• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.20 no.5 s.95
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• pp.28-45
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• 2005

무어의 법칙을 근간으로 하는 전계효과 트랜지스터는 매 18개월마다 0.7배씩의 성공적인 소형화를 거듭하여 최근에는 50nm 크기로 구성된 약 1억 개의 트랜지스터가 집적된 칩을 생산하고 있다. 그러나 트랜지스터의 크기가 50nm 이하로 줄어들면서는 단순한 소형화 과정은 근본적인 물리적인 한계에 접근하게 되었다. 특히 게이트 절연막의최소 두께는 트랜지스터의 소형화에 가장 직접적인 중요한 요소이나, 실리콘 산화막의 두께가 2nm 이하가 되면서 게이트 절연막을 집적 터널링하는 전자에 의한 누설전류의 급격한 증가로 인하여 그 사용이 어려워지고 있는 추세이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 트랜지스터의 소형화에 악영향을 미치는 물리적인 한계요소에 대하여 살펴보고, 이러한 소형화의 한계를 뛰어넘기 위한 노력의 일환으로 연구되고 있는 이중게이트 구조의 트랜지스터, 쇼트키 트랜지스터, 나노선을 이용한 트랜지스터 및 분자소자 등의 새로운 소자구도에 대하여 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.1-6
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• 2012

This paper presents the extraction and analysis of small-signal parameters of tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) by using TCAD device simulation. The channel lengths ($L_G$) of the simulated devices varies from 50 nm to 100 nm. The parameter extraction for TFETs have been performed by quasi-static small-signal model of conventional MOSFETs. The small-signal parameters of TFETs with different channel lengths were extracted according to gate bias voltage. The $L_G$-dependency of the effective gate resistance, transconductance, source-drain conductance, and gate capacitance are different with those of conventional MOSFET. The $f_T$ of TFETs is inverely proportional not to $L_G{^2}$ but to $L_G$.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.168-174
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• 2006

We investigated field-effect ion-transport devices based on carbon nanotubes by using classical molecular dynamics simulations under applied external force fields, and we present model schematics that can be applied to the nanoscale data storage devices and unipolar ionic field-effect transistors. As the applied external force field is increased, potassium ions rapidly flow through the nanochannel. Under low external force fields, thermal fluctuations of the nanochannels affect tunneling of the potassium ions whereas the effects of thermal fluctuations are negligible under high external force fields. Since the electric current conductivity increases when potassium ions are inserted into fullerenes or carbon nanotubes, the field effect due to the gate, which can modify the position of the potassium ions, changes the tunneling current between the drain and the source.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.512-513
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• 2018

Trap-assisted-tunneling (TAT) degrades subthreshold slope of real-world tunneling field-effect-transistors (TFET) and it should be considered in the simulation. However, its mechanism is not very well understood in line tunneling type L-shaped TFET (LTFET). This study investigates TAT mechanism in LTFETs using dynamic nonlcoal Schenk model. Both phonon assisted and direct band to trap tunneling events are considered in this study.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.869-875
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• 2017

Using TCAD simulation, performances of tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) was investigated. Drain current-gate voltage types of TFET structure such as single-gate TFET (SG-TFET), double-gate TFET (DG-TFET), L-shaped TFET (L-TFET), and Pocket-TFET (P-TFET) are simulated, and then as dielectric constant of gate oxide and channel length are varied their subthreshold swing (SS) and on-current ($I_{on}$) are compared. On-currents and subthreshold swings of the L-TFET and P-TFET structures with high electric constant and line tunneling were 10 times and 20 mV/dec more than those of the SG-TFET and DG-TFET using point tunneling, respectively. Especially, it is shown that hump effect which dominant current element changes from point tunneling to line tunneling, is disappeared in P-TFET with high-k gate oxide such as $HfO_2$. The analysis of 4 types of TFET structure provides guidelines for the design of new types of TFET structure which concentrate on line tunneling by minimizing point tunneling.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.2892-2898
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• 2015

We propose a new Double-Independent-Gate Ambipolar Silicon-Nanowire Field Effect Transistor(DIG Ambi-SiNWFET). The proposed transistor has two types of gate such as polarity gate and control gate. The polarity gate determines the operation that the gate bias controls NMOSFET or PMOSFET. The voltage of control gate controls the current characteristic of the transistor. We investigated systematically work functions of the two gates and source/drain to operate ambipolar current-voltage characteristics using 2D device simulator. When the work functions of polarity gate, control gate and source/drain are 4.75eV, 4.5eV, and 4.8eV, respectively, it showed the obvious ambipolar characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.381-382
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• 2018

Subthreshold swings (SSs) and on-currents of four types of junctionless nanowire tunnel field-effect transistor(JLNW-TFET) are observed. Ge-Si structure for the source-channel junction has the highest drive current among Si-Si, Si-Ge, and Ge-Ge junction, and the drive current increases up to 1000 times compared to others. Minimum SS of Si-Si junction is reduced by up to 5 times more than others.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.876-884
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• 2017

The current-voltage characteristics of Silicon(Si), Germanum(Ge), and hetero tunnel field-effect transistors(TFETs) with source-overlapped gate structure was investigated using TCAD simulations in terms of tunneling. A Si-TFET with gate oxide material $SiO_2$ showed the hump effects in which line and point tunneling appear simultaneously, but one with gate oxide material $HfO_2$ showed only the line tunneling due to decreasing threshold voltage and it shows better performance than one with gate oxide material $SiO_2$. Tunneling mechanism of Ge and hetero-TFETs with gate oxide material of both $SiO_2$ and $HfO_2$ are dominated by point tunneling, and showed higher leakage currents, and Si-TFET shows better performance than Ge and hetero-TFETs in terms of SS. These simulation results of Si, Ge, and hetero-TFETs with source-overlapped gate structure can give the guideline for optimal TFET structures with non-silicon channel materials.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.527-528
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• 2017

Current-voltage characteristics of source-overlapped gate tunnel field-effect transistor (SOG-TFET) with different channel doping concentration are proposed. Due to the gaussian doping in which the channel region near the source is highly doped and that far from the source is lightly doped, the ambipolar current was reduced, compared with the uniformly-doped SOG-TFET. On-current is almost similar in P-P-N and P-I-N structure but subthreshold swing (SS) of P-P-N TFET enhanced 5 times higher than those of P-I-N TFET. off-current and ambiploar current of the proposed SOG-TFET decrease 10 times and 100 times than those of the uniformly-doped SOG-TFET.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.445-447
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• 2016

Performance comparison between Tunneling Field-Effect Transistors (TFETs) was examined when three types of device parameter of double-gate TFET (DG-TFET) and single-gate TFET (SG-TFET) are varied. When the channel length is over 30 nm, silicon thickness is below 20 nm, and a gate insulator thickness decreases, the performance of $I_{on}$ and SS in SG-TFETs and DG-TFETs enhances. It shows that the performance of the DG-TFETs is improved than that of SG-TFETs at three types of device parameter.