MOS Capacitor Picture

MOS Electrostatics

Condition is called flatband --- the voltage when this occurs is called flatband This state is the baseline operating case --- a capacitive divider has one free parameter

MOS Electrostatics

Depletion Condition --- gate charge is terminated by charged ions in the depletion region

Part of this region is often referred to as weak-inversion

MOS Electrostatics

Inversion --- further gate charge is terminated by carriers at the silicon--silicon-dioxide interface

MOS Structure Electrostatics

MOS Electrostatics

MOS-Capacitor Regions
Surface potential moving from depletion to inversion

Qs = e

(Y - Vs)/UT

Qs = ln( 1 + e

(k(Vg - VT) - Vs)/UT

Depletion (k(Vg - VT) - Vs < 0) Qs = e

(k(Vg - VT) - Vs)/UT

Inversion (k(Vg - VT) - Vs > 0) Qs = (k(Vg - VT) - Vs)/UT

MOS Capacitor Picture