• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.57-61
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• 2009

This paper has presented the subthreshold current model of FinFET using the potential variation in the doped channel based on the analytical solution of three dimensional Poisson's equation. The model has been verified by the comparison with the data from 3D numerical device simulator. The variation of subthreshold current with front and back gate bias has been studied. The variation of subthreshold swing and threshold voltage with front and back gate bias has been investigated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.105-106
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• 2005

The impact ionization MOS (I-MOS) transistor with 50nm channel length is presented by using 2-D device simulator ISE-TCAD. The subthreshold slope cannot be steeper than kT/q since the subthreshold conduction is due to diffusion current. As MOSFETs are scaled down, this problem becomes significant and the subthreshold slope degrades which leads an increase in the off-current and off-state power dissipation. The I-MOS is based on a gated p-i-n structure and the subthreshold conduction is induced by impact ionization. The simulation results show that the subthreshold slope is 11.7 mV/dec and this indicates the I-MOS improves the switching speed and off-state characteristics.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.733-737
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• 2011

This paper has studied subthreshold characteristics for double gate(DG) MOSFET using Gaussian function in solving Poisson's equation. Typical two dimensional analytical transport models have been presented for symmetrical Double Gate MOSFETs (DGMOSFETs). Subthreshold swing and threshold voltage are very important factors for digital devices because of determination of ON and OFF. In general, subthreshold swings have to be under 100mV/dec, and threshold voltage roll-off small in short channel devices. These models are used to obtain the change of subthreshold swings and threshold voltage for DGMOSFET according to channel doping profiles. Also subthreshold swings and threshold voltages have been analyzed for device parameters such as channel length, channel thickness and channel doping profiles.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.379-383
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• 2003

The subthreshold characteristics of Double-Gate MOSFETs are analyzed for various Tsi. In the lightly-doped asymmetric device, it is found that the subthreshold current dramatically increases as the Tsi increases and this phenomenon is due to the linear distribution of potential in the channel region with low depletion-charge. Further, we derived an analytical equation which can explain this phenomenon and verified the accuracy of analytical equation by comparing with the result of device simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.2133-2138
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• 2013

In this paper, the variation of a steep subthreshold slope at elevated temperature in nanowire n-channel junctionless and inversion mode MuGFETs has been compared. It has been observed that the subthreshold slopes are increased with the increase of the operation temperature in junctionless and inversio-mode transistors. The variation of a subthreshold slope with operation temperature is more significant in junctionless transistor than inversion-mode transistor. The temperature dependence on the variation of a subthreshold slope for different fin widths shows a similar behavior regardless of fin width. From the temperature dependence on the variation of a subthreshold slope for different substrate biases, it has been observed that the variation of a subthreshold slope is less significant when the substrate bias was applied. It is worth noting that one can achieve a subthreshold slope of below 41mV/dec at elevated temperature of 400K using the junctionless MuGFETs with a positive substrate bias.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.651-656
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• 2014

This paper analyzed the change of subthreshold swing for channel doping of asymmetric double gate(DG) MOSFET. The subthreshold swing is the factor to describe the decreasing rate of off current in the subthreshold region, and plays a very important role in application of digital circuits. Poisson's equation was used to analyze the subthreshold swing for asymmetric DGMOSFET. Asymmetric DGMOSFET could be fabricated with the different top and bottom gate oxide thickness and bias voltage unlike symmetric DGMOSFET. It is investigated in this paper how the doping in channel, gate oxide thickness and gate bias voltages for asymmetric DGMOSFET influenced on subthreshold swing. Gaussian function had been used as doping distribution in solving the Poisson's equation, and the change of subthreshold swing was observed for projected range and standard projected deviation used as parameters of Gaussian distribution. Resultly, the subthreshold swing was greatly changed for doping concentration and profiles, and gate oxide thickness and bias voltage had a big impact on subthreshold swing.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.583-586
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• 2011

In this paper, subthreshold swing characteristics have been presented for double-gate MOSFETs, using the analytical model based on series form of potential distribution. Subthreshold swing is very important factor for digital devices because of determination of ON and OFF. In general, subthreshold swings have to be under 100mV/dec. The channel length $L_g$ is varied from 30nm to 100nm, and channel thickness $t_{si}$ from 15 to 20nm according to channel length, and oxide thickness 5nm to investigate subthreshold swing. The doping of channel is fixed with $10^{16}cm^{-3}$ p-type. The results show good agreement with numerical simulations, confirming this model.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.107-117
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• 2010

An analytical subthreshold swing model is presented for symmetric double-gate (DG) MOSFETs with Gaussian doping profile in vertical direction. The model is based on the effective conduction path effect (ECPE) concept of uniformly doped symmetric DG MOSFETs. The effect of channel doping on the subthreshold swing characteristics for non-uniformly doped device has been investigated. The model also includes the effect of various device parameters on the subthreshold swing characteristics of DG MOSFETs. The proposed model has been validated by comparing the analytical results with numerical simulation data obtained by using the commercially available $ATLAS^{TM}$ device simulator. The model is believed to provide a better physical insight and understanding of DG MOSFET devices operating in the subthreshold regime.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.704-707
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• 2013

This paper has analyzed the subthreshold swings for top and bottom gate voltages of asymmetric double gate(DG) MOSFET. The asymmetric DGMOSFET is four terminal device to be able to separately bias for top and bottom gates. The subthreshold swing, therefore, has to be analyze not only for top gate voltage, but also for bottom gate voltage. In the pursuit of this purpose, Poisson equation has been solved to obtain the analytical solution of potential distribution with Gaussian function, and the subthreshold swing model has been presented. As a result to observe the subthreshold swings for the change of top and bottom gate voltage using this subthreshold swing model, we know the subthreshold swings are greatly changed for gate voltages. Especially we know the conduction path has been changed for top and bottom gate voltage and this is expected to greatly influence on subthreshold swings.