For the first time, the High Frequency (HF) performance of an Ultra-Thinned Body (UTB) Fully Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (FDSOI) incorporating TiN/HfO2 gate stack is reported. UTB-FDSOI with longer unit width W U (same total width W TOT ) features (results in) higher g m leading to better HF performance. Despite of the mobility degradation due to the quality of the interface between the high-K dielectric and silicon, the measured transition frequency (f T ) still correspond well to that predicted from the ITRS roadmap, and can also be considered as the first ever experimental f T measured fit for the Low STand-by Power (LSTP)-based RF/mobile application.
IntroductionThe continuous advancement in scaling of the CMOS technology has allowed MOSFET to be an alternative and a more competitive candidate to the III-V technology in the millimetre wave range applications. Several new architectures and new materials have been introduced into MOSFET design to address the ever worsening Short Channel Effects (SCEs) when scaling below 100nm gate length, in particular the leakage current which has to be very low for the power-hungry and battery life-limited mobile/wireless-based applications. One of the effective solutions to improve SCEs is to use ultra-scaled UTB-FDSOI with undoped channel, which has been successfully demonstrated either experimentally [1,2] or via modelling/simulation [3]. It is known that when silicon channel in UTB-FDSOI is left undoped, this will result in threshold voltage (V TH ) to be completely controlled by the gate workfunction (preferably metal gate with workfunction near midgap) [3][4] and also the silicon thickness t SI (thinner t SI ensures better control of the channel) [3,5]. Furthermore, with the possibility of integration of the high-K dielectric material to substitute the thin gate silicon oxide, foundries have further proven the extra scaling capability of UTB-FDSOI to as small as 32nm node [6], without any severe penalties in SCEs. In this paper for the first time, HF characterisation of sub-100nm UTB-FDSOI featuring metal gate (TiN) and high-K gate dielectric (HfO 2 ) is reported. Using both DC and