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Subband Engineering For P-Type Silicon Ultra-Thin Layers For Increased Carrier Velocities: An Atomistic Analysis, Neophytos Neophytou, Gerhard Klimeck, Hans Kosina
Subband Engineering For P-Type Silicon Ultra-Thin Layers For Increased Carrier Velocities: An Atomistic Analysis, Neophytos Neophytou, Gerhard Klimeck, Hans Kosina
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Ultra-thin-body (UTB) channel materials of a few nanometers in thickness are currently considered as candidates for future electronic, thermoelectric, and optoelectronic applications. Among the features that they possess, which make them attractive for such applications, their confinement length scale, transport direction, and confining surface orientation serve as degrees of freedom for engineering their electronic properties. This work presents a comprehensive study of hole velocities in p-type UTB films of widths from 15 nm down to 3 nm. Various transport and surface orientations are considered. The atomistic sp3d5s*-spin-orbit-coupled tight-binding model is used for the electronic structure, and a semiclassical ballistic model …