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We introduce a novel nano-scale SOI MOSFET structure with vertical trapezoidal doping distribution,
additional side gate, and dual material buried insulator, and show that the onoff current ratio and the
self-heating effect of the proposed device improve considerably rather than those of the conventional
structure.
art ic l e i nf o
a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received 8 August 2014
Received in revised form
16 December 2014
Accepted 6 January 2015
Available online 7 January 2015
In this paper, we present a novel nano-scale fully depleted silicon-on-insulator metal-oxide semiconductor eld-effect transistor (SOI MOSFET). On-state current increment, leakage current decrement,
and self-heating effect improvement are pursued in our proposed structure. The structure makes use of a
buried insulator layer which consists of two materials to reduce the self-heating effect. On the other
hand, to modify the sub- and super-threshold drain current, vertical trapezoidal doping distribution and
additional side gate technique are employed. Our novel transistor is named dual material buried insulator vertical trapezoidal doping SOI MOSFET (DV-SOI MOSFET). We investigate the electrical performance and thermal behavior of the DV-SOI MOSFET using a commercial device simulator. We demonstrate that the proposed structure increases onoff current ratio by orders of magnitude and considerably
improves self-heating effect in comparison with the conventional uniform doping fully depleted siliconon-insulator MOSFET (C-SOI) which uses side gate for better electrical performance.
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Keywords:
Silicon on insulator
Self-heating
Leakage current
Dual material buried insulator
Vertical trapezoidal doping
Side gate
A B S T R A C T
1. Introduction
To achieve higher performance and lower power consumption,
transistors have been scaled in the past decades. Scaling of
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MOSFETs has raised adverse short channel effects (SCEs) [13]. The
main short channel effects are the threshold voltage roll-off, the
degradation of the subthreshold swing, and the drain induced
barrier lowering effect [24]. SCEs lead to the increment of the Offstate current, and degradation of the onoff current ratio. Two
common approaches to minimize these effects are using thinner
gate oxide and doping the channel with a higher dose of impurity
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[5,6]. Gate leakage current increment, carrier mobility degradation, and random dopant uctuation are some of the negative
consequences of using these techniques in the nano-scale regime
[7]. Hence alternative MOSFET structures have been proposed. SOIMOSFET is one of the most promising structures for further
downscaling of the conventional bulk technology [8,9]. Thin body
nature of this device has the advantage of suppressing SCEs due to
better electrostatics inuence of the gate compared to that of bulk
structures [10,11]. This enables us to reduce the doping level of the
channel. However, short channel effects still occur in SOI-MOSFETs
but to a lesser extent than in bulk MOSFETs.
One of the main difculties in SOI-MOSFETs is dissipating the
heat generated in the active region of the device, since the buried
insulator layer blocks the heat ow toward out of the body of the
device [10]. Compensation of the self-heating effect is an important issue for improving the device performance. Although, the
straightforward approach for the heat dissipation seems to be the
reduction of the buried oxide thickness, but it degrades the
blocking voltage and the conduction capability [11,12].
The advantages of the SOI-MOSFET structures compared to the
conventional MOSFET structure have been widely investigated
[13,14], and the use of SOI technology in the integrated circuits
seems indispensable in the future. However, ongoing researches to
optimize electrical performance and thermal behavior of SOIMOSFETs continue. Recently, several SOI-MOSFET structures have
been reported in the literature to improve AC performance and
self-heating effect [1517].
In this paper, we employ the idea of using a higher thermal
conductivity dielectric as buried insulator instead of using silicon
dioxide. Recently utilization of silicon nitride layer as dielectric in
different MOSFET structures has been taken into consideration
[18,19]. The thermal conductivity of Si3N4 is 0.185 W K 1 cm 1
that is dramatically higher than that of SiO2, which is
0.014 W K 1 cm 1. However, to have a better interface between
the buried insulator and the Si body of the SOI device, Si3N4 layer
is used with a thin SiO2 layer in stacked conguration. On the
other hand, to improve the onoff current ratio, we employ a
channel doping engineering technique in our proposed structure.
Here, the doping density of the channel is distributed in a trapezoidal form in the vertical direction. This doping distribution
prole results in a higher potential barrier against the injected
carriers from the source, as they are further from the gate.
To simulate and examine the different characteristics of the
proposed SOI device, the ATLAS device simulator is used. In the
simulator environment the basic Poisson and driftdiffusion
equations and some other impressive physical models such as
ShockleyReadHall (SRH), and Auger recombination models are
utilized simultaneously. Furthermore, carrier velocity saturation,
carriercarrier scattering at high doping concentrations, the dependence of mobility on temperature, and the inuence of vertical
electric elds are taken into account, too. Quantum models are
also activated for accurate simulation of devices. Comparing the
experimental data [20,21] and the simulation results of the drain
current of a similar structure (Fig. 1), it is shown that ATLAS is a
suitable numerical simulator for accurate examination of our
semiconductor device.
