A surface potential-based non-charge-sheet core model for undoped surrounding-gate MOSFETs

A surface potential based non-charge-sheet core model for cylindrical undoped surrounding-gate (SRG) MOSFETs is presented. It is based on the exact surface potential solution of Poisson's equation and Pao-Sah's dual integral without the charge-sheet approximation, allowing the SRG-MOSFET characteristics to be adequately described by a single set of the analytic drain current equation in terms of the surface potential evaluated at the source and drain ends. It is valid for all operation regions and traces the transition from the linear to saturation and from the sub-threshold to strong inversion region without fiRing-parameters, and verified by the 3-D numerical simulation.     

非掺杂环栅MOSFETs的基于表面电势和非薄层电荷的核心模型

A surface potential based non-charge-sheet core model for cylindrical undoped surrounding-gate （SRG） MOSFETs is presented. It is based on the exact surface potential solution of Poisson＇s equation and Pao-Sah＇s dual integral without the charge-sheet approximation, allowing the SRG-MOSFET characteristics to be adequately described by a single set of the analytic drain current equation in terms of the surface potential evaluated at the source and drain ends. It is valid for all operation regions and traces the transition from the linear to saturation and from the sub-threshold to strong inversion region without fitting-parameters, and verified by the 3-D numerical simulation.     

场引晶体管理论:Ⅺ.双极电化电流(薄及厚、纯及不纯基体,单及双MOS栅极)

场引晶体管本质双极,包括电子和空穴表面和体积沟道和电流,一或多个外加横向控制电场.自1952年Shockley发明,55年来它被认为单极场引晶体管,因电子电流理论用多余内部和边界条件,不可避免忽略空穴电流.多余条件,诸如电中性和常空穴电化电势,导致仅用电子电流算内部和终端电学特性的错误解.当忽略的空穴电流与电子电流可比,可在亚阈值区和强反型区,错误解有巨大误差.本文描述普适理论,含有电子和空穴沟道和电流.用z轴宽度方向均匀的直角平行六面体(x,Y,z)晶体管,薄或厚、纯或杂基体,一或二块MOS栅极,描述两维效应及电势、电子空穴电化电势的正确内部和边界条件.没用多余条件,导出四种常用MOS晶体管,直流电流电压特性完备解析方程:半无限厚不纯基上一块栅极(传统的Bulk MOSFET),与体硅以氧化物绝缘的不纯硅薄层上一块栅极(SOI),在沉积到绝缘玻璃的不纯硅薄层上一块栅极(SOI TFT),和薄纯基上两块栅极(FinFETs).     

非掺杂对称双栅的基于完整表面电势的核心模型

通过求解Poisson方程自洽地得到了表面电势随沟道电压的变化关系,从而推出了非掺杂对称双栅MOSFET的一个基于表面势的模型.通过Pao-Sah积分得到了漏电流的表达式.该模型由一组表面势方程组成,解析形式的漏电流可以通过源端和漏端的电势得到.结果标明该模型在双栅MOSFET的所有工作区域都成立,而且不需要任何简化(如应用薄层电荷近似)和辅助拟合函数.对不同工作条件和不同尺寸器件的二维数值模拟与模型的比较进一步验证了提出模型的精度.     

Substrate current enhancement in 65 nm metal-oxide-silicon field-effect transistor under external mechanical stress

An approach to get uniaxial tensile stress from the channel by using strained silicon to enhance drain current and mobility was developed. A 65 nm metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) was bent by applying external mechanical stress. The drain current and transconductance of the transistor were found to increase 15% and 20%, respectively. In this paper, the behaviors of the substrate current and the impact ionization rate are also investigated. It was found that the substrate current and gate voltage corresponding to the maximum impact ionization current have significantly increased by increasing external mechanical stress. According to the relationship to the strain-induced mobility enhancement, the increase in impact ionization efficiency resulted from the decrease in threshold energy for impact ionization which was due to the narrowing of the bandgap.     

0.4-V bulk-driven differential-difference amplifier

A new solution for an ultra-low-voltage, low-power, bulk-driven fully differential-difference amplifier (FDDA) is presented in the paper. Simulated performance of the overall FDDA for a 50 nm CMOS process and supply voltage of 0.4 V, shows dissipation power of 31.8 μW, the open loop voltage gain of 58.6 dB and the gain-bandwidth product (GBW) of 2.3 MHz for a 20 pF load capacitance. Despite the very low supply voltage, the FDDA exhibits rail-to-rail input/output swing. The circuit performance has also been tested in two applications; the differential voltage follower and the second-order band-pass filter, showing satisfactory accuracy and dynamic range.     

超浅结亚45nm MOSFET 亚阈值区二维电势模型

文章提出将亚阈值区超浅结MOSFET的氧化层和Si衬底划分为三个区域,得到三个区域的定解问题,并用特征函数展开法求出了因边界衔接条件而产生的未知系数,首次得到超浅结亚45nm MOSFET的二维电势半解析模型,并给出了亚阈值电流模型。通过与Medici模拟结果对比发现该模型能够准确模拟亚阈值下的超浅结15～45nm MOSFET的二维电势和电流。     

槽栅功率MOSFET单粒子微剂量效应电荷沉积模型

重离子会在槽栅功率MOSFET器件中引起电压电流特性漂移,即单粒子微剂量效应。为表征该效应,本文提出了一个电荷沉积模型。该模型可用来计算重离子轰击氧化层后引起的电荷沉积及电荷输运过程。应用本模型计算了单个Xe离子在二氧化硅/硅界面沉积的空穴正电荷。通过将该计算结果导入Sentaurus仿真软件中,模拟了单个Xe离子轰击槽栅MOSFET后引起的电压电流曲线漂移。模拟结果与相关实验结果一致。最后,应用本模型研究了不同参数对槽栅功率MOSFET单粒子微剂量效应的影响。     

Experimental study of mobility degradation in ultrathin high-κ based MOSFETs

In order to examine the peak carrier mobility reduction in ultrathin high-κ based FETs, interface state density in HfSiON gated FETs (of EOT < 2 nm) was studied experimentally using two high resolution techniques. Both techniques independently established similar interface charge density values for the devices studied. By further studying the Coulomb limited mobility in the high-κ based FETs using a quantum mechanical approach, it is concluded that interface charge alone is insufficient to explain the peak mobility degradation observed, indicating that remote charge scattering, RCS, may be a significant mobility degradation factor in ultra thin HfSiON based FETs.     

Criticisms on and comparison of experimental channel backscattering extraction methods

In this paper we critically review and compare experimental methods, based on the Lundstrom model, to extract the channel backscattering ratio in nano MOSFETs. Basically two experimental methods are currently used, the most common of them is based on the measurement of the saturation drain current at different temperatures. We show that this method is affected by very poor assumptions and that the extracted backscattering ratio strongly underestimates its actual value posing particular attention to the backscattering actually extracted in nano devices. The second method is based on the direct measurement of the inversion charge by CV characteristics and gets closer to the physics of the backscattering model. We show, through measurements in high mobility p-germanium devices, how the temperature-based method gives the same result of the CV-based method once that its approximations are removed. Moreover we show that the CV-based method uses a number of approximations which are partially inconsistent with the model. In particular we show, with the aid of 2D quantum corrected device simulations, that the value of the barrier lowering obtained through the CV-based method is totally inconsistent with the barrier lowering used to correct the inversion charge and that the extracted saturation inversion charge is underestimated.