Transmission Engineering as a route to Subthermal Switching
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2015-10-06 v1
Abstract
The physics of low subthreshold devices is interpreted in terms of a gate dependent change in their mode averaged transmission function, in addition to a capacitive shift in their overall mode spectrum. Accordingly, we explore a variety of subthermal switches that alter the bandwidth, bandgap or amplitude of the transmission, and combinations thereof. The Landauer theory for current flow provides a convenient way to derive the subthreshold swing in each case analytically and suggests ways to beat the Boltzmann limit.
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@article{arxiv.1510.00824,
title = {Transmission Engineering as a route to Subthermal Switching},
author = {Avik W. Ghosh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.00824},
year = {2015}
}
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Special issue on Transistors With Steep Subthreshold Swing for Low-Power Electronics