High-mobility p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor on strained Si
- 31 May 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 62 (22), 2853-2855
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.109205
Abstract
An enhancement‐mode p‐channel metal‐oxide‐semiconductor field‐effect transistor (PMOSFET) is fabricated on a strained Si layer for the first time. A biaxial strain in a thin Si layer is produced by pseudomorphically growing this layer on a Ge0.25Si0.75 buffer layer which is grown on a Si substrate. At higher magnitude of gate bias, channel mobility of a strained Si PMOSFET has been found to be 50% higher than that of an identically processed conventional Si PMOSFET.Keywords
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