Progress of the study on carrier scattering mechanisms of silicon/germanium field effect transistors

Zhao Yi; Li Jun-Kang; Zheng Ze-Jie

doi:10.7498/aps.68.20191146

Abstract

As the feature size of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOSFETs) continues to decrease, large numbers of new problems appear. Techniques such as strain project, new channel materials and new device structures are considered by academics and industry to be effective ways to continue to improve device performance. In this paper, the scattering mechanism of carriers in the device channel is studied from three aspects: strain technique, new channel material and new structure device: (1) strain technique: Biaxial tensile strain can change carrier distribution among different energy levels, which affects Coulomb scattering and Coulomb mobility. Furthermore, from the TEM image, it is found that biaxial tensile reduces the channel surface roughness for Si nMOSFET, leading an enhancement of electron mobility. However, no such similar phenomena were observed in pMOSFET. Based on this, a new method for calculating the mobility of MOSFET surface roughness scattering using TEM image has been proposed. (2) New channel material: In the germanium (Ge) transistors with different crystal faces, the scattering mechanisms of electron under high field conditions are different. The phonon scattering dominates the Ge(100) transistor, while the surface roughness scattering dominates the Ge(110), (111) transistors. This result is quite different from Si MOSFET. Therefore, a unified model for the scattering mechanism of electron in Ge nMOSFET has been proposed. In SiGe transistors, alloy scattering mainly play a role in the region with relatively small effective electric field (E_eff). The strength of alloy scattering would be weakened in high field and could be decreased by reducing the thickness of SiGe layer. (3) New structure devices: In ultra-thin body germanium (GeOI) transistors, carrier transport is influenced by high- k /channel interfaces, as well as Ge channel/buried oxide (BOX) interface. As the Ge layer thickness decreases, carrier distribution is closer to the interfaces, which intensifies Coulomb scattering and surface roughness scattering. As a result, the mobility in GeOI transistor decreases as the thickness scaling. In addition, the distribution of electron in different energy valleys changes with the thickness decrease in Ge layer, which affects the scattering of electrons. When the Ge film is lower than 10 nm, a part of electron in the L valley will move to the Γ valley, causing the decrease of electron effective mass and increasing the electron mobility.

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1.
College of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
2.
Zhijiang Laboratory, Hangzhou 310000, China

Corresponding author: Zhao Yi, yizhao@zju.edu.cn

Funds: Project supported by the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang province, China (Grant No. Z19F040002), and the Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang province, China (Grant No. 2019C01158)

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图 2 (a) 拉伸应变和衬底浓度对空穴子能带结构的影响; (b) 双轴拉伸应变对电子空穴μ_it影响的示意图^[17]

Figure 2. (a) Effects of tensile biaxial strain and N_sub on the hole subband structure; (b) schematic diagram of the interpretation for the effect of biaxial tensile strain on μ_it of electrons and holes^[17].

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Figure 5. (a) Extracted effective hole mobilities of the QW p-MOSFET at 15 and 300 K; (b) μ_phonon+alloy obtained from the extracted hole mobility at 300 and 15 K^[23].

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Figure 8. (a) T_body dependence of effective electron mobility characteristics; (b) band structure of UTB GeOI nMOSFET under different channel thickness^[26].

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