Study of quantum confinement effects on hole mobility in silicon and germanium double gate metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors

Abstract

Quantum confinement effects on hole mobility in silicon and germanium double gate p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are studied by using a Monte Carlo method. Uniaxial stress and channel/substrate orientation effects are considered. Our result shows that the hole mobility in a (100)/[110] silicon well decreases with a decreasing well thickness, which is in agreement with the experimental result. The hole mobility in a germanium channel MOSFET, however, exhibits a peak in a sub-20 nm well because of the interplay between intrasubband and intersubband scatterings. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3244205]