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We demonstrate gate-tunable resonant tunneling and negative differential resistance between two rotationally aligned bilayer graphene sheets separated by bilayer WSe2. We observe large interlayer current densities of 2 uA/um2 and 2.5…

We theoretically investigate negative differential resistance (NDR) of massless and massive Dirac Fermions in double barrier resonant tunneling diodes based on sufficiently short and wide graphene strips. The current-voltage characteristics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Yu Song , Han-Chun Wu , Yong Guo

Negative differential resistance (NDR) with room temperature peak-valley-ratio of 8 has been observed in a ballistic field-effect-transistor (FET) based on graphene, having an oblique top gate. Graphene FETs with a top gate inclination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mircea Dragoman , Adrian Dinescu , Daniela Dragoman

Finding an effective and controllable way to create a sizable energy gap in graphene-based systems has been a challenging topic of intensive research. We propose that the hybrid of boron nitride and graphene (h-BNC) at low BN doping serves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Chih-Piao Chuu , Wei-En Tseng , Kuan-Hung Liu , Ching-Ming Wei , Mei-Yin Chou

Here, we report a prominent quantum oscillation in the conductance of 2H-MoTe2 based resonant tunneling structure. In this work, a n-WSe2/HfO2/i-MoTe2/HfO2/Au resonant tunneling device (RTD) with a symmetric and asymmetric double barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Abir Mukherjee , Kajal Sharma , Kamlesh Bhatt , Santanu Kandar , Rajendra Singh , Samaresh Das

We present the first principle calculations of the electrical properties of graphene sheet/h-BN heterojunction(GS/h-BN) and 11-armchair graphene nanoribbon heterojunction(11-AGNR/h-BN), which were carried out using the density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Taiga Wakai , Shoichi Sakamoto , Mitsuyoshi Tomiya

Hexagonal boron nitride (BN), one of the very few layered insulators, plays a crucial role in 2D materials research. In particular, BN grown with a high pressure technique has proven to be an excellent substrate material for graphene and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 J. Sonntag , J. Li , A. Plaud , A. Loiseau , J. Barjon , J. H. Edgar , C. Stampfer

We report here the first RF noise measurements on two designs of n-doped GaN/AlN double-barrier resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs), each having a room-temperature negative differential resistance (NDR) and also strong near-UV light emission.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 E. R. Brown , W-D. Zhang , T. A. Growden , P. R. Berger , R. Droopad , D. F. Storm , D. J. Meyer

Using the Bardeen tunneling method with first-principles wave functions, computations are made of the tunneling current in graphene / hexagonal-boron-nitride / graphene (G/h-BN/G) vertical structures. Detailed comparison with prior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Randall M. Feenstra , Sergio C. de la Barrera , Jun Li , Yifan Nie , Kyeongjae Cho

The phenomenon of resonant tunneling transport through polar double-barrier heterostructures is systematically investigated using a combined experimental and theoretical approach. On the experimental side, GaN/AlN RTDs are grown by MBE.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Jimy Encomendero , Vladimir Protasenko , Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez , Patrick Fay , Farhan Rana , Debdeep Jena , Huili Grace Xing

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…

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

The negative differential resistance (NDR) tunnel diodes are promising alternative devices for beyond-CMOS computing as they offer several potential applications when integrated with transistors. We propose a novel semiconductor-free NDR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Ersoy Sasioglu , Ingrid Mertig

In this Letter, we derive an effective theory of graphene on a hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN) substrate. We show that the h-BN substrate generically opens a spectral gap in graphene despite the lattice mismatch. The origin of that gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Kindermann , Bruno Uchoa , D. L. Miller

Increased power density in modern microelectronics has led to thermal management challenges which can cause degradation in performance and reliability. In many high-power electronic devices, the power consumption and heat removal are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 David B. Brown , Thomas L. Bougher , Xiang Zhang , Pulickel Ajayan , Baratunde A. Cola , Satish Kumar

The two-dimensional atomically thin insulator hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) constitutes a new paradigm in tunnel based devices. A large band gap along with its atomically flat nature without dangling bonds or interface trap states makes it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 André Dankert , M. Venkata Kamalakar , Abdul Wajid , R. S. Patel , Saroj P. Dash

In this paper we study in detail the effect of the rotational alignment between a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) slab and the graphene layers in the vertical current of a a graphene-hBN-graphene device. We show how for small rotational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 B. Amorim , R. M. Ribeiro , N. M. R. Peres

The thermoelectric properties of in plane heterostructures made of Graphene and hexagonal Boron Nitride (BN) have been investigated by means of atomistic simulation. The heterostructures consist in armchair graphene nanoribbons to the sides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Van-Truong Tran , Jérôme Saint Martin , Philippe Dollfus

The fully self-consistent non-equilibrium Green functions (NEGFs) approach to the quantum transport is developed for the investigation of one-dimensional nano-scale devices. Numerical calculations performed for resonant tunneling diodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Van Nam Do , Philippe Dollfus , Van Lien Nguyen

Vertically stacked two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures based on graphene electrodes represent a promising architecture for next-generation electronic devices. However, their first-principles characterizations have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Tae Hyung Kim , Juho Lee , Ryong-Gyu Lee , Yong-Hoon Kim

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have emerged as leading candidates for the development of low-power and multifunctional computing applications, thanks to their qualities such as layer-dependent band gap tunability, high carrier…