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Shin-ichi TAKAGI Tomohisa MIZUNO Naoharu SUGIYAMA Tsutomu TEZUKA Atsushi KUROBE
An effective way to realize scaled CMOS with both requirements of high current drive and low supply voltage is to introduce high mobility channel such as strained Si. This paper proposes a new device structure using the strained-Si channel, strained-Si-on-Insulator (strained-SOI) MOSFET, applicable to sub-100 nm Si CMOS technology nodes. The device structure and the advantages of strained-SOI MOSFETs are presented. It is demonstrated that strained-SOI MOSFETs are successfully fabricated by combining SIMOX technology with re-growth of strained Si and that n- and p-MOSFETs have mobility of 1.6 and 1.3 times higher than the universal one, respectively. Furthermore, it is also shown that ultra-thin SiGe-on-Insulator (SGOI) virtual substrates with higher Ge content, necessary to further increase mobility and to realize fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs, can be made by oxidation of SGOI structure with lower Ge content.