Enhancement-Mode Antimonide Quantum-Well MOSFETs With High Electron Mobility and Gigahertz Small-Signal Switching Performance

Abstract

This letter demonstrates, for the first time, enhancement-mode (e-mode) antimonide MOSFETs by integrating a composite high- gate stack (3 nm Al2 O3 1 nm GaSb) with an ultrathin InAs0.7 Sb0.3 quantum well (7.5 nm). The MOSFET exhibits record high electron drift mobility of 5200 cm2 /V s at carrier density (Ns ) of 1.8 1012 cm 2 , subthreshold slope of 150 mV/dec, ION /IOFF ratio of 4000 within a voltage window of 1 V, high ION of 40 A/ m at VDS of 0.5 V for a 5- m gate length (LG ) device. The device exhibits excellent pinchoff in the output characteristics with no evidence of impactionization enabled by enhanced quantization and e-mode operation. RF characterization allows extraction of the intrinsic device metrics (Cgs , Cgd , gm , gds , ve , and ft ) and the parasitic resistive and capacitive elements limiting the short-channel device performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA553255

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  • Ashish Agrawal
  • Ashkar Ali
  • Brian R. Bennett
  • Himanshu Madan
  • Israel Ramirez
  • Jeff Lindemuth
  • Rajiv Misra
  • Ronaldd D. Schrimpf
  • Suman Datta

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antimonides
  • Composite Materials
  • Electron Beam Lithography
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Electron Mobility
  • Electronic Mail
  • Electrons
  • Energy Levels
  • Frequency
  • Heterojunctions
  • Ionization
  • Materials
  • Mobility
  • Quantum Wells
  • Semiconductors
  • Switching
  • Transmission Electron Microscopy

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

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  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing