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A phototransistor is a promising candidate as an optical power monitor in Si photonic circuits since the internal gain of photocurrent enables high sensitivity. However, state-of-the-art waveguide-coupled phototransistors suffer from a…

A fast silicon-graphene hybrid plasmonic waveguide photodetectors beyond 1.55 {\mu}m is proposed and realized by introducing an ultra-thin wide silicon-on-insulator ridge core region with a narrow metal cap. With this novel design, the…

Graphene is considered to be a promising candidate for future nano-electronics due to its exceptional electronic properties. Unfortunately, the graphene field-effect-transistors (FETs) cannot be turned off effectively due to the absence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 Fengnian Xia , Damon B. Farmer , Yu-ming Lin , Phaedon Avouris

A single photoelectron can be trapped and its photoelectric charge detected by a source/drain channel in a transistor. Such a transistor photodetector can be useful for flagging the safe arrival of a photon in a quantum repeater. The…

The core-level and valence band electronic structure of the well-defined near-surface layer of n-GaAs (100) has been studied by synchrotron-based high-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy before and after modification of the layer by an…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 V. M. Mikoushkin , V. V. Bryzgalov , S. Yu. Nikonov , A. P. Solonitsyna , D. E. Marchenko

Various mesoscopic devices exploit electrostatic side gates for their operation. In this paper, we investigate how voltage-biasing of graphene side gates modulates the electrical transport characteristics of graphene channel. We explore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Ching-Tzu Chen , Tony Low , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Wenjuan Zhu

Graphane is a semiconductor with an energy gap, obtained from hydrogenation of the two-dimensional grapheme sheet. Together with the two-dimensional geometry, unique transport features of graphene, and possibility of doping graphane, p and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 B. Gharekhanlou , S. B. Tousaki , S. Khorasani

Opto-electronic devices utilizing graphene have already demonstrated unique capabilities, which are much more difficult to realize with conventional technologies. However, the requirements in terms of material quality and uniformity are…

With the advent of high mobility encapsulated graphene devices, new electronic components ruled by Dirac fermions optics have been envisioned and realized. The main building blocks of electron-optics devices are gate-defined p-n junctions,…

Vertical tunneling field-effect-transistor (FET) based on graphene heterojunctions with layers of hBN is simulated by self-consistent quantum transport simulations. It is found that the asymmetric p-type and n-type conduction is due to work…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Bala Kumar , Gyungseon Seol , Jing Guo

When a single-layer graphene sheet is contacted with metallic electrodes, tunnel barriers are formed as a result of the doping of graphene by the metal in the contact region. If the Fermi energy level is modulated by a gate voltage, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-11 Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

We present numerical and analytical results for the lifetime of emitters in close proximity to graphene sheets. Specifically, we analyze the contributions from different physical channels that participate in the decay processes. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-22 Julia FM Werra , Peter Krüger , Kurt Busch , Francesco Intravaia

Layered two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been widely exploited in photodetectors due to their excellent electronic and optoelectronic properties. To improve their performance, photogating, photoconductive, photovoltaic,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-14 Jinpeng Xu , Xiaoguang Luo , Siqi Hu , Xi Zhang , Dong Mei , Fan Liu , Nannan Han , Dan Liu , Xuetao Gan , Yingchun Cheng , Wei Huang

The p-n junctions dynamics in graphene channel induced by stripe domains nucleation, motion and reversal in a ferroelectric substrate is explored using self-consistent approach based on Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire phenomenology combined with…

Atomically thin materials such as graphene are uniquely responsive to charge transfer from adjacent materials, making them ideal charge transport layers in phototransistor devices. Effective implementation of organic semiconductors as a…

We report on room temperature THz detection by means of antenna-coupled field effect transistors fabricated by using epitaxial graphene grown on silicon carbide substrate. Two independent detection mechanisms are found: plasma wave…

We have used scanning gate microscopy to explore the local conductivity of a current-annealed graphene flake. A map of the local neutrality point (NP) after annealing at low current density exhibits micron-sized inhomogeneities. Broadening…

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We study the photoresponse of graphene field effect transistors using scanning photocurrent microscopy in near and far field configurations, and we find that the response of graphene under a source-drain bias voltage away from the contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 Sameer Grover , Sudipta Dubey , John P. Mathew , Mandar M. Deshmukh

We explore the chiral transmission of electrons across graphene heterojunctions for electronic switching using gate geometry alone. A sequence of gates is used to collimate and orthogonalize the chiral transmission lobes across multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 Redwan N. Sajjad , Avik W. Ghosh