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This paper projects the enhanced drive current of a n-type electrostatically doped (ED) tunnel field-effect transistor (ED-TFET) based on heterojunction and band-gap engineering via TCAD 2-D device simulations. The homojunction ED-TFET…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Kanchan Cecil , Jawar Singh

Tunnel Field Effect Transistors (TFET) have extremely low leakage current, exhibit excellent subthreshold swing and are less susceptible to short channel effects. However, TFETs do face certain special challenges, particularly with respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 Sneh Saurabh , M. Jagadesh Kumar

The single particle tunneling in a vertical stack consisting of monolayers of two-dimensional semiconductors is studied theoretically and its application to a novel Two-dimensional Heterojunction Interlayer Tunneling Field Effect Transistor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Mingda Li , David Esseni , Gregory Snider , Debdeep Jena , Huili Grace Xing

Tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) devices are attractive as they show good scalability and have very low leakage current. However they suffer from low on-current and high threshold voltage. In order to employ the TFET for circuit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sneh Saurabh , M. Jagadesh Kumar

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…

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

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 developed a two dimensional (2D) analytical model for surface potential and drain current for a long channel Dual Material Gate (DMG) Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) Tunneling Field Effect Transistor (TFET). This model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-27 Rajat Vishnoi , M. Jagadesh Kumar

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are particularly attractive to build the channel of next-generation field-effect transistors (FETs) with gate lengths below 10-15 nm. Because the 2D technology has not yet reached the same level of maturity as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Mathieu Luisier , Cedric Klinkert , Sara Fiore , Jonathan Backman , Youseung Lee , Christian Stieger , Áron Szabó

Field-effect transistors (FETs) predominantly utilize electrons for signal processing in modern electronics. In contrast, phonon-based field-effect transistors (PFETs)-which employ phonons for active thermal management-remain markedly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 H. F. Feng , Z. Y. Xu , B. Liu , Zhi-Xin Guo

Dual-material double-gate tunnel field effect transistor (DMDG TFET) is a promising candidate for low-power, high-speed electronics due to enhanced electrostatic control and superior switching characteristics. Integrating a pocket region…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Ramisa Fariha , Saikat Das , Labiba Tanjil Nida , Abeer Khan , Md Tashfiq Bin Kashem

The influence of edge vacancies on the working ability of the planar graphene tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) is studied at various concentrations and distributions (normal, uniform, periodic) of defects. All calculations are…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 A. A. Glebov , V. L. Katkov , V. A. Osipov

Atomically thin layers of van der Waals (vdW) crystals offer an ideal material platform to realize tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) that exploit the tunneling of charge carriers across the forbidden gap of a vdW heterojunction. This…

Topology is a key ingredient driving the emergence of quantum devices. Topological field-effect transistor (TFET) has been proposed to outperform the conventional FET by replacing the ON state with topology-protected quantized conductance,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-25 Xiaoyin Li , Feng Liu

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Giovanni Spinelli , Patrizia Lamberti , Vincenzo Tucci , Francisco Pasadas , David Jiménez

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

In recent years, thin-film organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) have begun to be considered as a possible alternative to the hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin-film transistors (a-Si:H TFT's) used in active matrix flat panel displays…

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

A topological quantum field effect transistor (TQFET) uses electric field to switch a material from topological insulator ("on", with conducting edge states) to a conventional insulator ("off"), and can have low subthreshold swing due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Michael S. Fuhrer , Mark T. Edmonds , Dimitrie Culcer , Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang , Nikhil Medhekar , Yuefeng Yin , Jared H Cole

We report on fabrication of novel field-effect transistors (FETs) based on transition metal dichalcogenides. The unique structure of single crystals of these layered inorganic semiconductors enables fabrication of FETs with intrinsically…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Podzorov , M. E. Gershenson , Ch. Kloc , R. Zeis , E. Bucher