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Silicon nanowires (Si NW) are ideal candidates for solution processable field effect transistors (FETs). The interface between the nanowire channel and the gate dielectric plays a crucial role in the FET performance, and it can be…

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Tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) based on 2D materials are promising steep sub-threshold swing (SS) devices due to their tight gate control. There are two major methods to create the tunnel junction in these 2D TFETs: electrical…

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A simple and highly reproducible single electron transistor (SET) has been fabricated using gated silicon nanowires. The structure is a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor made on silicon-on-insulator thin films. The channel…

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Recent experiments have shown the possibility of tuning the transport properties of metallic nanosized superconductors through a gate voltage. These results renewed the longstanding debate on the interaction between electrostatic fields and…

We propose and analyze a novel dual-gate Spin Field Effect Transistor (SpinFET) with half-metallic ferromagnetic source and drain contacts. The transistor has two gate pads that can be biased independently. It can be switched ON or OFF with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Wan , M. Cahay , S. Bandyopadhyay

Silicon nanochannel field effect transistor (FET) biosensors are one of the most promising technologies in the development of highly sensitive and label-free analyte detection for cancer diagnostics. With their exceptional electrical…

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We investigate the low temperature transport in 8 nm diameter Si junctionless nanowire field effect transistors fabricated by top down techniques with a wrap-around gate and two different activated doping densities. First we extract the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Felix J. Schupp , Muhammad M. Mirza , Donald A. MacLaren , G. Andrew D. Briggs , Douglas J. Paul , Jan A. Mol

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…

In this paper, we have presented the impact of the gate leakage through thin gate dielectrics (SiO2 and high-\k{appa} gate dielectric) on the subthreshold characteristics of the tunnel field effect transistors (TFET) for a low operating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-06 Poornendu Chaturvedi , M. Jagadesh Kumar

Structural and electronic properties of silicene adsorbed by five kinds of transition metal atoms (Cu, Ag, Au, Pt, and Ir) are systematically studied by using first-principles calculations. We find that such adsorption can induce a band gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Zeyuan Ni , Hongxia Zhong , Xinhe Jiang , Ruge Quhe , Yangyang Wang , Junjie Shi , Jing Lu

We investigate by low-temperature transport experiments the sub-threshold behavior of triple-gate silicon field-effect transistors. These three-dimensional nano-scale devices consist of a lithographically defined silicon nanowire surrounded…

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We demonstrate a tunnel field effect transistor based on a lateral heterostructure patterned from an $\mathrm{LaAlO_3/SrTiO_3}$ electron gas. Charge is injected by tunneling from the $\mathrm{LaAlO_3}$/$\mathrm{SrTiO_3}$ contacts and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 A. Müller , C. Şahin , M. Z. Minhas , M. E. Flatté , G. Schmidt

We investigate the phenomenon of reflectionless tunneling in ballistic normal-metal--superconductor (NS) structures, using a semiclassical formalism. It is shown that applied magnetic field and superconducting phase difference both impair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Schechter , Y. Imry , Y. Levinson

Substantial progress on field effect transistors "FETs" consisting of semiconducting single wall carbon nanotubes "s-SWNTs" without detectable traces of metallic nanotubes and impurities is reported. Nearly perfect removal of metallic…

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNT FETs) have been proposed as possible building blocks for future nano-electronics. But a challenge with CNT FETs is that they appear to randomly display varying amounts of hysteresis in their…

We report a self-aligned, monolithic electron interferometer, consisting of two 45 nm thick silicon layers separated by 20 $\mu$m. This interferometer was fabricated from a single crystal silicon cantilever on a transmission electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-14 Akshay Agarwal , Chung-Soo Kim , Richard Hobbs , Dirk van Dyck , Karl K. Berggren

We study the surface conductivity of a field-effect transistor (FET) made of periodic array of spherical semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs). We show that electrons introduced to NCs by the gate voltage occupy one or two layers of the array.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-11 K. V. Reich , Tianran Chen , B. I. Shklovskii

We investigate the mechanisms responsible for the low-frequency noise in liquid-gated nano-scale silicon nanowire field-effect transistors (SiNW-FETs) and show that the charge-noise level is lower than elementary charge. Our measurements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-24 N. Clement , K. Nishiguchi , J. F. Dufreche , D. Guerin , A. Fujiwara , D. Vuillaume

High performance p- and n-type single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) field-effect transistors (FETs) are obtained by using high and low work function metals, Pd and Al as source/drain (S/D) electrodes respectively. Ohmic contacts made to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ali Javey , Qian Wang , Woong Kim , Hongjie Dai

We employ noise spectroscopy and transconductance measurements to establish the optimal regimes of operation for our fabricated silicon nanowire field-effect transistors (Si NW FETs) sensors. A strong coupling between the liquid gate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sergii Pud , Jing Li , Volodymyr Sibiliev , Mykhaylo Petrychuk , Valery Kovalenko , Andreas Offenhäusser , Svetlana Vitusevich