Work function: Fundamentals, measurement, calculation, engineering, and applications

L Lin, R Jacobs, T Ma, D Chen, J Booske, D Morgan - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
The work function, which is the energy barrier for an electron escaping from the surface of a
material, is a fundamental material surface property with many applications spanning energy …

A journey from bulk MOSFET to 3 nm and beyond

A Samal, SL Tripathi, SK Mohapatra - Transactions on Electrical and …, 2020 - Springer
To overcome scaling issues such as controlling gate leakage, drain induced barrier
lowering, higher subthreshold conduction, polysilicon gate depletion, and other short …

Highly sensitive N+ pocket doped vertical tunnel FET biosensor with wide range work function modulation gate electrodes

G Wadhwa, J Singh, A Thakur, S Bhandari - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This manuscript addresses the first time implementing binary metal alloy's wide range work
function gate electrodes along with N+ Si0. 55Ge0. 45 pocket in charge plasma dielectric …

Spatial composition grading of binary metal alloy gate electrode for short-channel SOI/SON MOSFET application

B Manna, S Sarkhel, N Islam, S Sarkar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An overall performance comparison analysis based on 2-D Poisson's equation solution has
been presented here both for silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and silicon-on-nothing (SON) …

Improved switching speed of a CMOS inverter using work-function modulation engineering

B Jena, S Dash, GP Mishra - IEEE transactions on electron …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a detailed numerical analysis of work-function modulated cylindrical
gate metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)-based CMOS inverter …

Quantum simulation of a junctionless carbon nanotube field-effect transistor with binary metal alloy gate electrode

K Tamersit - Superlattices and Microstructures, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, a quantum simulation study that highlights the role of linearly graded binary
metal alloy (LGBMA) gate in improving the performance of coaxially gated junctionless …

Atomic layer deposition of high-k dielectrics on III–V semiconductor surfaces

T Gougousi - Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The goal of this article is to provide an overview of the state of knowledge regarding the
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) of metal oxides on III–V semiconductor surfaces. An …

An improved analytical modeling and simulation of gate stacked linearly graded work function vertical TFET

S Singh, S Yadav, SK Bhalla - Silicon, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, a 2D analytical potential model for n+ SiGe Gate stacked linearly graded work
function Vertical TFET (n+ SiGe GS-LGW-VTFET) is developed with incorporating the effect …

Implementation of linearly modulated work function AσB1−σ gate electrode and Si0.55Ge0.45 N+ pocket doping for performance improvement in gate stack …

G Wadhwa, J Singh - Applied Physics A, 2020 - Springer
In this work, the characteristics of linearly graded work function (LGW) by utilizing the
composition of binary metal alloy A σ B 1− σ gate electrode and the characteristics of Si-Si …

Compact 2D modeling and drain current performance analysis of a work function engineered double gate tunnel field effect transistor

S Sarkhel, N Bagga, SK Sarkar - Journal of Computational Electronics, 2016 - Springer
The ongoing trend of device dimension miniaturization is attributed to a large extent by the
development of several non-conventional device structures among which tunneling field …