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The availability of transistors capable of operating at low supply voltage is essential to improve the key performance metric of computing circuits, i.e., the number of operations per unit energy. In this paper, we propose a new device…
An increase in power consumption necessitates a low-power circuit technology to extend Moore's law. Low-power transistors, such as tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs), negative-capacitance field-effect transistors (NC-FETs), and…
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,…
The design of a 1 micrometer gate length depletion-mode InSb quantum-well field-effect transistor (QWFET) with a 10 nm-thick Al2O3 gate dielectric has been optimized using a quantum corrected self-consistent Schrodinger-Poisson (QCSP) and…
Gate-All-Around Field-Effect Transistors (GAAFETs), now entering high-volume production as successors to fin field-effect transistor technology, are enabling continued scaling and enhanced performance in advanced semiconductor nodes.…
We have addressed the microscopic transport mechanism at the switching or on-off transition in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) field-effect transistors (FET), which has been a controversial topic in TMDC electronics, especially at…
Band-to-band tunnelling field-effect transistors (TFETs) have long been considered as promising candidates for future low-power logic applications. However, fabricated TFETs rarely reach sub-60 mV/dec sub-threshold swings (SS) at room…
We investigate the design of steep-slope metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) exploiting monolayers of transition metal dihalides as channel materials. With respect to other previously proposed steep-slope…
Graphene, due to its unique electronic structure favoring high carrier mobility, is considered a promising material for use in high-speed electronic devices in the post-silicon electronic era. For this reason, experimental research on…
We demonstrate a mechanism for a dual layer, vertical field-effect transistor, in which nearly-depleting one layer will extend its wavefunction to overlap the other layer and increase tunnel current. We characterize this effect in a…
The development of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) based transistors has been constrained by high contact resistance and inadequate current delivery, primarily stemming from metal-induced gap states and Fermi…
We report on the fabrication and characterization of single crystal field-effect transistors (FETs) based on diphenylbenzo diselenophene (DPh-BDSe). These organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) function as p-channel accumulation-mode…
In this paper, we report a novel chemical doping technique to reduce the contact resistance (Rc) of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) - eliminating two major roadblocks (namely, doping and high Rc) towards demonstration of…
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…
In this paper we study the device physics of a technique for realizing an n-p-n bipolar transistor action in the source side of a junctionless nanowire tunneling FET (BJN-TFET). In the on-state, tunneling of electrons from valence band of…
We develop theoretical arguments that demonstrate the possibility of metallic field-effect transistors (METFET's) in one-dimensional systems and particularly in armchair carbon nanotubes. A very inhomogeneous electric field, such as the…
The use of SrTiO$_3$ dielectrics as high-permittivity insulator in organic thin film field effect transistors (FET) is evaluated. Field-effect transistors with sputtered SrTiO$_3$ and copper-phthalocyanine (CuPc) as semiconducting layer…
Layered semiconductors show promise as channel materials for field-effect transistors (FETs). Usually, such devices incorporate solid back or top gate dielectrics. Here, we explore de-ionized (DI) water as a solution top gate for…
We report a new class of large-gap quantum spin Hall insulators in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, namely, MX$_2$ with M=(Mo, W) and X=(S, Se, and Te), whose topological electronic properties are highly tunable by external…
In this paper, we demonstrate by simulation the feasibility of electrostatically doped and therefore reconfigurable planar field-effect-transistor (FET) structure which is based on our already fabricated and published Si-nanowire (SiNW)…