Based on a three-dimensional numerical analysis, it is shown that narrow-width MOSFETs of the BOX structure1 exhibit an ‘inverse’ narrow-channel effect whereby their threshold voltages become lower and lower with decreasing channel width. The phenomenon is attributed to a pronounced enhancement of the channel edge region due to a crowding of the fringing field.
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Shigyo et al. (1982) studied this question.