• DocumentCode
    2931587
  • Title

    Can the subthreshold swing in a classical FET be lowered below 60 mV/decade?

  • Author

    Salahuddin, Sayeef ; Datta, Supriyo

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    15-17 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    We show that by biasing a ferroelectric insulator in its negative capacitance region and using it on top of the gate of a classical FET, it should be possible to achieve a subthreshold swing significantly lower than 60 mV/decade at room temperature. We further show that this, in principle, does not change the transport properties of the FET so that the ON current of the FET remains unaffected. A simple analysis is used to describe the basic principle of device operation.
  • Keywords
    ferroelectric devices; field effect transistors; FET device operation; ferroelectric insulator; negative capacitance region; subthreshold swing; temperature 293 K to 298 K; Capacitance; Capacitors; Circuits; Computer networks; FETs; Ferroelectric materials; Insulation; Temperature; Tunneling; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electron Devices Meeting, 2008. IEDM 2008. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • ISSN
    8164-2284
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2377-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    8164-2284
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEDM.2008.4796789
  • Filename
    4796789