Solid-State Electronics, Vol.142, 31-35, 2018
Narrowing of band gap at source/drain contact scheme of nanoscale InAs-nMOS
A multi-scale simulation study of Ni/InAs nano-scale contact aimed for the sub-14 nm technology is carried out to understand material and transport properties at a metal-semiconductor interface. The deposited Ni metal contact on an 11 nm thick InAs channel forms an 8.5 nm thick InAs leaving a 2.5 nm thick InAs channel on a ptype doped (1x10(16) cm(-3)) AlAs0.47Sb0.53 buffer. The density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal a band gap narrowing in the InAs at the metal-semiconductor interface. The one-dimensional (1D) self-consistent Poisson-Schrodinger transport simulations using real-space material parameters extracted from the DFT calculations at the metal-semiconductor interface, exhibiting band gap narrowing, give a specific sheet resistance of R-sh= 90.9 Omega/sq which is in a good agreement with an experimental value of 97 Omega/sq.
Keywords:Ab-initio;Band gap narrowing;III-V semiconductors;1D Poisson-Schrodinger;Schottky barrier height;Density functional theory (DFT)