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A comparison of extraction techniques for threshold voltage mismatch

Croon et al., 2002

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13072033501195905963
Author
Croon J
Tuinhout H
Difrenza R
Knol J
Moonen A
Decoutere S
Maes H
Sansen W
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Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures, 2002. ICMTS 2002.

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In this paper commonly used extraction methods of MOSFET threshold voltage mismatch are compared. The V/sub T/mismatch is extracted on the exact same device population by four independent characterization groups. Significant differences are observed, which are …
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