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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
This study combines direct measurements of strain, electrical mobility measurements, and a rigorous modeling approach to provide insights about strain-induced mobility enhancement in FinFETs and guidelines for device optimization. Good agreement between simulated and measured mobility is obtained using strain components measured directly at device level by a novel holographic technique. A large vertical compressive strain is observed in metal gate FinFETs, and the simulations show that this helps recover the electron mobility disadvantage of the (110) FinFET lateral interfaces with respect to (100) interfaces, with no degradation of the hole mobility. The model is then used to systematically explore the impact of stress components in the fin width, height, and length directions on the mobility of both n- and p-type FinFETs and to identify optimal stress configurations. Finally, self-consistent Monte Carlo …
Publisher: 
IEEE
Publication date: 
28 Mar 2011
Authors: 

Francesco Conzatti, Nicola Serra, David Esseni, Marco De Michielis, Alan Paussa, Pierpaolo Palestri, Luca Selmi, Stephen M Thomas, Terence E Whall, David Leadley, EHC Parker, Liesbeth Witters, Martin J Hytch, Etienne Snoeck, TJ Wang, WC Lee, Gerben Doornbos, Georgios Vellianitis, Mark JH van Dal, RJP Lander

Biblio References: 
Volume: 58 Issue: 6 Pages: 1583-1593
Origin: 
IEEE transactions on electron devices