Abstract
This work is intended to design a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) system starting from the device design, characterization and optimization which is then followed by the circuit level implementation and finally the system level configuration. Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (TFET) technology came into existence because of the inability of CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) to produce reduced leakage current (I(off)) in the subthreshold regime. With the effects of scaling and requirement of high doping concentrations, TFET is not capable to produce stable reduction in I(off) due to the variation in ON and OFF current. To improve the switching ratio of the current and to obtain good subthreshold swing (SS) by overcoming the limitations of junction TFET, a new device design is proposed for the first time in this work. A pocket double gate asymmetric Junction less TFET (poc-DG-AJLTFET) structure has been proposed in which uniform doping is used to eliminate the junctions and a pocket of length 2 nm made of Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) material has been introduced to improve the designed structure performance in the weak inversion region and increase the drive current (I(ON)). The work function has been tuned to produce the best results for poc-DG-AJLTFET and with our proposed poc-DG-AJLTFET, effects of interface traps are eliminated as against conventional JLTFET structures. The notion that low-threshold voltage device yields high I(OFF) has been proved wrong with our poc-DG-AJLTFET design, as it produced low threshold voltage with lower I(OFF) which reduced the power dissipation. Numerical results show that drain induced barrier lowering (DIBL) of 2.75 mV/V is achieved which could be less than 35 times required for short channel effects to be minimum. In terms of gate to drain capacitance (C(gd)), it is found that ~ 10(3) reduction which greatly improves device inertia to internal electrical interference. Also, improvement in transconductance is achieved by 10(4) times, 10(3) times improvement in I(ON)/I(OFF) ratio, and 400 times higher unity gain cutoff-frequency (f(t)) which would be required by all communication systems. The Verilog models of the designed device are used to construct the leaf cells of quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) system and the implemented QPSK system is taken as a key evaluator in the performance evaluation in terms of propagation delay and power consumption of poc-DG-AJLTFET in modern satellite communication systems.