A Comparison Study of Electrical Characteristics in Conventional Multiple-gate Silicon Nanowire Transistors

In this paper electrical characteristics of various kinds of multiple-gate silicon nanowire transistors (SNWT) with the channel length equal to 7 nm are compared. A fully ballistic quantum mechanical transport approach based on NEGF was employed to analyses electrical characteristics of rectangular and cylindrical silicon nanowire transistors as well as a Double gate MOS FET. A double gate, triple gate, and gate all around nano wires were studied to investigate the impact of increasing the number of gates on the control of the short channel effect which is important in nanoscale devices. Also in the case of triple gate rectangular SNWT inserting extra gates on the bottom of device can improve the application of device. The results indicate that by using gate all around structures short channel effects such as DIBL, subthreshold swing and delay reduces.

Authors:

• Fatemeh Karimi
• Morteza Fathipour
• Hamdam Ghanatian
• Vala Fathipour

Keywords:

• SNWT (silicon nanowire transistor)
• non equilibriumGreen's function (NEGF)
• double gate (DG)
• triple gate (TG)
• multiple gate
• cylindrical nano wire (CW)
• rectangular nano wire(RW)
• Poisson_ Schrödinger solver
• drain induced barrier lowering(DIBL).

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