• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.329-334
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• 2016

In this work, the temperature dependence of electrical parameters of nanoscale SOI (silicon-on-insulator) TG (triple gate) n-FinFET (n-channel Fin field effect transistor) was investigated. Numerical device simulator $ATLAS^{TM}$ was used to construct, examine, and simulate the structure in three dimensions with different models. The drain current, transconductance, threshold voltage, subthreshold swing, leakage current, drain induced barrier lowering, and on/off current ratio were studied in various biasing configurations. The temperature dependence of the main electrical parameters of a SOI TG n-FinFET was analyzed and discussed. Increased temperature led to degraded performance of some basic parameters such as subthreshold swing, transconductance, on-current, and leakage current. These results might be useful for further development of devises to strongly down-scale the manufacturing process.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.293-302
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• 2015

Degraded data stability, weaker write ability, and increased leakage power consumption are the primary concerns in scaled static random-access memory (SRAM) circuits. Two new SRAM cells are proposed in this paper for achieving enhanced read data stability and lower leakage power consumption in memory circuits. The bitline access transistors are asymmetrically gate-underlapped in the proposed SRAM cells. The strengths of the asymmetric bitline access transistors are weakened during read operations and enhanced during write operations, as the direction of current flow is reversed. With the proposed hybrid asymmetric SRAM cells, the read data stability is enhanced by up to 71.6% and leakage power consumption is suppressed up to 15.5%, while displaying similar write voltage margin and maintaining identical silicon area as compared to the conventional memory cells in a 15 nm FinFET technology.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.361-365
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• 2009

This paper has been presented the transport characteristics of FinFET using the analytical potential model based on the Poisson's equation in subthreshold and threshold region. The threshold voltage is the most important factor of device design since threshold voltage decides ON/OFF of transistor. We have investigated the variations of threshold voltage and drain induced barrier lowing according to the variation of geometry such as the length, width and thickness of channel. The analytical potential model derived from the three dimensional Poisson's equation has been used since the channel electrostatics under threshold and subthreshold region is governed by the Poisson's equation. The appropriate boundary conditions for source/drain and gates has been also used to solve analytically the three dimensional Poisson's equation. Since the model is validated by comparing with the three dimensional numerical simulation, the subthreshold current is derived from this potential model. The threshold voltage is obtained from calculating the front gate bias when the drain current is $10^{-6}A$.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.266-272
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• 2009

In the present work three dimensional process and device simulations were employed to study the performance variations with RTA. It is observed that with the increase in RTA temperature, the arsenic dopants from the source /drain region diffuse laterally under the spacer region and simultaneously acceptors (Boron) are redistributed from the central axis region of the fin towards the Si/SiO2 interface. As a consequence both drive current and peak cut-off frequency of an n-FinFET are observed to improve with RTA temperatures. Volume inversion and hence the flow of carries through the central axis region of the fin due to reduced scattering was found behind the performance improvements with increasing RTA temperature.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.16-21
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• 2006

A simple doping method to fabricate a very thin channel body of the p-type FinFETs with a 20 nm gate length by solid-phase-diffusion (SPD) process was developed. Using the poly-boron-films (PBF) as a novel diffusion source of boron and the rapid thermal annealing (RTA), the p-type sourcedrain extensions of the FinFET devices with a threedimensional structure were doped. The junction properties of boron doped regions were investigated by using the $p^+-n$ junction diodes which showed excellent electrical characteristics. Single channel and multi-channel p-type FinFET devices with a gate length of 20-100 nm was fabricated by boron diffusion process using PBF and revealed superior device scalability.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.104-110
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• 2021

본 핀 채널 전계 효과 트랜지스터에서 낮은 소스/드레인 직렬 저항을 위한 새로운 선택적 산화 방식을 제안하였다. 이 방법을 이용하면, gate-all-around 구조와 점진적으로 증가되는 형태의 소스/드레인 확장영역을 갖는 핀 채널 MOSFET를 얻을 수 있다. 제안된 트랜지스터는 비교 소자에 비해 70% 이상의 소스/드레인 직렬 저항의 감소를 얻을 수 있다. 또한, 제안된 소자는 단채널 효과를 억제하면서도 높은 구동 전류와 전달컨덕턴스 특징을 보인다. 제작된 소자의 포화전류, 최대 선형 전달컨덕턴스, 최대 포화 전달컨덕턴스, subthreshold swing, 및 DIBL은 각각 305 ㎂/㎛, 0.33 V, 13.5 𝜇S, 76.4 𝜇S, 78 mV/dec, 62 mV/V의 값을 갖는다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.156-161
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• 2015

