As the effective channel length of Si device is shrinking, the devices have faced problems such as increased leakage current, threshold voltage roll-off, and degradation of sub-threshold slope. Thus, MOSFET on thin Si body on insulator (SOI) has widel...
As the effective channel length of Si device is shrinking, the devices have faced problems such as increased leakage current, threshold voltage roll-off, and degradation of sub-threshold slope. Thus, MOSFET on thin Si body on insulator (SOI) has widely been utilized in past decade to reduce these short channel effects. In this study, we report on the fabrication results of a deep sub-micron MOSFET after converting a bulk Si substrate into SOI type structure as an alternative of SOI wafer.
In order to separate thin top Si active layer from the underlying substrate, we processed the steps of channel definition, deep trench etch at both sides of channel, and thermal oxidation from the sides. The cross-sectional TEM examination indicated a SOI structure: V-shaped active layer with thickness less than 0.1μm floating on SiO2. Further fabrication processes of self-aligned S,D implant and contact formation yielded a sub-micron MOSFET. The device's threshold voltage with W/L=180nm/165nm was 0.22V, and the sub-threshold slope was unexpectedly large as 250mV/dec. The Id-Vd exhibited a linear relationship with variation of Vg due to the carrier velocity saturation in a sub-mircon MOSFET: . The device had also suffered from DIBL(Drain-Induced Barrier Lowering), showing the increased Id at high Vds with barrier lowering effect of ▵V ~ 630mV/V.
Overall device performance was not outstanding probably inherited to the unscaled oxide thickness, tox=10nm, and the sidewall interface states in oxides surrounding the channel.
It is however very meaningful that the SOI type structure was realized by using conventional bulk Si wafer and implemented for a sub-micron MOSFET.