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Gate Tunneling Current and QuantumEffects in Deep Scaled MOSFETs

  • Choi, Chang-Hoon;Dutton, Robert W.
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.27-31
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    • 2004
  • Models and simulations of gate tunneling current for thinoxide MOSFETs and Double-Gate SOIs are discussed. A guideline in design of leaky MOS capacitors is proposed and resonant gate tunneling current in DG SOI simulated based on quantum-mechanicalmodels. Gate tunneling current in fully-depleted, double-gate SOI MOSFETs is characterized based on quantum-mechanical principles. The simulated $I_G-V_G$ of double-gate SOI has negative differential resistance like that of the resonant tunnel diodes.

Inclusion of Silicon Delta-doped Two-dimensional Electron Gas Layer on Multi-quantum Well Nano-structures of Blue Light Emitting Diodes

  • Kim, Keun-Joo
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.173-179
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    • 2004
  • The influence of heavily Si impurity doping in the GaN barrier of InGaN/GaN multi-quantum well structures of blue light emitting diodes were investigated by growing samples in metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The delta-doped sample was compared to the sample with the undoped barrier. The delta-doped sample shows the tunneling behavior and forms the energy level of 0.32 eV for tunneling and the photoemission of the 450-nm band. The photo-luminescence shows the blue-shifted broad band of the radiative transition due to the inclusion of Si delta-doped layer indicating that the delta doping effect acts to form the higher energy level than that of quantum well. The dislocation may provide the carrier tunneling channel and plays as a source of acceptor. During the tunneling of hot carrier, there was no light emission.

Analysis of Short Channel Effects Using Analytical Transport Model For Double Gate MOSFET

  • Jung, Hak-Kee
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 2007
  • The analytical transport model in subthreshold regime for double gate MOSFET has been presented to analyze the short channel effects such as subthreshold swing, threshold voltage roll-off and drain induced barrier lowering. The present approach includes the quantum tunneling of carriers through the source-drain barrier. Poisson equation is used for modeling thermionic emission current, and Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximations are applied for modeling quantum tunneling current. This model has been used to investigate the subthreshold operations of double gate MOSFET having the gate length of the nanometer range with ultra thin gate oxide and channel thickness under sub-20nm. Compared with results of two dimensional numerical simulations, the results in this study show good agreements with those for subthreshold swing and threshold voltage roll-off. Note the short channel effects degrade due to quantum tunneling, especially in the gate length of below 10nm, and DGMOSFETs have to be very strictly designed in the regime of below 10nm gate length since quantum tunneling becomes the main transport mechanism in the subthreshold region.

Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Tunneling Device with FePt Magnetic Quantum Dots (FePt 자기 양자점 터널링 소자의 전기적 특성과 자기적 특성 연구)

  • Pak, Sang-Woo;Suh, Joo-Young;Lee, Dong-Uk;Kim, Eun-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2011
  • We have studied the electrical and magnetic transport properties of tunneling device with FePt magnetic quantum dots. The FePt nanoparticles with a diameter of 8~15 nm were embedded in a $SiO_2$ layer through thermal annealing process at temperature of $800^{\circ}C$ in $N_2$ gas ambient. The electrical properties of the tunneling device were characterized by current-voltage (I-V) measurements under the perpendicular magnetic fields at various temperatures. The nonlinear I-V curves appeared at 20 K, and then it was explained as a conductance blockade by the electron hopping model and tunneling effect through the quantum dots. It was measured also that the negative magneto-resistance ratio increased about 26.2% as increasing external magnetic field up to 9,000 G without regard for an applied electric voltage.

Role of Quantum Confinement Effect on Tunneling Operation of LTFET Devices

  • Najam, Faraz;Yu, Yun Seop
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2017.10a
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    • pp.241-242
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    • 2017
  • Part of the channel in L-shaped tunnel field-effect transistor (LTFET) is very thin and suffers from quantum confinement effect. Role of quantum confinement effect on band-to-band-tunneling (BTBT) of LTFET was investigated using numerical simulation and band diagram analysis. It was found that quantum confinement effect significantly affects the BTBT mechanism of LTFET devices.

