Does carrier velocity saturation help to enhance fmax in graphene field-effect transistors?
arXiv:1910.08304 · doi:10.1039/C9NA00733D
Abstract
It has been argued that current saturation in graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) is needed to get the highest possible maximum oscillation frequency (fmax). This paper numerically investigates whether velocity saturation can help to get better current saturation and if that correlates with enhanced fmax. For such a purpose, we used a drift-diffusion simulator that includes several factors that influence output conductance, especially at short channel lengths and-or large drain bias: short-channel electrostatics, saturation velocity, graphene-dielectric interface traps, and self-heating effects. As a testbed for our investigation, we analyzed fabricated GFETs with high extrinsin cutoff frequency fT,x (34 GHz) and fmax (37 GHz). Our simulations allow for a microscopic (local) analysis of the channel parameteres such as carrier concentration, drift and saturation velocities. For biases far away from the Dirac voltage, where the channel behaves as unipolar, we confirmed that the higher is the drift velocity, as close as possible to the saturation velocity, the greater fmax is. However, the largest fmax is recorded at biases near the crossover between unipolar and bipolar behavior, where it does not hold that the highest drift velocity maximizes fmax. In fact, the position and magnitude of the largest fmax depend on the complex interplay between the carrier concentration and total velocity which, in turn, are impacted by the self-heating. Importantly, this effect was found to severely limit radio-frequency performance, reducing the maximum fmax from around 60 to 40 GHz.
arXiv comment14 pages, 11 figures, supplementary material with 13 pages and 5 figures
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