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Potential steps naturally develop in graphene near metallic contacts. We investigate the influence of these steps on the transport in graphene Field Effect Transistors. We give simple expressions to estimate the voltage-dependent…
We propose an analytical device model for a graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistor (GNR-FET). The GNR-FET under consideration is based on a heterostructure which consists of an array of nanoribbons clad between the highly conducting…
We discuss the origin of an additional dip other than the charge neutrality point observed in transfer characteristics of graphene-based field-effect transistors. The double-dip is proved to arise from charge transfer between graphene and…
Graphene is an attractive electrode material to contact nanostructures down to the molecular scale since it can be gated electrostatically. Gating can be used to control the doping and the energy level alignment in the nanojunction, thereby…
Negative differential conductance (NDC), characterized by the decreasing current with increasing voltage, has attracted continuous attention for its various novel applications. The NDC typically exists in a certain range of bias voltages…
The accurate extraction and the reliable, repeatable reduction of graphene - metal contact resistance (R$_{C}$) are still open issues in graphene technology. Here, we demonstrate the importance of following clear protocols when extracting…
The effect of contact architecture, graphene defect density and metal-semiconductor work function difference on resistivity of metal-graphene contacts have been investigated. An architecture with metal on the bottom of graphene is found to…
Field effect transistors with channels made of graphene layer(s) were explored. The graphene layer(s) contacted a distributed array of well-separated semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The dots were embedded in nano-structured hole-array;…
The metal-graphene contact resistance is a technological bottleneck for the realization of viable graphene based electronics. We report a useful model to find the gate tunable components of this resistance determined by the sequential…
Ballistic quantum transport calculations based on the non-equilbrium Green's function formalism show that field-effect transistor devices made from chevron-type graphene nanoribbons (CGNRs) could exhibit negative differential resistance…
Straightforward contact resistance extraction methods based on electrical device characteristics are described and applied here to graphene field-effect transistors from different technologies. The methods are an educated adaptation of…
A small-signal equivalent circuit for graphene field-effect transistors is proposed considering the explicit contribution of effects at the metal-graphene interfaces by means of contact resistances. A methodology to separate the contact…
The mobility-degradation-based model for the drain-to-source or output resistance of a graphene field-effect-transistor is linearized here using a Taylor series approximation. This simplification is shown to be valid from magnitudes of the…
In this study, the contact resistance of various metals to chemical vapour deposited (CVD) monolayer graphene is investigated. Transfer length method (TLM) structures with varying widths and separation between contacts have been fabricated…
We performed radiofrequency (RF) reflectometry measurements at 2.4 GHz on electrolyte-gated graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) utilizing a tunable stub-matching circuit for impedance matching. We demonstrate that the gate voltage…
We describe a simple and scalable method for the transfer of CVD graphene for the fabrication of field effect transistors. This is a dry process that uses a modified RCA cleaning step to improve the surface quality. In contrast to…
The inherent asymmetry of the electric transport in graphene is attributed to Klein tunneling across barriers defined by $\textit{pn}$-interfaces between positively and negatively charged regions. By combining conductance and shot noise…
We report a systematic study of the contact resistance present at the interface between a metal (Ti) and graphene layers of different, known thickness. By comparing devices fabricated on 11 graphene flakes we demonstrate that the contact…
The linear conductance spectrum of a metallic graphene junction formed by interconnecting two gapless graphene nanoribbons is calculated. A strong conductance suppression appears in the vicinity of the Dirac point. We found that such a…
The density of states (DOS) of graphene underneath a metal is estimated through a quantum capacitance measurement of the metal/graphene/SiO2/n+-Si contact structure fabricated by a resist-free metal deposition process. Graphene underneath…