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Analysis of through silicon via thermal stress induced device mobility variations

DONG Gang;YAO Yitong;LIU Dang;YANG Yintang   

  1. (School of Microelectronics, Xidian Univ., Xi'an 710071, China)
  • Received:2016-12-14 Online:2017-12-20 Published:2018-01-18

Abstract:

This paper studies the mobility variations of the devices placed in different crystal orientations induced by the through silicon via thermal stress. According to the elasticity theory, the mismatch of thermal expansion coefficients between copper and silicon substrate can induce the through silicon via thermal stress, which may cause carrier mobility variations due to the piezoresistive effect. In this paper, a compact analytical model of the through silicon via thermal stress is given based on the planar strain theory. Then the impacts of the through silicon via thermal stress on carrier mobility are presented by using Matlab with the channel direction along[100] and[110], respectively. And the Keep Off Zone is defined for considering the reliability of the device. Finally, we draw a conclusion that the[100] crystal orientation and the[-110] crystal orientation should be preferred as the NMOS device and the PMOS device, respectively.

Key words: through silicon via, thermal stress, mobility, keep off zone