Compact Modeling of Impact Ionization in High-Voltage Devices

In this article, we discuss a novel compact model to capture the double-hump characteristic in the substrate current versus gate voltage plot of a high-voltage device. An analytical expression for the electric field is derived by solving Poisson's equation at the drift-drain junction of the device, which is then incorporated in the final substrate current equation. The model is implemented in the Berkeley Short-channel IGFET Model-Bulk (BSIM-BULK) HV compact model and validated with numerical TCAD simulations and different experimental datasets.