Pentagate Approach to Reduce the Line Edge Roughness Effects in Bulk Si Tri-gate Transistors

Accumulated body [1] approach to mitigate the effects of line edge roughness on bulk silicon finFETs and tri-gate FETs is analyzed through 3D TCAD simulations. A side-gate surrounding the body portion of the FET is used to accumulate the body with majority carriers. This approach is predicted to reduce device-to-device variability due to line edge roughness by stronger accumulation of the body in the wider sections of the channel and confinement of the channel away from the edges.