• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.12-17
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• 2004

The body-tied FinFETs (bulk FinFETs) implemented on bulk Si substrate were characterized through 3-dimensional device simulation. By controlling the doping profile along the vertical fin body, the bulk FinFETs can be scaled down to sub-30 nm. Device characteristics with the body shape were also shown. At a contact resistivity of $1{\times}10^{-7}\;{\Omega}\;cm^2$, the device with side metal contact of fin source/drain showed higher drain current by about two. The C-V results were also shown for the first time.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제43권11호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

이상적인(ideal) 이중-게이트(double-gate) 벌크(bulk) FinFET의 3차원(3-D) 시뮬레이션을 수행하여 전기적 특성들을 분석하였다. 3차원 시뮬레이터를 이용하여, 게이트 길이($L_g$)와 높이($H_g$), 핀 바디(fin body)의 도핑농도($N_b$)를 변화시키면서 소스/드레인 접합 깊이($X_{jSDE}$)에 따른 문턱전압($V_{th}$), 문턱전압 변화량(${\Delta}V_{th}$), DIBL(drain induced barrier lowering), SS(subthreshold swing)의 특성들을 살펴보았다. 게이트 높이가 35 nm인 소자에서 소스/드레인 접합 깊이(25 nm, 35 nm, 45 nm) 변화에 따라, 각각의 문턱전압을 기준으로 게이트 높이가 $30nm{\sim}45nm$로 변화 될 때, 문턱전압변화량은 20 mV 이하로 그 변화량이 매우 적음을 알 수 있었다. 낮은 핀 바디 도핑농도($1{\times}10^{16}cm^{-3}{\sim}1{\times}10^{17}cm^{-3}$)에서, 소스/드레인 접합 깊이가 게이트전극보다 깊어질수록 DIBL과 SS는 급격히 나빠지는 것을 볼 수 있었고. 이러한 특성저하들은 $H_g$ 아래의 ${\sim}10nm$ 위치에 국소(local) 도핑을 함으로써 개선시킬 수 있었다. 또한 local 도핑으로 소스/드레인 접합 깊이가 얕아질수록 문턱전압이 떨어지는 것을 개선시킬 수 있었다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.88-92
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• 2020

Thermal effects in bulk and SOI FinFETs are briefly reviewed herein. Different techniques to measure these thermal effects are studied in detail. Self-heating effects show a strong dependency on geometrical parameters of the device, thereby affecting the reliability and performance of FinFETs. Mobility degradation leads to 7% higher current in bulk FinFETs than in SOI FinFETs. The lower thermal conductivity of SiO₂ and higher current densities due to a reduction in device dimensions are the potential reasons behind this degradation. A comparison of both bulk and SOI FinFETs shows that the thermal effects are more dominant in bulk FinFETs as they dissipate more heat because of their lower lattice temperature. However, these thermal effects can be minimized by integrating 2D materials along with high thermal conductive dielectrics into the FinFET device structure.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.169-172
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• 2020

In this paper, the effect of hot carrier injection on an n-bulk fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) is analyzed. The hot carrier injection method is applied to determine the performance change after injection in two ways, channel hot electron (CHE) and drain avalanche hot carrier (DAHC), which have the greatest effect at room temperature. The optimum condition for CHE injection is V_G=V_D, and the optimal condition for DAHC injection can be indirectly confirmed by measuring the peak value of the substrate current. Deterioration by DAHC injection affects not only hot electrons formed by impact ionization, but also hot holes, which has a greater impact on reliability than CHE. Further, we test the amount of drain voltage that can be withstood, and extracted the lifetime of the device. Under CHE injection conditions, the drain voltage was able to maintain a lifetime of more than 10 years at a maximum of 1.25 V, while DAHC was able to achieve a lifetime exceeding 10 years at a 1.05-V drain voltage, which is 0.2 V lower than that of CHE injection conditions.

• 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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• 제7권2호
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• pp.76-81
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• 2007

Threshold voltage ($V_{th}$) modeling of doublegate (DG) MOSFETs was performed, for the first time, by considering barrier lowering in the short channel devices. As the gate length of DG MOSFETs scales down, the overlapped charge-sharing length ($x_h$) in the channel which is related to the barrier lowering becomes very important. A fitting parameter ${\delta}_w$ was introduced semi-empirically with the fin body width and body doping concentration for higher accuracy. The $V_{th}$ model predicted well the $V_{th}$ behavior with fin body thickness, body doping concentration, and gate length. Our compact model makes an accurate $V_{th}$ prediction of DG devices with the gate length up to 20-nm.