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VLSI Design
Volume 13 (2001), Issue 1-4, Pages 169-173
doi:10.1155/2001/63643
Non-Equilibrium Hole Transport in Deep Sub-Micron Well-Tempered Si p-MOSFETs
Device Modelling Group, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, UK
Copyright © 2001 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
As MOSFETs are scaled to deep submicron dimensions non-equilibrium, near ballistic, transport in p-MOSFETs becomes important. Recent experimental data indicates that as MOSFETs are scaled the performance gap between n and p-channel shrinks. Nonequilibrium transport effects and performance potentials of ‘Well Tempered’ Si p- MOSFETs with gate lengths of 50 and 25 nm are studied. Monte Carlo and calibrated Drift Diffusion simulations of these devices provide a quantitative estimate of the importance and the influence of non-equilibrium transport on submicron device performance. A possible explanation for the closing performance gap between n- and p-channel MOSFETs is offered.