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Van der Waals heterostructures formed by stacking of various two-dimensional materials are promising in electronic applications. However, the performances of most reported electronic devices based on van der Waals heterostructures are far…

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An important consideration in miniaturizing transistors is maximizing the coupling between the gate and the semiconductor channel. A nanowire with a coaxial metal gate provides optimal gate-channel coupling, but has only been realized for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 Kristian Storm , Gustav Nylund , Lars Samuelson , Adam P. Micolich

The electronic band structure of atomically thin semiconductors can be tuned by the application of a perpendicular electric field. The principle was demonstrated experimentally shortly after the discovery of graphene by opening a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Daniil Domaretskiy , Marc Philippi , Marco Gibertini , Nicolas Ubrig , Ignacio Gutiérrez-Lezama , Alberto F. Morpurgo

The controlled fabrication of actively switchable atomic-scale devices, in particular transistors, has remained elusive to date. Here we explain operation of an atomic-scale three-terminal device by a novel switching mechanism of bistable,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-07 F. -Q. Xie , R. Maul , A. Augenstein , Ch. Obermair , E. B. Starikov , G. Schoen , Th. Schimmel , W. Wenzel

Semiconductor heterostructures have played a critical role as the enabler for new science and technology. The emergence of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) as atomically thin semiconductors has opened new frontiers in semiconductor…

Van der Waals heterostructures are the ideal material platform for tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) because a band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) dominant current is feasible at room temperature (RT) due to ideal, dangling bond free…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-03 Keigo Nakamura , Naoka Nagamura , Keiji Ueno , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Kosuke Nagashio

The band-to-band tunneling transistors have some performance advantages over the conventional MOSFETs due to the <60mV/dec sub-threshold slope. In this paper, carbon nanotubes are used as a model channel material to address issues that we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-29 Yunfei Gao , Siyuranga O. Koswatta , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Mark S. Lundstrom

Graphene-based vertical heterostructures, particularly stacks incorporated with other layered materials, are promising for nanoelectronics. The stacking of two model Dirac materials, graphene and topological insulator, can considerably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Liang Zhang , Yuan Yan , Han-Chun Wu , Dapeng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

Semiconductor heterostructures form the cornerstone of many electronic and optoelectronic devices and are traditionally fabricated using epitaxial growth techniques. More recently, heterostructures have also been obtained by vertical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Marco M. Furchi , Andreas Pospischil , Florian Libisch , Joachim Burgdörfer , Thomas Mueller

Graphane is a semiconductor with an energy gap, obtained from hydrogenation of the two-dimensional grapheme sheet. Together with the two-dimensional geometry, unique transport features of graphene, and possibility of doping graphane, p and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 B. Gharekhanlou , S. B. Tousaki , S. Khorasani

Two dimensional (2D) crystal heterostructures are shown to possess a unique opportunity for novel THz nonlinear devices. In contrast to the oxide tunneling barrier, the uniformity of 2D insulators in the thickness control provides an ideal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 B. D. Kong , C. Zeng , D. K. Gaskill , K. L. Wang , K. W. Kim

We study the transmission through single and double ferromagnetic barriers on the surface of a topological insulator. By adjusting the gate voltage and magnetization oreintation, the ferromagnetic barrier can be tuned into various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-03 Jinhua Gao , Wei-Qiang Chen , Xiao-Yong Feng , X. C. Xie , Fu-Chun Zhang

An atomtronic transistor circuit is used to realize a driven matterwave oscillator. The transistor consists of Source and Drain regions separated by a narrow Gate well. Quasi-steady-state behavior is determined from a thermodynamic model,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-09-16 Seth C. Caliga , Cameron J. E. Straatsma , Alex A. Zozulya , Dana Z. Anderson

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

The celebrated electronic properties of graphene have opened way for materials just one-atom-thick to be used in the post-silicon electronic era. An important milestone was the creation of heterostructures based on graphene and other…

A domain wall separating two oppositely magnetized regions in a ferromagnetic semiconductor exhibits, under appropriate conditions, strongly nonlinear I-V characteristics similar to those of a p-n diode. We study these characteristics as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Vignale , M. E. Flatte'

We argue that supersymmetric transformation could be applied across the heterojunction formed by joining of two mixed semiconductors. A general framework is described by specifying the structure of ladder operators at the junction for…

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