abstract: In this work, transport in nanowire materials and nanowire field effect transistors is studied using a full band Monte Carlo simulator within the tight binding basis. Chapter 1 is dedicated to the importance of nanowires and nanoscale devices in present day electronics and the necessity to use a computationally efficient tool to simulate transport in these devices. Chapter 2 discusses the calculation of the full band structure of nanowires based on an atomistic tight binding approach, particularly noting the use of the exact same tight binding parameters for bulk band structures as well as the nanowire band structures. Chapter 3 contains the scattering rate formula for deformation potential, polar optical phonon, ionized impurity and impact ionization scattering in nanowires using Fermi’s golden rule and the tight binding basis to describe the wave functions. A method to calculate the dielectric screening in 1D systems within the tight binding basis is also described. Importantly, the scattering rates of nanowires tends to the bulk scattering rates at high energies, enabling the use of the same parameter set that were fitted to bulk experimental data to be used in the simulation of nanowire transport. A robust and efficient method to model interband tunneling is discussed in chapter 4 and its importance in nanowire transport is highlighted. In chapter 5, energy relaxation of excited electrons is studied for free standing nanowires and cladded nanowires. Finally, in chapter 6, a full band Monte Carlo particle based solver is created which treats confinement in a full quantum way and the current voltage characteristics as well as the subthreshold swing and percentage of ballistic transport is analyzed for an In0.7Ga0.3As junctionless nanowire field effect transistor. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Electrical Engineering 2016

abstract: 4H-SiC has been widely used in many applications. All of these benefit from its extremely high critical electric field and good electron mobility. For example, 4H-SiC possesses a critical field ten times higher than that of Si, which allows high-voltage blocking layers composed of 4H-SiC to be approximately a tenth the thickness of a comparable Si device. This, in turn, reduces the device on-resistance and power losses while maintaining the same high blocking capability. Unfortunately, commercial TCAD tools like Sentaurus and Silvaco Atlas are based on the effective mass approximation, while most 4H-SiC devices are not operated under low electric field, so the parabolic-like band approximation does not hold anymore. Hence, to get more accurate and reliable simulation results, full-band analysis is needed. The first step in the development of a full-band device simulator is the calculation of the band structure. In this work, the empirical pseudopotential method (EPM) is adopted. The next task in the sequence is the calculation of the scattering rates. Acoustic, non-polar optical phonon, polar optical phonon and Coulomb scattering are considered. Coulomb scattering is treated in real space using the particle-particle-particle-mesh (P3M) approach. The third task is coupling the bulk full-band solver with a 3D Poisson equation solver to generate a full-band device simulator. For proof-of-concept of the methodology adopted here, a 3D resistor is simulated first. From the resistor simulations, the low-field electron mobility dependence upon Coulomb scattering in 4H-SiC devices is extracted. The simulated mobility results agree very well with available experimental data. Next, a 3D VDMOS is simulated. The nature of the physical processes occurring in both steady-state and transient conditions are revealed for the two generations of 3D VDMOS devices being considered in the study. Due to its comprehensive nature, the developed tool serves as a basis for future investigation of 4H-SiC power devices. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Electrical Engineering 2020

La course à la miniaturisation des transistors MOS (Métal Oxyde Semiconducteur) implique l'utilisation de nouvelles technologies d'amélioration des performances. Notamment, l'ingénierie de contrainte mécanique est aujourd'hui devenue une étape incontournable. Dans ce contexte, les objectifs de ce travail sont de modéliser les dispositifs des prochains nœuds technologiques et de quantifier l'impact de la contrainte mécanique sur le transport. La mobilité est le facteur de mérite principalement exploité pour quantifier les performances d'une technologie et l'un des paramètres clés des simulateurs commerciaux. Dans ce cadre, le concept de mobilité effective et de mobilité de magnétorésistance dans les dispositifs courts est analysé et le rôle prépondérant des effets non stationnaires dans leur extraction est clairement identifié et quantifié par des modèles avancés. Ensuite, grâce à la version « Full Band » du simulateur particulaire Monte Carlo MONACO développée durant cette thèse, l'influence de la contrainte sur la structure de bandes et ses répercussions sur le transport dans les transistors courts sont étudiées. En bande de valence, le régime balistique est loin d'être atteint et la mobilité reste représentative des performances. Enfin, l'impact de la contrainte uniaxiale sur la mobilité des trous en couche d'inversion est étudiée par le biais d'expériences de flexion mécanique. Grâce à l'outil de calcul de mobilité Kubo-Greenwood (couplé à une résolution autocohérente des équations de k.p Schrödinger à 6 bandes et de Poisson) développé dans cette thèse, les tendances observées sont expliquées par les forts couplages existants entre les effets de contrainte et de confinement des trous.