A SOI material with thick BOX (2.2 μm) was successfully fabricated using the Smart-cut technology. The thick BOX SOI microstructures were investigated by high resolution cross-sectional transmission electron microsco...A SOI material with thick BOX (2.2 μm) was successfully fabricated using the Smart-cut technology. The thick BOX SOI microstructures were investigated by high resolution cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (XTEM), while the electrical properties were studied by the spreading resistance profile (SRP). Experimental results demonstrate that both structural and electrical properties of the SOI structure are very good.展开更多
A novel structure is proposed for doubling the vertical breakdown voltage of silicon-on-insulator（SOI） devices. In this new structure, the conventional buried oxide（BOX） in an SOI device is split into two sections...A novel structure is proposed for doubling the vertical breakdown voltage of silicon-on-insulator（SOI） devices. In this new structure, the conventional buried oxide（BOX） in an SOI device is split into two sections： the source-section BOX and the drain-section BOX. A highly-doped Si layer, referred to as a non-depletion potential-clamped layer（NPCL）, is positioned under and close to the two BOX sections. In the split BOXes and the Si region above the BOXes, the blocking voltage（BV） is divided into two parts by the NPCL. The voltage in the NPCL is clamped to be nearly half of the drain voltage. When the drain voltage approaches a breakdown value, the voltage sustained by the source-section BOX and the Si region under the source are nearly the same as the voltage sustained by the drain-section BOX and the Si region under the drain. The vertical BV is therefore almost doubled. The effectiveness of this new structure was verified for a P-channel SOI lateral double-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor（LDMOS） and can be applied to other high-voltage SOI devices. The simulation results show that the BV in an NPCL P-channel SOI LDMOS is improved by 55% and the specific on-resistance（Ron,sp） is reduced by 69% in comparison to the conventional structure.展开更多
Nowadays, transistor technology is going toward the fully depleted architecture;the bulk transistors are becoming more complex in manufacturing as the transistor size is becoming smaller to achieve the high performanc...Nowadays, transistor technology is going toward the fully depleted architecture;the bulk transistors are becoming more complex in manufacturing as the transistor size is becoming smaller to achieve the high performance especially at the node 28 nm. This is the first of two papers that discuss the basic drawbacks of the bulk transistors and explain the two alternative transistors: 28 nm UTBB FD-SOI CMOS and the 22 nm Tri-Gate FinFET. The accompanying paper, Part II, focuses on the comparison between those alternatives and their physical properties, electrical properties, and reliability tests to properly set the preferences when choosing for different mobile media and consumers’ applications.展开更多
This is Part II of a two-part paper that explores the 28-nm UTBB FD-SOI CMOS and the 22-nm Tri-Gate FinFET technology as the better alternatives to bulk transistors especially when the transistor’s architecture is go...This is Part II of a two-part paper that explores the 28-nm UTBB FD-SOI CMOS and the 22-nm Tri-Gate FinFET technology as the better alternatives to bulk transistors especially when the transistor’s architecture is going fully depleted and its size is becoming much smaller, 28-nm and above. Reliability tests of those alternatives are first discussed. Then, a comparison is made between the two alternative transistors comparing their physical properties, electrical properties, and their preferences in different applications.展开更多
The importance ofsubstrate doping engineering for extremely thin SOI MOSFETs with ultra-thin buried oxide （ES-UB-MOSFETs） is demonstrated by simulation. A new substrate/backgate doping engineering, lateral non-unifo...The importance ofsubstrate doping engineering for extremely thin SOI MOSFETs with ultra-thin buried oxide （ES-UB-MOSFETs） is demonstrated by simulation. A new substrate/backgate doping engineering, lateral non-uniform dopant distributions （LNDD） is investigated in ES-UB-MOSFETs. The effects of LNDD on device performance, Vt-roll-off, channel mobility and random dopant fluctuation （RDF） are studied and optimized. Fixing the long channel threshold voltage （Vt） at 0.3 V, ES-UB-MOSFETs with lateral uniform doping in the substrate and forward back bias can scale only to 35 nm, meanwhile LNDD enables ES-UB-MOSFETs to scale to a 20 nm gate length, which is 43% smaller. The LNDD degradation is 10% of the carrier mobility both for nMOS and pMOS, but it is canceled out by a good short channel effect controlled by the LNDD. Fixing Vt at 0.3 V, in long channel devices, due to more channel doping concentration for the LNDD technique, the RDF in LNDD controlled ES-UB-MOSFETs is worse than in back-bias controlled ES-UB-MOSFETs, but in the short channel, the RDF for LNDD controlled ES-UB-MOSFET is better due to its self-adaption of substrate doping engineering by using a fixed thickness inner-spacer. A novel process flow to form LNDD is proposed and simulated.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.69906005)and the Shanghai Youth Foundation(No.01 QMH1403)
