• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.136-147
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• 2005

A theoretical design evaluation based on a hydrodynamic transport simulation of strained Si-SiGe on insulator (SSOI) type nMOSFETs is reported. Although, the net performance improvement is quite limited by the short channel effects, simulation results clearly show that the strained Si-SiGe type nMOSFETs are well-suited for gate lengths down to 20 nm. Simulation results show that the improvement in the transconductance with decreasing gate length is limited by the long-range Coulomb scattering. An influence of lateral and vertical diffusion of shallow dopants in the source/drain extension regions on the device performance (i.e., threshold voltage shift, subthreshold slope, current drivability and transconductance) is quantitatively assessed. An optimum layer thickness ($t_{si}$ of 5 and $t_{sg}$ of 10 nm) with shallow Junction depth (5-10 nm) and controlled lateral diffusion with steep doping gradient is needed to realize the sub-50 nm gate strained Si-SiGe type nMOSFETs.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.439-445
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• 2005

We introduce a strained-SiGe technology adopting different thicknesses of Si cap layers towards low power and high performance CMOS applications. By simply adopting 3 and 7 nm thick Si-cap layers in n-channel and p-channel MOSFETs, respectively, the transconductances and driving currents of both devices were enhanced by 7 to 37% and 6 to 72%. These improvements seemed responsible for the formation of a lightly doped retrograde high-electron-mobility Si surface channel in nMOSFETs and a compressively strained high-hole-mobility $Si_{0.8}Ge_{0.2}$ buried channel in pMOSFETs. In addition, the nMOSFET exhibited greatly reduced subthreshold swing values (that is, reduced standby power consumption), and the pMOSFET revealed greatly suppressed 1/f noise and gate-leakage levels. Unlike the conventional strained-Si CMOS employing a relatively thick (typically > 2 ${\mu}m$) $Si_xGe_{1-x}$ relaxed buffer layer, the strained-SiGe CMOS with a very thin (20 nm) $Si_{0.8}Ge_{0.2}$ layer in this study showed a negligible self-heating problem. Consequently, the proposed strained-SiGe CMOS design structure should be a good candidate for low power and high performance digital/analog applications.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 II
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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.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제42권9호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2005

60 nm C-MOSFET 기술 분기점 이상의 고성능, 저전력 트랜지스터를 구현 시키기 위해 SiGe/SiO2/Si위에 성장된 strained Si의 두께가 전자 이동도에 미치는 영향을 두 가지 관점에서 조사 연구하였다. 첫째, inter-valley phonon 산란 모델의 매개변수들을 최적화하였고 둘째, strained Si 반전층의 2-fold와 4-fold의 전자상태, 에너지 밴드 다이어그램, 전자 점유도, 전자농도, phonon 산란율과 phonon-limited 전자이동도를 이론적으로 계산하였다. SGOI n-MOSFET의 전자이동도는 고찰된 SOI 구조의 Si 두께 모든 영역에서 일반적인 SOI n-MOSFET보다 $1.5\~1.7$배가 높음이 관찰 되었다. 이러한 경향은 실험 결과와 상당히 일치한다. 특히 strained Si의 두께가 10 nm 이하일 때 Si 채널 두께가 6 nm 보다 작은 SGOI n-MOSFET에서의 phonon-limited 전자 이동도는 일반 SOI n-MOSFET과 크게 달랐다. 우리는 이러한 차이가 전자들이 suained SGOI n-MOSFET의 반전층에서 SiGe층으로 터널링 했기 때문이고, 반면에 일반 SOI n-MOSFET에서는 캐리어 confinement 현상이 발생했기 때문인 것으로 해석하였다. 또한 우리는 10 nm와 3 nm 사이의 Si 두께에서는 SGOI n-MOSFET의 phonon-limited 전자 이동도가 inter-valley phonon 산란율에 영향을 받는 다는 것을 확인하였으며, 이러한 결과는 더욱 높은 드레인 전류를 얻기 위해서 15 nm 미만의 채널길이를 가진 완전공핍 C-MOSFET는 stained Si SGOI 구조로 제작하여야 함을 확인 했다