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Bubble Formation in Liquid Helium under Negative Pressure by Quantum Tunneling near Absolute Zero Temperature (절대 0도 부근에서 양자터널링에 의한 헬리움(He)액체의 부압하에서의 기포형성)

  • Kwak, H.;Jung, J.;Hong, J.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.06d
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    • pp.354-359
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    • 2001
  • As the temperature of liquid under negative pressure approaches the absolute zero, the nucleation process due to thermal fluctuations hardly occurs. Instead of this mechanism, quantum fluctuations may lead the formation of nucleus for new phase in metastable state. In this study, the thermal as well as quantum nucleation bubble in liquid helium under negative pressure was investigated theoretically. The energy barrier against nucleation was estimated by molecular interaction due to the Londom dispersion force. It is shown that the phase transition from liquid to vapor in is possible due to the quantum tunneling below 0.2 K for Helium-4 and 0.1 K for Helium-3, at negative pressures close to the ideal tensile strength at which every liquid molecules become bubbles simultaneously.

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I-V characteristics of resonant interband tunneling diodes with single quantum well structure (단일 양자 우물 구조로 된 밴드간 공명 터널링 다이오드의 전류-전압 특성)

  • 김성진;박영석
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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    • v.34D no.4
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 1997
  • In resonant tunneling diodes with the quantum well structure showing the negative differential resistance (NDR), it is essential to increase both the peak-to-valley current ratio (PVCR) and the peak current desnity ( $J_{p}$) for the accurate digital switching operation and the high output of the device. In this work, a resonant interband tunneling diode (RITD) with single quantum well structure, which is composed of I $n_{0.47}$As/I $n_{0.52}$A $l_{0.48}$As heterojunction on the InP substrate, is fabricated ot improve PVCR and JP, and then the dependence of I-V charcteristics on the width of the quantum well was investigated.d.ted.d.

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Analysis of Quantum Effects Concerning Ultra-thin Gate-all-around Nanowire FET for Sub 14nm Technology

  • Lee, Han-Gyeol;Kim, Seong-Yeon;Park, Jae-Hyeok
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2015.03a
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    • pp.357-364
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    • 2015
  • In this work, we investigate the quantum effects exhibited from ultra-thin GAA(gate-all-around) Nanowire FETs for Sub 14nm Technology. We face designing challenges particularly short channel effects (SCE). However traditional MOSFET SCE models become invalid due to unexpected quantum effects. In this paper, we investigated various performance factors of the GAA Nanowire FET structure, which is promising future device. We observe a variety of quantum effects that are not seen when large scale. Such are source drain tunneling due to short channel lengths, drastic threshold voltage increase caused by quantum confinement for small channel area, leakage current through thin gate oxide by tunneling, induced source barrier lowering by fringing field from drain enhanced by high k dielectric, and lastly the I-V characteristic dependence on channel materials and transport orientations owing to quantum confinement and valley splitting. Understanding these quantum phenomena will guide to reducing SCEs for future sub 14nm devices.

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Scaling theory to minimize the roll-off of threshold voltage for ultra fine MOSFET (미세 구조 MOSFET에서 문턱전압 변화를 최소화하기 위한 최적의 스켈링 이론)

  • 정학기;김재홍;고석웅
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.719-724
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we have presented the simulation results about threshold voltage of nano scale lightly doped drain (LDD) MOSFET with halo doping profile. Device size is scaled down from 100nm to 40nm using generalized scaling. We have investigated the threshold voltage for constant field scaling and constant voltage scaling using the Van Dort Quantum Correction Model (QM) and direct tunneling current for each gate oxide thickness. We know that threshold voltage is decreasing in the constant field scaling and increasing in the constant voltage scaling when gate length is reducing, and direct tunneling current is increasing when gate oxide thickness is reducing. To minimize the roll off characteristics for threshold voltage of MOSFET with decreasing channel length, we know $\alpha$ value must be nearly 1 in the generalized scaling.

Scaling theory to minimize the roll-off of threshold voltage for nano scale MOSFET (나노 구조 MOSFET의 문턱전압 변화를 최소화하기 위한 스케일링 이론)

  • 김영동;김재홍;정학기
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.494-497
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, we have presented the simulation results about threshold voltage of nano scale lightly doped drain (LDD) MOSFET with halo doping profile. Device size is scaled down from 100nm to 40nm using generalized scaling. We have investigated the threshold voltage for constant field scaling and constant voltage scaling using the Van Dort Quantum Correction Model(QM) and direct tunneling current for each gate oxide thickness. We know that threshold voltage is decreasing in the constant field scaling and increasing in the constant voltage scaling when gate length is reducing, and direct tunneling current is increasing when gate oxide thickness is reducing. To minimize the roll-off characteristics for threshold voltage of MOSFET with decreasing channel length, we know u value must be nearly 1 in the generalized scaling.

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