Transcript Slide 1
FinFET: a mature multigate MOS technology?
A wideband transistor simulation and
characterization approach
J.-P. Raskin1, T.M. Chung1, D. Lederer1, A. Dixit2, N. Collaert2,
T. Rudenko3, V. Kilchytska3, D. Flandre3
Université catholique de Louvain,
and 4Microelectronics Laboratories
Place du Levant, 3, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
[email protected]
1Microwave
2IMEC,
Kapeldreef, 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
3ISP,
Kiev
Growing interest for MuG
• Strong limitations - Short Channel Effects - appearing
for Single Gate MOS below 50 nm
• Many technological difficulties to satisfy the ITRS
predictions, in terms of leakage current (IOFF), supply
voltage, Early voltage, DIBL, cutoff frequency, etc.
• Multiple-gate MOSFETs (MuG) are considered as
serious potential candidates
Planar MuG < > Non-planar MuG
Planar MuG
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GAA: First planar DG MOS
– Isotropic wet etching of BOX
– good gate oxide-channel interfaces,
channel thickness controlled by highly
selective wet etching
– Need: variable W/L >< GAA (W/L=1)
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Planar DG built by wafer bonding
starting with SG MOS
– Gate stacks are not built at the same
time (dissimetry)
– Misalignment of top and bottom gates
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Planar DG built by transfer of a thin Si
film above a cavity
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GAA
[Colinge, SOI Conf. 90]
SON-GAA, ST-M, IEDM’03
DG, CEA-LETI, SOI Conf. 04
Both gates are built simultaneously
– Misalignment of top and bottom gates
Self-aligned DG process, but no DG MOS yet
DG, UCL, SPIE 04
Non-planar MuG
FinFET, Triple gate
FinFET
IMEC, SSE’04
Omega gate, Pi-Gate
Taiwan Semicon., IEDM’02
RF analog factors of merit
• Several good published articles investigated the intrinsic behavior
of MuG experimentally and through simulations: ION/IOFF,
Subthreshold slope, Vth roll-off, DIBL.
• Analyses focused on RF analog performance – not limited to the
channel behavior (impact of parasitics related to the 3-D structure)
ITRS
Year
Lmin / node
(nm)
tox (nm)
gm/gds @ 5.Lmin
Parasitic cap.
(fF/µm)
fT (GHz)
2005
45 / 80
2.1
100
0.24
140
2006
37 / 70
1.9
100
0.24
170
2007
32 / 65
1.6
100
0.24
200
2009
25 / 50
1.4
100
0.24
280
2012
18 / 35
1.2
100
0.24
400
2015
12 / 25
1.0
100
0.24
700
Measured MuG
FinFET from IMEC
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Gate lengths L from 10 µm down to 50 nm
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Fin width Wfin from 10 µm down to 22 nm
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Fin height Hfin from 60 to 95 nm
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Fin spacing (Sfin) from 100 to 350 nm
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Nitrided gate oxide of 2 nm EOT
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NiSi salicide
Planar DG from UCL
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SiO2 gate oxide of 30 or 6 nm
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Si film of 87 nm
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BOX = 400 nm
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L from 20 down to 1 µm
Non-planar vs. planar MuG
3-D Atlas simulations of SOI MOSFETs Multiple-Gate Devices in
static and dynamic regimes
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Single-, Double-, Triple-, and Pi-Gate MOS
L from 200 nm down to 25 nm
Hfin = 50 nm
Tsi = Wfin = 20 nm
Tox = 2 nm
Tbox = 150 nm
Channel doping = 1015 cm-3 (undoped)
Static simulation results
L
tSi
(nm) (nm)
200
20
100
20
75
20
50
20
25
20
Vth (V)
Vds
(V)
S (mV/dec)
DIBL (mV/V)
SG
DG
TG
PG
SG
DG
TG
PG
0.05
0.32
0.35
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64.0
59.9
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-
1.00
0.28
0.36
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65.1
59.9
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-
0.05
0.28
0.37
0.40
0.40
84.9
61.1
59.8
60.7
1.00
0.16
0.35
0.38
0.38
80.5
61.1
61.3
60.6
0.05
0.20
0.37
0.40
0.40
124.5
63.8
61.8
62.8
1.00
-0.095
0.34
0.38
0.38
110.1
64.4
62.7
63.1
0.05
0.045
0.35
0.39
0.40
198.5
77.3
75.3
74.2
1.00
-0.75
0.27
0.33
0.33
282.9
81.8
78.7
77.3
0.05
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0.32
0.33
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232.5
183.9
1.00
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-0.35
-0.32
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445.4
365.3
SG
DG
TG
PG
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11
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126
16
21
21
395
32
21
26
837
89
63
74
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700
674
- Roll-off Vth , degradation of S and DIBL for SG for Lg < 100 nm
Solution: Reduce Si channel thickness (Vth control), but
technological problems in terms of uniformity and increase of Rs and Rd.
