Sub-thermal subthreshold characteristics in top–down InGaAs/InAs heterojunction vertical nanowire tunnel FETs

X Zhao, A Vardi, JA del Alamo - IEEE Electron Device Letters, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter demonstrates top-down InGaAs/InAs heterojunction vertical nanowire tunnel FETs
with sub-thermal subthreshold characteristics over two orders of magnitude of current. A …

Low-frequency noise and random telegraph noise on near-ballistic III-V MOSFETs

M Si, NJ Conrad, S Shin, J Gu, J Zhang… - … on Electron Devices, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we report the observation of random telegraph noise (RTN) in highly scaled
InGaAs gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFETs fabricated by a top-down approach. RTN and low …

Slow Trap Properties and Generation in Al2O3/GeOx/Ge MOS Interfaces Formed by Plasma Oxidation Process

M Ke, M Takenaka, S Takagi - ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
For realizing Ge CMOS devices with a small equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) and a low
density of fast interface states (D it), understanding of slow traps in Ge gate stacks and …

Time-dependent random threshold voltage variation due to random telegraph noise

G Wirth - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the downscaling of device dimensions, the variability of metal-oxide-semiconductor
field-effect transistor (MOSFET) electrical behavior is produced by factors other than …

The defect-centric perspective of device and circuit reliability—From gate oxide defects to circuits

B Kaczer, J Franco, P Weckx, PJ Roussel, M Simicic… - Solid-State …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract As-fabricated (time-zero) variability and mean device aging are nowadays routinely
considered in circuit simulations and design. Time-dependent variability (reliability-related …

New insights into the amplitude of random telegraph noise in nanoscale MOS devices

Z Zhang, S Guo, X Jiang, R Wang… - 2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Amplitude distribution of random telegraph noise (RTN) in nanoscale CMOS technology is
an open question, with both lognormal and exponential distributions widely reported in …

Noise and fluctuations in fully depleted silicon-on-insulator mosfets

C Theodorou, G Ghibaudo - Noise in Nanoscale Semiconductor Devices, 2020 - Springer
In this chapter, we present the most important aspects of our recent research work
concerning the low-frequency noise (LFN) characterization and modeling of Fully Depleted …

Impact of Atomic Layer Deposition High k Films on Slow Trap Density in Ge MOS Interfaces With GeOx Interfacial Layers Formed by Plasma Pre-Oxidation

M Ke, M Takenaka, S Takagi - IEEE Journal of the Electron …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For realizing of Ge complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor with a Ge gate stack with thin
equivalent oxide thickness, low interface state density (D it) and high reliability. In this paper …

Defect-centric perspective of combined BTI and RTN time-dependent variability

P Weckx, B Kaczer, J Franco… - 2015 IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the implications of time-dependent threshold voltage variability,
induced by Bias Temperature Instability (BTI) and Random Telegraph Noise (RTN), on the …

Relaxation of time-dependent NBTI variability and separation from RTN

P Weckx, B Kaczer, C Chen… - 2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NBTI and RTN time-dependent variability is described from a defect-centric perspective. It is
shown that NBTI induced threshold voltage shift (ΔV TH) distribution is governed by a …