Single Metal Gate on High-k Gate Stacks for 45nm Low Power CMOS

We present a low cost, single metal gate/high-k gate stack integration, which provides a very high performing NMOS coupled with a counter-doped PMOS for a 45nm low power (LP) CMOS technology. Inversion T
_ox
(T
_inv
) values of 16Å/18Å (NMOS/PMOS) result in gate leakage current densities of 0.1/0.01 A/cm
²
and enable self-heated drive currents of 850/325μA/μm at 1nA/μm off-state leakage and V
_dd
=1V (900/340μA/μm non-self-heated). Additionally, the NMOS drive current of 1550uA/μm (1650μA/μm non-self-heated) at an I
_off
=100nA/μm and V
_dd
=1.2V is the highest reported for a hafnium-based high-k gate stack. The approach is compatible with a dual-gate oxide (DGO) module for I/O devices and allows optimization for performance and power typically only possible in triple gate oxide architectures.