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Investigation of Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors as a Capacitor-less Memory Cell

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Wladyslaw Grabinski, Antonios Bazigos, Arnab Biswas, Nilay Dagtekin
2014
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In this work we report experimental results on the use of Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors (TFET) as capacitorless Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) cells, implemented as a double-gate (DG) Fully-Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (FD-SOI) devices. The devices have an asymmetric design, with a partial overlap of the top gate (LG) with a total overlap of the back gate over the channel region (LG+LIN). A potential well is created by biasing the back gate (VBG) in accumulation while the front gate (VFG) is in inversion. Holes from the p+ source are injected by the forward-biased p+i junction and stored in the electrically induced potential well.

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Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Wladyslaw Grabinski, Antonios Bazigos, Arnab Biswas, Nilay Dagtekin
2014
Journal Articles

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/8eb78d62-e36f-4305-bc04-5a7edd296c74

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