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Journal of Electron Devices, Vol. 8, 2010, pp.

300-309 Journal of Electron Devices


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Analytical model of Threshold Voltage and Sub-threshold Slope of SOI and SON
MOSFETs: A comparative study

Sanjoy Deb1*, N B Singh2, D Das1, A K De3 and S K Sarkar1


1
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032, India
2
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
Manipur Institute of Technology, Imphal-795004, India
3
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur-713201, India

deb_sanjoy@yahoo.com, basanta_n@rediffmail.com, debraj230@gmail.com, asishkumar.de@nitdgp.ac.in and


su_sircir@yahoo.co.in

Received 14 September 2010, accepted 18 October 2010

ABSTRACT

A threshold voltage model based on three- short channel effects, threshold voltage roll-
interface compact capacitive model is off, subthreshold slope.
developed for horizontal SOI/SON MOSFET.
Different short channel effects like drain 1. INTRODUCTION
induced barrier lowering, 2D charge sharing
and fringing field effects are considered. With the emergence of mobile computing and
Analytical simulation is done to understand communication, low power device design and
the threshold voltage performance of silicon implementation have got a significant role to
on insulator (SOI) and silicon on nothing play in VLSI circuit design. Continuous
(SON) MOSFET, under different structural device performance improvement is possible
and operational parameter variations. The only through a combination of device scaling,
performance of the two devices are studied new device structures and material property
and compared in terms of threshold voltage improvement to its fundamental limits [1].
roll-off and subthreshold slope. Performance The down-scaling of MOSFETs has been the
of SON MOSFET is found to be significantly most important and effective way for
different from equivalent SOI device. SON achieving device performance improvement
MOSFET demonstrates lower threshold for VLSI/ULSI circuits. Increased demand for
voltage roll-off and subthreshold slope due to ultra low power consumption, high density
reduced short channel effects. Present and high performance devices is continuously
analysis is found to be useful to figure out the pushing the fabrication process to go beyond
improvement of SON over SOI structures as a the sub-micron technologies such as 45nm,
next generation short channel MOS structure. 32nm and so on. However, the performance
requirement in these advanced technologies
Keywords: Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI), couldn’t be achieved with conventional bulk
silicon-on-Nothing (SON), threshold voltage, CMOS process leading to an alternative,
Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology [2].
Short-channel-effects (SCEs), transistor advantages of fully-depleted (FD) SON
scalability, and circuit performance are architecture comparing to FDSOI, the most
improved by using SOI technology, especially significant one is the reduced electrostatic
ultrathin, fully depleted (FD) MOSFETs [3]. coupling of channel with source/drain and
MOSFET fabricated on insulator (SOI) substrate through the buried layer (BL) [12].
substrate provides an advantage for high Reduced electrostatic coupling through the
speed applications because of the low BL allows in turn to reduce the minimal
parasitic capacitance. As CMOS IC channel length of transistors or to relax the
technology enters the sub-50 nm range, the requirements on Si film thickness [13].
silicon channel and the buried oxide Moreover, since the so-called ‘‘nothing’’ (or
thicknesses must be less than 50 nm and 100 air) layer embedded below the Si active film
nm, respectively, in order to prevent the short has lower dielectric permittivity than oxide,
channel effect (SCE) [4]. The development of the parasitic capacitances between
SOI MOSFET technology has been limited so source/drain and substrate are reduced and
far by the difficulty in controlling the silicon therefore higher circuit speed can be expected
film thickness, adjusting buried oxide layer with SON devices. Thick buried layer can be
thickness, shallow source drain series a drawback of SOI MOSFETs due to large
resistances and the fringing fields [5-7]. A positive charge accumulated in the thick BL,
super SOI, having a silicon film thickness of while in the case of SON MOSFET, no
five nanometers and a buried oxide thickness charge will accumulate in the air-gap [14].
of 20 nm might be capable of suppressing the Although SOI and SON structures have basic
SCE at the CMOS down-scale limit of 20 nm resemblance, accurate modeling of different
channel length, however, the requirements for short channel effects is essential as their
the exceptionally thin silicon and buried oxide influences are different in those structures.
films exceed present manufacturing Adopting similar theoretical approach
capabilities for SOI wafers [8]. developed previously for SOI MOSFET
Although different SCEs are highly threshold voltage modeling [15], threshold
suppressed in SOI structure, SOI structure is voltage model of horizontal SON MOSFET
not fully immune to different SCEs. Among have been previously established [11]. In this
different SCEs related device performance work, a generalized three-interface compact
degradation, higher threshold voltage roll-off capacitive model of horizontal SOI/SON
and degraded subthreshold slope are very MOSFET has been developed. Different
important issues [9]. To overcome such types SCEs like fringing field, substrate coupling
of drawbacks in usual and junction-induced 2D-effects are
SOI structure, different improved SOI incorporated in the present model. A new
structures are suggested in recent times [10]. approach has been adopted for fringing field
Silicon-on-Nothing (SON), an innovative SOI capacitance calculation. Analytical
structure suggested and developed very expressions of threshold voltage and sub-
recently, enables fabrication of extremely thin threshold slope including the fringing
silicon (5 to 20 nm) and buried dielectric (10 capacitance effect are developed from the
to 30 nm) super SOI devices, which are compact capacitive analysis. The performance
capable of quasitotal suppression of SCEs and of the two devices are studied and compared
excellent electrical performances [11]. In a in terms of threshold voltage roll-off and
SON MOSFET, the buried layer of usual SOI subthreshold slope.
MOSFET is replaced with air which causes
less SCEs and leakage currents. Among the

