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A Verilog-A Compact Model
for Negative Capacitance FET Version 1.0.0
Muhammad Abdul Wahab and Muhammad Ashraful Alam
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Last Updated: Oct 02, 2015
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 2
2. Terminal Voltages and Parameters List ...................................................................................... 2
2.1. Terminal Voltages .................................................................................................................. 3
2.2. Parameters List ....................................................................................................................... 4
3. Model System and Equations ....................................................................................................... 4
4. Device Characteristics ................................................................................................................... 6
5. Summary ......................................................................................................................................... 9
References .............................................................................................................................................. 9
Appendix ................................................................................................................................................ 11
A. Transient performance ............................................................................................................ 11
B. Parameters of Conventional MOSFET ................................................................................. 12
C. HSPICE toolkit ...................................................................................................................... 12
D. Simulating HSPICE netlist .................................................................................................. 12
E. Checklist for model analysis ................................................................................................... 12
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1. Introduction
Continuous downscaling of the physical dimensions of MOSFET has helped to increase the
transistor density, and improved the performance of the integrated circuit (IC). It has been
difficult however to reduce the supply voltage (VDD) significantly below 1V without sacrificing the
ON current and the ON/OFF ratio, making it difficult to reduce the power density [1], [2]. The
increasing thermal resistance of the novel transistors (FINFET, SOI-FET, or Gate-all-around
(GAA) FET has further acerbated the problem. Indeed, temperature rise due to selfโheating
(ฮ๐ = ๐ ร ๐ ๐๐ป) affects the reliability of the transistors [3], [4]. Therefore, any scheme to scale
down the bias voltage has the potential to reduce power consumption and self-heating
significantly. One of the options to reduce VDD involves improving the sub-threshold slope (S) of
a transistor by overcoming Boltzmann limit (S=60 mV/dec). Negative capacitance (NC) dielectric
such as ferroelectric (FE) material improves S through amplification of gate bias [5]โ[12] in a
NC-FET (Fig. 1(a))). In this work, we develop a verilog-A compact model of a generic NC-FET
[11], [12]. This manual discusses the theoretical model, the circuit representation, and results
through illustrative examples of the NC-FET.
2. Terminal Voltages and Parameters List
Fig. 1 (a) The schematic diagram describes the geometry of the NC-FET. (b) Symbolic representation of the NMOS NC-FET. (c) The NC dielectric is represented as a dependent voltage source (VFE) for HSPICE simulation. The NC-FET is represented by two series-connected components, i.e., the NC dielectric and the MOSFET.
Fig. 2 (a) Ferroelectric acts as an additional gate dielectric capacitor with the conventional
MOSFET. (b) All the parasitic components: source resistance (RS), drain resistance (RD), gate-
S D
G(NC)
B
FE
OXG(MOS)
BDS
G (NC)
(a) (b)
VFE
BS D
NMOS
G (NC)(c)
G (MOS)
BDS
G (NC)
B
G (NC)
DSRS
RDSโ Dโ
G (MOS)CFE
COV COV
(a) (b)
CFE
G (MOS)
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source overlap and fringing capacitance (COV) and gate-drain overlap and fringing capacitance
(COV) are included in the analysis.
2.1. Terminal Voltages
The NC-FET has two components: (i) NC dielectric and (ii) the conventional MOSFET.
(i) NC dielectric: The NC dielectric is treated as an external capacitor connected in
series to the gate of the conventional MOSFET. For the DC analysis, the inclusion of
a capacitor in the gate terminal as an external element cannot provide meaningful
results. Therefore, in HSPICE simulation, NC dielectric element is represented as a
dependent voltage source which is a function of gate charge. The inclusion of the NC
dielectric as a voltage source enables circuit simulation. Using the same concept
multiple layers of NC dielectric as dielectric stack can be considered in the model.
(ii) Conventional MOSFET: The second element is a conventional MOSFET transistor
with drain, gate, source, and body terminals. This model and method work for any
structure (planar, double gate, FinFET, SOI FET, GAA-FET, etc) and model
(MVS/BSIM4/BSIM-CMG/etc) of the MOSFET so long it is supported by the circuit
simulator.
