This paper reports the design and fabrication of a practical Si nanowire (NW) transistor for beyond 10 nm logic devices application. The dependency of the DC and AC performances of Si NW MOSFETs on NW diameter (D NW ) and gate oxide thickness has been investigated. A Si NW device with the scaled D NW of 9nm and thin equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) of 0.9nm improved both on-current and electrostatic characteristics. Finally, a Nanowire-On-Insulator (NOI) structure has been proposed to enhance the AC performance of a multiple-stacked NWs structure, which improves DC performance but has the issue of high parasitic capacitance. As a result, the simulated AC performance of a triple-NOI structure was improved by around 20% compared to conventional triple NW structure.
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