Transport simulation of a nanoscale silicon rod field-effect transistor

Author

Dwyer, C. ; Taylor, R. ; Vicci, L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill, NC, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

401

Lastpage

404

Abstract

We have simulated the behavior of a rod shaped nanoscale ring-gated field-effect transistor (O-FET) using the PISCES-IIb semiconductor drift-diffusion solver. The results from these simulations are used by a custom SPICE kernel to simulate several simple logic gates. The usefulness of this kind of transistor is examined within the context of a self-assembling fabrication technique that we outline. We also briefly explore a computer architecture we call a "computational oracle" for which the O-FET is well suited. Our simulation results, SPICE kernel modifications, and input decks may be found at ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/packages/GRIP/publication-addend a/TSNSRFET.

Keywords

SPICE; carrier mobility; elemental semiconductors; field effect transistors; logic circuits; logic simulation; nanoelectronics; self-assembly; semiconductor device models; silicon; SPICE input decks; SPICE kernels; SPICE logic circuit simulation; Si; Si rod nanoscale FET; computational oracle; logic gate simulation; nanoscale computer architecture; nanoscale silicon rod field-effect transistor transport simulation; rod-shaped ring-gated O-FET; self-assembling fabrication techniques; semiconductor carrier mobility simulation; semiconductor drift-diffusion solvers; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; FETs; Fabrication; Kernel; Logic gates; Packaging; SPICE; Self-assembly; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nanotechnology, 2002. IEEE-NANO 2002. Proceedings of the 2002 2nd IEEE Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7538-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NANO.2002.1032275

Filename

1032275