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Device SHEs in the Presence of Non-equilibrium Channel Heat Transport in SOI and SOD FinFETs with Technology Scaling
S. Venkateswarlu,
Published in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
2020
Abstract
With scaling FinFETs in advanced logic technologies, fin thickness, source/drain (S/D) regions doping and lattice hot-spot temperature predominantly affect the fin channel thermal conductivity due to enhanced phonon boundary scattering and phonon-dopant impurity (mass and size) fluctuations and leads to more device SHE. In this paper, we investigated these effects on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) fin field effect transistor (FinFET) electro-thermal performance by TCAD analysis considering Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for phonons with relaxation time approximation. Results showed that the channel kth is reduced for $\mathrm{W}_{\text{Fin}} < 50\ \text{nm}$, doping $\mathrm{N} > 1\times 10^{19}\ \text{cm}-3$ and it is further degraded due to increasing local hot-spot temperature. However, Silicon-on-diamond (SOD) technology improves the device ET performance due to increase in heat energy flux through diamond (higher kth) BOX layer towards the substrate. Impact of within-chip ambient temperature $(\mathrm{T}_{\mathrm{A}})$ on device logic performance reveals that the SOD FinFET exhibits lower hot-spot temperature compared to conventional SOI FinFET. It is also revealed that with SOD technology, FinFETs can be aggressively scale down to sub-10nm node with better lattice heat mitigation, which improves the FinFET logic performance. © 2020 IEEE.