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IJEETC 2023 Vol.12(5): 358-362
doi: 10.18178/ijeetc.12.5.358-362

Effect of Multi-fin with Independent LER on Intrinsic Statistical Variability Sources

Rituraj S. Rathore*and Viranjay M. Srivastava
Department of Electronic Engineering, Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Manuscript received February 27, 2023; revised May 10, 2023; accepted June 10, 2023.

Abstract—FinFET devices are more prone to variations introduced by various intrinsic sources in the sub-nanometer region. In the present work, an effect of multi-fin with independent Line Edge Roughness (LER) has been analyzed to observe its influence on threshold voltage variation on intrinsic variability sources for a 14-nm FinFET device. The multi-fin analysis has been performed using the full 3-D device simulator for different fin shapes, i.e., curve-bent FinFET and thin-fat FinFETs. These independent LER FinFET devices parameters have been compared with the ideal FinFET (without LER) device. The result shows that multi-fin architecture helps mitigate intrinsic statistical variabilities adverse effects. For instance, the multi-fin device has 76.13% and 74.48% improvement in curve-bent FinFET and thin-fat FinFETs, respectively, compared to the single-fin devices. Finally, this work suggests that multi-fin devices are robust from variations introduced by various intrinsic variability sources.

 
Index Terms—FinFET, Line Edge Roughness (LER), multi-fin, nanotechnology, microelectronics, Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)

Cite: Rituraj S. Rathore and Viranjay M. Srivastava, "Effect of Multi-fin with Independent LER on Intrinsic Statistical Variability Sources," International Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering & Telecommunications, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 358-362, September 2023. doi: 10.18178/ijeetc.12.5.358-362

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