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Drain Induced Barrier Lowering

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Drain induced barrier lowering or DIBL is a secondary effect in MOSFETs referring originally to a reduction of threshold voltage of the transistor at higher drain voltages. The origin of the threshold decrease can be understood as a consequence of charge neutrality: the Yau charge-sharing model. [1] The combined charge in the depletion region of the device and that in the channel of the device is balanced by three electrode charges: the gate, the source and the drain. As drain voltage is increased, the depletion region of the p-n junction As channel length decreases, the barrier B to be between the drain and body increases in size and surmounted by an electron from the source on its extends under the gate, so the drain assumes a greater way to the drain reduces portion of the burden of balancing depletion region charge, leaving a smaller burden for the gate. As a result, the charge present on the gate retains charge balance by attracting more carriers into the channel, an effect equivalent to lowering the threshold voltage of the device. In effect, the channel becomes more attractive for electrons. In other words, the potential energy barrier for electrons in the channel is lowered. Hence the term "barrier lowering" is used to describe these phenomena. Unfortunately, it is not easy to come up with accurate analytical results using the barrier lowering concept. Barrier lowering increases as channel length is reduced, even at zero applied drain bias, because the source and drain form pn junctions with the body, and so have associated built-in depletion layers associated with them that become significant partners in charge balance at short channel lengths, even with no reverse bias applied to increase depletion widths. The term DIBL has expanded beyond the notion of simple threshold adjustment, however, and refers to a number of drain-voltage effects upon MOSFET I-V curves that go beyond description in terms of simple threshold voltage changes, as described below. As channel length is reduced, the effects of DIBL in the subthreshold region (weak inversion) show up initially as a simple translation of the subthreshold current vs. gate bias curve with change in drain-voltage, which can be modeled as a simple change in threshold voltage with drain bias. However, at shorter lengths the slope of the current vs. gate bias curve is reduced, that is, it requires a larger change in gate bias to effect the same change in drain current. At extremely short lengths, the gate entirely fails to turn the device off. These effects cannot be modeled as a threshold adjustment.[2] DIBL also affects the current vs. drain bias curve in the active mode, causing the current to increase with drain bias, lowering the MOSFET output resistance. This increase is additional to the normal channel length modulation effect on output resistance, and cannot always be modeled as a threshold adjustment. DIBL can reduce the device operating frequency as well, as described by the following equation:

Where

is the supply voltage and

is the threshold voltage.

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References
1. ^ Narain Arora (2007). Mosfet Modeling for VLSI Simulation: Theory And Practice (http://books.google.com/books?id=SkT2xOuvpuYC&pg=PA197&dq=yau+chargesharing&sig=NQvLlUOMlEsNFn-oL8y31GFI_Is) . World Scientific. p. 197, Fig. 5.14. ISBN 981-256-862-X. http://books.google.com/books?id=SkT2xOuvpuYC&pg=PA197&dq=yau+chargesharing&sig=NQvLlUOMlEsNFn-oL8y31GFI_Is. 2. ^ Yannis Tsividis (1999). Operational Modeling of the MOS Transistor (http://worldcat.org/isbn/0070655235) (Second Edition ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 268; Fig. 6.11. ISBN 0-07-065523-5. http://worldcat.org/isbn/0070655235.

See also
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