Junctionless Transistors
Junctionless transistors are variable resistors controlled by a gate electrode. The silicon channel is a heavily doped nanowire that can be fully depleted to turn the device off. The electrical characteristics are identical to those of normal MOSFETs, but the physics is quite different. This paper compares the conduction mechanisms in three types of MOS devices: inversion-mode, accumulation-mode and junctionless MOSFET.
1 Introduction
All existing transistors are based on the use of semiconductor junctions. Because of the laws of diffusion and the statistical nature of the distribution of the doping atoms in the semiconductor, the formation of ultrashallow junctions with high doping concentration gradients has become an increasingly difficult challenge for the semiconductor industry. Junctionless transistors (also called gated resistor) have no junctions and no doping concentration gradients. These devices have full CMOS functionality and are made using silicon nanowires.
The key to fabricating a junctionless gated resistor
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This has a significant impact on short-channel properties. In a ‘‘regular’’, inversion-mode trigate device, assuming the distance between the source and drain junctions is exactly equal to the physical gate length (Fig. 4a), the presence of PN+ junctions creates a reduction of the effective gate length, resulting in a shortchannel effect (SCE). This effect has been quantified by Skotnicki et al. [3] using the voltage-doping transformation model (VDT). The VDT can be used to translate the effects of shrinking device parameters such as gate length or drain voltage into electrical parameters. In the particular case of the SCE and the drain-induced barrier lowering (DIBL), the following expressions can be derived from the VDT model
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