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Power dissipation has become a major obstacle in performance scaling of modern integrated circuits, and has spurred the search for devices operating at lower voltage swing. In this letter, we study p-i-n band-to-band tunneling field effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Siyuranga O. Koswatta , Mark S. Lundstrom , Dmitri E. Nikonov

Tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) utilizing semiconductor heterojunctions have shown promise for low energy logic but presently do not display subthreshold swings steeper than the room-temperature thermal limit of 60 mV/decade. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Ryan M. Iutzi , Eugene A. Fitzgerald

The recent progress in nanosheet transistors has established two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors as viable candidates for future ultra-scaled electronic devices. Next to reducing contact resistance, identifying good gate dielectrics is a…

In this work, device performances of tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs) based on phosphorene are explored via self-consistent atomistic quantum transport simulations. Phosphorene is an ultra-thin two-dimensional (2-D) material with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-27 Jiwon Chang , Chris Hobbs

Tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) have gained a great deal of recent interest due to their potential to reduce power dissipation in integrated circuits. One major challenge for TFETs so far has been achieving high drive currents,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 Siyuranga O. Koswatta , Steven J. Koester , Wilfried Haensch

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

Large-scale quantum computing requires cryogenic electronic controllers such as control/readout circuit and routing circuit. However, current technologies face high power dissipation problems, hindering large-scale qubit integration. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Yosep Park , Yungyeong Park , Hyeonseok Choi , Subeen Lim , Yeonghun Lee

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.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-24 Juan P. Mendez , Coleman Cariker , Michael Titze , Alex A. Belianinov , Denis Mamaluy

We report on measurements and modeling of FE HfZrO/SiO2 Ferroelectric-Dielectric (FE-DE) FETs which indicate that many of the phenomena attributed to Negative Capacitance can be explained by a delayed response of ferroelectric domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Borna Obradovic , Titash Rakshit , Ryan Hatcher , Jorge Kittl , Mark S. Rodder

Self-heating in next-generation, high-power-density field-effect transistor limits performance and complicates fabrication. Here, we introduce NEP-FET, a machine-learned framework for device-scale heat transport simulations of field-effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Ke Xu , Gang Wang , Ting Liang , Yang Xiao , Dongliang Ding , Haichang Guo , Xiang Gao , Lei Tong , Xi Wan , Gang Zhang , Jianbin Xu

A bilayer graphene based electrostatically doped tunnel field-effect transistor (BED-TFET) is proposed in this work. Unlike graphene nanoribbon TFETs in which the edge states deteriorate the OFF-state performance, BED-TFETs operate based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Fan W. Chen , Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Gerhard Klimeck , Zhihong Chen , Rajib Rahman

Triple heterojunction (THJ) TFETs have been proposed to resolve the low ON-current challenge of TFETs. However, the design space for THJ-TFETs is limited by fabrication challenges with respect to device dimensions and material interfaces.…

In a continuous search for the energy-efficient electronic switches, a great attention is focused on tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) demonstrating an abrupt dependence of the source-drain current on the gate voltage. Among all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 G. Alymov , V. Vyurkov , V. Ryzhii , D. Svintsov

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

It is well known that conventional Field Effect Transistors (FET's) require a change in the channel potential of at least 60 mV at 300K to effect a change in the current by a factor of ten, and this minimum subthreshold slope S puts a lower…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-16 Sayeef Salahuddin , Supriyo Datta

Large spiking neural networks (SNNs) require ultra-low power and low variability hardware for neuromorphic computing applications. Recently, a band-to-band tunneling-based (BTBT) integrator, enabling sub-kHz operation of neurons with area…

The cold source field-effect transistor (CSFET) is promising for reducing power dissipation in integrated circuits by engineering the density of states at the injecting source. Existing CSFET designs utilizing Dirac-source metals or…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Shujin Guo , Qing Shi , Deping Guo , Fei Liu , Xianghua Kong , Yonghong Zhao , Hong Guo

Using 2-D self-consistent ballistic quantum transport simulations, we investigate the short-channel behavior of graphene field-effect transistors and its impact on the device transconductance and subsequently the intrinsic cut-off frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-31 Kartik Ganapathi , Youngki Yoon , Sayeef Salahuddin

High-precision sensors are of fundamental importance in modern society and technology.Although numerous sensors have been developed, obtaining sensors with higher levels of sensitivity and stronger robustness has always been expected. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Wenyuan Deng , Wei Zhu , Tian Chen , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Scaling transistors' dimensions has been the thrust for the semiconductor industry in the last 4 decades. However, scaling channel lengths beyond 10 nm has become exceptionally challenging due to the direct tunneling between source and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Tarek Ameen , Bozidar Novakovic , Yaohua Tan , Gerhard Klimeck , Rajib Rahman