Wavy FinFET 3D Simulation

Simulation Study of a 3-D Device IntegratingFinFET and UTBFET

Article by: Hossain M. Fahad, Chenming Hu and Muhammad M. Hussain

Publisher: IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Presented by: Ahmed AlAskalany

Supervisor: Prof. Carl-Mikael Zetterling

Course: Design of Nano Semiconductor Devices (IH2657)

Royal Institute of Technology

2 Agenda

What is Wavy FinFET? Device Simulation Transfer Characteristics Threshold Voltage Engineering Back-Bias Chip Area Efficiency Conclusion

3 Wavy FinFET: What?

Fahad et al.“Are Nanotube Architectures More Advantageous Than Nanowire Architectures For Field Effect Transistors?”, Nature scientific Reports, 2012.

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Conventional fabrication

Good short-channel characteristics

Back-bias for low power applications

Better gate control

Lower fab. Complexity

Higher drive current

4 Synopsys TCAD Simulation: Parameters

2013 Overall RTC FinFET Parameters:

Top Silicon: 30 nm

BOX: 20nm

Fin width: 6.8 nm

Fin spacing: 19 nm

Fin array termination edge: 25 nm

Fin height: 30 nm

Printed gate length: 18 nm

UTB: 2.5nm, 3.5nm, 4.5 nm

EOT: 0.5 nm (HfO2)

Total device length: 230 nm

Total device width: 108.4 nm

Device area: 0.025 um2

Wavy FinFETSOI Trigate FinFET

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5 Transfer Characteristics

UTB: 2.5nm, 3.5nm, 4.5 nm

Non-normalized ON-drive: 109% higher

Increase in UTB → ON and OFF currents increase

Lower drive in thinner UTBs

For Trigate with same characteristics:

Larger area

Increased latency

Ultrahigh aspect ration

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6 Threshold Voltage Engineering

Tailoring Vt and Id

Drawback: degraded short-channel characteristics

Reason: Non-uniform Vt in fin and UTB

(UTB turns ON earlier than fin)

Solution: Back-bias

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7Reverse and Forward Back Bias

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8 Reverse Back Bias

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Larger threshold voltage

Lower (IOFF, ION, SS)

57% drive enhancement with RBB

Larger effect at thicker UTB

Better short-channel effect than Trigate FinFET

9 Electron Density Distribution

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𝑉 𝑡 (300𝑚𝑣 )𝑎𝑡𝑉 𝑑𝑠=𝑉 𝑑𝑑 (0.8𝑉 ) 𝑉 𝑔𝑠=𝑉 𝑑𝑠=𝑉 𝑑𝑑(0.8𝑉 )

10 Chip Area Efficiency

RBB with 4.5 nm UTB: 37% higher drive current than Trigate FinFET

57% lower chip area for same performance

Advantages:

Lower power consumption

Lower parasitics induced performance degradation

Lower chip latency

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11 Conclusion

Higher integration density, drive current, are efficiency

Introduces back-biasing for FinFETs

Attractive for high performance computing (servers and supercomputers)

Future:

Fabrication and characterization

UTB process variability effects on performance

UTB and Fin threshold mismatch

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