In addition to the standard elements, we introduce a dummy node to both the NC dielectric and
the Conventional MOSFET. Therefore, the NC dielectric is now represented by 3 terminals and
the MOSFET by 5 terminals. The dummy node (as a voltage terminal) exchanges information
regarding the gate charge between the two elements. HSPICE solves the circuit of the NC-FET
self-consistently to compute the unknown variables (voltages, currents, etc). The introduction of
the dummy node for the MOSFET requires access to the source code. The modified source
code of BSIM4 and MVS are provided along with the source code of NC dielectric.
The nodes and corresponding node voltages of the NC dielectric and conventional MOSFET are
defined as follows:
NC dielectric:
Node Description Voltage
ncp Electrode with positive bias V(ncp)
ncn Electrode with negative (or zero bias) V(ncn)
qg_as_v Dummy node to input the gate charge V(qg_as_v)
Conventional MOSFET (MVS/BSIM/etc):
Node Description Voltage
drain Drain voltage V(drain)
gate Gate voltage V(gate)
source Source voltage V(source)
bulk Bulk voltage V(bulk)
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qg_as_v Dummy node to output the gate charge V(qg_as_v)
2.2. Parameters List
Parameters used in the negative capacitance FET model are listed below. Table also lists the
physical meaning of each parameter.
Math
Symbol
Verilog-A
Symbol
Description Default Unit
๐ผ๐น๐ธ alpha Alpha coefficient of the
ferroelectric
โ1.8 ร 1011
๐๐/๐น
๐ฝ๐น๐ธ beta Beta coefficient of the
ferroelectric
5.8 ร 1022
๐๐5/๐น/๐ถ๐๐ข๐2
๐ก๐น๐ธ tFE Thickness of the ferroelectric
dielectric
10 ร 10โ7 ๐๐
For details regarding the physical interpretation of the model parameters, see Ref. [6]โ[9].
3. Model System and Equations
We develop the model of the NC-FET [11], [12] by integrating the BSIM4/MVS model [13] of the
conventional short channel MOSFET with the Landau theory of negative capacitor [5]. The
subthreshold swing of a MOSFET is defined as
๐ =๐๐๐บ๐
๐๐๐๐10(๐ผ๐ท)= (
๐๐๐บ๐
๐๐๐) (
๐๐๐
๐๐๐๐10(๐ผ๐ท)) = ๐ ร ๐
(1)
where, VGS is the applied gate bias, for NC-FET it is VG(NC)-S. ID is the drain current, ๐๐ is the
surface potential. The body-factor m can be obtained from the voltage divider rule assuming the
gate-source and gate-drain overlap capacitances (COV) have negligible effect on gate charge
(QG).
๐ = (๐๐๐บ๐
๐๐๐) = (1 + ๐ถ๐ (
1
๐ถ๐๐+
1
๐ถ๐น๐ธ))
(2)
Landau model for the negative capacitor: The Gibbโs free energy of a ferroelectric material is
represented by a two well energy landscape, as follows,
๐ = ๐ผ๐น๐ธ๐๐บ2 + ๐ฝ๐น๐ธ๐๐บ
4 โ๐๐น๐ธ
๐ก๐น๐ธ๐๐บ .
(3)
5
The potential (VFE) - charge (QG) relation of the ferroelectric material is represented from eq (3)
as
๐๐น๐ธ = 2๐ผ๐น๐ธ๐ก๐น๐ธ๐๐บ + 4๐ฝ๐น๐ธ๐ก๐น๐ธ๐๐บ3 (4)
From eq (4) we can write the capacitance (CFE) - charge (QG) relation of the ferroelectric
material as
๐ถ๐น๐ธ =1
2๐ผ๐น๐ธ๐ก๐น๐ธ + 12๐ฝ๐น๐ธ๐ก๐น๐ธ๐๐บ2
(5)
In this work, negative capacitance dielectric and conventional MOSFET are represented as two
different components. The I-V and C-V of the NC-FET are computed through charge and
potential balance in HSPICE. We represented the ferroelectric dielectric as a dependent voltage
source which is a function of QG. To account this dependency we modified the available verilog-
A models of MVS/BSIM4.
