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A First Approach in Using Super-Steep-Subthreshold-Slope Field-Effect Transistors in Ultra-Low Power Analog Design

Matthieu Couriol
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The benefits of steep-Subthreshold Swing (SS) devices, though plentiful at the device-level, have yet to be fully exploited at the circuit-level. This is evident from a look at the Three-Independent-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (TIGFET), a device renowned for its ability for polarity reconfiguration. At the same time, its demonstrated dynamic control of the subthreshold slope beyond the thermal limit has only been studied at the device-level. This latter benefit is referred to as Super-Steep Subthreshold Slope (S4) operation and can lead to unprecedented gain, which is ideal for use in an amplifier circuit. In this book chapter, we investigate the impact of S4 operations when designing differential-amplifier circuits while using TIGFET technology. We demonstrate the benefits of our implementation both from a theoretical standpoint and through circuit-level analyses. More specifically, we show that the TIGFET -based amplifier gain is $$95.5{\times }$$95.5× better, and that the gain-bandwidth product is improved by $$13.8{\times }$$13.8×, compared to an equivalent MOSFET-based design at the 90 nm node. Besides, we show that at equivalent gains, the TIGFET-based amplifier decreases the area and power by $$22.8{\times }$$22.8× and $$7.2{\times }$$7.2×, respectively, against its MOSFET counterpart. Further investigations prove that TIGFETs could be used in bio-sensing application where noise and power consumption are crucial. We have demonstrated that the use of TIGFETs could improve the thermal noise of low-power, Low-Noise Amplifiers (LNA) by 83% and the noise efficiency factor (NEF) by 58%.
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Matthieu Couriol, Patsy Cadareanu, Edouard Giacomin, Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon. A First Approach in Using Super-Steep-Subthreshold-Slope Field-Effect Transistors in Ultra-Low Power Analog Design. 29th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration - System on a Chip (VLSI-SoC), Oct 2021, Singapore, Singapore. pp.205-224, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-16818-5_10⟩. ⟨hal-04419561⟩
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