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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 83, Issue 8, Pages 1653-1655Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1600832
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We have fabricated silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistors with an ultrathin Si channel of similar to5 nm, tunneling gate oxide of similar to1 nm, and 100 nm gate length. In addition to good transistor characteristics, these same devices exhibit additional functionality at low temperature. The drain current I-D exhibits steps near the turn-on threshold voltage as a function of the backgate V-BG bias on the substrate. When operated as a gate-controlled tunneling device, with source shorted to drain and I-G originating from tunneling from the gate to the channel, we observe structure in the I-G(V-BG) due to resonant tunneling into the quantized channel subbands. In the future, as SOI device fabrication improves and the buried oxide thickness is reduced, these quantum effects will become stronger and appear at lower V-BG, offering the prospect of ultralarge scale integration-compatible devices with standard transistor operation or quantum functionality depending on the electrode biasing. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
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