Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

A FinFET with one atomic layer channel

  • Mao-Lin Chen,
  • Xingdan Sun,
  • Hang Liu,
  • Hanwen Wang,
  • Qianbing Zhu,
  • Shasha Wang,
  • Haifeng Du,
  • Baojuan Dong,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Yun Sun,
  • Song Qiu,
  • Thomas Alava,
  • Song Liu,
  • Dong-Ming Sun,
  • Zheng Han

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15096-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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FinFETs are an evolution of metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) featuring a semiconducting channel vertically wrapped by conformal gate electrodes. Here, the authors use a two-dimensional semiconductor to push the FinFET width to sub-nm whilst achieving a 107 ON/OFF ratio.