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- Title
High performance ring oscillators from 10-nm wide silicon nanowire field-effect transistors.
- Authors
Huang, Ruo-Gu; Tham, Douglas; Wang, Dunwei; Heath, James
- Abstract
We explore 10-nm wide Si nanowire (SiNW) field-effect transistors (FETs) for logic applications, via the fabrication and testing of SiNW-based ring oscillators. We report on SiNW surface treatments and dielectric annealing, for producing SiNW FETs that exhibit high performance in terms of large on/off-state current ratio (∼10), low drain-induced barrier lowering (∼30 mV) and low subthreshold swing (∼80 mV/decade). The performance of inverter and ring-oscillator circuits fabricated from these nanowire FETs are also explored. The inverter demonstrates the highest voltage gain (∼148) reported for a SiNW-based NOT gate, and the ring oscillator exhibits near rail-to-rail oscillation centered at 13.4 MHz. The static and dynamic characteristics of these NW devices indicate that these SiNW-based FET circuits are excellent candidates for various high-performance nanoelectronic applications. [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.]
- Publication
Nano Research, 2011, Vol 4, Issue 10, p1005
- ISSN
1998-0124
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12274-011-0157-2