Abstract: | Ultrathin-film silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS transistors, produced in silicon islands 100 nm thick, formed by oxidation of porous anodized silicon, are described. Both n-channel and p-channel mobilities are similar to equivalent bulk values. Subthreshold slopes are less than 80 mV/decade and junction leakages are approximately 0.1 pA/μm. No kink is seen in the output characteristics of the n-channel transistors as the silicon film is fully depleted. A ring-oscillator gate delay of 161 ps has been achieved, at a power dissipation of 270 μW/stage, for 1.5-μm gate length |