Considerations for ultimate CMOS scaling

KJ Kuhn - IEEE transactions on Electron Devices, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This review paper explores considerations for ultimate CMOS transistor scaling. Transistor
architectures such as extremely thin silicon-on-insulator and FinFET (and related …

Si–Ge–Sn alloys: From growth to applications

S Wirths, D Buca, S Mantl - Progress in crystal growth and characterization …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this review article, we address key material parameters as well as the fabrication and
application of crystalline GeSn binary and SiGeSn ternary alloys. Here, the transition from an …

Semiconductor nanowires: to grow or not to grow?

PC McIntyre, AF i Morral - Materials Today Nano, 2020 - Elsevier
Semiconductor nanowires have demonstrated exciting properties for nanophotonics,
sensors, energy technologies, and end-of-roadmap and beyond-roadmap electronic …

Ge0.95Sn0.05 Gate-All-Around p-Channel Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors with Sub-3 nm Nanowire Width

Y Kang, S Xu, K Han, EYJ Kong, Z Song, S Luo… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate Ge0. 95Sn0. 05 p-channel gate-all-around field-effect transistors (p-
GAAFETs) with sub-3 nm nanowire width (W NW) on a GeSn-on-insulator (GeSnOI) …

7-nm FinFET CMOS design enabled by stress engineering using Si, Ge, and Sn

S Gupta, V Moroz, L Smith, Q Lu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bandgap and stress engineering using group IV materials-Si, Ge, and Sn, and their alloys
are employed to design a FinFET-based CMOS solution for the 7-nm technology node and …

Germanium–Tin (GeSn) p-Channel MOSFETs Fabricated on (100) and (111) Surface Orientations With Sub-400 Passivation

X Gong, G Han, F Bai, S Su, P Guo… - IEEE Electron …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we report the first study of the dependence of carrier mobility and drive current I
Dsat of Ge 0.958 Sn 0.042 p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors …

Material characterization of high Sn-content, compressively-strained GeSn epitaxial films after rapid thermal processing

R Chen, YC Huang, S Gupta, AC Lin, E Sanchez… - Journal of crystal …, 2013 - Elsevier
We report on the characterization of high Sn-content (∼ 10% Sn) GeSn films grown on (001)
Ge/Si substrates using reduced-pressure chemical vapor deposition. Pseudomorphic 30nm …

Hole Mobility Enhancement in Compressively Strained pMOSFETs

S Gupta, YC Huang, Y Kim, E Sanchez… - IEEE electron device …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Germanium tin (GeSn) pMOSFETs with channel Sn composition of 7% are fabricated using
a low thermal budget process. GeSn pMOSFETs show enhancement in hole mobility over …

Observation of field emission from GeSn nanoparticles epitaxially grown on silicon nanopillar arrays

A Di Bartolomeo, M Passacantando, G Niu… - …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We apply molecular beam epitaxy to grow GeSn-nanoparticles on top of Si-nanopillars
patterned onto p-type Si wafers. We use x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to confirm a …

Germanium-tin on Si avalanche photodiode: device design and technology demonstration

Y Dong, W Wang, X Xu, X Gong, D Lei… - … on Electron Devices, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report the demonstration of a Ge 0.95 Sn 0.05 on silicon (Ge 0.95 Sn 0.05/Si) avalanche
photodiode (APD) having a separate-absorption-charge-multiplication structure, wherein a …