What is FD-SOI (fully depleted SOI)?

Building transistors in a very thin silicon layer on buried oxide so the channel is fully depleted. The channel can be lightly doped, and body bias can tune the threshold voltage easily.

Field: Advanced transistors (FinFET and GAA)

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  1. What is an advantage of fully depleted SOI (FD-SOI) transistors?
  2. Which correctly describes the SOI (silicon on insulator) structure?
  3. In very small transistors, what is the phenomenon called in which the threshold voltage varies because of statistical variation in the number and positions of dopant atoms in the channel?

Related terms

Junction capacitance (depletion capacitance) Latch-up Threshold voltage CFET (complementary FET) DTCO (design-technology co-optimization) EOT (equivalent oxide thickness) FinFET GAA (gate-all-around) Gate-last (replacement metal gate) High-k / metal gate

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