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An unresolved challenge facing electronics at a few-nm scale is that resistive channels start leaking due to quantum tunneling. This affects the performance of nanoscale transistors, with single-molecule devices displaying particularly low…

We use numerical simulations to analyze recent experimental measurements of short-channel carbon nanotube field-effect transistors with palladium contacts. We show that the gate strongly modulates the contact properties, an effect that is…

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Carbon electronics based on carbon nanotube array field-effect transistors (AFETs) and 2-dimensional graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) have recently attracted significant attention for potential RF applications. Here, we explore the…

State-of-the-art carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) behave as Schottky barrier (SB)-modulated transistors. It is known that vertical scaling of the gate oxide significantly improves the performance of these devices. However,…

We investigate the thermoelectric performance of 2D nanojunctions with gate tunable architectures and varying channel lengths from 3 to 12 nm using a combination of first principles simulations, including density functional theory, DFT with…

Here, we propose a Charge Plasma (CP)-based Germanium Double Gate Tunnel Field-Effect Transistor (Ge-DGTFET) device structure, where a CP is induced in the heavily doped source region using the work function engineering of source electrode.…

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We propose a steep-slope MoS2-nanoribbon field-effect transistor that exploits a narrow-energy conduction band to intrinsically filter out the thermionic tail of the electron energy distribution. We study the device operation principle and…

The intrinsic performance of "type-II" InP/GaAsSb double heterojunction bipolar transistors (DHBTs) towards and beyond THz is predicted and analyzed based on a multi-scale technology computer aided design (TCAD) modeling platform calibrated…

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Recently spin-transistors receive considerable attention as a highly-functional building block of future integrated circuits. In order to realize spin-transistors, it is essential that technology of efficient spin injection/detection for…

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Novel devices such as tunneling field-effect transistors (FETs) and ferroelectric FETs have been demonstrated to break the subthreshold swing (SS) limit with sub-60 mV/decade switching for further low voltage/low power applications. In this…

In this letter we discuss how the short channel behavior in sub 100 nm channel range can be improved by inducing a step surface potential profile at the back gate of an asymmetrical double gate (DG) Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI)…

Prior experimental studies showed that nanowires are promising structures for improving the thermoelectric performance of practical thermoelectric materials due to the strongly induced phonon-boundary scattering. However, few studies…

The latest field-effect transistors are entering the regime where quantum effects within the conduction channel can play a significant role because of the increasingly reduced dimensions. We investigate the effects of quantized states in…

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