2. DV-SOI structure
Schematic cross-sections of the DV-SOI structure and the C-SOI
structure are shown in Fig. 2(a) and (b), respectively. The DV-SOI
structure consists of dual material buried insulator instead of just
SiO2 beneath active region (channel region). Because of the higher
thermal conductivity of Si3N4 than that of SiO2, the better heat
conduction path from the active region of the device to the
Fig. 1. Good agreement between experimental prole [21] and simulated prole.
Data are reported for VG 0.3 V, Gate metal work function 4.5 eV, T 300 K,
NA 1 1018 cm 3.
TC =
Pt tb
Kd A
(1)
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Fig. 2. Cross section of the (a) DV-SOI MOSFET and (b) C-SOI MOSFET structures.
Fig. 3. Doping distribution prole in the channel for the DV-SOI and C-SOI
structures.
Table 1
Typical parameters for the DV-SOI MOSFET and
C-SOI MOSFET structures.
Parameter
Value
Channel length
Main gate length, LM
Side gate length, LS
Gate oxide thickness, tf
Buried oxide thickness, tBOX
Thin silicon thickness, tSi
Thin silicon lm doping, NA
Gap length, Z
Source/drain doping, Nd
Gate metal work function
Voltage difference, VDiff
p-Type substrate doping
Si3N4 thickness, tSi3N4
30 nm
14 nm
14 nm
1.2 nm
100 nm
15 nm
1 1018
2 nm
1 1020
4.5 eV
0.3 V
1 1013
87.5 nm
12.5 nm
Fig. 4. Drain current versus gate voltage characteristics of the DV-SOI and C-SOI
MOSFETs in linear and logarithmic scale at VDS 0.5 V. The parameters of these
structures are assumed according to Table 1.
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Fig. 5. Steady state distribution of the temperature for (a) DV-SOI MOSFET and (b) C-SOI MOSFET structures. The bias conditions for both structures are VGS 2 V and VDS
1 V. The other simulation parameters are listed in Table 1.
T K
eff = eff,0
T0
(2)
Fig. 6. Channel temperature versus drain bias for C-SOI MOSFET and DV-SOI
MOSFET structures at VGS 2 V. The other simulation parameters are listed in
Table 1.
To reduce the leakage current in the proposed DV-SOI transistor, we have focused on the modication of the prole of the
channel potential in a way that the channel conduction can be
controlled better at the subthreshold region of the device operation. Although doping the channel with the higher dose of impurity is a well-known approach for reducing adverse short
channel effects, but, as stated before, it is not recommended for
nano-scale devices. One reason is considerable ionized impurity
scattering in highly doped channels, which leads to the weak
current drive. On the other hand, regions in the channel which are
further from the gate are more vulnerable to the short channel
effects. Here we dope the channel with a trapezoidal prole of
doping density, vertically. As a result, in addition to the higher
potential barrier at the depth of the channel, a slope in the potential barrier is created in the channel due to the doping difference between the top of channel and the bottom of channel as
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Fig. 7. The prole of electron concentration along channel for (a) DV-SOI MOSFET and (b) C-SOI MOSFET structures at VGS 2 V, and VDS 10 V conditions.
shown in Fig. 9(a). It can be seen from Fig. 9(b) that a small potential barrier is formed at the channel of the C-SOI structure, and
therefore, the OFF state leakage current is higher. But, in the
proposed DV-SOI structure, the conduction mechanism of the DVSOI should now be controlled by the potential barrier and the OFF
state leakage current decreases due to high barrier in the channel.
Furthermore, a slope on the potential prole aids the carrier
transport in the channel. Therefore, we are expecting that the ON
state current intensies.
In the other word, by using the DV-SOI structure, the penetration of the depletion regions of the reversed biased pn junctions of the drain and the source to the substrate is diminished. It
is shown that the leakage current of the reverse-biased pn
junction is a function of junction area and doping concentration
[27].
Fig. 10 shows the DIBL and the threshold voltage of the DV-SOI
and the C-SOI structures for the channel lengths down to 20 nm.
DIBL and threshold voltage roll-off are because of the potential
Fig. 9. Conduction band energy of the (a) DV-SOI MOSFET and (b) C-SOI MOSFET structures at VGS 2 V and VD 10 V.
