Title |
Device Optimization for Short-channel Effects Suppression in UFETs |
Authors |
(Sung-Su Yoon) ; (Ja-Yun Ku) ; (Khwang-Sun Lee) ; (Dae-Han Jung) ; (Dong-Hyun Wang) ; (Jun-Young Park) |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5573/JSTS.2023.23.3.183 |
Keywords |
Buried gate; direct tunneling; gate leakage; silicon-on-nothing (SON); U-shaped channel FET (UFET); TCAD simulations |
Abstract |
Excessively reducing gate length leads to an increase in off-state current (IOFF) due to severed short-channel effects (SCEs). 3D device architectures such as FinFETs, gate-all-around (GAA) FETs, and U-shaped channel FETs (UFETs), have been proposed in efforts to minimize the SCEs. However, increasing IOFF due to gate leakage and junction leakage is difficult to avoid. In this context, a device optimization of modern UFETs is proposed to suppress the unwanted IOFF. 3-dimensional (3-D) numerical simulations were performed to investigate the origins of the leakage current in UFETs. |