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We calculate the tunneling current for a bilayer quantum Hall system in the interlayer incoherent regime. In order to capture the strong correlation effects we model the layers as two Wigner crystals coupled through interlayer Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. D. Klironomos , A. T. Dorsey

Control over the electronic spectrum at low energy is at the heart of the functioning of modern advanced electronics: high electron mobility transistors, semiconductor and Capasso terahertz lasers, and many others. Most of those devices…

Interest in the application of thermoelectric devices for renewable energy has risen over the past decade. In this paper, we calculate the transport properties of various configurations of the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) MSe$_2$…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-26 Jonathan Tseng , Xuan Luo

We study the transport properties of deeply scaled monolayer MoS2 n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) using full-band ballistic quantum transport simulations with an atomistic tight-binding Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Jiwon Chang , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

Black phosphorus (BP) tunneling transistors (TFETs) using heterojunction (He) are investigated by atomistic quantum transport simulations. It is observed that edge states have a great impact on transport characteristics of BP He-TFETs,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Fei Liu , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

Charge is transported through superconducting SSS single-electron transistors at finite bias voltages by a combination of coherent Cooper-pair tunneling and quasiparticle tunneling. At low transport voltages the effect of an ``odd''…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Jens Siewert , Gerd Schön

A peculiarity of the single-electron transistor effect makes it possible to observe this effect even in structures lacking a gate electrode altogether. The proposed method can be useful for experimental study of charging effects in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. V. Vyshenski

We review recent developments in nonlinear quantum transport through nanostructures and mesoscopic systems driven by thermal gradients or in combination with voltage biases. Low-dimensional conductors are excellent platforms to analyze both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

Semiconducting two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenide crystals have been regarded as the promising candidate for the future generation of transistor in modern electronics. However, how to fabricate those crystals into practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Xue Liu , Jin Hu , Chunlei Yue , Nicholas D. Della Fera , Yun Ling , Zhiqiang Mao , Jiang Wei

Thanks to their unique properties single-layer 2-D materials appear as excellent candidates to extend Moore's scaling law beyond the currently manufactured silicon FinFETs. However, the known 2-D semiconducting components, essentially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Cedric Klinkert , Áron Szabó , Christian Stieger , Davide Campi , Nicola Marzari , Mathieu Luisier

We present a TCAD compatible multiscale model of phonon-assisted band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) in semiconductors, that incorporates the non-parabolic nature of complex bands within the bandgap of the material. This model is shown capture…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Arvind Ajoy , S. E. Laux , Kota V. R. M. Murali , S. Karmalkar

This work demonstrates a large area process for atomically thin 2D semiconductors to unlock the technological upscale required for their commercial uptake. The new atomic layer deposition (ALD) and conversion technique yields large area…

We formulate a theoretical framework to describe multiparticle current transport in planar superconducting tunnel junctions with diffusive electrodes. The approach is based on direct solving of quasiclassical Keldysh-Green function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-11 E. V. Bezuglyi , A. S. Vasenko , E. N. Bratus' , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

We present a theoretical analysis aimed at understanding electrical conduction in molecular tunnel junctions. We focus on discussing the validity of coherent versus incoherent theoretical formulations for single-level tunneling to explain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-06 Alvar R. Garrigues , Li Yuan , Lejia Wang , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Damien Thompson , Enrique del Barco , Christian A. Nijhuis

By means of numerical simulation, we study in this work the effects of uniaxial strain on transport properties of strained graphene heterojunctions and explore the possibility to achieve good performance of graphene transistors using these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy Viet Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

By means of extensive ab initio calculations, a new two-dimensional (2D) atomic material tin selenide monolayer (coined as tinselenidene) is predicted to be a semiconductor with an indirect gap (1.45 eV) and a high hole mobility (of order…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-22 Li-Chuan Zhang , Guangzhao Qin , Wu-Zhang Fang , Hui-Juan Cui , Qing-Rong Zheng , Qing-Bo Yan , Gang Su

The layered semimetal WTe_2 has recently been found to be a two-dimensional topological insulator (2D TI) when thinned down to a single monolayer, with conducting helical edge channels. We report here that intrinsic superconductivity can be…

In this review, we discuss the impact of interfaces and heterojuctions on the electronic and thermoelectric transport properties of materials. We review recent progress in understanding electronic transport in two-dimensional (2D) materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Arnab K. Majee , Adithya Kommini , Zlatan Aksamija

Two dimensional materials such as Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDC) and their bi-layer/tri-layer heterostructures have become the focus of intense research and investigation in recent years due to their promising applications in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Kanak Datta , Abir Shadman , Ehsanur Rahman , Quazi D. M. Khosru

Van der Waals heterostructures formed by two different monolayer semiconductors have emerged as a promising platform for new optoelectronic and spin/valleytronic applications. In addition to its atomically thin nature, a two-dimensional…