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Scaling field-effect transistors (FETs) into the sub-10-nm regime fundamentally alters the transport mechanism, challenging long-standing design rules. This study investigates monolayer TMD FETs with channel lengths from 12 nm to 3 nm,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Yu-Chang Chen , Chia-Yang Ling , Ken-Ming Lin

Recent experiments shown that graphene epitaxially grown on Silicon Carbide (SiC) can exhibit a energy gap of 0.26 eV, making it a promising material for electronics. With an accurate model, we explore the design parameter space for a fully…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-02 Paolo Michetti , Martina Cheli , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We propose a Heterojunction Vertical Tunneling FET and show using self-consistent ballistic quantum transport simulations that it can provide very steep subthreshold swings and high ON current, thereby improving the scalability of Tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-17 Kartik Ganapathi , Sayeef Salahuddin

The use of a foreign metallic cold source (CS) has recently been proposed as a promising approach toward the steep-slope field-effect-transistor (FET). In addition to the selection of source material with desired density of states-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-14 Juan Lv , Jing Pei , Yuzheng Guo , Jian Gong , Huanglong Li

The triple heterojunction TFET has been originally proposed to resolve TFET's low ON-current challenge. The carrier transport in such devices is complicated due to the presence of quantum wells and strong scattering. Hence, the full band…

Detectors of terahertz radiation based on field-effect transistors (FETs) are among most promising candidates for low-noise passive signal rectification both in imaging systems and wireless communications. However, it was not realised so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Aleksandr Shabanov , Maxim Moskotin , Vsevolod Belosevich , Yakov Matyushkin , Maxim Rybin , Georgy Fedorov , Dmitry Svintsov

For high-electron-mobility transistors based on two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) within a quantum well, such as those based on AlGaN/GaN heterostructure, a Schottky-gate is used to maximize the amount of charge that can be induced and…

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

Gate bias stress instability in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) is a major conceptual and device issue. This effect manifests itself by an undesirable shift of the transfer characteristics and is associated with long term charge…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Roger Häusermann , Bertram Batlogg

A common issue in low temperature measurements of enhancement-mode metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (FETs) in the low electron density regime is the high contact resistance dominating the device impedance. In that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 Laurens H. Willems Van Beveren , Kuan Y. Tan , Nai-Shyan Lai , Oleh Klochan , Andrew S. Dzurak , Alex R. Hamilton

This work reports the design and analysis of an n-type tunneling field effect transistor based on InN. The tunneling current is evaluated from the fundamental principles of quantum mechanical tunneling and semiclassical carrier transport.…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-03 Krishnendu Ghosh , Uttam Singisetti

2D material based tunnel FETs are among the most promising candidates for low power electronics applications since they offer ultimate gate control and high current drives that are achievable through small tunneling distances during the…

Molecular transistors have the potential for switching with lower gate voltages than conventional field-effect transistors. We have calculated the performance of a single-molecule device in which there is interference between electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-28 Ying Li , Jan Mol , Simon Benjamin , Andrew Briggs

Large power consumption of silicon CMOS electronics is a challenge in very-large-scale integrated circuits and a major roadblock to fault-tolerant quantum computation. Matching the power dissipation of Si-MOSFETs to the thermal budget at…

The tunneling through an opaque barrier with a strong oscillating component is investigated. It is shown, that in the strong perturbations regime (in contrast to the weak one), higher perturbations rate does not necessarily improve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Er'el Granot

Field-effect transistors based on band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) have gained a lot of recent interest due to their potential for reducing power dissipation in integrated circuits. In this paper we present a detailed performance comparison…

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

Single Electron Transistors (SETs) are nanoscale electrometers of unprecedented sensitivity, and as such have been proposed as read-out devices in a number of quantum computer architectures. We show that the functionality of a standard SET…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-01 Vincent I. Conrad , Andrew D. Greentree , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Despite the enormous progress achieved during the past decade, nanoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors still suffer from a limited electrical stability. This limited stability has been shown to result from the…

One of the biggest challenges in implementation of Quantum circuits or Photonic Integrated Circuits in general is the inability to create efficient relay devices due to small decoherence time, high delays and poor interconnections that…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Anshika Upadhyay

As quantum technologies advance, a fundamental challenge is mitigating noise and backscattering in superconducting circuits to achieve scalable, high-fidelity operations. Conventional superconducting components lack directionality, causing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Han Zhong , Denis Kochan , Igor Zutic , Yingying Wu