What is Hot carrier injection (HCI)?

Degradation in which carriers accelerated by the strong field near the drain are injected into the gate insulator, shifting the threshold voltage and reducing drive current.

Field: Reliability

Questions that mention Hot carrier injection (HCI) (1)

  1. In leading-edge LSI design, what is the practice called of anticipating transistor degradation from BTI and HCI over the usage period and checking that timing is met even with degraded characteristics?

Related terms

Arrhenius model Bathtub curve Electromigration ESD (electrostatic discharge) FIT rate Latch-up MTTF (mean time to failure) NBTI (negative bias temperature instability) Soft error TDDB (time-dependent dielectric breakdown)

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