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- Title
Gateless and Capacitorless Germanium Biristor with a Vertical Pillar Structure.
- Authors
Bae, Hagyoul; Lee, Geon-Beom; Hur, Jae; Park, Jun-Young; Kim, Da-Jin; Kim, Myung-Su; Choi, Yang-Kyu
- Abstract
For the first time, a novel germanium (Ge) bi-stable resistor (biristor) with a vertical pillar structure was implemented on a bulk substrate. The basic structure of the Ge pillar-typed biristor is a p-n-p bipolar junction transistor (BJT) with an open base (floating), which is equivalent to a gateless p-channel metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). In the pillar formation, we adopted an amorphous carbon layer to protect the Ge surface from both physical and chemical damage by subsequent processes. A hysteric current-voltage (I-V) characteristic, which results in a sustainable binary state, i.e., high current and low current at the same voltage, can be utilized for a memory device. A lower operating voltage with high current was achieved, compared to a Si biristor, due to the low energy bandgap of pure Ge.
- Subjects
METAL oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors; GERMANIUM; JUNCTION transistors; BIPOLAR transistors; AMORPHOUS carbon
- Publication
Micromachines, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 8, p899
- ISSN
2072-666X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/mi12080899