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Junctionless nanowire transistor fabricated with high mobility Ge channel
Author(s) -
Yu Ran,
Georgiev Yordan M.,
Das Samaresh,
Hobbs Richard G.,
Povey Ian M.,
Petkov Nikolay,
Shayesteh Maryam,
O'Connell Dan,
Holmes Justin D.,
Duffy Ray
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
physica status solidi (rrl) – rapid research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.786
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1862-6270
pISSN - 1862-6254
DOI - 10.1002/pssr.201300119
Subject(s) - transistor , nanowire , subthreshold conduction , materials science , optoelectronics , subthreshold slope , drain induced barrier lowering , subthreshold swing , cmos , field effect transistor , electrical engineering , nanotechnology , channel (broadcasting) , voltage , engineering
The junctionless nanowire metal–oxide–semiconductor field‐effect transistor (JNT) has recently been proposed as an alternative device for sub‐20‐nm nodes. The JNT architecture eliminates the need for forming PN junctions, resulting in simple processing and competitive electrical characteristics. In order to further boost the drive current, alternative channel materials such as III–V and Ge, have been proposed. In this Letter, JNTs with Ge channels have been fabricated by a CMOS‐compatible top–down process. The transistors exhibit the lowest subthreshold slope to date for JNT with Ge channels. The devices with a gate length of 3 μm exhibit a subthreshold slope (SS) of 216 mV/dec with an I ON / I OFF current ratio of 1.2 × 10 3 at V D = –1 V and drain‐induced‐barrier lowering (DIBL) of 87 mV. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)