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Imec boosts performance of beyond-silicon devices

Record performance gate-all-around InGaAs nanowire FETs and InGaAs TFETs presented at IEDM 2015

At this week's IEEE IEDM conference, Imec presented gate-all-around InGaAs Nanowire FETs (Lg=50nm) that performed at an average peak transconductance (gm) of 2200µS/µm with a SSSAT of 110mV/dec.

Imec succeeded in increasing the performance by gate stack engineering using a novel gate stack ALD inter-layer (IL) material developed by ASM, and high pressure annealing. The novel IL/HfO2 stack achieved a 2.2 times higher gm for a device with a gate length (Lg) of 50nm, compared to the reference Al2O3/HfO2 stack.

 Imec also presented a planar InGaAs homo-junction TFET with 70 percent Indium  content. The increase of In content from 53 to 70 percent in a 8 nm channel, was found to significantly boost the performance of the device. A record ON-state current (ION) of 4µA/µm (IOFF = 100pA/µm, Vdd = 0.5V and Vd = 0.3V) with a minimum subthreshold swing (SSmin) of 60mV/dec at 300k was obtained for a planar homo-junction TFET device.

It was also shown that subthreshold swing and transconductance in TFET devices were more immune to positive bias temperature instability (PBTI) compared to MOSFET devices.

 "Imec's R&D enables Moore's law beyond the 5nm technology node through 3 approaches. First, we are tackling the technology challenges to extend silicon CMOS devices towards smaller nodes. At the same time, we research into disruptive heterogeneous solutions for beyond-silicon CMOS devices to increase performance and introduce new functionalities. Lastly, imec pursues emerging beyond-CMOS devices and systems such as spintronics to investigate further functional scaling beyond device-density-driven scaling," stated Aaron Thean, vice president and director of Imec's advanced logic R&D program.

"Boosting the performance of advanced compound semiconductor logic devices is extremely important, and these results support the quest of the semiconductor industry to find solutions that enable 5nm technology nodes and beyond."

"ASM and imec have a long history of R&D collaboration using many of ASM's products and advanced deposition and thermal processes," says Ivo Raaijmakers, ASM CTO and director of R&D. "As a leader in ALD, we are glad to see this breakthrough new ALD material now demonstrated in Imec's high mobility devices and presented at IEDM 2015."

Imec's research into advanced logic scaling is performed in cooperation with imec's key partners in its core CMOS programs including GlobalFoundries, Intel, Micron, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Samsung, SK Hynix, Sony and TSMC.

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