III-V Nanowires-Extending a Narrowing Road
Författare
Summary, in English
Semiconductor nanowires have attracted considerable attention during the last decade and are considered as an alternative path to extend the road for scaled semiconductor devices. The interest is motivated by the improved electrostatic control in the cylindrical geometry and the possibility to utilize heterostructures in transistor design. Currently, nanowire transistors have been realized both in III-Vs and in group IV materials employing top-down as well as bottom-up technologies. In this review, we give an overview of the field and, in particular, we summarize state-of-the-art for III-V nanowire devices. It is demonstrated that the growth and processing technologies are maturing and that devices with good transistor characteristics are being fabricated by a combined bottom-up and top-down approach. Also, the first radio-frequency (RF)-implementations are reviewed and discussed.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2010
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
2047-2060
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Proceedings of the IEEE
Volym
98
Issue
12
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
IEEE Press
Ämne
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
- Condensed Matter Physics
Nyckelord
- nanowire field-effect transistors (FETs)
- nanotechnology
- Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)
- III-V
- metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs)
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Nano
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0018-9219