Remarkably High-Performance Nanosheet GeSn Thin-Film Transistor

Te Jui Yen, Albert Chin*, Weng Kent Chan, Hsin Yi Tiffany Chen, Vladimir Gritsenko

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Abstract

High-performance p-type thin-film transistors (pTFTs) are crucial for realizing low-power display-on-panel and monolithic three-dimensional integrated circuits. Unfortunately, it is difficult to achieve a high hole mobility of greater than 10 cm2 /V·s, even for SnO TFTs with a unique single-hole band and a small hole effective mass. In this paper, we demonstrate a high-performance GeSn pTFT with a high field-effect hole mobility (µFE ), of 41.8 cm2 /V·s; a sharp turn-on subthreshold slope (SS), of 311 mV/dec, for low-voltage operation; and a large on-current/off-current (ION /IOFF ) value, of 8.9 × 106 . This remarkably high ION /IOFF is achieved using an ultra-thin nanosheet GeSn, with a thickness of only 7 nm. Although an even higher hole mobility (103.8 cm2 /V·s) was obtained with a thicker GeSn channel, the IOFF increased rapidly and the poor ION /IOFF (75) was unsuitable for transistor applications. The high mobility is due to the small hole effective mass of GeSn, which is supported by first-principles electronic structure calculations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number261
JournalNanomaterials
Volume12
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2022

Keywords

  • 3D brain-mimicking ICs
  • GeSn
  • Monolithic 3D IC
  • Nanosheet TFT

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