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Vertical III-V Nanowire MOSFETs

Kilpi, Olli-Pekka LU (2019) In Series of licentiate and doctoral theses
Abstract
Vertical III-V nanowire MOSFETs are interesting candidates for future digital and analog applications. High electron velocity III-V materials allow fabrication of low power and high frequency MOSFETs. Vertical vapor-liquid-solid growth enables fabrication of axial and radial heterostructure nanowires. This enables fabrication of novel structures where the band-gap can be engineered in the electron transport direction.

In this thesis, vertical InAs/InGaAs DC and RF MOSFETs on Si are fabricated and characterized. Several novel structures in vertical nanowire MOSFETs have been implemented such as gate-last process, axial/radial heterostructures, sub-30-nm gate-length, optimized RF design and field-plate structures. Several different... (More)
Vertical III-V nanowire MOSFETs are interesting candidates for future digital and analog applications. High electron velocity III-V materials allow fabrication of low power and high frequency MOSFETs. Vertical vapor-liquid-solid growth enables fabrication of axial and radial heterostructure nanowires. This enables fabrication of novel structures where the band-gap can be engineered in the electron transport direction.

In this thesis, vertical InAs/InGaAs DC and RF MOSFETs on Si are fabricated and characterized. Several novel structures in vertical nanowire MOSFETs have been implemented such as gate-last process, axial/radial heterostructures, sub-30-nm gate-length, optimized RF design and field-plate structures. Several different nanowire compositions, such as InAs, InAs/In0.7Ga0.3As and InAs/In0.4Ga0.6As, were used. The radial heterostructureand the gate-last process enabled a record low access resistance in these devices. The axial heterostructure, on the other hand, allowed a wider band-gap material on the drain side, therefore suppressing the band-to-band tunnelling and impact ionization. This enabled a considerable improvement in the transistor off-state performance and for the first time Ioff < 1 nA/µm was reported in non-planar In(Ga)As MOSFETs.

This work demonstrated several high performance devices, therefore highlighting the potential of the vertical nanowire MOSFETs. We demonstrate Ion = 407 mA/µm at Ioff = 100 nA/µm and VDD = 0.5 V, which is the highest reported Ion on vertical nanowire MOSFETs. We demonstrated gm = 3.1 mS/µm, which is the highest demonstrated gm on any MOSFET on Si. Further, we increased the breakdown voltage on InAs/InGaAs MOSFETs from 0.5 V to 2.5 V and demonstrated vertical nanowire MOSFETs with fT/ fmax > 100 GHz / 100 GHz. (Less)
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  • Professor Takagi, Shinichi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Thesis
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published
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keywords
Nanowire, MOSFET, III-V, InGaAs, Vertical, Heterostructure, High frequency
in
Series of licentiate and doctoral theses
issue
125
pages
90 pages
publisher
Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University
defense location
Lecture Hall E:1406, E-Building, Ole Römers väg 3, Lund University, Faculty of Engineering LTH
defense date
2019-10-11 09:15:00
ISSN
1654-790X
ISBN
978-91-7895-292-2
978-91-7895-293-9
language
English
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yes
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00415d54-4258-4913-9a3f-2a8efadd13fe
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2019-09-17 13:37:16
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2021-04-15 10:13:22
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  author       = {{Kilpi, Olli-Pekka}},
  isbn         = {{978-91-7895-292-2}},
  issn         = {{1654-790X}},
  keywords     = {{Nanowire; MOSFET; III-V; InGaAs; Vertical; Heterostructure; High frequency}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{125}},
  publisher    = {{Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University}},
  school       = {{Lund University}},
  series       = {{Series of licentiate and doctoral theses}},
  title        = {{Vertical III-V Nanowire MOSFETs}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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