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Large capacitance enhancement is useful for increasing the gate capacitance of field-effect transistors (FETs) to produce low-energy-consuming devices with improved gate controllability. We report strong capacitance enhancement effects in a…

The so-called negative electron compressibility refers to the lowering of the chemical potential of a metallic system when the carrier density increases. This effect has often been invoked in the past to explain the enhancement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Javier Junquera , Pablo García-Fernández , Massimiliano Stengel

Recent measurements on ultra-thin body Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistors have shown subthreshold behaviors that are not expected in a classical MOSFET. Specifically, subthreshold swing was found to decrease with increased gate…

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

The elegant simplicity of the device concept and the urgent need for a new "transistor" at the twilight of Moore's law have inspired many researchers in industry and academia to explore the physics and technology of negative capacitance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Muhammad A. Alam , Mengwei Si , Peide D. Ye

Atomistic density functional theory (DFT) calculations of the capacitance between a metallic cylindric gate and a carbon nanotube (CNT) are reported. Results stressing the predominant effect of quantum capacitance in limiting or even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Latessa , A. Pecchia , A. Di Carlo , P. Lugli

Transient negative capacitance effects in epitaxial ferroelectric Pb(Zr$_{0.2}$Ti$_{0.8}$)O$_3$ capacitors are investigated with a focus on the dynamical switching behavior governed by domain nucleation and growth. Voltage pulses are…

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology (CMOS) has been faced critical challenges in nano-scale regime. CNTFET (Carbon Nanotube Field effect transistor) technology is a promising alternative for CMOS technology. In this paper, we…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Samira Shirinabadi Farahani , Ronak Zarhoun , Mohammad Hossein Moaiyeri , Keivan Navi

A comprehensive study of the scaling of negative capacitance FinFET (NC-FinFET) is conducted with TCAD. We show that the NC-FinFET can be scaled to "2.1nm node" and almost "1.5nm node" that comes two nodes after the industry "3nm node,"…

Transient negative differential capacitance (NC), the dynamic reversal of transient capacitance in an electrical circuit is of highly technological and scientific interest since it probes the foundation of ferroelectricity. In this letter,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Sou-Chi Chang , Uygar E. Avci , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Sasikanth Manipatruni , Ian A. Young

Amorphous oxide semiconductors (AOSs) have recently gained attention as a promising channel material of back-end-of-line (BEOL)-compatible transistors for monolithic three-dimensional (3D) integrations. However, the degradation in device…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Yungyeong Park , Hakseon Lee , Yeonghun Lee

The observation of room temperature sub-60 mV/dec subthreshold slope (SS) in MOSFETs with ferroelectric (FE) layers in the gate stacks or in series with the gate has attracted much attention. Recently, we modeled this effect in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 J. A. Kittl , B. Obradovic , D. Reddy , T. Rakshit , R. M. Hatcher , M. S. Rodder

The negative capacitance (NC) stabilization of a ferroelectric (FE) material can potentially provide an alternative way to further reduce the power consumption in ultra-scaled devices and thus has been of great interest in technology and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Chia-Sheng Hsu , Sou-Chi Chang , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Ian A. Young , Azad Naeemi

Al$_{0.68}$Sc$_{0.32}$N (AlScN) has gained attention for its outstanding ferroelectric properties, including a high coercive field and high remnant polarization. Although AlScN-based ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FETs) for memory…

Steep-slope $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ nano-membrane negative capacitance field-effect transistors (NC-FETs) are demonstrated with ferroelectric hafnium zirconium oxide in gate dielectric stack. Subthreshold slope less than 60 mV/dec at room…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-03 Mengwei Si , Lingming Yang , Hong Zhou , Peide D. Ye

This paper describes a CMOS analogy voltage supper buffer designed to have extremely low static current Consumption as well as high current drive capability. A new technique is used to reduce the leakage power of class-AB CMOS buffer…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-25 Rakesh Gupta

With decreasing device dimensions, the performance of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) is limited by high Off currents except at low drain voltages. We show that an asymmetric design improves the performance, reducing Off…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Heinze , J. Tersoff , Ph. Avouris

We report a remarkable bias voltage dependent specific negative capacitance in multidomain La-doped Pb(Zr$_{0.4}$Ti$_{0.6}$)O$_3$ (PLZT) ferroelectric capacitors. The specific negative capacitance maximizes at a specific bias voltage…

We report negative capacitance at low frequencies in organic semiconductor based diodes and show that it appears only under bipolar injection conditions. We account quantitatively for this phenomenon by the recombination current due to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-07-07 E. Ehrenfreund , C. Lungenschmied , G. Dennler , H. Neugebauer , N. S. Sariciftci

Analytical calculations corroborated by the finite element modelling show that thin films of Van der Waals ferrielectrics covered by a 2D-semiconductor are promising candidates for the controllable reduction of the dielectric layer…