https://doi.org/10.5573/JSTS.2025.25.2.117
(Soomin Kim) ; (Md. Hasan Raza Ansari) ; (Seongjae Cho)
Recently, GeSn has been identified as a promising candidate for group-IV-driven electronic and photonic devices owing to its high carrier mobility and indirect-to-direct bandgap transition property. In this work, a comprehensive study of primary material characteristics, including electron affinity, bandgap energies at local minimum valleys, and effective density of states (DOS) of the GeSn alloy, has been conducted as a function of Sn fraction and in-volume stress. As the Sn fraction increases, leading to the transition from an indirect-to-direct bandgap, the electron affinity rises sharply, while the energy bandgap and the effective DOS decrease. Based on these material parameters, an n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor has been designed and optimized in terms of DC parameters and high-frequency performance as a function of Sn fraction and the corresponding in-volume biaxial stress in the...