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2. ANALYTICAL MODELING

In a short channel device, potential profiles in


the channel and beneath the channel (in the
BL) are two-dimensional in nature. Assuming
a parabolic potential profile initiated by
perpendicular and lateral field, threshold
voltage can be calculated by solving 2-D Fig. 2. Equivalent capacitance model of SOI/SON-
Poisson’s equation in the channel [16]. It can MOSFET
also be calculated by solving 1-D Poisson’s
equation and than incorporating lateral field In the figure, Cif(1,2,3) are the interface state
effect through voltage doping transformation capacitances for three interfaces, CSi,d is the
(VDT). This type of analysis is commonly silicon channel depletion capacitance, CGOX is
known as compact capacitive model and this the gate oxide capacitance, CB is the buried
model predicts threshold voltage with almost layer capacitance due to substrate bias, C FD
same accuracy as with 2-D Poisson’s equation
but with less complexity [16]. and C FS are buried layer capacitance due to
fringing fields from drain and source side
2.1 Equivalent Capacitive Model respectively. VFB1 is the flat band voltage at
the front interface of the channel due to gate;
A generalized layered structure of a SOI/SON VFB2 is the flat band voltage at the channel
MOSFET is shown in Fig. 1. The structure back interface due to source/drain; VFB3 is the
considered here has poly silicon (n+) gate. Let flat band voltage at the back interface of the
tGOX, tSi, tBL/air and tsub be the thicknesses of channel due to substrate.
gate oxide, silicon channel layer, buried layer
and substrate layer respectively. L is the 2.2 Short Channel Effects
metallurgical channel length of the device. For a long channel device, it can be
considered that the gate is completely
responsible for depleting the channel. In a
short channel device, some part of the
depletion is accomplished by the influence of
drain voltage as well as channel back
interface potential; this phenomenon is known
as two dimensional charge sharing effect [17].
In terms of potential this can be explained on
the basis of potential barrier lowering at
source-channel junction due to lateral field in
the channel initiated by applied drain voltage
and this phenomenon is commonly known as
Fig. 1. A SOI/SON-MOSFET layered structure. drain induced barrier lowering (DIBL).
Another component of DIBL is caused by
A simple compact-capacitance model induced potential at channel back interface
developed for the description of the threshold [17]. Under short channel condition, channel
voltage Vth of the fully depleted SOI/SON- back interface potential is due to combined
MOSFET is shown in Fig.2. effect of substrate bias, hole accumulation and
fringing field.

