Graphdiyne is prepared on metal surface, and making devices out of it also inevitably involves contact with metals. Using density functional theory with dispersion correction, we systematically studied for the first time the interfacial properties of graphdiyne contacting with a series of metals (Al, Ag, Cu, Au, Ir, Pt, Ni, and Pd). Graphdiyne is in an n-type Ohmic or quasi-Ohmic contact with Al, Ag, and Cu, while it is in a Schottky contact with Au (at source/drain interface), Pd, Pt, Ni, and Ir (at source/drain-channel interface), with high Schottky barrier heights of 0.39, 0.21 (n-type), 0.30, 0.41, and 0.45 (p-type) eV, respectively. A graphdiyne field effect transistor (FET) with Al electrodes is simulated by using quantum transport calculations. This device exhibits an on-off ratio up to 104 and a very large on-state current of 1.3 * 104 mA/mm in a 10 nm channel length. Thus, a new prospect is opened up for graphdiyne in high performance nanoscale devices.
@article{arxiv.1408.3480,
title = {Graphdiyne-metal contacts and graphdiyne transistors},
author = {Yuanyuan Pan and Yangyang Wang and Lu Wang and Hongxia Zhong and Ruge Quhe and Zeyuan Ni and Meng Ye and Wai-Ning Mei and Junjie Shi and Wanlin Guo and Jinbo Yang and Jing Lu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.3480},
year = {2015}
}