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4. Device Characteristics
To illustrate the model of the NC-FET, we simulate the performance of the conventional
MOSFET (NCFET with tFE=0 nm) and the behavior of the NC dielectric capacitor in Fig. 3. Then
we evaluated the characteristics of the NMOS NC-FET, PMOS NC-FET, NC-FET CMOS
inverter in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, respectively. The improved performance of the NC-FET sustains for
different gate lengths (Fig. 7). The transient performance of the NC-FET CMOS inverter is
evaluated in Fig. 8 (in Appendix).
Fig. 3 (a) C-V characteristics of the conventional MOSFET. At VGS=0 V, gate capacitance is
dominated by the gate-source (COV) and gate-drain (COV) overlap and parasitic capacitances. (b)
Polarization (P) vs applied bias (VFE) of the ferroelectric dielectric P(VDF-TrFE).
๐ผ๐น๐ธ and ๐ฝ๐น๐ธ coefficients of the ferroelectric dielectric are extracted through fitting of eq (4) with
experiment (from Ref. [10], [14]). (c) Energy landscape for different applied bias (VFE) (eq (3)),
-1.5 -1 -0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5
-0.35-0.25-0.15-0.050.050.150.250.35
P [C/cm2]
U [J/c
m3]
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 10
1
2
3
4
VG(MOS)
[V]
CG
[F
/cm
2]
CGSOV+CGDOV+CD
CGSOV+CGDOV+COX
VFE=0 to 0.20 V(3 steps)
LG=32 nmVD=1 V
ConventionalMOSFET
FE
(a)
(c)
(b)
-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1
-1.2-0.9-0.6-0.3
00.30.60.91.2
VFE
[V]
P [C
/cm
2]
Sim.
Exp.
-0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6-1.5-1.2-0.9-0.6-0.3
00.30.60.91.21.5
VFE
[V]
P [C
/cm
2]
-10 -5 0 5 10-1.5-1.2-0.9-0.6-0.3
00.30.60.91.21.5
P [C
/cm
2]
CFE
[F/cm2]
tFE=60 nm
tFE=10 nm
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polarization (P) vs applied bias (VFE) (eq 4), and polarization (P) vs capacitance (CFE) (eq 5) of
the ferroelectric dielectric.
Fig. 4 (a) ID-VGS and (b) Gate charge (QG) vs VGS characteristics of the NMOS NC-FET for
different tFE using BSIM4 and Landau theory. (c) Different potential components of the NC-FET:
applied gate bias (VG(NC)), voltage across the ferroelectric dielectric (VFE), and voltage in the
intermediate node G(MOS), VG(MOS). (d) Subthreshold slope (S) vs VGS for different tFE. (e) QG vs
VFE profile from the circuit simulation (red) and from eq (4) (blue).
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 110
-2
10-1
100
101
102
103
104
VG(NC)
[V]
I D [A
/m
]
-0.3 -0.2 -0.1 0 0.1 0.2 0.3
-1.2-0.9-0.6-0.3
00.30.60.91.2
VFE
[V]
QG
[C
/cm
2]
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1-0.2
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
VG(NC)
[V]
V [
V]
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.40
30
60
90
120
150
180
VG(NC)
[V]
S [m
V/d
ec]
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
-1.2-0.9-0.6-0.3
00.30.60.91.2
VG(NC)
[V]
QG
[C
/cm
2]
Device
Material
VG(NC)
VD= 1V
tFE=10 nmtFE=13 nm
tFE=10 nmtFE=13 nm
tFE=10 nmtFE=13 nmtFE=13 nm
tFE=13 nmVG(MOS)
VFE
LG= 32 nm P(VDF-TrFE)
(a) (b)
(c) (d) (e)
BSIM4
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Fig. 5 (a) Symbolic representation of the PMOS NC-FET. (b) ID-VGS and (c) Gate charge (QG) vs
VGS characteristics of the PMOS NC-FET for different tFE using BSIM4 and Landau theory. (d)
Different potential components of the NC-FET: applied gate bias (VG(NC)), voltage across the
ferroelectric dielectric (VFE), and voltage in the intermediate node G(MOS), VG(MOS). (e)
Subthreshold slope (S) vs VGS for different tFE.
