Measurement and Modeling of Drain Current Thermal Noise to Shot Noise Ratio in 90nm CMOS

Author(s):  
Yan Cui ◽  
Guofu Niu ◽  
Ali Rezvani ◽  
Stewart S. Taylor
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (31) ◽  
pp. 1950387
Author(s):  
Xiaofei Jia ◽  
Wenhao Chen ◽  
Bing Ding ◽  
Liang He

In recent years, with the development of mesoscopic physics and nanoelectronics, the research on noise and testing technology of electronic components has been developed. It is well known that noise can characterize the transmission characteristics of carriers in nanoscale electronic components. With the continuous shrinking of the device size, the carrier transport of nanoscale MOSFET devices has been gradually transformed from the traditional drift-diffusion to become the quasi-ballistic or ballistic transport, and its current noise contains granular and thermal noise. The paper by Jeon et al. [The first observation of shot noise characteristics in 10-nm scale MOSFETs, in Proc. 2009 Symp. VLSI Technology (IEEE, Honolulu, 2009), pp. 48–49] presents the variation relation of 20 nm MOSFET current noise with source–drain current and voltage, and its current noise characteristic is between thermal noise and shot noise, so 20 nm MOSFET current noise is shot noise and thermal noise. The paper by Navid et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 101 (2007) 124501] shows through simulation that the 60 nm MOSFET current noise is suppressed shot noise and thermal noise. At present, the current noise has seriously affected the basic performance of the device, thus the circuit cannot work normally. Therefore, it is necessary to study the generation mechanism and characteristics of current noise in electronic components so as to suppress device noise, which can not only realize the reduction of device noise, but also play a positive role in the work-efficiency, life-span and reliability of electronic components.


2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 025701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naicheng Quan ◽  
Chunmin Zhang ◽  
Tingkui Mu ◽  
Siyuan Li ◽  
Caiyin You

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (Part 1, No. 4B) ◽  
pp. 1974-1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuyuki Sano ◽  
Kazuya Matsuzawa ◽  
Mikio Mukai ◽  
Noriaki Nakayama
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2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Ou ◽  
Pietro M. Ferreira

We present an unified explanation of the transconductance-to-drain current (gm/ID)-based noise analysis in this paper. We show that both thermal noise coefficient (γ) and device noise corner frequency (f co ) are dependent on the gm/ID of a transistor. We derive expressions to demonstrate the relationship between the normalized noise power spectral density technique and the technique based on γ and f co . We conclude this letter with examples to demonstrate the practical implication of our study. Our results show that while both techniques discussed in this letter can be used to compute noise numerically, using γ and f co to separate thermal noise from flicker noise provides additional insight for optimizing noise.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Ohmori ◽  
Shuhei Amakawa

On-wafer evaluation of white thermal and shot noise in nanoscale MOSFETs is demonstrated by directly sensing the drain current under zero- and nonzsero-drain-bias (V<sub>d</sub>) conditions for the first time, without recourse to a hot noise source, commonly needed in noise figure measurement. The dependence of white noise intensity on the drain bias clearly shows thermal noise at V<sub>d</sub>=0 V and shot noise at V<sub>d</sub>>0 V with its gate-bias-dependent suppression. An empirical expression for the Fano factor (shot-noise suppression factor) that is well-behaved even at V<sub>d</sub>=0V exactly and suitable for measurement-based evaluation is proposed. The direct measurement approach could allow more accurate and predictive noise modeling of RF MOSFETs than has conventionally been possible.


1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 289-297
Author(s):  
M.G. Aubier ◽  
N. Meyer-Vernet ◽  
B.M. Pedersen

ABSTRACTRadio emissions were observed by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 planetary radio astronomy experiments during saturnian ring plane crossings. Several mechanisms are proposed and tested. Quasi-thermal noise is negligible. Shot noise due to electrons and ions collected and/or emitted by antennas and spacecraft can explain not too intense noise. However, for the strong noise in the ring plane, observed by Voyager 2 at ~ 2.9 Rs, we must take into account shot noise due to grain impacts. A quantitative evaluation of this process gives an estimation of the dust size ~ 1.1 µm close to the G ring.


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