文摘A SOI material with thick BOX (2.2 μm) was successfully fabricated using the Smart-cut technology. The thick BOX SOI microstructures were investigated by high resolution cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (XTEM), while the electrical properties were studied by the spreading resistance profile (SRP). Experimental results demonstrate that both structural and electrical properties of the SOI structure are very good.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61404110)the National Higher-Education Institution General Research and Development Project,China(Grant No.2682014CX097)
文摘A novel structure is proposed for doubling the vertical breakdown voltage of silicon-on-insulator（SOI） devices. In this new structure, the conventional buried oxide（BOX） in an SOI device is split into two sections： the source-section BOX and the drain-section BOX. A highly-doped Si layer, referred to as a non-depletion potential-clamped layer（NPCL）, is positioned under and close to the two BOX sections. In the split BOXes and the Si region above the BOXes, the blocking voltage（BV） is divided into two parts by the NPCL. The voltage in the NPCL is clamped to be nearly half of the drain voltage. When the drain voltage approaches a breakdown value, the voltage sustained by the source-section BOX and the Si region under the source are nearly the same as the voltage sustained by the drain-section BOX and the Si region under the drain. The vertical BV is therefore almost doubled. The effectiveness of this new structure was verified for a P-channel SOI lateral double-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor（LDMOS） and can be applied to other high-voltage SOI devices. The simulation results show that the BV in an NPCL P-channel SOI LDMOS is improved by 55% and the specific on-resistance（Ron,sp） is reduced by 69% in comparison to the conventional structure.
文摘Nowadays, transistor technology is going toward the fully depleted architecture;the bulk transistors are becoming more complex in manufacturing as the transistor size is becoming smaller to achieve the high performance especially at the node 28 nm. This is the first of two papers that discuss the basic drawbacks of the bulk transistors and explain the two alternative transistors: 28 nm UTBB FD-SOI CMOS and the 22 nm Tri-Gate FinFET. The accompanying paper, Part II, focuses on the comparison between those alternatives and their physical properties, electrical properties, and reliability tests to properly set the preferences when choosing for different mobile media and consumers’ applications.
文摘This is Part II of a two-part paper that explores the 28-nm UTBB FD-SOI CMOS and the 22-nm Tri-Gate FinFET technology as the better alternatives to bulk transistors especially when the transistor’s architecture is going fully depleted and its size is becoming much smaller, 28-nm and above. Reliability tests of those alternatives are first discussed. Then, a comparison is made between the two alternative transistors comparing their physical properties, electrical properties, and their preferences in different applications.
基金supported by the Opening Project of Key Laboratory of Microelectronics Devices & Integrated Technology,Institute of Microelectronics the China National S & T Major Project 02
文摘The importance ofsubstrate doping engineering for extremely thin SOI MOSFETs with ultra-thin buried oxide （ES-UB-MOSFETs） is demonstrated by simulation. A new substrate/backgate doping engineering, lateral non-uniform dopant distributions （LNDD） is investigated in ES-UB-MOSFETs. The effects of LNDD on device performance, Vt-roll-off, channel mobility and random dopant fluctuation （RDF） are studied and optimized. Fixing the long channel threshold voltage （Vt） at 0.3 V, ES-UB-MOSFETs with lateral uniform doping in the substrate and forward back bias can scale only to 35 nm, meanwhile LNDD enables ES-UB-MOSFETs to scale to a 20 nm gate length, which is 43% smaller. The LNDD degradation is 10% of the carrier mobility both for nMOS and pMOS, but it is canceled out by a good short channel effect controlled by the LNDD. Fixing Vt at 0.3 V, in long channel devices, due to more channel doping concentration for the LNDD technique, the RDF in LNDD controlled ES-UB-MOSFETs is worse than in back-bias controlled ES-UB-MOSFETs, but in the short channel, the RDF for LNDD controlled ES-UB-MOSFET is better due to its self-adaption of substrate doping engineering by using a fixed thickness inner-spacer. A novel process flow to form LNDD is proposed and simulated.
