Air-Spacer MOSFET With Self-Aligned Contact for Future Dense Memories

被引:16
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作者
Park, Jemin [1 ]
Hu, Chenming [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
关键词
Air gap technology; air-spacer technology; high speed; low-k process; RC delay;
D O I
10.1109/LED.2009.2034032
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
An air-spacer transistor with self-aligned contact (SAC) is proposed. Air-spacer is created by removing the nitride spacer after the SAC plug has been formed. A three-dimensional mixed-mode simulation shows that this transistor structure has 35% smaller area, 10% faster speed, and 18% lower switching energy than a non-SAC MOSFET.
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页码:1368 / 1370
页数:3
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