NUMERICAL-ANALYSIS OF A CYLINDRICAL THIN-PILLAR TRANSISTOR (CYNTHIA)

被引:56
作者
MIYANO, S
HIROSE, M
MASUOKA, F
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[1] ULSI Research Center, Toshiba Corporation, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, 210, 1, Komukai Toshiba-cho
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10.1109/16.144678
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
The authors have analyzed the characteristics of a cylindrical thin-pillar transistor (CYNTHIA), which is a vertical MOS transistor with a cylindrical gate electrode surrounding a submicrometer-diameter silicon pillar. The device characteristics are calculated by solving Poisson's equation in cylindrical coordinates. Results showed that CYNTHIA has three superior features: excellent subthreshold characteristics, enhanced electron mobility, and increased sheet electron concentration. These superior characteristics result in a feature size twice that of vertical SOI transistors. Our calculation is that CYNTHIA is quite an attractive device design for future ultra-high-density LSI's.
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页码:1876 / 1881
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