Contact Modeling and Analysis of InAs HEMT Transistors

Seung Hyun Park, Purdue University - Main Campus
Hong Hyun Park, Purdue University - Main Campus
Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar, Purdue University - Main Campus
Sebastian Steiger, Purdue University - Main Campus
Michael Povolotskyi, Purdue University - Main Campus
Tillmann Kubis, Purdue University - Main Campus
Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University - Main Campus

Date of this Version

6-30-2011

Citation

IEEE Proceedings of IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (IEEE NMDC 2011), Oct. 18-21, 2011 at the Shilla Jeju, Korea

Comments

IEEE Proceedings of IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (IEEE NMDC 2011), Oct. 18-21, 2011 at the Shilla Jeju, Korea

Abstract

Novel device concepts and better channel materials than Si are required to improve the performance of conventional metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). The exploration of III-V semiconductors is mainly driven by the extremely high electron mobility of the materials. Recently, several researches have demonstrated that III-V high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) can achieve high-speed operation at low supply voltage for applications beyond Si-CMOS technology. While the intrinsic device performance looks promising, current prototypes are dramatically influenced by high contact resistances. From a modeling point of view the understanding of the intrinsic device performance is now quite advanced, while the understanding of the contacts remains quite limited. Hence, a precise theoretical approach is required to model the contact characteristics. This work investigates the contact resistance physics of InAs HEMT transistors. The Nano-Electronic Modeling Tool (NEMO5) is used to solve the non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) formalism which embeds Schrödinger and Poisson equations self-consistently. For this study a real-space effective mass approximation with a simple phonon scattering is utilized.

Discipline(s)

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

 

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