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Vertically Stacked Ge Diamond-shape Nanowires GAAFET with Ferroelectric HZO

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Publication Date2023-06-11
AuthorsBo‐An Chen, Yi-Wen Lin, Hao‐Hsiang Chang, Chih‐Hsiang Chang, Ming-Yueh Huang
InstitutionsTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (Taiwan), National Tsing Hua University
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We report the vertically stacked Ge diamond-shape nanowires (NWs) gate-all-around field-effect transistor (GAAFET) with ferroelectric (Fe) layer HZO <tex xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;&#36;=2&#36;&lt;/tex> nm <tex xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;&#36;/\mathbf&#123;Al&#125;_&#123;2&#125;\mathbf&#123;O&#125;_&#123;3&#125;=4&#36;&lt;/tex> nm. The in-situ ALD ozone treatment is applied to reduce the interface defect density (Dit). Furthermore, the transfer <tex xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;&#36;\mathbf&#123;I&#125;_&#123;\mathbf&#123;D&#125;&#125;&#36;&lt;/tex> 1 <inf xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;D&lt;/inf> - V <inf xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;G&lt;/inf> curves of the device shows superior performance with a minimum steep sub-threshold slope <tex xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;&#36;(\mathbf&#123;SS&#125;_&#123;\text&#123;MIN&#125;&#125;)&#36;&lt;/tex> of 49 <tex xmlns:mml=“http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:xlink=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”&gt;&#36;\mathbf&#123;mV&#125;/\mathbf&#123;dec&#125;&#36;&lt;/tex> . The formation of the vertically stacked Ge diamond-shape NWs Fe-GAAFET could be compatible with current CMOS technology platform and have high potential for high-performance IC applications.