Abstract
In this work, a Si-based arch-shaped gate-all-around (GAA) tunneling field-effect transistor (TFET) has been designed and analyzed. Various studies on III-V compound semiconductor materials for applications in TFET devices have been made and we adopt one of them to perform a physical design for boosting the tunneling probability. The GAA structure has a partially open region for extending the tunneling area and the channel is under the GAA region, which makes it an arch-shaped GAA structure. We have performed the design optimization with variables of epitaxy channel thickness (tepi) and height of source region (Hsource) in the Si-based TFET. The designed arch-shaped GAA TFET based on Si platform demonstrates excellent performances for low-power (LP) applications including on-state current (Ion) of 694 μA/μm, subthreshold swing (S) of 7.8 mV/dec, threshold voltage (Vt) of 0.1 V, current gain cut-off frequency (fT) of 12 GHz, and maximum oscillation frequency (fmax) of 283 GHz.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 208-212 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Current Applied Physics |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (No. 2013-011522 , 2012–0005671 ), and in part by Samsung Electronics Co. This work was also supported by Global Ph.D. Fellowship Program through the NRF funded by the MEST ( 2013H1A2A1034363 ).
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Keywords
- Design optimization
- Gate-all-around (GAA)
- Low-power (LP)
- Physical design
- Tunneling field-effect transistor (TFET)