Nonradiative multiphonon capture of carriers into the gate dielectrics of metal-oxide-semiconductor systems and its involvement with the negative bias temperature instability is discussed. A simple method for the extraction of the line-shape function from an atomistic bulk defect model is suggested and applied to defect models in alpha quartz. Electronic structures are described using density functional theory.
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