Experimental and comparative investigation of low and high field transport in substrate- and process-induced strained nanoscaled MOSFETs

Abstract

We report a detailed comparison of low and high-Vd transport between various substrate- and process-induced strained MOSFETs down to 40nm gate lengths. Thanks to an original extraction method and low temperature measurements, we demonstrate that the mobility behaviour is deeply impacted by the down-scaling because of Coulomb scattering. Introducing this behaviour into a saturation current model, we clearly explain the I/sub ON/ enhancement trend of all strained devices.