A physically based relation between extracted threshold voltage and surface potential flat band voltage for MOSFET compact modeling

Compact MOS models based on surface potential are now firmly established, but for practical applications there is no reliable link between measured values of threshold voltage and the flat-band voltage on which such models are based. This brief presents an analytical relationship which may be implemented in compact models to provide a reliable and accurate threshold parameter input. Results are compared with a conventional threshold voltage model for several SOI CMOS technologies. This technique has been developed for use with body-tied SOI transistors, and hence it can also be applied to bulk devices.