Effect of the Gate-dielectric stack on the quantum screening of the two-dimensional electron gas in silicon inversion layer

Aniruddha konar, Mohit Bajaj, Rajan K. Pandey, Ninad Sathaye, Murali V. Kota

Published 2013-01-10, updated 2013-01-14Version 2

This article develops a consistent theory of free carrier screening of a two-dimensional electron gas in the silicon inversion layer in the presence of stacked layers of dielectric environment-commonly knows as gate stack in context of field-effect transistors. It is shown that the finite thickness and of dielectric stacks alters the free carrier screening, a crucial quantity, which determines screened coulomb interaction in the inversion layer, and ubiquitously appears in carrier transport theory in semiconductors. Results are analytical and can be used to accurate prediction Coulomb-interaction limited mobility in field-effect transistors.