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Innovations in device architectures and materials promote transistor miniaturization for improved performance, energy efficiency and integration density. At foreseeable ångström nodes, a gate-all-around (GAA) field-effect transistor based on two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors would provide excellent electrostatic gate controllability to achieve ultimate power scaling and performance delivering. However, a major roadblock lies in the scalable integration of 2D GAA heterostructures with atomically smooth and conformal interfaces. Here we report a wafer-scale multi-layer-stacked single-crystalline 2D GAA configuration achieved with low-temperature monolithic three-dimensional integration, in which high-mobility 2D semiconductor BiOSe was epitaxially integrated by high-κ layered native-oxide dielectric BiSeO with an atomically smooth interface, enabling a high electron mobility of 280 cm V s and a near-ideal subthreshold swing of 62 mV dec. The scaled 2D GAA field-effect transistor with 30 nm gate length exhibits an ultralow operation voltage of 0.5 V, a high on-state current exceeding 1 mA μm, an ultralow intrinsic delay of 1.9 ps and an energy-delay product of 1.84 × 10 Js μm. This work demonstrates a wafer-scale 2D-material-based GAA system with valid performance and power merits, holding promising prospects for beyond-silicon monolithic three-dimensional circuits.
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Lab Chip
August 2025
State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China.
Field-effect transistors (FETs), known for their rapid response and signal amplification capabilities, have attracted significant research interest for the detection of biomarkers. However, the development of multi-channel sensors using FETs and their wearable applications are impeded by the rigid substrates and large areas. Here, we reported a wearable EGFET sensor array patch that integrates gate-all-around field-effect transistors (GAA FETs) and flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) patches to overcome these challenges.
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April 2025
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea.
In this study, we designed and analyzed a single-transistor dynamic random-access memory (1 T-DRAM) based on an arch-shaped gate-all-around tunnel field-effect transistor (GAA ARCH-TFET), featuring an Si/SiGe heterostructure, for high-density memory applications. Unlike conventional 1 T-DRAM, which relies on the electric-field-driven movement of charge carriers through a channel for the read operation, the GAA ARCH-TFET 1 T-DRAM utilizes band-to-band tunneling. The GAA structure improves scalability, making it suitable for high-density memory applications.
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April 2025
James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet field-effect transistors (FETs) have significantly advanced nanoscale device technology by mitigating short-channel effects. These GAA structures are becoming essential in sub-3 nm technology and are evolving into complementary FETs. Despite the reduction in variability achieved by multi-gate structures, random discrete dopants (RDDs) in source and drain (S/D) regions continue to pose challenges.
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March 2025
IBM Research Albany, 257 Fuller Road, Albany, NY 12203, USA.
Gate-All-Around (GAA) Nanosheet (NS) transistors have been identified as the device architecture for 3 nm and beyond as they provide additional scaling benefits. The Hot Carrier (HC) effect cannot be ignored in the development of metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs). In this article, we present a comprehensive review of Hot Carrier Degradation (HCD) studies on GAA NS transistors including geometry dependencies, surface orientation impacts, corner effects, characterization methodologies, process impacts and self-heating impacts from different researchers, together with the challenges and outlook, providing an insightful and valuable HCD reliability discussion and review on the cutting-edge technology in continuous MOSFET scaling.
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May 2025
Department of Electrical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea.
A material design method is proposed using ferroelectric (FE)-antiferroelectric (AFE) mixed-phase HfZrO (HZO) to achieve performance improvements in morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) field-effect transistors (MPB-FETs), such as steep subthreshold swing (SS) and non-hysteretic on-current (I) enhancement. Capacitance (small-signal and quasi-static) and transient current measurements of MPB-FETs confirmed that near-threshold voltage (V) capacitance amplification leads to I boosts under high-speed and low-power conditions. For the first time, two-stacked nanosheet (NS) gate-all-around (GAA) MPB-FETs with optimized HZO, demonstrating superior short channel effect (SCE) immunity with enhanced current drivability is fabricated.
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