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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Jun Li , Yifan Nie , Kyeongjae Cho , Randall M. Feenstra

III-V tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) offer great potentials in future low-power electronics application due to their steep subthreshold slope and large "on" current. Their 3D quantum transport study using non-equilibrium Green's…

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Tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) based on 2D materials are promising steep sub-threshold swing (SS) devices due to their tight gate control. There are two major methods to create the tunnel junction in these 2D TFETs: electrical…

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We provide a detailed study of the interface Trap Assisted Tunneling (TAT) mechanism in tunnel field effect transistors to show how it contributes a major leakage current path before the Band To Band Tunneling (BTBT) is initiated. With a…

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Tunnel Field Effect Transistors (TFET) have extremely low leakage current, exhibit excellent subthreshold swing and are less susceptible to short channel effects. However, TFETs do face certain special challenges, particularly with respect…

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A vertical partial gate carbon nanotube (CNT) field-effect transistor (FET), which is amenable to the vertical CNT growth process and offers the potential for a parallel CNT array channel, is simulated using a self-consistent atomistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Youngki Yoon , James Fodor , Jing Guo

In this work, we simulate the expected device performance and the scaling perspectives of Carbon nanotube Field Effect Transistors (CNT-FETs), with doped source and drain extensions. The simulations are based on the self-consistent solution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Fiori , G. Iannaccone , G. Klimeck

We present the detailed treatment of dissipative quantum transport in carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) using the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism. The effect of phonon scattering on the device characteristics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Siyuranga O. Koswatta , Sayed Hasan , Mark S. Lundstrom , M. P. Anantram , Dmitri E. Nikonov

In the present work, we have investigated the performances of L shaped Vertical broken bandgapheterostructureInSb InAsn-channel tunnel field effect transistors TFETs of 4 nm thin channel structures with the gate lengths of 20nm. We have…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-13 Bhupesh Bishnoi , Bahniman Ghosh

In this work, an analytic model is proposed which provides in a continuous manner the current-voltage characteristic (I-V) of high performance tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) based on direct bandgap semiconductors. The model…

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Recent experiments shown that graphene epitaxially grown on Silicon Carbide (SiC) can exhibit a energy gap of 0.26 eV, making it a promising material for electronics. With an accurate model, we explore the design parameter space for a fully…

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In this work, we demonstrate a silicon nanocrystal Field Effect Transistor (ncFET). Its operation is similar to that of a Tunnelling Field Effect Transistor (TFET) with two barriers in series. The tunnelling barriers are fabricated in very…

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The continuous down-scaling of transistors has been the key to the successful development of current information technology. However, with Moore's law reaching its limits, the development of alternative transistor architectures is urgently…

A tunneling field effect transistor based on armchair graphene nanoribbons is studied using ballistic quantum transport simulation based on 3D real space nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. By introducing a pocket doping region near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 Fei Liu , Yahua Peng , Xiaoyan Liu , Jinfeng Kang , Yi Wang

The dielectric engineered tunnel field-effect transistor (DE-TFET) as a high performance steep transistor is proposed. In this device, a combination of high-k and low-k dielectrics results in a high electric field at the tunnel junction. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Tarek A. Ameen , Gerhard Klimeck , Joerg Appenzeller , Rajib Rahman

Band-to-band tunnelling field-effect transistors (TFETs) have long been considered as promising candidates for future low-power logic applications. However, fabricated TFETs rarely reach sub-60 mV/dec sub-threshold swings (SS) at room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Chen Hao Xia , Leonard Deuschle , Jiang Cao , Alexander Maeder , Mathieu Luisier

In this paper, we have presented the impact of the gate leakage through thin gate dielectrics (SiO2 and high-\k{appa} gate dielectric) on the subthreshold characteristics of the tunnel field effect transistors (TFET) for a low operating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-06 Poornendu Chaturvedi , M. Jagadesh Kumar

A heterojunction tunneling field effect transistor based on armchair graphene nanoribbons is proposed and studied using ballistic quantum transport simulation based on 3D real space nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. By using low…

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