학술논문

A Physical-Based Artificial Neural Networks Compact Modeling Framework for Emerging FETs
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices IEEE Trans. Electron Devices Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on. 71(1):223-230 Jan, 2024
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Integrated circuit modeling
Mathematical models
Semiconductor device modeling
Gallium arsenide
Data models
Circuit simulation
Training
compact modeling framework
complementary FETs (CFETs)
emerging device modeling
machine learning (ML)
nanosheet (NS) FETs
neural network
Language
ISSN
0018-9383
1557-9646
Abstract
We report a compact modeling framework based on the Grove–Frohman (GF) model and artificial neural networks (ANNs) for emerging gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFETs. The framework consists of two ANNs; the first ANN constructed with the drain current model not only can capture the main trend of device ${I}$ – ${V}$ characteristics but also can predict its variation even when the amount of training data for the ANN is insufficient or outside the range of applied biases. The second one is then designed to improve the model accuracy by further minimizing the errors between the target and the model outputs. We implement the proposed framework to accurately model emerging GAA nanosheet (NS) MOSFETs and complementary FETs (CFETs) without suffering from divergent issues in circuit simulation. In addition, nonphysical behaviors, such as nonzero current at zero bias, do not occur in the modeling framework. Compared to recently reported machine-learning (ML) models, our approach can achieve a similar level of model accuracy with merely 20% amount of the training data.