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Condensed Matter > Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Title: Efficient system for bulk characterization of cryogenic CMOS components

Abstract: Semiconductor integrated circuits operated at cryogenic temperature will play an essential role in quantum computing architectures. These can offer equivalent or superior performance to their room-temperature counterparts while enabling a scaling up of the total number of qubits under control. Silicon integrated circuits can be operated at a temperature stage of a cryogenic system where cooling power is sufficient ($\sim$3.5+ K) to allow for analog signal chain components (e.g. amplifiers and mixers), local signal synthesis, signal digitization, and control logic. A critical stage in cryo-electronics development is the characterization of individual transistor devices in a particular technology node at cryogenic temperatures. This data enables the creation of a process design kit (PDK) to model devices and simulate integrated circuits operating well below the minimum standard temperature ranges covered by foundry-released models (e.g. -55 {\deg}C). Here, an efficient approach to the characterization of large numbers of components at cryogenic temperature is reported. We developed a system to perform DC measurements with Kelvin sense of individual transistors at 4.2 K using integrated on-die multiplexers, enabling bulk characterization of thousands of devices with no physical change to the measurement setup.
Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
Cite as: arXiv:2404.11451 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
  (or arXiv:2404.11451v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall] for this version)

Submission history

From: Alessandro Rossi [view email]
[v1] Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:56:06 GMT (16261kb,D)

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