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Published October 2011 | public
Journal Article

High Performance Ring Oscillators from 10-nm Wide Silicon Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors

Abstract

We explore 10-nm wide Si nanowire (SiNW) field-effect transistors (FETs) for logic applications, via the fabrication and testing of SiNW-based ring oscillators. We report on SiNW surface treatments and dielectric annealing, for producing SiNW FETs that exhibit high performance in terms of large on/off-state current ratio (~10^8), low drain-induced barrier lowering (~30 mV) and low subthreshold swing (~80 mV/decade). The performance of inverter and ring-oscillator circuits fabricated from these nanowire FETs are also explored. The inverter demonstrates the highest voltage gain (~148) reported for a SiNW-based NOT gate, and the ring oscillator exhibits near rail-to-rail oscillation centered at 13.4 MHz. The static and dynamic characteristics of these NW devices indicate that these SiNW-based FET circuits are excellent candidates for various high-performance nanoelectronic applications.

Additional Information

© 2011 Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Received: 11 May 2011. Revised: 7 June 2011. Accepted: 8 June 2011. The authors acknowledge H. Ahmad and Y. -S. Shin for graphics assistance. This work was funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant CCF-0541461 and the Department of Energy (DE-FG02-04ER46175). D. Tham gratefully acknowledges support by the KAUST Scholar Award.

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