Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES
Volume 68, Issue 3, Pages 1378-1381Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2021.3053501
Keywords
Nickel; Electric breakdown; Cathodes; Electrostatic discharges; Anodes; Silicides; Silicon; Electrical breakdown; electrostatic discharge (ESD); failure analysis; silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR); transmission electron microscopy
Funding
- NSFC [62074057]
- Projects of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [19ZR1473800, 18DZ2270800]
- Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (YESS)
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multidimensional Information Processing, East China Normal University [2019KEY002]
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This study investigates the breakdown failure of electrostatic discharge devices through physical failure analysis, and visualizes the location of conductive metal filaments near the cathode using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The evolution of these microstructural changes and chemical properties provides guidance for the failure analysis of ESD devices.
The robustness of electrostatic sensitive devices is important in state-of-the-art silicon technology. However, the electrical breakdown-induced microstructure evolution remains unclear. In this work, we performed the physical failure analysis of breakdown in an enhanced modified lateral silicon-controlled rectifier-based electrostatic discharge (ESD) device. Direct visualization of the conductive metal filaments in the doped silicon substrate has been achieved by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The locations of these metal filaments induced by breakdown are found near the cathode. The evolution of these microstructural changes and chemical properties provides guide to the failure analysis of ESD devices.
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