An Experimental Evaluation of Fin Width and Low-Temperature Influence on GIDL in Stacked SOI Nanowires

In this work, an experimental evaluation of the gate-induced drain leakage (GIDL) of vertically stacked SOI nanowire (NW) FETs is carried out, as a function of temperature for the first time. It is shown that at room temperature, NW width decrease improves gate coupling favoring longitudinal band-to-band-tunneling, which increases normalized GIDL current. The increase of GIDL current with fin narrowing becomes more pronounced with temperature reduction. The influence of fin width has been evaluated, showing that GIDL variation with temperature depends on the device geometry.