• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.99-100
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• 2009

SGOI 1T-DRAM cells with various Ge mole fractions were fabricated and compared to the SOI 1T-DRAM cell. SGOI 1T-DRAM cells have a higher leakage current than SOI 1T-DRAM cell at subthreshold region. The leakage current due to crystalline defects and interface states at Si/SiGe increased with Ge mole. This phenomenon causes sensing margin and the retention time of SGOI 1T-DRAMs decreased with increase of Ge mole fraction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.101-102
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• 2009

SGOI MOSFETs with various Ge mole fractions were fabricated and compared to the SOI MOSFET. SGOI MOSFETs have a lager drain current and higher effective mobility than the SOI MOSFET as increased Ge mole fractions. The lattice constant difference causes lattice mismatch between the SiGe layer and the top-Si layer during the top-Si layer growth. However, SGOI MOSFETs have a lager leakage current at subthreshold region. Also, leakage current at subthreshold region increased with Ge mole fractions. This is attributable to the crystalline defects due to the lattice mismatch between the SiGe layer and the top-Si layer.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.9 s.339
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• pp.9-18
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• 2005

To make high-performance, low-power transistors beyond the technology node of 60 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors(C-MOSFETs) possible, the effect of electron mobility of the thickness of strained Si grown on a relaxed SiGe/SiO2/Si was investigated from the viewpoint of mobility enhancement via two approaches. First the parameters for the inter-valley phonon scattering model were optimized. Second, theoretical calculation of the electronic states of the two-fold and four-fold valleys in the strained Si inversion layer were performed, including such characteristics as the energy band diagrams, electron populations, electron concentrations, phonon scattering rate, and phonon-limited electron mobility. The electron mobility in an silicon germanium on insulator(SGOI) n-MOSFET was observed to be about 1.5 to 1.7 times higher than that of a conventional silicon on insulator(SOI) n-MOSFET over the whole range of Si thickness in the SOI structure. This trend was good consistent with our experimental results. In Particular, it was observed that when the strained Si thickness was decreased below 10 nm, the phonon-limited electron mobility in an SGOI n-MOSFT with a Si channel thickness of less than 6 nm differed significantly from that of the conventional SOI n-MOSFET. It can be attributed this difference that some electrons in the strained SGOI n-MOSFET inversion layer tunnelled into the SiGe layer, whereas carrier confinement occurred in the conventional SOI n-MOSFET. In addition, we confirmed that in the Si thickness range of from 10 nm to 3 nm the Phonon-limited electron mobility in an SGOI n-MOSFET was governed by the inter-valley Phonon scattering rate. This result indicates that a fully depleted C-MOSFET with a channel length of less than 15 m should be fabricated on an strained Si SGOI structure in order to obtain a higher drain current.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.156-159
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• 2008

The electrical characteristic of SiGe-on-SOI (SGOI) wafer with different Ge concentration were evaluated by pseudo-MOSFET. Epitaxial SiGe layers was grown directly on top of SOI with Ge concentrations of 16.2, 29.7, 34.3 and 56.5 at.%. As Ge concentration increased, leakage current increased and threshold voltage shifted from 3 V to 7 V in nMOSFET, from -7 V to -6 V in pMOSFET. The interface states between buried oxide and top of Si was significantly increased by the rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process, and so the electrical characteristic of SGOI wafer degraded. On the other hand, additional post RTA　annealing (PRA) showed that it was effective in decreasing the interface states generated by RTA processes and the electrical characteristic of SGOI wafer enhanced higher than initial state.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.346-346
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• 2010

A capacitorless one transistor dynamic random access memory (1T-DRAM) on silicon-germanium-on-insulator substrate was investigated. SGOI technology can make high effective mobility because of lattice mismatch between the Si channel and the SiGe buffer layer. To evaluate memory characteristics of 1T-DRAM, the floating body effect is generated by impact ionization (II) and gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) current. Compared with use of impact ionization current, the use of GIDL current leads to low power consumption and larger sense margin.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.1065-1068
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• 2003

For the first time, high quality ultra-thin strained Si/SiGe on Insulator (SGOI) substrate with total SGOI thickness( $T_{Si}$ + $T_{SiGe}$) of 13 nm is developed to combine the device benefits of strained silicon and SOI. In the case of 6- 10 nm-thick top silicon, 100-110 % $I_{d,sat}$ and electron mobility increase are shown in long channel nFET devices. However, 20-30% reduction of $I_{d,sat}$ and electron mobility are observed with 3 nm top silicon for the same long channel device. These results clearly show that the FETs operates with higher performance due to the strain enhancement from the insertion of SiGe layer between the top silicon layer and the buried oxide(BOX) layer. The performance degradation of the extremely thin( 3 nm ) top Si device can be attributed to the scattering of the majority carriers at the interfaces.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.399-402
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• 2007

The effects of heat treatment on the electrical properties of strained-Si/SiGe-on-insulator (SGOI) devices were examined. We proposed the optimized heat treatment processes for improving the back interfacial electrical properties in SGOI-MOSFET. By applying the additional pre-RTA (rapid thermal annealing) before gate oxidation step and the post-RTA after source/drain dopant activation step, the electrical properties of strained-Si channel on $Si_{1-x}Ge_x$ layer were greatly improved, which resulting the improvement of the driving current, transconductance, and leakage current of SGOI-MOSFET.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.7-8
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• 2006

The effects of heat treatment on the electrical properties of SGOI were examined. We proposed the optimized heat treatments for improving the interfacial electrical properties in SGOI-MOSFET. By applying the additional pre-RTA(rapid thermal annealing) before gate oxidation and post-RTA after dopant activation, the driving current, the transconductance, and the leakage current were improved significantly.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.264-275
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• 2008

Electron mobility has been investigated theoretically in undoped double-gate (DG) MOSFETs of different channel architectures: a relaxed-Si DG SOI, a strained-Si (sSi) DG SSOI (strained-Si-on-insulator, containing no SiGe layer), and a strained-Si DG SGOI (strained-Si-on-SiGe-on-insulator, containing a SiGe layer) at 300K. Electron mobility in the DG SSOI device exhibits high enhancement relative to the DG SOI. In the DG SGOI devices the mobility is strongly suppressed by the confinement of electrons in much narrower strained-Si layers, as well as by the alloy scattering within the SiGe layer. As a consequence, in the DG SGOI devices with thinnest strained-Si layers the electron mobility may drop below the level of the relaxed DG SOI and the mobility enhancement expected from the strained-Si devices may be lost.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.12-17
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• 2011

In this work, the analog performances of n-MOSFET fabricated on strained-Si/relaxed Si buffer layer with Ge mole fractions and thermal annealing temperatures after device fabrication have been characterized in Depth. The effective electron mobility was increased with the increase of Ge mole fraction for all annealing temperatures. However the effective electron mobility was decreased at the Ge mole fraction of 32%. The analog performances were enhanced with the increase of Ge mole fraction at the room temperature but they were degraded at the Ge mole fraction of 32%. Since the degradation of the effective electron mobility of strained-Si layer is more significant than one of conventional Si layer at elevated temperature, the degradation of analog performances of SGOI devices were increased than those of SOI devices.