Title |
Fabrication Methods for Nanowire Tunnel FET with Locally Concentrated Silicon-germanium Channel |
Authors |
Junil Lee(Junil Lee) ; Ryoongbin Lee(Ryoongbin Lee) ; Sihyun Kim(Sihyun Kim) ; Euyhwan Park(Euyhwan Park) ; Hyun-Min Kim(Hyun-Min Kim) ; Kitae Lee(Kitae Lee) ; Sangwan Kim(Sangwan Kim) ; Byung-Gook Park(Byung-Gook Park) |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5573/JSTS.2019.19.1.018 |
Keywords |
TFET ; SiGe channel TFET ; Ge condensation ; nanowire channel |
Abstract |
This paper proposes a method to fabricate tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) which have Silicon Germanium (SiGe) nanowire channel with graded Ge concentration on Silicon-on-insulator (SOI). To obtain the concentration-graded SiGe channel, Ge condensation method which is a kind of oxidation is adopted. The rectangular shape of the channel becomes a rounded nanowire through the Ge condensation process. The TFET with the concentration-graded SiGe channel can improve drive current due to a smaller band gap at the Gecondensed surface of the channel compared to Si or non-condensed SiGe channel TFETs. The electrical characteristics of the proposed TFET are verified by technology computer-aided design (TCAD) simulation. |