Ultrascaled WS 2 field-effect transistors (FETs) fabricated on exfoliated multilayer channels with excellent ON-state and OFF-state performance are reported. Recorded high ON-state current (I ON ) and ultralow contact resistance (R C ) were achieved in a double-gated FET at a scaled overdrive voltage (V OV = V GS − V TH ), reaching >600 (µA/µm) normalized to footprint at V DS = 1 V and V OV = 2 V with a R C ∼ 500 ( × μm). We report statistics of more than 50 FETs with varying channel lengths, showing excellent OFF-state behavior with small threshold voltage (V TH ) variations, near-ideal subthreshold slope (SS), and small drain-induced barrier lowering (DIBL). Various channel thicknesses (T CH ) ranging from 2.1 to 7 nm were carefully evaluated in terms of short channel effects (SCEs) and ON-state current, and a WS 2 body thickness of 2.1 nm (three layers, the thinnest in our statistics) shows the best performance in both ON-state and OFF-state. Index Termsn-field-effect transistor (FET), scaled effective oxide thickness (EOT), scaled L G , WS 2 .
I. INTRODUCTIONC ONTINUED scaling of complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor (CMOS) has been the main driving force for improving the computational performance, allowing rapid development in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud computing. Silicon has been serving as the main channel material for CMOS for more than five decades and is currently approaching the 5 nm technology node [2]. However, CMOS is expected to encounter several challenges in further technology nodes, and it will become particularly difficult to maintain good electrostatic control in field-effect transistors (FETs).