September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
545 pages
14h 16m
English
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Compact Models for Ultrathin Body FETs
This chapter presents compact models for the emerging ultrathin-body (UTB) field-effect-transistors (FETs). The UTB FETs include multiple-gate or multigate FinFETs and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) multigate UTB-FETs (UTBSOI FETs) [1,2]. FinFETs and UTB-SOI FETs have emerged as the real alternatives to MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors) and planar CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) technology to surmount the continuous scaling challenges of MOSFET devices. The continuous miniaturization of the conventional planar MOSFET devices has become more challenging at the same rate of Moore’s law [3, 4, 5, 6] due to several fundamental device-physics constraints ...