How non-ideality effects deteriorate the performance of tunnel FETs

Abstract

Physics-based TCAD simulations of measured vertical and lateral InAs/Si hetero nanowire tunnel FETs are presented to demonstrate the effect of major non-idealities on slope and ON-current. The Dit limit for sub-thermal TFET operation is predicted, and it is shown that a high defect density at the InAs/Si interface can result in a slope close to 60 mV/dec due to thermionic emission in an arising MOSFET with the intrinsic Si region as gated channel.