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The level of stress depends on the thickness of the epitaxial layer and the
lattice constant mismatch. Epitaxially grown SiGe is used to induce uniaxial
compressive stress in p-channel MOSFETs
[Thompson04,Eneman05,Horstmann05,Ouyang05,Bai04,Ouyang05,Zhang05]. In the
same manner, tensile stress can be induced in the n-channel MOSFET by using
SiC
stressors with molefractions around 1 %
[Ang04]. Si
C
was found to induce the same amount of
stress as Si
Ge
[Ang05]. It was recently reported that
for n-channel MOSFETs the implementation of the Si
C
source/drain regions provide significant drive current enhancement of up to
50% at a gate length of 50 nm [Chui07].
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