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2.2.1 DIBL due to lateral field is due to accumulation of holes, which are
generated by impact ionization, at the channel
Voltage doping transformation is a technique, back interface [17].
which can be used to take into account the Fringing field effect in a fully depleted
effect of channel lateral field related DIBL SOI/SON MOSFET is responsible for a
into quasi 1D threshold voltage analysis [16]. dramatic increase of DIBL [5]. The effect of
According to VDT, the effect of lateral field fringing field can be reduced by using lower
in the channel from drain side is equivalent to dielectric constant material in the BL. This is
a reduction in the effective channel doping. actually done in SON structure by using air in
Using VDT for modeling short channel the BL. Two-dimensional potential profile in
effects, the effective channel doping is given the BL is quite complex. As a result, two-
by [11]; dimensional analysis of the fringing field
2 V * effect has not been developed properly [6]. A
N A*  N A  Si 2 DS compact model of fringing field induced
qLeff
(4) parasitic capacitance can be developed based
Here, εSi is the dielectric constant of silicon, q on conformal mapping technique.
is the electronic charge, N A is the silicon A schematic view of SOI/SON MOSFET
impurity doping concentration, VDS *
is the with fringing-field lines emanating from the
drain to the channel region is shown in Fig. 3.
effective drain to source voltage which is
Assuming that the source is at zero potential,
given by;
fringing field emanating only from the drain
*
VDS  VDS  2Vbi  S 2  S1  side is considered in the present analysis.
 2 Vbi  S 2  S1 VDS  Vbi  S 2  S1  Using conformal mapping, the original
structure can be converted into an equivalent
(2)
two-plate system with an angle of inclination
Here VDS is the drain-to-source voltage, Vbi is
of 180 degree as shown in Fig. 3. The
the built in potential, ψ1 and ψ2 are the channel back interface and drain back
channel front and back interface potential, interface are considered as the two plates
respectively. Appling voltage doping which are assumed to be of unit area. The two
transformation, the effective channel plates are separated by the depletion layer
depletion capacitance is given as; formed at the channel-drain junction.
*
dQd qN A t Si Leff
C Sieff,d  
d S1  S 2 (3)
Here Qd is the total charge per unit area in silicon
in the channel.

2.2.2 DIBL due to fringing field


Fig: 3. Fringing capacitance model of SOI/SON-
In isolated channel structure like SOI/SON,
MOSFET.
penetration of fringing-field lines from source
and drain through buried layer or air induces a The capacitance of the two plates can be
potential at the channel back interface, which calculated using the approach adopted for
causes fringing field related DIBL. Substrate calculation of capacitance of an inclined plate
bias is also capacitively coupled to the capacitor with a degree of inclination up to
channel back interface potential which acts as
another source of DIBL. Another DIBL effect

