Low-frequency noise in strained SiGe core-shell nanowire p-channel field effect transistors

Doyoung Jang, Jae Woo Lee, Kiichi Tachi, Laurent Montes, Thomas Ernst, Gyu Tae Kim, Gerard Ghibaudo

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    Abstract

    Low-frequency noise has been studied in compressively strained Si 0.8Ge0.2 core-shell nanowire (NW) p-channel transistors compared with unstrained NWs. The noise has been well interpreted using the carrier number with correlated mobility fluctuation model. The volume trap density, Nt, lies in the range of 2.9× 1018 -4.3× 1019 cm-3 eV-1, which is similar to standard high- k planar devices. The impact of Coulomb and surface roughness scatterings is more significant in unstrained SiGe NWs. This result can be explained by the better carrier confinement at the central region of SiGe NWs due to the additional band offset in the compressively strained NWs.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number073505
    JournalApplied Physics Letters
    Volume97
    Issue number7
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010 Aug 16

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This work was performed as part of the RTRA Core project and supported by region Rhône-Alpes, NRF (Grant No. 2009-0083380), and WCU R322009000100820 (Grant No. 20090082826).

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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