It is widely accepted and confirmed that the effective mobility depends only on the effective electrical field perpendicular to the silicon surface and is independent of the doping level near the interface [91][47][41]. This dependence reflects at the microscopic level the empirical universal mobility model [99][89]. Accordingly the vertical field dependence of P-channel mobility model can be expressed in the following form:
where is the channel mobility, is the vertical field along the channel region, , and are model parameters. The accuracy of (5.1) has been verified with for a wide range of substrate concentration, oxide thickness and vertical field [47][41]. As device size is reduced and/or lateral field is increased, the mobility degradation with the lateral electrical field has the following relationship [91][17]:
where accounts for lateral field dependence of channel mobility, is the horizontal field, denotes the saturation velocity and is a model parameter.