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Double-Gate Tunnel FET With High- $\kappa$ Gate Dielectric
Kathy Boucart,Adrian M. Ionescu +1 more
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In this article, a double-gate tunnel field effect transistor (DG tunnel FET) with a high-kappa gate dielectric was proposed and validated using realistic design parameters, showing an on-current as high as 0.23 mA for a gate voltage of 1.8 V, an off-current of less than 1 fA (neglecting gate leakage), an improved average sub-threshold swing of 57 mV/dec, and a minimum point slope of 11 mV /dec.Abstract:
In this paper, we propose and validate a novel design for a double-gate tunnel field-effect transistor (DG tunnel FET), for which the simulations show significant improvements compared with single-gate devices using a gate dielectric. For the first time, DG tunnel FET devices, which are using a high-gate dielectric, are explored using realistic design parameters, showing an on-current as high as 0.23 mA for a gate voltage of 1.8 V, an off-current of less than 1 fA (neglecting gate leakage), an improved average subthreshold swing of 57 mV/dec, and a minimum point slope of 11 mV/dec. The 2D nature of tunnel FET current flow is studied, demonstrating that the current is not confined to a channel at the gate-dielectric surface. When varying temperature, tunnel FETs with a high-kappa gate dielectric have a smaller threshold voltage shift than those using SiO2, while the subthreshold slope for fixed values of Vg remains nearly unchanged, in contrast with the traditional MOSFET. Moreover, an Ion/Ioff ratio of more than 2 times 1011 is shown for simulated devices with a gate length (over the intrinsic region) of 50 nm, which indicates that the tunnel FET is a promising candidate to achieve better-than-ITRS low-standby-power switch performance.read more
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Tunnel field-effect transistors as energy-efficient electronic switches
Adrian M. Ionescu,Heike Riel +1 more
TL;DR: Tunnels based on ultrathin semiconducting films or nanowires could achieve a 100-fold power reduction over complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor transistors, so integrating tunnel FETs with CMOS technology could improve low-power integrated circuits.
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Low-Voltage Tunnel Transistors for Beyond CMOS Logic
Alan Seabaugh,Qin Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: This review introduces and summarizes progress in the development of the tunnel field- effect transistors (TFETs) including its origin, current experimental and theoretical performance relative to the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), basic current-transport theory, design tradeoffs, and fundamental challenges.
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Doping-Less Tunnel Field Effect Transistor: Design and Investigation
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed study of the doping-less tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) on a thin intrinsic silicon film using charge plasma concept was performed using calibrated simulations.
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Novel Attributes of a Dual Material Gate Nanoscale Tunnel Field-Effect Transistor
TL;DR: In this paper, a dual material gate (DMG) was applied to a tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) to simultaneously optimize the on-current, the off-current and the threshold voltage.
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