FinFET versus gate-all-around nanowire FET: Performance, scaling, and variability

D Nagy, G Indalecio, AJ Garcia-Loureiro… - IEEE Journal of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Performance, scalability, and resilience to variability of Si SOI FinFETs and gate-all-around
(GAA) nanowires (NWs) are studied using in-house-built 3-D simulation tools. Two …

Simulations of Statistical Variability in n-Type FinFET, Nanowire, and Nanosheet FETs

N Seoane, JG Fernandez, K Kalna… - IEEE Electron …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Four sources of variability, metal grain granularity (MGG), line-edge roughness (LER), gate-
edge roughness (GER), and random discrete dopants (RDD), affecting the performance of …

A multi-method simulation toolbox to study performance and variability of nanowire FETs

N Seoane, D Nagy, G Indalecio, G Espiñeira, K Kalna… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
An in-house-built three-dimensional multi-method semi-classical/classical toolbox has been
developed to characterise the performance, scalability, and variability of state-of-the-art …

Metal grain granularity study on a gate-all-around nanowire FET

D Nagy, G Indalecio, AJ Garcia-Loureiro… - … on Electron Devices, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The impact of the metal grain granularity (MGG) variations on subthreshold and ON-current
of a 22-nm gate length Si gate-all-around (GAA) nanowire (NW) field-effect transistor (FET) …

Impact of cross-sectional shape on 10-nm gate length InGaAs FinFET performance and variability

N Seoane, G Indalecio, D Nagy, K Kalna… - … on Electron Devices, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three cross sections (rectangular, bullet shaped, and triangular), resulting from the
fabrication process, of nanoscale In 0.53 Ga 0.47 As-on-insulator FinFETs with a gate length …

Internal photoemission metrology of inhomogeneous interface barriers

V Afanas' ev, N Kolomiiets, M Houssa… - physica status solidi …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Interfaces of heterogeneous solids, ranging from polycrystalline materials to composites, are
frequently encountered in nanotechnology. Electron transport in these materials and across …

Fluctuation sensitivity map: A novel technique to characterise and predict device behaviour under metal grain work-function variability effects

G Indalecio, N Seoane, K Kalna… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new technique developed for the analysis of intrinsic sources of variability affecting the
performance of semiconductor devices is presented. It is based on the creation of a …

Stress-induced variability studies in tri-gate FinFETs with source/drain stressor at 7 nm technology nodes

TP Dash, J Jena, E Mohapatra, S Dey, S Das… - Journal of Electronic …, 2019 - Springer
The epitaxially grown SiGe source/drain stressor (e-SiGe) technique has emerged to be a
consistent performance booster for advanced devices below the 14 nm technology node. At …

Work-function fluctuation of gate-all-around silicon nanowire n-MOSFETs: A unified comparison between cuboid and Voronoi methods

WL Sung, YS Yang, Y Li - IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the work-function fluctuation (WKF) of nanosized metal grains is estimated and
compared with the cuboid and Voronoi methods for 10-nm-gate gate-all-around silicon …

Drift-diffusion versus Monte Carlo simulated ON-current variability in nanowire FETs

D Nagy, G Indalecio, AJ Garcia-Loureiro… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variability of semiconductor devices is seriously limiting their performance at nanoscale. The
impact of variability can be accurately and effectively predicted by computer-aided …