Processes at the Rising Edge:



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Processes at the Rising Edge:

Hole emission also occurs at the rising edge of the gate pulse.
(1) For a weak electron capture at the top level this effect is important when the rise time cannot be neglected in comparison with the top-level duration. In this case should be computed by 3.61 with replaced by .
(2) For a strong electron capture at the top level, the hole emission at the rising edge increases the bottom boundary as determined by 3.60, thus reducing the energy interval available for the electron capture.
As a consequence, the charge-pumping current is reduced in both cases. We assume that the non-steady-state hole emission starts at the gate bias and ends at the level when the electron capture becomes dominant. The voltage can be calculated in an equivalent way as is done for at the falling edge. After [154][97] the hole emission level in the step approximation of the non-steady-state occupancy function is given by

 

where is the time for the hole non-steady-state emission. is the emission level at the transition between the steady-state and the non-steady-state hole emission mode. Expression 3.81 reduces to

 

where is the hole capture time constant associated with the level at the onset of the non-steady-state emission. The hole emission level lies above , but close to it for short emission times and/or long . If the interface goes into strong accumulation at the gate bottom level, holds and the second term in the brackets at the right-hand-side in 3.81 becomes negligible. This case is shown in Figure 3.5.

The time and the onset level for the non-steady-state hole emission at the rising edge of the gate pulse are given by expressions equivalent with 3.68, 3.77 and 3.78:

 

    

The transition level is the solution of the equation

 

where . The sign holds for and for . Since the right-hand-side in 3.88 is a contraction, a linear iteration scheme can be employed. The expression for the calculation of the onset voltage follows evidently and is omitted here. The variations of with the rising time has also been presented in [97].



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Martin Stiftinger
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