Negative capacitance field-effect transistor with hetero-dielectric structure for suppression of reverse drain induced barrier lowering

Kim, Dong-Oh; Lee, Kitae; Kim, Changha; Kim, Sihyun; Kim, Hyun‐Min; Kwon, Daewoong; Park, Byung‐Gook

doi:10.1016/j.sse.2022.108581

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“…When we fabricate the NCFET device with the use of conventional or existing ferroelectric materials such as Barium Titanate (BTO) and Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT), the thickness of the gate insulator layer should be such that it balances the large polarization charge density occurred by the ferroelectric material layer and FET channel charge density. It results in hundreds of nanometers, which is a challenging task for fabrication [14][15][16][17][18][19]. In recent years, ferroelectricity has been found in HfO 2 -based thin films that are done by controlling the crystalline phase of the films.…”

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DFT based atomic modeling and temperature analysis on the RF and VTC curve of high-k dielectric layer-assisted NCFET

Mann,

Chaujar

2023

Phys. Scr.

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In this report, Density Functional Theory (DFT) based calculation using a Quantum Atomistic Tool Kit (ATK) simulator is done for the hafnia-based ferroelectric material. The band structure, projected density of states (PDOS), and Hartree potential (VH) are taken into account for hafnium oxide (HfO2) and silicon-doped hafnium oxide (Si-doped HfO2). Further, we analyze the temperature variation impact on analog parameters and voltage transfer characteristic (VTC) curve of inverter application of Modified Negative Capacitance Field-Effect-Transistor (NCFET) using the Visual Technology-Computer-Aided-Design (TCAD) simulator. The Modified NCFET structure enhances the DC parameters like leakage current (IOFF) and Subthreshold Swing (SS) compared to the conventional NCFET structure. With the temperature impact, the variation in the parameters of Modified NCFET is discussed at 250 K, 275 K, 300 K, 325 K, and 350 K like transconductance (gm), output conductance (gd), early voltage (VEA) shows the increment as we move from 250 K to 350 K. The short channel effects (SCEs) like Drain Induced Barrier Lowering (DIBL) and Subthreshold Swing (SS) decrease with the temperature fall at 32.98% and 34.74%, respectively. Further, the VTC curve, Noise Margin (NM), and propagation delay of Modified NCFET-based inverter are discussed with the impact of temperature. The propagation delay for the circuit decreased by 67.94% with the rise in the temperature. These factors show that the Modified NCFET-based inverter gives a fast switching performance at high temperatures.

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