Effects of band-tails on the subthreshold characteristics of nanowire band-to-band tunneling transistors

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Khayer, M. Abul [1 ]
Lake, Roger K. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Elect Engn, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
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FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR; IMPURITY-BAND; SEMICONDUCTOR; PERFORMANCE; TRANSPORT; INSB;
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10.1063/1.3642954
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O59 [应用物理学];
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High source doping is required to support the high electric fields necessary to provide sufficient drive currents in interband tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs). High doping is associated with band-tails in the density of states that decay exponentially into the bandgap with decay constants that can be comparable to the room temperature thermal energy k(B)T. This compromises the core operational principal of a TFET of a hard energy cut-off to the injected channel carrier distribution provided by the source valence band edge. If the band-tails are limited to the source region, they have minimal effect for short channels <= 10 nm, since the leakage current is dominated by direct, coherent tunneling through the channel. For longer 20 nm channels, source band-tails can double the inverse subthreshold slope but still leave it below the ideal 60 mV/decade value with on-off current ratios greater than 10(6) using a supply voltage of 0.4 V. Band-tails both in the source and channel are more detrimental for both 10 and 20 nm channels. On-off current ratios are reduced to >= 10(3) and >= 10(4) for the 10 nm and 20 nm channel devices, respectively. (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.10631.3642954]
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