Submicrometer CMOS devices in zone-melting-recrystallized SOI films

CMOS devices with effective channel lengths ranging from 0.7 to 4.0 µm have been fabricated in zone-melting-recrystallized (ZMR) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) films prepared by the graphite-strip-heater technique. Low-temperature processing was utilized to minimize dopant diffusion along subboundaries in the films. Both n- and p-channel devices have low leakage current (<0.1-pA/µm channel width) and good subthreshold characteristics. For ring oscillators with a transistor channel length of 0.8 µm, the propagation delay is 95 ps at a supply voltage of 5 V.