Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Simultaneously measuring degradation in multiple FETs
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Application No.: US14716070Application Date: 2015-05-19
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Publication No.: US09702924B2Publication Date: 2017-07-11
- Inventor: Karthik Balakrishnan , Keith A. Jenkins , Christos Vezyrtzis
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent L. Jeffrey Kelly
- Main IPC: G01R31/26
- IPC: G01R31/26

Abstract:
A structure and method of testing degradation of semiconductor devices by stressing an array of several semiconductor devices at the same time and measuring the resulting degradation separately for each individual device to obtain an estimate of its expected lifetime is provided. The devices may be subjected to stress that is either in a pulsed state or in a DC state. An on-chip pulse generator may be used for stressing in the pulsed state.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160341785A1 SIMULTANEOUSLY MEASURING DEGRADATION IN MULTIPLE FETS Public/Granted day:2016-11-24
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