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Journal of Applied Physics / Volume 97 / Issue 9 / NANOSCALE SCIENCE AND DESIGN

J. Appl. Phys. 97, 094311 (2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1890452 (7 pages)

Electron wave-packet transport through nanoscale semiconductor device in time domain

Y. Fu1 and M. Willander2

1Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Kemivägen 9, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
2Physical Electronics and Photonics, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Fysikgränd 3, University of Gothenburg, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden

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(Received 28 May 2004; accepted 21 February 2005; published online 22 April 2005)

Future low-power downscaled metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) devices are in a size regime that requires a quantum-mechanical approach. Two theoretical approaches, the steady-state single plane-wave transport model and the time-dependent wave-packet transport model, have been discussed to study the electron transport through model nanoscale potential profiles. It has been shown that the single plane-wave transport model at steady state neglects the coupling among different plane waves induced by the potential profile variation induced by the external bias. Thus, the model is only valid when the external bias is rather small. The electron wave-packet transport theory models the electrons by wave packets consisting of all available plane waves in the contact from where the electrons originate. The couplings among different plane waves are included in the temporal evolution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. This model is thus more proper when studying nanoscale devices at normal device working configurations. The effects of gate bias and the device geometry on the wave-packet transport are then studied by model potentials of future downscaled devices, which explains the experimentally reported conventional I−V characteristics of nanoscale MOS field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) at room temperature, while the normal MOSFET functioning is expected to be impossible by the single plane-wave transport model due to the independent tunneling effects of individual plane waves.

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Article Outline

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. STATIONARY-STATE PLANE-WAVE TRANSMISSION
  3. WAVE-PACKET TRANSMISSION
  4. MODEL FIELD-EFFECT DEVICE
  5. SUMMARY

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MOSFET, ballistic transport, semiconductor device models, Schrodinger equation, electron transport theory, tunnelling

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0021-8979 (print)  
1089-7550 (online)

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