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180 degree [18,19]. The capacitance per unit Here, εBL/air is the dielectric constant of buried
longitudinal length of the line is [18]; layer/air. As the contribution from the higher
CFD / S  CFin  CFout (4) order terms is negligible, contribution up to
the fourth ordered term is taken into
Here C F is the inner capacitance and C F is
in out
consideration.
the outer capacitance. For the structure Assuming that the substrate is depleted, it can
considered here both the capacitances will be be modeled with an equivalent capacitor CS
same and, which can be calculated from CS=εSi/WS,
K ' (kin / out ) where WS is the substrate depletion layer
C FD / S  2 BL / air (5)
K (kin / out ) width [11]. The charge induced in the
Here, K ' (k in / out )  K (k in' / out ) and using the substrate and BL/air interface can be written
as CS(VB-VFB3) where VB is the substrate bias.
same approach as in Ref. 20 we can write; For sufficiently thick BL, substrate depletion
will be negligible and under such condition CS
LP ( LP  LF  LD ) can be replaced by a fitting parameter.
k in / out  and
( LP  LF )( LP  LD )
2.3 Threshold Voltage Model
LF LD
k '
 .
(2 LP  LF )(2 LP  LD )
in / out
Considering equilibrium charge conservation
Since the source and drain are heavily doped at each node in Fig. 2., surface potentials 1,
n+ regions and the channel is p type, an 2 and3 can be expressed as;
abrupt junction will be formed with a  1 A   1C Sieff,d  CGOX (VG1  VFB1 )  C Sieff,d 2
depletion width of LP. If device metallurgical
(7)
channel length is L then effective channel
length LF=L-2*LP and LD/S is the length of the  2 B   2 C Sieff,d  C B 3
(8)
drain/source side. As K (k in / out ) is the  (VDS  VFB 2 )C FD  C Sieff,d 1
complete elliptic integral of first kind, taking  3C   2C B  (VB  VFB 3 )CS (9)
the expansion, the final expression of the
Here, A  CGOX  Cif 1 , B  C B  C  Cif 2
D
capacitance is expressed as ; F

 1 '  and C  C B  C S  Cif 3 . From equations 6, 7,


1   2 (k in / out )
2
 8 and 9 the following equations are derived;
    C3 1  C4 2  C5 (10)
  1.3  ' 
  (k in / out )  ............
4
 C6 1  C7 2  C B 3  C8 (11)
  2.4  
  (2n  1)!  '   C B 2  C 3  r (VB  VFB 3 )
  (k in / out ) 
2n
(12)
  2n!   Here,
C F  2 BL / air
D/S

 1  2Vbi  VDS


1   2 (k in / out )
2
 C1  Vbi (Vbi  VDS ) , C 2  ,
    Vbi (Vbi  VDS )
  1.3   2t 
  (k in / out )  ...........
4
C3  A  Si Si (2  C1C 2 ) ,
  2.4   LF
  (2n  1)!   2t 
  (k in / out ) 
2n
C 4  Si Si (2  C1C 2 ) ,
  2n!   LF
(6)

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C5  CGOX (VG1  VFB1 )  et Si LN A modification of 2 in SON structure due to air
2t Si Si , in the box region will initiate considerable
 (VDS  2Vbi  2C1 ) performance variation of SON over SOI
LF
structure.
 t
C6  2(2  C1C 2 ) Si Si , dV
The sub-threshold swing S ( 2.3k B T G1 )
LF d 1
t  which can be calculated using Eqs.3 and 7 is
C7  B  2(1  C1C 2 ) Si Si ,
LF given as;
C8  (VDS  VFB 2 )C FD  et Si LF N A 
 eff   2 
S  2.3k B T  C Si
A
  C Si  B  C BOX 
,d 
eff
,d  
2t Si Si 

CGOX   C 

 (VDS  2Vbi  2C1 )
LF (17)
and r is a fitting parameter, representing 3. RESULTS & DISCUSSIONS
resemblance of substrate resistance effect
with negligible substrate depletion. The plots of threshold voltage and sub-
Using Crammer’s rule, the expression for 1, threshold slope with channel length are shown
2 and 3 are obtained as; in Figs. 4 and 5, respectively. The threshold
voltage roll-off (TVRO) and subthreshold
CC 5 C 7  C5 C B2  CC 4 C8  rC4 C BVB
1  , slope (STS) reduces with increasing channel
CC 3 C 7  C3 C B2  C 4 C 6 C length due to reduced SCEs with channel
(13) length. TVRO predicted by the analytical
CC 3 C8  rC3 C BVB  CC 5 C 6 model is compared with the experimental
2  and results of SOI structure available in reference
CC 3 C 7  C3 C B2  C 4 C 6 C
20 and good agreement are obtained
(14)
indicating the correctness of the model. It is
rC C V  C B C3 C8  rC4 C 6VB  C B C5 C 6
3  3 7 B found from both the plots that the TVRO and
CC 3 C 7  C3 C B2  C 4 C 6 C STS are reduced in case of SON structure
(15) compared to SOI structure.

