Mochamad Januar, Zhao‐Feng Luo, Kou‐Chen Liu, M. Lee
3D integration demands ultrathin oxide transistors that combine strong gate control, high mobility, steep subthreshold swing, and normally off operation within back‐end‐of‐line (BEOL) thermal budgets below 400°C. Yet, conventional amorphous oxides lose stability and suffer from disorder‐limited transport below ~10 nm, while crystalline or doped In 2 O 3 , though more robust, remains constrained by trap states, interface dipoles, and surface roughness at 2–3 nm. This work presents a unified analytical framework that quantitatively links band transport, trap‐tail conduction, interface‐trap diffusion, and roughness‐limited scattering in In 2 O 3 ‐based field‐effect transistors (FETs). The model reproduces transfer characteristics from subthreshold to above‐threshold and captures key differences between pristine and W‐doped In 2 O 3 (IWO), including suppressed off‐current, improved subthreshold swing, and mitigation of thickness‐dependent mobility degradation. Using sputtered IWO and pristine channels from ~2 to ~13 nm, the framework introduces two physical descriptors—the volumetric trap density N t and energetic width T t —together with a gate‐ and thickness‐aware mobility law . Extracted flat‐band carrier densities and Fermi‐level shifts reveal that thermal carrier suppression in IWO yields a linear reduction in off‐current with decreasing thickness. DFT and DOS analyses confirm smoother IWO/high‐ interfaces and lower trap densities, enabling predictive design of bias‐stable, normally off oxide transistors for 3D‐integrated BEOL logic.