Ge/Si nanowire heterostructures as high-performance field-effect transistors

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作者
Xiang, Jie
Lu, Wei
Hu, Yongjie
Wu, Yue
Yan, Hao
Lieber, Charles M. [1 ]
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[1] Harvard Univ, Dept Chem & Biol Chem, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[2] Harvard Univ, Div Engn & Appl Sci, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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10.1038/nature04796
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Semiconducting carbon nanotubes(1,2) and nanowires(3) are potential alternatives to planar metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs)(4) owing, for example, to their unique electronic structure and reduced carrier scattering caused by one-dimensional quantum confinement effects(1,5). Studies have demonstrated long carrier mean free paths at room temperature in both carbon nanotubes1,6 and Ge/Si core/shell nanowires(7). In the case of carbon nanotube FETs, devices have been fabricated that work close to the ballistic limit(8). Applications of high-performance carbon nanotube FETs have been hindered, however, by difficulties in producing uniform semiconducting nanotubes, a factor not limiting nanowires, which have been prepared with reproducible electronic properties in high yield as required for large-scale integrated systems(3,9,10). Yet whether nanowire field-effect transistors (NWFETs) can indeed outperform their planar counterparts is still unclear(4). Here we report studies on Ge/Si core/shell nanowire heterostructures configured as FETs using high-kappa dielectrics in a top-gate geometry. The clean one-dimensional hole-gas in the Ge/Si nanowire heterostructures(7) and enhanced gate coupling with high-kappa dielectrics give high-performance FETs values of the scaled transconductance (3.3 mS mu m(-1)) and on-current (2.1 mA mu m(-1)) that are three to four times greater than state-of-the-art MOSFETs and are the highest obtained on NWFETs. Furthermore, comparison of the intrinsic switching delay, tau = CV/I, which represents a key metric for device applications(4,11), shows that the performance of Ge/Si NWFETs is comparable to similar length carbon nanotube FETs and substantially exceeds the length-dependent scaling of planar silicon MOSFETs.
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