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      Double gate tunnel field-effect transistor; equivalent oxide thickness; ambipolar conduction; spacer; cut-off frequency.

    • Abstract

       

      In the current study, the gate overlap on the drain side was investigated from the prospects of both DC and high-frequency behaviour. The key parameters extracted in this work to determine the main performance parameters are subthreshold swing (SS), ambipolar current (I$_{amb}$), ON/OFF current ratio and cut-off frequency. Although the gate overlap on the drain decreases the ambipolar current, it has an adverse effect on the high-frequency performance as the gate-to-drain capacitance increases. This behaviour is observed for increasing overlap length for low-k gate oxide. On the other hand, the ambipolar current does not show a considerable decline when using high-k gate oxide. To obtain a low ambipolar current at lower values of equivalent oxide thickness (EOT), we propose a low-k dielectric spacer above the drain side. The low-k spacer not only decreases the gate-to-drain capacitance butalso facilitates the suppression of ambipolarity due to overlap. All simulations carried out in this work are done using the Silvaco TCAD device simulator.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      MAHMOUD ELIWY1 MUHAMMAD ELGAMAL2 AHMED SHAKER3 MOSTAFA FEDAWY1 4

      1. Electronics and Communications Department, Faculty of Engineering, Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt
      2. Department of Communication and Information Engineering, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
      3. Engineering Physics and Mathematics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
      4. Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology, Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt
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