Abstract:
The present invention provides a semiconductor element that can be manufactured easily at a low cost, can obtain a high tunneling current, and has an excellent operating characteristic, a method for manufacturing the same, and a semiconductor integrated circuit including the semiconductor element. The semiconductor element of the present invention is characterized in that the whole or a part of a tunnel junction is constituted by a semiconductor region made of an indirect-transition semiconductor containing isoelectronic-trap-forming impurities.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an integrated circuit formed of tunneling field-effect transistors that includes a first tunneling field-effect transistor in which one of a first P-type region and a first N-type region operates as a source region and the other one operates as a drain region; and a second tunneling field-effect transistor in which one of a second P-type region and a second N-type region operates as a source region and the other one operates as a drain region, the first and second tunneling field-effect transistors being formed in one active region to have the same polarity, the first P-type region and the second N-type region being formed adjacently, the adjacent first P-type region and second N-type region being electrically connected through metal semiconductor alloy film.