Electron Mobility and Magneto Transport Study of Ultra-Thin Channel Double-Gate Si MOSFETs

TL;DR

This study investigates the electron mobility and magneto-transport properties of ultra-thin double-gate silicon MOSFETs, revealing mobility enhancement effects, interface asymmetries, and sub-band Landau level behaviors across various well thicknesses.

Contribution

It provides detailed experimental insights into how well thickness and interface quality affect mobility and quantum transport in double-gate Si MOSFETs, with novel observations of volume inversion and sub-band phenomena.

Findings

Mobility enhancement at symmetric gate bias due to volume inversion.

Asymmetry in mobility linked to surface roughness differences.

Observation of single and two sub-band Landau level behaviors.

Abstract

We report on detailed room temperature and low temperature transport properties of double-gate Si MOSFETs with the Si well thickness in the range 7-17 nm. The devices were fabricated on silicon-on-insulator wafers utilizing wafer bonding, which enabled us to use heavily doped metallic back gate. We observe mobility enhancement effects at symmetric gate bias at room temperature, which is the finger print of the volume inversion/accumulation effect. An asymmetry in the mobility is detected at 300 K and at 1.6 K between the top and back interfaces of the Si well, which is interpreted to arise from different surface roughnesses of the interfaces. Low temperature peak mobilities of the reported devices scale monotonically with Si well thickness and the maximum low temperature mobility was 1.9 m2/Vs, which was measured from a 16.5 nm thick device. In the magneto transport data we observe single and two sub-band Landau level filling factor behavior depending on the well thickness and gate biasing.