Fig. 6 (a) Symbolic representation of the NC-FET CMOS inverter. (b) Performance comparison
of the different CMOS inverters. With the incorporation of NC dielectric, NMOS (black arrow)
and PMOS (magenta arrow) are turning-on at lower effective threshold voltage compared to
conventional counterpart.
-0.4 -0.3 -0.2 -0.1 0
30
60
90
120
150
180
VG(NC)
[V]S
[m
V/d
ec]
-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0
-1.2-0.9-0.6-0.3
00.30.60.91.2
VG(NC)
[V]
QG
[C
/cm
2]
-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0-1
-0.8
-0.6
-0.4
-0.2
0
0.2
VG(NC)
[V]
V [
V]
-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 010
-2
10-1
100
101
102
103
104
VG(NC)
[V]
I D [A
/m
]
VD= 1V
tFE=10 nmtFE=10 nm
tFE=10 nm
tFE=10 nm
LG= 32 nm
VG(NC)
VG(MOS)
VFE
G (
NC
)
DB
S (b) (c)
(d) (e)
(a)
BSIM4 P(VDF-TrFE)
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 10
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
Vin
[V]
Vou
t [V
]
Vin Vout
VDD
MOSFETNC-FET
tFE=10 nm
LG= 32 nm(a) (b)
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Fig. 7 ID vs VGS characteristics of the NMOS NC-FET from (a) BSIM4 and Landau theory and (b)
MVS and Landau theory for 45 nm technology node. Subthreshold slope (S) vs VGS of the
NMOS NC-FET from (a) BSIM4 and Landau theory and (b) MVS and Landau theory for 45 nm
technology node.
5. Summary
The manual describes the electrical model of the NC-FET by integrating MVS/BSIM4 model with
Landau theory. Future work involves improving the physics of the model and inclusion of the
transient response of the ferroelectric material. Please contact Muhammad A. Wahab
(mwahab@purdue.edu) regarding any questions/comments about the negative capacitance
FET compact model.
References
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0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 110
-2
10-1
100
101
102
103
104
VG(NC)
[V]
I D [A
/m
]
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.40
30
60
90
120
150
180
VG(NC)
[V]
S [m
V/d
ec]
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 110
-2
10-1
100
101
102
103
104
VG(NC)
[V]
I D [A
/m
]
tFE=10 nmtFE=13 nm
tFE=10 nmtFE=13 nm
VD= 1VLG= 45 nm
tFE=10 nmtFE=13 nm
tFE=10 nmtFE=13 nm
BSIM4 MVS
P(VDF-TrFE)
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.40
30
60
90
120
150
180
VG(NC)
[V]
S [m
V/d
ec]
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Appendix
A. Transient performance
Fig. 8 Our developed NC-FET model can be used for transient simulation of CMOS circuits.
Results of the transient simulation of the NCFET CMOS inverter of Fig. 6(a). (a) Input gate
pulse (Vin) vs time (t). (b) Inverter output (Vout) vs t. (c) Zoomed version of a cycle from (b)
highlights the effect of the negative capacitor on performance of NC-FET inverter. Slow
response of the ferroelectric material is neglected in the transient simulation. In practical device
material response can be a limiting factor and therefore, must be accounted. Also, the
representation of the negative capacitor as dependent source cannot account the transient
behavior accurately.
tFE=10 nmLG= 32 nm(a)
(b)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
-0.5
0
0.5
1
1.5
t [ps]
Vo
ut [
V]
6 8 10 12
-0.5
0
0.5
1
1.5
t [ps]
Vo
ut [
V]
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 350
0.5
1
t [ps]
Vin [
V]
(c)
MOSFETNCFET
CMOS Inverter
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B. Parameters of Conventional MOSFET
Conventional MOSFET parameters are directly collected or extracted from the predictive
technology model ( http://ptm.asu.edu/ ). A sample set of parameters for NMOS device is
provided below as an illustration.
