• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.35-42
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 3차원 소자 시뮬레이터인 Sentaurus를 사용하여, spacer 및 selective epitaxial growth (SEG) 구조 등 공정적 요소를 고려한 22 nm 급 FinFET 구조에서 레이아웃에 따른 DC 및 AC 특성을 추출하여 아날로그 성능을 평가하고 개선방법을 제안한다. Fin이 1개인 FinFET에서 spacer 및 SEG 구조를 고려할 경우 구동전류는 증가하지만 아날로그 성능지표인 unity gain frequency는 total gate capacitance가 dominant하게 영향을 주기 때문에 동작 전압 영역에서 약 19.4 % 저하되는 것을 알 수 있었다. 구동전류가 큰 소자인 multi-fin FinFET에서 공정적 요소를 고려하지 않을 경우, 1-finger 구조를 2-finger로 바꾸면 아날로그 성능이 약 10 % 정도 개선되는 것으로 보이나, 공정적 요소를 고려 할 경우 multi-finger 구조의 게이트 연결방식을 최적화 및 gate 구조를 최적화 해야만 이상적인 아날로그 성능을 얻을 수 있다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.8-22
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• 2014

In the past few decades, CMOS logic technologies and devices have been successfully developed with the steady miniaturization of the feature size. At the sub-30-nm CMOS technology nodes, one of the main hurdles for continuously and successfully scaling down CMOS devices is the parametric failure caused by random variations such as line edge roughness (LER), random dopant fluctuation (RDF), and work-function variation (WFV). The characteristics of each random variation source and its effect on advanced device structures such as multigate and ultra-thin-body devices (vs. conventional planar bulk MOSFET) are discussed in detail. Further, suggested are suppression methods for the LER-, RDF-, and WFV-induced threshold voltage (VTH) variations in advanced CMOS logic technologies including the double-patterning and double-etching (2P2E) technique and in advanced device structures including the fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) MOSFET and FinFET/tri-gate MOSFET at the sub-30-nm nodes. The segmented-channel MOSFET (SegFET) and junctionless transistor (JLT) that can suppress the random variations and the SegFET-/JLT-based static random access memory (SRAM) cell that enhance the read and write margins at a time, though generally with a trade-off between the read and the write margins, are introduced.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.427-435
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• 2014

Segmented-channel MOSFETs (SegFETs) can achieve both good performance and variation robustness through the use of $HfO_2$ (a high-k material) to create the shallow trench isolation (STI) region and the very shallow trench isolation (VSTI) region in them. SegFETs with both an HTI region and a VSTI region (i.e., the STI region is filled with $HfO_2$, and the VSTI region is filled with $SiO_2$) can meet the device specifications for high-performance (HP) applications, whereas SegFETs with both an STI region and a VHTI region (i.e., the VSTI region is filled with $HfO_2$, and the STI region is filled with $SiO_2$) are best suited to low-standby power applications. AC analysis shows that the total capacitance of the gate ($C_{gg}$) is strongly affected by the materials in the STI and VSTI regions because of the fringing electric-field effect. This implies that the highest $C_{gg}$ value can be obtained in an HTI/VHTI SegFET. Lastly, the three-dimensional TCAD simulation results with three different random variation sources [e.g., line-edge roughness (LER), random dopant fluctuation (RDF), and work-function variation (WFV)] show that there is no significant dependence on the materials used in the STI or VSTI regions, because of the predominance of the WFV.