Forward gated-diode measurement of filled traps in high-field stressed thin oxides

The forward gated-diode monitoring technique can find its potential applications in assessing the filled traps in MOSFET thin oxides, which are subjected to high-field stressing and then followed by a hot-electrons filling scheme. Our measurement of the gate voltage shift associated with the forward current peak produces a power law relation between the filled trap density and the electron stress fluence, indeed in close agreement with that obtained by MOSFET threshold voltage shift.