Overview
The operation of semiconductor devices depends upon the use of electrical potential barriers (such as gate depletion) in controlling the carrier densities (electrons and holes) and their transport. Although a successful device design is quite complicated and involves many aspects, the device engineering is mostly to devise a ""best"" device design by defIning optimal device structures and manipulating impurity profIles to obtain optimal control of the carrier flow through the device. This becomes increasingly diffIcult as the device scale becomes smaller and smaller. Since the introduction of integrated circuits, the number of individual transistors on a single chip has doubled approximately every three years. As the number of devices has grown, the critical dimension of the smallest feature, such as a gate length (which is related to the transport length defIning the channel), has consequently declined. The reduction of this design rule proceeds approximately by a factor of 1. 4 each generation, which means we will be using 0. 1-0. 15 ). lm rules for the 4 Gb chips a decade from now. If we continue this extrapolation, current technology will require 30 nm design rules, and a cell 3 2 size < 10 nm , for a 1Tb memory chip by the year 2020. New problems keep hindering the high-performance requirement. Well-known, but older, problems include hot carrier effects, short-channel effects, etc. A potential problem, which illustrates the need for quantum transport, is caused by impurity fluctuations.
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Author: David K. Ferry ,
Harold L. Grubin ,
Carlo Jacoboni ,
A.-P. Jauho
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Volume: 342
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 1.045kg
ISBN: 9781461358091
ISBN 10: 1461358094
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 24 October 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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'This work is outstanding...The charm of the work lies herein, that it presents in a coherent fashion a great deal of valuable material. I strongly recommend it in particular to graduate students in experimental semiconductor physics.' Contemporary Physics
`This work is outstanding....The charm of the work lies herein, that it presents in a coherent fashion a great deal of valuable material. I strongly recommend it in particular to graduate students in experimental semiconductor physics.' Contemporary Physics