- Pi-gate present slightly better results, lower SCE
- At L = 25 nm, MuG with tSi = Wfin = 20 nm show degradation of their performance
Gm/Id: efficiency to convert DC to AC
Intrinsic voltage gain = Gm/Gd = Gm/Id x Id/Gd
= Gm/Id x VEA
Planar SOI SG and DG
FinFETs
Measurement results
1E+20
1200
-1
800
1E+16
600
1E+14
400
1E+12
Surface
Centre
200
1E+10
0
0.0
0.3
0.5
0.8
Vgs (V)
Undoped DG and SG - - -
1000
100 nm DG MOSFET
• Clear interest for DG for channel length < 100 nm
• VI is not efficient at high Vgo
Simulation results
1.0
Mobility (cm V sec )
1E+18
2 -1
-3
Electron concentration (cm )
Volume inversion (VI)
Early Voltage vs Wfin and L
FinFETs
L = 10 µm
Measurement results
VEA for FinFET in VI regime is 10 x higher than for FD SOI
Intrinsic analog gain
Higher intrinsic gain for FinFET of around 20 dB compared to FD SOI MOS
Dynamic analysis of MuG
Simulation results
At low Vgo, the gmMuG/gmSG and CgsMuG/CgsSG ratios are > 1
At higher Vgo, no improvement on normalized gm for MuG over SG
Volume inversion in MuG only efficient at lower Vgo
Miller capacitance Cgd
Measured Cgs/Cgd = 3
for 60 nm FinFET
Cgs/Cgd: Ratio of Control capacitance of the channel to Parasitic
feedback Miller capacitance.
MuG devices achieve a higher value of Cgs/Cgd as compared to SG
devices
3-D parasitic capacitances
Normalized Cgs
Higher parasitic capacitances: TG > DG > SG due to more complex 3-D interconnection
Main part of the parasitic capacitance is related to fringing field between
gate-to-source and gate-to-drain through BOX
Cutoff frequency
- For long L, fT of SG slightly higher
due to lower parasitic C compared to
MuG
- At small L, SG device, very high
SCE, leading to bad fT value
- Even MuG devices with L < 40 nm,
degradation appears
- To follow up the ITRS, we have to
reduce Wfin or tsi as well as EOT
(high-k)
Vgo = 500 mV and Vds = 1 V
Conclusions – Maturity of FinFETs?
FinFET: very promising technological solution at short term
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
- higher technological maturity than planar DG
- parasitic capacitances related to the 3-D FinFET structure
are only slightly higher than for SG
- reduced mobility for electrons (<110> cristalline orientation)
- control of Wfin by etching + gate interface quality
- higher source/drain resistances
Rs, Rd → reduced gm → lower fT and fmax
Rg → reduced fmax
Short term technological challenges: gate interface quality, silicidation S/D or
Low Schottky Barrier S/D contacts, integration density
Acknowledgements
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UCL clean rooms team
Mr. P. Simon for RF measurements
Dr. Jurczak Malgorzata’s group, IMEC
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