Switching Characteristics of Ferroelectric Transistor Inverters

Abstract

This paper presents the switching characteristics of an inverter circuit using a ferroelectric field effect transistor, FeFET. The propagation delay time characteristics, τ_phl and τ_plh are presented along with the output voltage rise and fall times, τ_rise and τ_fall. The propagation delay is the time-delay between the V_50% transitions of the input and output voltages. The rise and fall times are the times required for the output voltages to transition between the voltage levels V_10% and V_90%. Comparisons are made between the MOSFET inverter and the ferroelectric transistor inverter.

Keywords:

• MOSFET
• FeFET
• ferroelectric transistor