It is demonstrated that the self-heating effect easily causes elevated thermal equilibrium condition within the active device for thin substrate MOSFETs. This leads to a non-linearity of the thermal resistance, which originally is a material specific constant. A compact model for describing the observed effective nonlinear thermal resistance has been developed which captures the device geometry effects as well as the bias condition dependences.
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