltage, the behavior of the device is affected by the conduction of a current through the gate oxide. Moreover the SEGR of the device appears at lower voltages due to the reduction of the Fowler–Nordheim limit in the c-irradiated devices.

Behavior of power MOSFETs during heavy ions irradiation performed after γ-rays exposure

BUSATTO, Giovanni;DE LUCA, Valentina;IANNUZZO, Francesco;SANSEVERINO, Annunziata;VELARDI, Francesco
2012-01-01

Abstract

The behavior of medium voltage commercial power MOSFETs, first degraded with increasing c-rays doses and subsequently irradiated with heavy ions, is presented. It is shown that the degradation of the gate oxide caused by the c irradiation severely corrupt the SEE robustness and drastically modify the physical behavior of the device under test after the impact of a heavy ion. A decrease of the critical voltages at which destructive burnouts and gate ruptures appear has been detected in all devices previously irradiated with c-rays, the amount of the critical voltage reduction is strictly related to the amount of the absorbed c-rays dose. Furthermore, at the failure voltage, the behavior of the device is affected by the conduction of a current through the gate oxide. Moreover the SEGR of the device appears at lower voltages due to the reduction of the Fowler–Nordheim limit in the c-irradiated devices.
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