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The understanding of various types of disorders in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), including dangling bonds at the edges, chalcogen deficiencies in the bulk, and charges in the substrate, is of fundamental…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a new class of materials with interesting physical properties and ranging from nanoelectronics to sensing and photonics. In addition to graphene, the most studied 2D material, monolayers of other layered…
Atomically thin semiconductors have versatile future applications in the information and communication technologies for the ultimate miniaturization of electronic components. In particular, the ongoing research demands not only a…
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…
The hole carrier field-effect mobility of hybrid molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanoparticles suspended in poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) thin film transistor (TFT) was found to be enhanced when it compared to P3HT-only TFTs. The improvement in…
This paper presents an ab initio methodology to account for electron-phonon interactions in 2D materials, focusing on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). It combines density functional theory and maximally localized Wannier functions…
The thermoelectric transport coefficients of electrons in two recently emerged transition metal dichalcogenides(TMD), MoS2 and WSe2, are calculated by solving Boltzmann Transport equation and coupled electrical and thermal current equations…
Two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) MX$_2$ (M = Mo, W; X= S, Se, Te) possess unique properties and novel applications. In this work, we perform first-principles calculations on the van der Waals (vdW) stacked MX$_2$…
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are highly promising candidates for various applications due to their unique electrical, optical, mechanical, and chemical properties. Furthermore, heterostructures consisting of TMDs…
This study illustrates the nature of electronic transport and its transition from one mechanism to another between a metal electrode and MoS2 channel interface in a field effect transistor (FET) device. Interestingly, measurements of the…
Motivated by observation of very high tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) in Fe-MgO-Fe magnetic tunnel junction devices, we propose a theoretical model for these devices based on a single-band tight-binding approximation. An effort is made to…
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…
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…
A physics-based model for the surface potential and drain current for monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) field-effect transistor (FET) is presented. Taking into account the 2D density-of-states of the atomic layer thick TMD and…
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are important class of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials for electronic and optoelectronic applications, due to their ultimate body thickness, sizable and tunable bandgap, and decent theoretical…
The intrinsic spin-dependent transport properties of two types of lateral VS2|MoS2 heterojunctions are systematically investigated using first-principles calculations, and their various nanodevices with novel properties are designed. The…
III-V tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) offer great potentials in future low-power electronics application due to their steep subthreshold slope and large "on" current. Their 3D quantum transport study using non-equilibrium Green's…
The bandgap dependence on the number of atomic layers of some families of 2D-materials, can be exploited to engineer and use lateral heterostructures (LHs) as high-performance Field-Effect Transistors (FET). This option can provide very…
The properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials have been extensively studied and applied in various applications. Our interest is to theoretically investigate the thermal transport and thermoelectric properties of the 2D transition metal…
We combine the linearized Boltzmann Transport Equation (LBTE) and quantum transport by means of the Non-equilibrium Green's Functions (NEGF) to simulate single-layer MoS2 and WS2 ultra-scaled transistors with carrier mobilities extracted…