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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieie.2016.53.3.039

Process Modeling of Germanium Condensation and Application to Nanowire PMOSFET  

Yun, Mina (Department of Electronic Engineering, Gachon University)
Cho, Seongjae (Department of Electronic Engineering, Gachon University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.53, no.3, 2016 , pp. 39-45 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, prcess modeling of germanium condensation has been performed and a germanium PMOSFET having nanowire channel implented by the condensation process has been designed and characterized by device simulations. Based on the previous experimental results, our modeling results demonstrate that the ratio of germanium concentration at the silicon germanium-silicon dioxide interface ($C_S$) to that in the bulk region ($C_B$) which are obtainable during the germanium condensation is approximately 4.03 and the effective diffusion coefficient ($D_{eff}$) of germanium atom is $3.16nm^2/s$. Furthermore, a germanium nanowire-channel PMOSFET having the ultra-thin germanium channel on the silicon core that can be fabricated by the germanium condensation has been designed and characterized. As the result, it is confirmed that the proposed device having the coaxial nanowire consisting of silicon core and germanium channel might have superior performances over the device with either all-silicon or all-germanium channel.
Keywords
process modeling; germanium condensation; PMOSFET; nanowire channel; coaxial channel;
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