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The bond energy distribution has severe consequences for all failure modes that take place either in the oxide or at an interface for devices where the defects required for failure are on the order of tens. These consequences increase enormously as the required defects for failure decrease. For interface trap generation, feedback effects and geometric effects are small so we are able to derive an approximate analytic form for the failure function, and demonstrate these consequences. Finally, we introduce a multiple-carrier model for the breaking of silicon-hydrogen bonds at the interface. This model allows us to explain a variety of experimental effects that have been seen for small devices. It additionally implies a non-Arhennius behavior in the extrapolation of MOSFET lifetime vs. substrate current. 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