A New Methodology for Probing the Electrical Properties of Heavily Phosphorous-Doped Polycrystalline Silicon Nanowires.

In this study, we proposed a new methodology for probing the electrical properties of heavily doped polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) nanowires (NWs), including active doping concentration, mobility, and interface fixed charge density. Implementation of this procedure is based on the modulation of the device operation of a gate-all-around (GAA) junctionless (J-less) transistor from the gated resistor mode to the ungated one. The extracted carrier concentration in the NW is found to be much lower than that of Hall measurements, while a negative fixed charge density is identified with the procedure. Dopant segregation at the oxide interface is postulated to be closely related to these observations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]