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Section 3: Common Device Characterization Tests
Model 4200-SCS User’s Manual
How to perform AC stress for wafer level reliability (WLR)
AC, or pulsed, stress is a useful addition to the typical stress-measure tests for
investigating both semiconductor charge trapping and degradation behaviors.
NBTI (negative bias temperature instability) and TDDB (time dependent dielectric
breakdown) tests consist of stress / measure cycles.
The applied stress voltage is a DC signal, which is used because it maps more
easily to device models. However, incorporating pulsed stress testing provides
additional data that permits a better understanding of device performance in
frequency-dependent circuits.
NOTE
Key test parameters are contained in
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1. Connect pulse generator to DUT during stress as shown in
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2. The test pulse stresses the device for HCI, NBTI and TDDB test instead of DC bias by
outputting a train of pulses for a period of time (stress time). Pulse characteristics are not
changed during the stress-measure test.
3. The test then measures device characteristics using SMUs: Vth, Gm, and so on.
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