TY - JOUR
AU - Schmidt, Matthias
AU - Schäfer, Anna
AU - Minamisawa, Renato
AU - Buca, Dan Mihai
AU - Trellenkamp, Stefan
AU - Hartmann, Jean-Michel
AU - Zhao, Qing-Tai
AU - Mantl, Siegfried
TI - Line and Point Tunneling in Scaled Si/SiGe Heterostructure TFETs
JO - IEEE electron device letters
VL - 35
IS - 7
SN - 1558-0563
CY - New York, NY
PB - IEEE
M1 - FZJ-2015-05218
SP - 699 - 701
PY - 2014
AB - In this letter, we systematically investigate the impact of gate length and channel orientation on the electrical performance of tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs). We fabricate and characterize Si/SiGe heterostructure TFETs with (p) -doped compressively strained Si0.5Ge0.5 source, intrinsic Si channel, and (n) -doped Si drain. We observe a linear relation of gate length, L (_{mathrm {mathbf {g}}}) , and ON-current, I (_{mathrm {{ON}}}) , which is the first experimental proof of line tunneling occurring in a TFET. TCAD simulations support our observations. After forming gas annealing, short-channel TFETs exhibit different I-V characteristics compared with long-channel devices due to better passivation.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000338662100004
DO - DOI:10.1109/LED.2014.2320273
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/203232
ER -