Sub-10nm Ultra-thin ZnO Channel FET with Record-High 561 µA/µm ION at VDS 1V, High µ-84 cm2/V-s and1T-1RRAM Memory Cell Demonstration Memory Implications for Energy-Efficient Deep-Learning Computing
U. Chand, M. Aly, Manohar Lal, Chen Chun-Kuei, S. Hooda, Shih-Hao Tsai, Zihang Fang, H. Veluri, A. Thean
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Abstract
For the first time, we investigated ultra-short-channel ZnO thin-film FETs with Lch = 8 nm with extremely scaled channel thickness tZnO of 3nm, the device exhibits ultra-low sub-pA/µm off leakage (1.2 pA/µm), high electron mobility (µeff = 84 cm2/V•s) with record peak transconductance (Gm,) of 254 μS/μm at VDS = 1 V wrt. reported oxide-based transistors, to date, leading to high on-state current (ION) of 561 μA/μm. We demonstrated the integration of a ZnO access transistor with Al2O3 RRAM to enable a 1T-1R memory cell, suitable for BEOL-embedded memory. We evaluate the system-level benefits of a hardware accelerator for deep learning to employ FET-RRAM as working memory—up to 10X energy-efficiency benefits can be achieved over current baseline configurations.