• DocumentCode
    2389979
  • Title

    Strained Si and the future direction of CMOS

  • Author

    Thompson, Scott E.

  • Author_Institution
    Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    20-24 July 2005
  • Firstpage
    14
  • Lastpage
    16
  • Abstract
    Uniaxial process induced strain is being adopted in all 90, 65, and 45 nm high performance logic technologies. Uniaxial strain offers large performance improvement at low cost and minimally increased manufacturing complexity and is scalable to future technology nodes.
  • Keywords
    CMOS logic circuits; elemental semiconductors; silicon; 45 nm; 65 nm; 90 nm; CMOS logic circuits; Si; logic technologies; strained silicon; uniaxial process induced strain; CMOS technology; Capacitive sensors; Costs; Dielectric substrates; High K dielectric materials; High-K gate dielectrics; Logic devices; Silicon; Tensile stress; Uniaxial strain;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications, 2005. Proceedings. Fifth International Workshop on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2403-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IWSOC.2005.99
  • Filename
    1530908