• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제8권3호
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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.

• 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.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.153-153
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• 2009

We investigated the dependence of the memory margin of the Cap-less memory cell on the strain of top silicon channel layer and also compared kink effect of strained Cap-less memory cell with the conventional Cap-less memory cell. For comparison of the characteristic of the memory margin of Cap-less memory cell on the strain channel layer, Cap-less transistors were fabricated on fully depleted strained silicon-on-insulator of 0.73-% tensile strain and conventional silicon-on-insulator substrate. The thickness of channel layer was fabricated as 40 nm to obtain optimal memory margin. We obtained the enhancement of 2.12 times in the memory margin of Cap-less memory cell on strained-silicon-on-insulator substrate, compared with a conventional SOI substrate. In particular, much higher D1 current of Cap-less memory cell was observed, resulted from a higher drain conductance of 2.65 times at the kink region, induced by the 1.7 times higher electron mobility in the strain channel than the conventional Cap-less memory cell at the effective field of 0.3MV/cm. Enhancement of memory margin supports the strained Cap-less memory cell can be promising substrate structures to improve the characteristics of Cap-less memory cell.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.367-380
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• 2013

In this paper, an analytical threshold voltage model is developed for a short-channel double-material-gate (DMG) strained-silicon (s-Si) on silicon-germanium ($Si_{1-X}Ge_X$) MOSFET structure. The proposed threshold voltage model is based on the so called virtual-cathode potential formulation. The virtual-cathode potential is taken as minimum channel potential along the transverse direction of the channel and is derived from two-dimensional (2D) potential distribution of channel region. The 2D channel potential is formulated by solving the 2D Poisson's equation with suitable boundary conditions in both the strained-Si layer and relaxed $Si_{1-X}Ge_X$ layer. The effects of a number of device parameters like the Ge mole fraction, Si film thickness and gate-length ratio have been considered on threshold voltage. Further, the drain induced barrier lowering (DIBL) has also been analyzed for gate-length ratio and amount of strain variations. The validity of the present 2D analytical model is verified with ATLAS$^{TM}$, a 2D device simulator from Silvaco Inc.

• 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.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.92-92
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 strained Silicon-on-Insulator (sSOI) 기판에 제작된 triple-gate MOSFETs 의 이동도와 단채널 효과에 대하여 분석 하였다. Strained 실리콘에 제작된 소자는 전류의 방향이 <110> 밤항일 경우 전자의 이동도는 증가하나 정공의 이동도는 오히려 감소하는 문제점이 있다. 이를 극복하기 위하여 소자에서 전류의 방향이 <110>방향에서 45 도 회전된 <100> 방향으로 흐르게 제작하였다. Strain이 가해지지 않은 기판에 제작된 동일한 구조의 소자와 비교하여 sSOI 에 제작된 소자에서 전자의 이동도는 약 40% 정공의 이동도는 약 50% 증가하였다. 채널 길이가 100 nm 내외로 감소함에 따라 나타나는 drain induced barrier lowering (DIBL) 현상, subthreshold slope (SS)의 증가 현상에서 sSOI에 제작된 소자가 상대적으로 우수한 특성을 보였으며 off-current leakage ($I_{off}$) 특성도 sSOI기판이 더 우수한 특성을 보였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.19
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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.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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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.

• 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

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제41권10호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2004

SOI 구조에서 형성된 MOS 트랜지스터의 장점과 strained Si에서 전자의 이동도가 향상되는 효과를 동시에 고려하기 위해 buried oxide(BOX)층과 Top Si층 사이에 Ge을 삽입하여 strained Si/relaxed SiGe/SiO₂Si 구조를 형성하고 strained Si fully depletion(FD) n-MOSFET를 제작하였다. 상부 strained Si층과 하부 SiGe층의 두께의 합을 12.8nm로 고정하고 상부 strained Si 층의 두께에 변화를 주어 두께의 변화가 electron mobility에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. Strained Si/relaxed SiGe/SiO2/Si (strained Si/SGOI) 구조위의 FD n-MOSFET의 전자 이동도는 Si/SiO₂/Si (SOI) 구조위의 FD n-MOSFET 에 비해 30-80% 항상되었다. 상부 strained Si 층과 하부 SiGe 층의 두께의 합을 12.8nm 로 고정한 shrined Si/SGOI 구조 FD n-MOSFET에서 상부층 strained Si층의 두께가 감소하면 하부층 SiGe 층 두께 증가로 인한 Ge mole fraction이 증가함에 의해 inter-valley scattering 이 감소함에도 불구하고 n-channel 층의 전자이동도가 감소하였다. 이는 strained Si층의 두께가 감소할수록 2-fold valley에 있는 전자가 n-channel 층에 더욱더 confinement 되어 intra-valley phonon scattering 이 증가하여 전자 이동도가 감소함이 이론적으로 확인되었다.