Under the assumption that the inversion layer


will be formed at the front interface due to the
front interface potential, we can compute
device threshold voltage (front channel
threshold voltage) by solving VG1 in terms of
1 and then replacing 1 with 2F. The
threshold voltage can be expressed as;
Vth  VFB1  2 F {(CC3C7  C3C B2  CC 4 C6 )
 C 4 (CC8  rCBVB )}{CGOX (CC 7  C B2 )}1
(16)
In case of bulk MOSFET, threshold voltage is
derived from the front interface surface Fig. 4. Plot of Threshold voltage with channel length
potential 1. The effect of back potential 2 is for SOI (dashed line) and SON (solid line) MOSFET.
neglected but in short channel SOI/ SON Back-gate voltage VB = 0 V, VDS = 1 V, TGOX=5nm,
TBOX=147nm, Na=0.5*1014 cm-2, Nsub=4*1012 cm-2.
structure, 1 will be strongly influenced by Curve a: TSi = 8.6 and curve b: TSi =18.2
the back interface 2. Significant

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Fig. 5. Plot of Subthreshold slope with channel length Fig. 7. Subthreshold Slope with gate oxide thickness
for SOI (dashed line) and SON (solid line) MOSFET. for SOI (dashed line) and SON (solid line) MOSFET.
Parameter values are same as in Fig.1 and also the Significance of symbol and parameters values is same
symbols have the same significance. as in Fig.6.

The potential coupling ratio  1  2  reduces Increasing BL or air layer thickness reduces
with decreasing GOX layer thickness. This PCR due to reduced 2 as a result TVRO and
increases the SCEs thereby increasing the STS are reduced. This can be observed in the
TVRO and STS. The performance of SON results presented in Figs. 8 and 9,
structure is found to be superior to SOI respectively.
structure and their comparison is shown in
Figs. 6 and 7, respectively.

Fig. 8. Threshold voltage with gate oxide thickness for


SON (dashed line) and SOI (solid line) MOSFET.
Fig. 6. Threshold voltage with gate oxide thickness for Significance of symbol and parameters values is same
SON (dashed line) and SOI (solid line) MOSFET. as in Fig.6.
Back-gate voltage VB = 0 V, VDS = 1 V, TBOX=147nm,
Na=0.5*1014 cm-2, Nsub=4*1012 cm-2, L=50nm. Curve
a: VDS = 1V and curve b: VDS =0.05V. Other parameters
are same as in Fig. 1.

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Fig. 11. Subthreshold slope with substrate bias for
Fig. 9. Subthreshold slope with gate oxide thickness for SON (dashed line) and SOI (solid line) MOSFET.
SON (dashed line) and SOI (solid line) MOSFET. Significance of symbol and parameters values is same
Significance of symbol and parameters values is same as in Fig.6.
as in Fig.6.
Effective shift in TVRO and STS with and
without SCEs are plotted with channel length
Variations of threshold voltage and
subthreshold slope with the substrate voltage as | Vthsft | and SS Shift in Figs. 12 and 13,
(VB) are shown in the Figs. 10 and 11, respectively. In case of SON structure,
respectively. Reduction of potential coupling threshold voltage and subthreshold slope shift
ratio (PCR) with increasing substrate bias is minimum due to less SCEs.
explains the nature of these graphs.

Fig. 10. | Vthsft | with channel length for SON (dashed


Fig. 10. Threshold voltage with substrate bias for SON line) and SOI (solid line) MOSFET. Significance of
(dashed line) and SOI (solid line) MOSFET. symbol and parameters values is same as in Fig.6.
Significance of symbol and parameters values is same
as in Fig.6.

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ACKNOWLADGEMENT

Sanjoy Deb thankfully acknowledges the financial


support obtained from School of Nanoscience and
Technology, Jadavpur University in the form of
UGC Fellowship.

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