Sub-10 nm fabrication: methods and applications

Y Chen, Z Shu, S Zhang, P Zeng, H Liang… - … Journal of Extreme …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Reliable fabrication of micro/nanostructures with sub-10 nm features is of great significance
for advancing nanoscience and nanotechnology. While the capability of current …

Can ultra-thin Si FinFETs work well in the sub-10 nm gate-length region?

S Liu, J Yang, L Xu, J Li, C Yang, Y Li, B Shi, Y Pan… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) dominate the present Si FETs. However, when the gate
length is scaled down to the sub-10 nm region, the experimental Si FinFETs suffer from poor …

An efficient ultra-low-power and superior performance design of ternary half adder using CNFET and gate-overlap TFET devices

S Vidhyadharan, SS Dan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel ultra-low power yet high-performance device and circuit design
paradigm for implementing ternary logic based circuits using Gate-Overlap Tunnel FETs …

Toward monolithically integrated hybrid CMOS-NEM circuits

U Sikder, K Horace-Herron, TT Yen… - … on Electron Devices, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches offer the advantages of zero OFF-state leakage
current, abrupt switching characteristics, nonvolatile (NV) operation, and relatively low ON …

Ternary logic circuit based on negative capacitance field-effect transistors and its variation immunity

W Huang, H Zhu, Y Zhang, Z Wu, Q Huo… - … on Electron Devices, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multivalued logic (MVL) device can achieve greater data density with a smaller footprint
than a traditional binary logic device. In this study, a ternary logic inverter based on negative …

Investigation of negative DIBL effect for ferroelectric-based FETs to improve MOSFETs and CMOS circuits

W Huang, H Zhu, Y Zhang, Z Wu, K Jia, X Yin, Y Li… - Microelectronics …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, negative DIBL (NDIBL) due to negative capacitance is used to improve
MOSFETs and Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Transistor (CMOS) circuits by …

Investigation on negative capacitance FinEFT beyond 7 nm node from device to circuit

J Huo, W Huang, F Zhang, S Zhang, W Gan… - Microelectronics …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, a SPICE model for Negative Capacitance FinFET (NC-FinFET) based on the
BSIM-CMG model and Landau-Khalatnikov (LK) equation is developed. The areas of the …

Mobility enhancement techniques for Ge and GeSn MOSFETs

R Cheng, Z Chen, S Yuan, M Takenaka… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The performance enhancement of conventional Si MOSFETs through device scaling is
becoming increasingly difficult. The application of high mobility channel materials is one of …

Theoretical study of negative capacitance finfet with quasi-antiferroelectric material

F Zhang, Y Peng, X Deng, J Huo, Y Liu… - … on Electron Devices, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, a quasi-antiferroelectric (QAFE) model to precisely evaluate the electrical
characteristics of negative capacitance Fin field-effect transistor (NC-FinFET) integrated with …

An accurate process-induced variability-aware compact model-based circuit performance estimation for design-technology co-optimization

S Patil, A Rawat, U Ganguly - IEEE Transactions on Electron …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In sub-10-nm fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs), line-edge roughness (LER) and metal-
gate granularity (MGG) are the two most dominant sources of variability and are mostly …