7-Levels-Stacked Nanosheet GAA Transistors for High Performance Computing

In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet transistors with a record number of stacked channels. Seven levels stacked nanosheet (NS) GAA transistors fabricated using a replacement metal gate process, inner spacer and self-aligned contacts show an excellent gate controllability with extremely high current drivability (3mA/μm at V
_DD
=1V) and a 3× improvement in drain current over usual 2 levels stacked- NS GAA transistors.