• 文献标题:   Scalability of Atomic-Thin-Body (ATB) Transistors Based on Graphene Nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG Q, LU YQ, XING HG, KOESTER SJ, KOSWATTA SO
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, schottky barrier sb, subthreshold swing, thin body, transistor scaling
  • 出版物名称:   IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0741-3106
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Notre Dame
  • 被引频次:   14
  • DOI:   10.1109/LED.2010.2045100
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

A general solution for the electrostatic potential in an atomic-thin-body field-effect transistor (ATB-FET) geometry is presented. The effective electrostatic scaling length lambda(eff) is extracted from the analytical model, which cannot be approximated by the lowest order eigenmode as traditionally done in SOI-MOSFETs. An empirical equation for the scaling length that depends on the geometry parameters is proposed. It is shown that, even for a thick SiO(2) back oxide, lambda(eff) can be improved efficiently by a thinner top oxide thickness and, to some extent, with high-k dielectrics. The model is then applied to a self-consistent simulation of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) Schottky-barrier FETs (SB-FETs) at the ballistic limit. In the case of GNR SB-FETs, for a large lambda(eff), the scaling is limited by the conventional electrostatic short-channel effects. On the other hand, for a small lambda(eff), the scaling is limited by direct source-to-drain tunneling. A subthreshold swing below 100 mV/dec is still possible with a sub-10-nm gate length in GNR SB-FETs.