Math Symbol Description ๐ฟ๐บ = 45 ๐๐
(Default value)
๐ฟ๐บ = 32 ๐๐
(Default value)
Unit
๐ Channel width 1 1 ๐๐
๐ธ๐๐ Effective oxide thickness 0.9 0.75 ๐๐
ํ๐๐ Oxide dielectric constant 3.9 3.9
ํ0 Free space permittivity F/cm
๐๐ ๐ข๐ Substrate doping density 6.5ร1018
8.7ร1018
๐๐โ3
๐๐0 Threshold voltage 0.3423 0.3558
๐ Carrier mobility 295 238 ๐๐2/๐๐
๐ฃ๐ฅ0 Saturation velocity 1.595ร10
7 1.821ร10
7 ๐๐/๐
๐ ๐ = ๐ ๐ท Source/Drain resistance 52.5 40 ฮฉ โ ๐๐
๐ถ๐บ๐๐๐ = ๐ถ๐บ๐ท๐๐ Source/Drain overlap
capacitance
2.1ร1012
2ร1012
F/cm
๐ Subthreshold coefficient 1.15 1.15
๐ฟ DIBL factor 0.0332 0.0424 ๐/๐
๐ฝ 1.8 1.8
๐ผ 3.5 3.5
๐พ 0.1 0.1 โ๐
C. HSPICE toolkit
In order to analyze the HSPICE output data, HSPICE toolkit available in Matlab is used. This
can be downloaded from http://www.cppsim.com/InstallFiles/hspice_toolbox.tar.gz . Make sure
to add it in the Matlab path. You can use the following Matlab command to add this to the
default path: addpath(location_of_hspice_toolbox_folder).
D. Simulating HSPICE netlist
HSPICE code can be run on file โfilename.spโ using following command: hspice filename.sp
E. Checklist for model analysis
1. Install the HSPICE toolkit to enable data extraction from HSPICE files.
2. Download the complete package in folder NCFET. Compile the following HSPICE files
NCFET\Negative Capacitance FET Model 1.0.0 HSPICE
Netlists\ncfet_nmos_bsim4_Lg32nm\ncfet_nmos.sp
NCFET\Negative Capacitance FET Model 1.0.0 HSPICE
Netlists\ncfet_pmos_bsim4_Lg32nm\ncfet_pmos.sp
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NCFET\Negative Capacitance FET Model 1.0.0 HSPICE
Netlists\ncfet_inverter_bsim4_Lg32nm\ncfet_inverter.sp
NCFET\Negative Capacitance FET Model 1.0.0 HSPICE
Netlists\ncfet_inverter_tran_bsim4_Lg32nm\ncfet_inverter.sp
NCFET\Negative Capacitance FET Model 1.0.0 HSPICE
Netlists\ncfet_nmos_mvs_Lg45nm\ncfet_nmos.sp
NCFET\Negative Capacitance FET Model 1.0.0 HSPICE
Netlists\ncfet_pmos_mvs_Lg45nm\ncfet_pmos.sp
NCFET\Negative Capacitance FET Model 1.0.0 HSPICE
Netlists\ncfet_inverter_mvs_Lg45nm\ncfet_inverter.sp
NCFET\Negative Capacitance FET Model 1.0.0 HSPICE
Netlists\ncfet_nmos_bsim4_Lg45nm\ncfet_nmos.sp
โฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆ
3. Compilation of the files will generate the filename.sw0 and filename.tr0 files for dc and transient simulations respectively. These files can be analyzed using the perform_analysis.m file.
4. Go to the folder containing the โperform_analysis.mโ file and run it.
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