High Performance Ge Schottky PMOSFETs with Ternary-Phase Alloy

Chung-Chun Hsu, Wei-Chun Chi, Chen-Han Chou, Che-Wei Chen, Hung-Pin Chien, Chao-Hsin Chien*

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摘要

This work demonstrates high-performance Ge p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (PMOSFETs) [1] with ternary-phase NiGePt alloy Schottky source/drain (S/D) by low-temperature microwave-activated annealing (MWA) [2]. Process flow of Shcottky junctions is shown in Fig. 1. Interestingly, the formed NiGePt alloy is nearly single crystalline. We found the formation of ternary-phase alloy NiGePt seems very helpful in suppressing the off-leakage of junction, as shown in Fig. 2. The fabricated NiGePt/N-Ge Schottky junction depicted an impressive effective barrier height (Phi(Bn)) of similar to 0.59 eV for electrons, leading to a high junction current ratio of >10(5) at the applied voltage of vertical bar V-a vertical bar = 1 V. Slight increase with increasing deposited Pt thickness can be explained by the improved series resistance, as shown in Fig. 2. The lower process temperature of MWA as compared to the conventional thermal annealing is beneficial for eliminating surface roughness, reducing alloy agglomeration of Schottky contact S/D. As a consequence, we employed the advantages of low-temperature MWA to fabricate the Schottky S/D PMOSFETs. With forming gas annealing, the Ge PMOSFET (L = 4 mu m) showed a very high output current of 33.5 mu A/mu m at V-GS-V-T = -2.4 and V-DS = -2 V. Our ternary Schottky PMOSFET exhibited a high I-ON/I-OFF ratios of similar to 3.7 X 10(3)(I-D) and similar to 1.3 X 10(5)(I-S), and a moderate subthreshold swing of 126 mV/dec, as shown in Figs. 3.

原文English
主出版物標題2016 13th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT)
編輯YL Jiang, TA Tang, R Huang
發行者IEEE
頁面304-305
頁數2
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 10月 2016
事件13th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology (ICSICT) - Hangzhou
持續時間: 25 10月 201628 10月 2016

Conference

Conference13th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology (ICSICT)
城市Hangzhou
期間25/10/1628/10/16

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