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Nanowire Tunnel FET with Simultaneously Reduced Subthermionic Subthreshold Swing and Off-Current due to Negative Capacitance and Voltage Pinning Effects

Saeidi, Ali  
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Rosca, Teodor  
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Memisevic, Elvedin
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May 13, 2020
Nano Letters

Nanowire tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) have been proposed as the most advanced one-dimensional (1D) devices that break the thermionic 60 mV/decade of the subthreshold swing (SS) of metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) by using quantum mechanical band-to-band tunneling and excellent electrostatic control. Meanwhile, negative capacitance (NC) of ferroelectrics has been proposed as a promising performance booster of MOSFETs to bypass the aforementioned fundamental limit by exploiting the differential amplification of the gate voltage under certain conditions. We combine these two principles into a single structure, a negative capacitance heterostructure TFET, and experimentally demonstrate a double beneficial effect: (i) a super-steep SS value down to 10 mV/decade and an extended low slope region that is due to the NC effect and, (ii) a remarkable off-current reduction that is experimentally observed and explained for the first time by the effect of the ferroelectric dipoles, which set the surface potential in a slightly negative value and further blocks the source tunneling current in the off-state. State-of-the-art InAs/InGaAsSb/GaSb nanowire TFETs are employed as the baseline transistor and PZT and silicon-doped HfO2 as ferroelectric materials.

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DOI
10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b05356
Web of Science ID

WOS:000535255300041

Author(s)
Saeidi, Ali  
Rosca, Teodor  
Memisevic, Elvedin
Stolichnov, Igor  
Cavalieri, Matteo  
Wernersson, Lars-Erik
Ionescu, Adrian M.  
Date Issued

2020-05-13

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
Nano Letters
Volume

20

Issue

5

Start page

3255

End page

3262

Subjects

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry, Physical

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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Applied

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Physics, Condensed Matter

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Chemistry

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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Materials Science

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Physics

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nanowire

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tunnel fet

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ferroelectric

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negative capacitance

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voltage pinning

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field-effect transistors

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impact ionization

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cmos

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design

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model

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