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Polysilicon depletion effect

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98: 154: 89:) was favorable. But the conductivity of the poly-silicon layer is very low and because of this low conductivity, the charge accumulation is low, leading to a delay in channel formation and thus unwanted delays in circuits. The poly layer is doped with N-type or P-type impurity to make it behave like a perfect conductor and reduce the delay. 146:, the electrons move closer toward the gate terminal but due to the open circuit configuration they don't start to flow. As a result of the separation of charges a depletion region is formed on the polysilicon-oxide interface, which has a direct effect on the channel formation in 414:
H. P. Tuinhout, A. H. Montree, J. Schmitz and P. A. Stolk, Effects of gate depletion and boron penetration on matching of deep submicron CMOS transistors, IEEE International Electron Device Meeting, Technical Digest pp. 631-634,
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to occur. So the effect with doped poly is an undesired reduction of threshold voltage that wasn't taken into account during circuit simulation. In order to avoid this kind of variation in
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Rios, R.; Arora, N.D. (1994). "Modeling the polysilicon depletion effect and its impact on submicrometer CMOS circuit performance".
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has released a press-kit regarding their fabrication procedures of different nodes, which showed the use of Metal gate technology.
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Hobbs, C.C.; Fonseca, L. R. C.; Knizhnik, A. (2004). "Fermi-level pinning at the polysilicon/metal oxide interface-Part I".
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an inversion layer is formed, which can be seen in the figure 1(b) where the inversion channel is formed of acceptor ions (N
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In an NMOS with n+ Polysilicon gate, the poly depletion effect aids in the channel formation by the combined effect of the
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Doped polysilicon was preferred earlier as gate material in MOS devices. Polysilicons were used as their
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or metal, previously polysilicon was chosen over metal because the interfacing between polysilicon and
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Rios, R.; Arora, N.D. (1994). "An analytic polysilicon depletion effect model for MOSFETs".
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poly gates are being replaced by metal gates. The following technology is known as
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technology. Also at the interface with gate dielectric, Polysilicon forms an SiO
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Proceedings International Symposium: VLSI Technology Systems and Applications
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are scattered throughout the structure because of the absence of an external
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as gate material is observed, leading to unpredicted behavior of the
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Variation of threshold voltage in polycrystalline silicon materials
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For the above reason as the devices go down on the scaling
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field at gate terminal. Basically the accumulation of the
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matched with the Si substrate (which results in the low
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Reduction of Polysilicon Gate Depletion Effect in NMOS
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layer. Moreover, there remains a high probability for
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Index

threshold voltage
MOSFET
polysilicon
electronic circuit
High-k Dielectric Metal Gates
Polycrystalline silicon
mocrystalline silicon
semiconductor electronics
solar cells
amorphous silicon
polysilicon
gate oxide
SiO2

nMOS
majority carriers
electric field
MOSFETs

ions
minority carriers
(32-28nm nodes)
High-k Dielectric Metal Gate
Intel
work function
threshold voltage
MOSFET
dielectrics
high-k dielectrics
Hafnium oxide

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