Reliability Study of Power Rf Ldmos Devices under Thermal Stress
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This paper presents the results of comparative reliability study of two accelerated ageing tests for thermal stress applied on power RF LDMOS: Thermal Shock Tests (TST, air-air test) and Thermal Cycling Tests (TCT, airair test) under various conditions (with and without DC bias, TST cold and hot, different extremes temperatures ∆T). The performances shift for some critical electrical parameters such as on-state resistance (Rds_on) and feedback capacitance (Crs) have been demonstrated under various tests. To better understand the parameter shift that appear after thermal stress, we used a physical simulation software (Silvaco-Atlas, 2D) to confirm qualitatively degradation phenomena.
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