Design, simulation and process development for Sol Single-Electron Transistor (SET) fabrication
Abstract
Single-electron transistor (SET) is one of the promising nanotechnologies and
distinguished by a very small device size and low power dissipation. This project explains
the SET mask design, SET process flow development, and SET process and device
simulation. The SET mask design consists of four level masks namely source and drain
mask, polysilicon gate mask, contact mask, and metal mask. These masks were designed in
nanometer (10-9 m) size using ELPHY Quantum GDS II Editor Software. The source and
drain mask is connected by a nanowire placed between source and drain regions. The
nanowire is designed with dimension of approximately 100 nm long and 10 nm wide. The
process flow which includes the detailed parameters is developed for SET process and
device simulation. This process flow consists of ten process modules include wafer
cleaning process, material deposition, source/drain and nanowire formation , thermal
oxidation, polysilicon deposition, polysilicon gate formation, source/drain implantation,
contact formation, metal deposition and formation, and finally annealing and alloying
process. The Synopsys TCAD simulation tools are utilized in SET process and device
simulation work. The process and device simulation result shows that the single-electron
transistor design with a 100 nm length and 10 nm width of the nanowire is working at room
temperature (300 K) operation with a capacitance 0.4297 x 10-18F and a charging energy
186.4 meV.
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