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A Dual Material Control Gate Tunnel Field Effect Transistor for an Asymmetric Doping at Source and Drain Regions

Pratiksha Kharat

Abstract


Double-Gate tunnel FET devices, which uses high-κ gate dielectric, are explored using realistic design parameters, showing an ON-current as high as 0.23 mA, a gate voltage of 1.8 V, an OFF-current of not more than 1 fA (neglecting gate leakage), an improved ordinary subthreshold swing of 57 mV/dec, and a lower point slope of 11 mV/dec. A dual material control gate tunnel field effect transistor for an asymmetric doping at source and drain regions is suggested. The gate consists of three segments with different work functions φ1, φ2, and φ3, which are named as tunnelling gate (M1), control gate (M2), and auxiliary gate (M3), individually. The 2-D nature of tunnel FET current flow is studied, which indicates that the current is not confined to a channel at the gate-dielectric surface. When temperature is varied, tunnel FETs with a high-κ gate dielectric have a smaller threshold voltage shift than those using SiO2, while the subthreshold slope for fixed values of Vg remains nearly unchanged, in contrast with the traditional MOSFET. Moreover, an Ion/Ioff ratio of greater than 2×1011 is shown for simulated device with a gate length (over the intrinsic region) of 50 nm, which indicates that the tunnel FET is encouraging candidate to achieve better-than-ITRS low-standby-power switch activity.

 

Keywords: Band-to-band tunneling, double gate (DG), gated p-i-n diode, high-κ dielectric, subthreshold swing, tunnel field effect transistor (FET)

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Pratiksha Kharat. A Dual Material Control Gate Tunnel Field Effect Transistor for an Asymmetric Doping at Source and Drain Regions. Journal of VLSI Design Tools & Technology. 2018; 8(3): 45–53p.


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