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Fig. 12. Gate-source capacitance as a function of the frequency for DV-SOI MOSFET
and C-SOI MOSFET structures.
Fig. 10. DIBL and threshold voltage of the DV-SOI and C-SOI structures versus
channel length.
barrier reduction in the short-channel device. Vertically trapezoidal doping prole in the channel of the DV-SOI structure mitigates
the dependence of the height of the potential barrier on the drain
bias condition and the channel length variation. The former decreases the DIBL, and the latter reduces the threshold voltage rolloff due to the channel length shrinkage.
As it can be inferred from the gure, when the channel length
decreases below 30 nm, the DIBL effect in the DV-SOI structure is
far less than that in the case of C-SOI structure. The strong dependence of the threshold voltage of the C-SOI structure on the
drain bias is highly undesirable. This means that the channel
conductance goes out of the gate control in the C-SOI structures
with very short channel lengths.
The onoff current ratio (Ion/Ioff) of the DV-SOI is large compared to that of the C-SOI. This can be clearly seen from Fig. 11,
where the Ion/Ioff ratio curves of both DV and C-SOI structures are
plotted against the channel length. Having better on-state drive
current along with lower off-state leakage current in the proposed
structure leads to the considerable improvement in the Ion/Ioff ratio
values.
3.3. High frequency characteristics
In this subsection we investigate the parameters related to the
small signal application of our device. The cut-off frequency, fT,
and maximum oscillation frequency, fmax, are the main parameters
in the high frequency characteristics of a device. The expressions
for the fT and fmax are as following [2228].
Fig. 11. The ratio of Ion to Ioff (Ion/Ioff) versus channel length for the DV-SOI, and
C-SOI structures.
fT =
gm
2 (CGS + CGD + Cpar )
fmax =
fT R DS
2 RG
(3)
(4)
where CGS and CGD are the gate-source and gate-drain capacitances, Cpar is the parasitic input capacitance, RDS and RG are the
drainsource and gate resistances, and gm is transconductance,
respectively.
Gatesource and gatedrain capacitances for the two structures
are shown in Figs. 12 and 13. It can be inferred from the gures
that the carrier density around junctions is less modulated by
applied signals with higher frequencies. It is due to the gradual
mechanisms of movement, generation and recombination of carriers around junctions. This means lower capacitance of junction
for higher frequency signals. The difference between the curves for
C-SOI and DV-SOI in both gures can be attributed to the lower
doping density of the channel surface in DV-SOI structure and
deeper depletion region, hence, the parasitic capacitances of this
structure is lower compared to those of C-SOI structure.
The transconductance of the proposed and conventional
structures is observed in Fig. 14. It is shown that the transconductance is proportional to Cox/(Cox Cs) in which Cs is semiconductor capacitance [29,30]. We discussed the dependence of
this capacitance on the frequency in the previous paragraph. This
dependence justies the variation of transconductance with respect to frequency of applied signal in the gure. It can be inferred
from these gures that the high frequency characteristics of the
DV-SOI transistor are expected to be better, although not signicantly, than those of C-SOI transistor.
Fig. 13. Gate-drain capacitance as a function of the frequency for the DV-SOI
MOSFET and C-SOI MOSFET structures.
Fig. 14. Transconductance as a function of the frequency for the DV-SOI MOSFET
and C-SOI MOSFET structures.
4. Conclusion
In this paper, a novel fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (SOI)
MOSFET with the vertical trapezoidal doping prole in the channel
and a Si3N4 layer in the box region has been introduced. To investigate the characteristics of the proposed structure, we have
simulated the transistor and compared the results with the simulation results of a conventional uniform doping channel fully
depleted SOI MOSFET (C-SOI). The results show that the trapezoidal doping distribution in the channel region leads to the short
channel effects improvement. Hence, the dependence of the
threshold voltage on the channel length and the drain bias is weak
in the DV-SOI rather than in the C-SOI structure. Additionally,
compared to the C-SOI transistor, the higher onoff current ratio
(Ion/Ioff) is achieved in the DV-SOI structure. The other idea used in
this work was reduction of the thermal conductivity of the buried
insulator to mitigate the self-heating effect. Utilization of the Si3N4
layer as buried oxide considerably improved the self-heating effect
in the SOI-MOSFET, especially for the high temperature MOS applications. Simulation results demonstrated that the maximum
temperature in the active region of the proposed structure reduces. Furthermore, we investigated the main small signal parameters of the both devices and showed that the operating frequency of our transistor is higher than that of the conventional SOI
transistor. Finally, the superior performance characteristics of the
novel structure make it a potential candidate for VLSI low power
integrated circuits.
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