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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,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-12-18 Yu-Ming Lin , Joerg Appenzeller , Joachim Knoch , Phaedon Avouris

The two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been proposed as candidates for the channel material in future field effect transistor designs. The heterophase design which utilizes the metallic T- or T' phase of the TMD as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Line Jelver , Ole Hansen , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

We report a bipolar field effect tunneling transistor that exploits to advantage the low density of states in graphene and its one atomic layer thickness. Our proof-of-concept devices are graphene heterostructures with atomically thin boron…

Recently, short channel effects (SCE) and power consumption dissipation problems pose big challenges which need imperative actions to be taken to deal with for field effect transistor to further scale down as semiconductor technology enters…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Laixiang Qin , Chunlai Li , Ziang Xie , Yiqun Wei , Jin He

We present a theoretical study of a spin field-effect transistor realized in a quantum well formed in a p--doped ferromagnetic-semiconductor- nonmagnetic-semiconductor-ferromagnetic-semiconductor hybrid structure. Based on an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco G. Pala , Michele Governale , Jürgen König , Ulrich Zülicke , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We report the observation of channel-width dependent enhancement in nanoscale field effect transistors containing lithographically-patterned silicon nanowires as the conduction channel. These devices behave as conventional…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-18 Xihua Wang , Yu Chen , Mi K. Hong , Shyamsunder Erramilli , Pritiraj Mohanty

In 2008, Salahuddin and Datta proposed that a ferroelectric material operating in the negative capacitance region could act as a step-up converter of the surface potential in a MOS structure, opening a new route for the realization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 David Jimenez , Enrique Miranda , Andres Godoy

We propose a tunneling heterostructure by replacing one of the metal electrodes in a metal/ferroelectric/metal ferroelectric tunnel junction with a heavily doped semiconductor. In this metal/ferroelectric/semiconductor tunnel diode, both…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-22 Zheng Wen , Chen Li , Di Wu , Aidong Li , Naiben Ming

In recent years, a lot of scientific research effort has been put forth for the investigation of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDC) and other Two Dimensional (2D) materials like Graphene, Boron Nitride. Theoretical investigation on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Kanak Datta , Quazi D. M. Khosru

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is drawing increasing attention as an insulator and substrate material to develop next generation graphene-based electronic devices. In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport in heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , X. Xu , S. R. Patil , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are good candidates for high-performance flexible electronics. However, most demonstrations of such flexible field-effect transistors (FETs) to date have been on…

We have used a simple, analytically solvable model to analyze the characteristic s of dual-gate metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with 10-nm-scale channel length L. The model assumes ballistic dynamics of 2D…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 F. G. Pikus , K. K. Likharev

Large-scale quantum computing requires cryogenic electronic controllers such as control/readout circuit and routing circuit. However, current technologies face high power dissipation problems, hindering large-scale qubit integration. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Yosep Park , Yungyeong Park , Hyeonseok Choi , Subeen Lim , Yeonghun Lee

In-plane heterojunction tunnel field effect transistors based on monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are studied by means of self-consistent non-equilibrium Green's functions simulations and an atomistic tight-binding Hamiltonian. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Jean Choukroun , Marco Pala , Shiang Fang , Efthimios Kaxiras , Philippe Dollfus

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), with their two-dimensional structures and sizable bandgaps, are good candidates for barrier materials in tunneling field-effect transistor (TFET) formed from atomic precision vertical stacks of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-04 Xiang-Guo Li , Yun-Peng Wang , X. -G. Zhang , Hai-Ping Cheng

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transitional metal dichalcogenides, have attracted tremendous amount of attention over the past decade due to their extraordinary thermal, electrical and optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-16 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

Low power consumption in both static and dynamic modes of operation is a key requirement in modern, highly scaled nanoelectronics. Tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) that exploit direct band-to-band tunneling of charges and exhibit…

Bottom-up synthesized GNRs and GNR heterostructures have promising electronic properties for high performance field effect transistors (FETs) and ultra-low power devices such as tunnelling FETs. However, the short length and wide band gap…

In this work, we propose novel van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures composed of Xenes, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), phosphorene, and transition metal trichalcogenides (TMTCs), which are separated by insulating hexagonal boron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Anastasia Spiridonova , Klaus Ziegler

In this work, we demonstrate a silicon nanocrystal Field Effect Transistor (ncFET). Its operation is similar to that of a Tunnelling Field Effect Transistor (TFET) with two barriers in series. The tunnelling barriers are fabricated in very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Patrick Harvey-Collard , Dominique Drouin , Michel Pioro-Ladrière