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A discrete stress-dependent six-band k.p method is used for subband structure calculation, coupled to a two-dimensional Poisson solver for electrostatics. A semi-classical ballistic FET model is then used to evaluate the ballistic current-voltage characteristics of SiNW FETs with and without strain. Our results presented here indicate that [110] is the optimum orientation for the p-type SiNW FETs and sensors. For the ultra-scaled 2.2 nm square SiNW, due to the limit of strong quantum confinement, the effect of the uniaxial stress on the magnitude of ballistic drive current is too small to be considered, except for the [100] orientation. However, for larger 5 nm square SiNW transistors with various transport orientations, the uniaxial tensile stress obviously alters the ballistic performance, while the uniaxial compressive stress slightly changes the ballistic hole current. Furthermore, the competition of injection velocity and carrier density related to the effective hole masses is found to play a critical role in determining the performance of the nanotransistors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s90402746","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,4,17]],"date-time":"2009-04-17T11:06:37Z","timestamp":1239966397000},"page":"2746-2759","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Orientation Effects in Ballistic High-Strained P-type Si Nanowire FETs"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Jia-Hong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of MEMS of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People\u2019s Republic of China"},{"name":"College of Electronic & Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, 219 Ning-Lu Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People\u2019s Republic of China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0646-7635","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qing-An","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of MEMS of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People\u2019s Republic of China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hong","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of MEMS of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People\u2019s Republic of China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shuang-Ying","family":"Lei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of MEMS of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People\u2019s Republic of China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,4,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1387","DOI":"10.3390\/s7081387","article-title":"Integrated inductors for RF transmitters in CMOS\/MEMS smart microsensor systems","volume":"7","author":"Kim","year":"2007","journal-title":"Sensors"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"80","DOI":"10.1016\/S0924-4247(01)00543-X","article-title":"A COMS humidity sensor with on-chip calibration","volume":"92","author":"Qiu","year":"2001","journal-title":"Sens. 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