High Performance NMOS Transistors for 45nm SOI Technologies

We demonstrate NMOS performance enhancements of up to ~18% for applications in a 45 nm SOI technology. The performance boost was achieved using high tensile-stressed UV film in conjunction with stress memorization techniques (SMT). For the first time we demonstrate that using a UV-cured tensile film allows a 6% performance boost on the SOI NMOS, achieving a drive current of ~1170 muA/mum (1250, non-self-heated) at I_off = 100 nA/mum, V_dd = 1 V.