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A Systematic Investigation of Dual Material Gate TFET for Improved Performance


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1 School of VLSI Design and Embedded Systems, NIT Kurukshetra, Haryana 136 119, India
2 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra, Haryana 136 119, India

This study explores the influence of different metal gate combinations on the performance of dual-metal gate TFETs (DMG-TFET). The ON-state current in a TFET depends on band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) across the junction between the source and channel regions. Therefore, it is crucial to select a tunnel gate material with an appropriate work function to optimize the devices’ overall performance. The present work explores the effect of dual metal gates having different work functions on tunnel barrier width of TFET. In this work, three distinct Double Gate TFET structures; Double Gate (DG) TFET, Dual Metal Gate (DMG) TFET, and Dual Metal Gate Hetero-Dielectric (DMG-HD) TFET are designed using TCAD device simulator. The proposed device (DMG-HD) TFET is benchmarked by considering various performance metrics such as ON-state current ION, OFF-state current IOFF, ON-to-OFF current ratio ION/IOFF, and sub-threshold slope (SS). This study also highlights the key finding of optimizing the length of dual metals and the work functions of metal gates (M-1) and (M-2) in TFETs. The results show that the proposed device (DMG-HD TFET) gives improved performance compared to the other two devices. The proposed TFET structure improves the ON-current by two orders (10−5 to 10−3 (A/μm)), ION /IOFF ratio by three orders (109 to 1012 (A/μm)) and sub-threshold swing (SS) by 23.82% compared to the conventional TFET device.

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DG TFET; DMG HD TFET; Dual Metal Gate; HD TFET; Tunnel FET
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Miriyala Durga Prasad
School of VLSI Design and Embedded Systems, NIT Kurukshetra, Haryana 136 119, India
Gaurav Saini
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra, Haryana 136 119, India

Abstract


This study explores the influence of different metal gate combinations on the performance of dual-metal gate TFETs (DMG-TFET). The ON-state current in a TFET depends on band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) across the junction between the source and channel regions. Therefore, it is crucial to select a tunnel gate material with an appropriate work function to optimize the devices’ overall performance. The present work explores the effect of dual metal gates having different work functions on tunnel barrier width of TFET. In this work, three distinct Double Gate TFET structures; Double Gate (DG) TFET, Dual Metal Gate (DMG) TFET, and Dual Metal Gate Hetero-Dielectric (DMG-HD) TFET are designed using TCAD device simulator. The proposed device (DMG-HD) TFET is benchmarked by considering various performance metrics such as ON-state current ION, OFF-state current IOFF, ON-to-OFF current ratio ION/IOFF, and sub-threshold slope (SS). This study also highlights the key finding of optimizing the length of dual metals and the work functions of metal gates (M-1) and (M-2) in TFETs. The results show that the proposed device (DMG-HD TFET) gives improved performance compared to the other two devices. The proposed TFET structure improves the ON-current by two orders (10−5 to 10−3 (A/μm)), ION /IOFF ratio by three orders (109 to 1012 (A/μm)) and sub-threshold swing (SS) by 23.82% compared to the conventional TFET device.

Keywords


DG TFET; DMG HD TFET; Dual Metal Gate; HD TFET; Tunnel FET