Estimating time constants of the RTS noise in semiconductor devices: a complete description of the observation window in the time domain

Abstract

We obtained a semi-analytical treatment obtaining estimators for the sample variance and variance of sample variance for the RTS noise. Our method suggests a way to experimentally determine the constants of capture and emission in the case of a dominant trap and universal behaviors for the superposition from many traps. We present detailed closed-form expressions corroborated by MC simulations. We are sure to have an important tool to guide developers in building and analyzing low-frequency noise in semiconductor devices.