Nanowire transistors without junctions
(2010) Nature Nanotechnology — Vol. 5, n° 3, p. 225-229 (2010)
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- All existing transistors are based on the use of semiconductor junctions formed by introducing dopant atoms into the semiconductor material. As the distance between junctions in modern devices drops below 10 nm, extraordinarily high doping concentration gradients become necessary. Because of the laws of diffusion and the statistical nature of the distribution of the doping atoms, such junctions represent an increasingly difficult challenge for the semiconductor industry. Here, we propose and demonstrate a new type of transistor in which there are no junctions and no doping concentration gradients. These devices have full CMOS functionality and are made using silicon nanowires. They have near-ideal subthreshold slope, extremely low leakage currents, and less degradation of mobility with gate voltage and temperature than classical transistors.
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Colinge, J.-P., Lee, C.-W., Afzalian, A., Dehdashti Akhavan, N., Yan, R., Ferain, I., Razavi, P., O’Neill, B., Blake, A., White, M., Kelleher, A.-M., McCarthy, B., & Murphy, R. (2010). Nanowire transistors without junctions. Nature Nanotechnology, 5(3), 225-229. https://doi.org/10.1038/NNANO.2010.15 (Original work published 2010)