In this paper, we present simulation results obtained using SILVACO TCAD tools for a 3-D silicon on insulator (SOI) n-FinFET structure with a gate length of 8 nm at 300K. The effects of variations of the device’s key electrical parameters, such as threshold voltage, subthreshold slope, transconductance, drain induced barrier lowering, oncurrent, leakage current and on/off current ratio are presented and analyzed. We will also describe some simulation results related to the influence of the gate work function variations on the considered structure. These variations have a direct impact on the electrical device characteristics. The results show that the threshold voltage decreases when we reduce the gate metal work function Φ_m. As a consequence, the behavior of the leakage current improves with increased Φ_m. Therefore, the short channel effects in real 3-D FinFET structures can reasonably be controlled and improved by proper adjustment of the gate metal work function.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2010년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.13-13
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• 2010

In this paper, the electrical characteristics of Fin-type SONOS (Silicon-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon) flash memory and Planar-type SONOS flash memory are analyzed. Compared to the Planar-type SONOS device, Fin-type SONOS device shows a good short channel effect immunity. Moreover, memory characteristics such as PIE speed, Endurance and Retention of FinFET SONOS flash are batter than that of conventional Planar-type SONOS flash memory.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권8호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 소스와 드레인의 구조가 육각형인 FinFET에서 구조 변수 및 핀/핑거 개수 증가에 따른 열 저항 모델을 제안한다. 소자의 크기가 감소하여 발열 효과 및 열 특성의 영향이 커졌으며, 이를 분석하기 위해 소자의 열 저항은 중요한 요소이다. 열 저항 모델은 소자에서 열이 생성되는 열원과 열이 빠져나가는 contact를 설정했으며, 도메인은 열원과 4 부분의 소스, 드레인, 게이트, 서브스트레이트 contact를 통해 나누어진다. 또 각각의 contact 열 저항 모델은 TCAD의 시뮬레이션 결과의 온도 및 열 흐름을 분석하여 해석이 용이한 형태로 세분화하였다. 도메인들은 그 구조에 따라 구조 변수를 통한 적분 및 등각 매핑 방식을 기반으로 모델링하였다. 먼저 싱글 핀으로 열 저항을 분석하여 모델링하였으며, 멀티 핀/핑거의 열 저항 모델의 정확도를 높이기 위해 채널증가에 따른 파라미터의 변화를 적용하였다. 제안한 열 저항 모델은 3D Technology CAD 시뮬레이션을 해석하여 얻은 열 저항 결과와 비교하였으며, 싱글 핀 및 멀티 핀의 전체 열 저항 모델은 3 % 이하의 오차를 얻었다. 제안한 열 저항은 핀/핑거 개수의 증가에 따른 열 저항을 예측할 수 있으며, 발열효과 및 열 특성 분석을 계산하여 회로 특성을 개선할 수 있다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제43권11호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

이상적인(ideal) 이중-게이트(double-gate) 벌크(bulk) FinFET의 3차원(3-D) 시뮬레이션을 수행하여 전기적 특성들을 분석하였다. 3차원 시뮬레이터를 이용하여, 게이트 길이($L_g$)와 높이($H_g$), 핀 바디(fin body)의 도핑농도($N_b$)를 변화시키면서 소스/드레인 접합 깊이($X_{jSDE}$)에 따른 문턱전압($V_{th}$), 문턱전압 변화량(${\Delta}V_{th}$), DIBL(drain induced barrier lowering), SS(subthreshold swing)의 특성들을 살펴보았다. 게이트 높이가 35 nm인 소자에서 소스/드레인 접합 깊이(25 nm, 35 nm, 45 nm) 변화에 따라, 각각의 문턱전압을 기준으로 게이트 높이가 $30nm{\sim}45nm$로 변화 될 때, 문턱전압변화량은 20 mV 이하로 그 변화량이 매우 적음을 알 수 있었다. 낮은 핀 바디 도핑농도($1{\times}10^{16}cm^{-3}{\sim}1{\times}10^{17}cm^{-3}$)에서, 소스/드레인 접합 깊이가 게이트전극보다 깊어질수록 DIBL과 SS는 급격히 나빠지는 것을 볼 수 있었고. 이러한 특성저하들은 $H_g$ 아래의 ${\sim}10nm$ 위치에 국소(local) 도핑을 함으로써 개선시킬 수 있었다. 또한 local 도핑으로 소스/드레인 접합 깊이가 얕아질수록 문턱전압이 떨어지는 것을 개선시킬 수 있었다.