Strained Si, SiGe, and Ge channels for high-mobility metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors

ML Lee, EA Fitzgerald, MT Bulsara, MT Currie… - Journal of applied …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
This article reviews the history and current progress in high-mobility strained Si, SiGe, and
Ge channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). We start by …

Mobility enhancement technology for scaling of CMOS devices: overview and status

Y Song, H Zhou, Q Xu, J Luo, H Yin, J Yan… - Journal of electronic …, 2011 - Springer
The aggressive downscaling of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS)
technology to the sub-21-nm technology node is facing great challenges. Innovative …

SiGe quantum well infrared photodetectors on strained-silicon-on-insulator

J Aberl, M Brehm, T Fromherz, J Schuster, J Frigerio… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate p-type SiGe quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs) on a strained-
silicon-on-insulator (sSOI) substrate. The sSOI system allows strain-balancing between the …

Study on liquid-like SiGe cluster growth during co-condensation from supersaturated vapor mixtures by molecular dynamics simulation

WB Wang, R Ohta, M Kambara - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Based on the co-condensation processes in the Si–Ge system upon cooling, as determined
by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, we explored the mixed cluster growth dynamics …

Strain dependence of indirect band gap for strained silicon on insulator wafers

J Munguía, G Bremond, JM Bluet, JM Hartmann… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We have used low temperature photoluminescence measurements in order to quantify the
impact of strain effect on the Si indirect band gap in 9 nm thick tensely strained silicon on …

Electron effective mobility in strained-Si/Si1− xGex MOS devices using Monte Carlo simulation

V Aubry-Fortuna, P Dollfus, S Galdin-Retailleau - Solid-state electronics, 2005 - Elsevier
Based on Monte Carlo simulation, we report the study of the inversion layer mobility in n-
channel strained-Si/Si1− xGex MOS structures. The influence of the strain in the Si layer and …

Strain in silicon nanowire beams

F Ureña, SH Olsen, L Šiller, U Bhaskar… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, strain in silicon free standing beams loaded in uniaxial tension is experimentally
and theoretically investigated for strain values ranging from 0 to 3.6%. The fabrication …

Local defect-free elastic strain relaxation of Si1-xGex embedded into SiO2

E Assaf, I Berbezier, M Bouabdellaoui, M Abbarchi… - Applied Surface …, 2022 - Elsevier
We show that a newly developed high temperature, ultra-low rate oxidation process can
produce homogeneous, fully strained, defect-free and perfectly flat Silicon Germanium (Si 1 …

The crystallographic properties of strained silicon measured by X-ray diffraction

M Erdtmann, TA Langdo - Journal of Materials Science: Materials in …, 2006 - Springer
Strained silicon represents a materials-based enhancement to further scaling of CMOS
transistors. In epitaxial strained silicon substrates, strain is provided by a relaxed SiGe …

Straining of monocrystalline silicon thin films with the use of porous silicon as stress generating nanomaterial

O Marty, T Nychyporuk, J de La Torre, V Lysenko… - Applied physics …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
A simple and low cost technological approach for the straining of thin crystalline silicon (Si)
films using porous silicon (PS) as stress generating nanomaterial is reported. Structural …