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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

In this work, we investigate the transport phenomena in compound semiconductor material based buried channel Quantum Well MOSFET with a view to developing a simple and effective model for the device current. Device simulation has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-14 Ehsanur Rahman , Abir Shadman , Sudipta Romen Biswas , Kanak Datta , Quazi D. M. Khosru

Thickness engineered tunneling field-effect transistors (TE-TFET) as a high performance ultra-scaled steep transistor is proposed. This device exploits a specific property of 2D materials: layer thickness dependent energy bandgap (Eg).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Fan W. Chen , Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Tarek A. Ameen , Gerhard Klimeck , Rajib Rahman

A tunneling transistor without heterojunction as a theoretical design, or more precisely controlled electron current transmission by barrier potential, is under consideration. The electrons from the conduction band of the source tunnel…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Pawel Pfeffer

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

In this work, we demonstrate a silicon nanocrystal Field Effect Transistor (ncFET). Its operation is similar to that of a Tunnelling Field Effect Transistor (TFET) with two barriers in series. The tunnelling barriers are fabricated in very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Patrick Harvey-Collard , Dominique Drouin , Michel Pioro-Ladrière

In this work, an analytical model to calculate the channel potential and current-voltage characteristics in a Symmetric tunneling Field-Effect-Transistor (SymFET) is presented. The current in a SymFET flows by tunneling from an n-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 Pei Zhao , Randall M. Feenstra , Gong Gu , Debdeep Jena

In this paper we propose a modified structure of TFET incorporating ferroelectric oxide as the complementary gate dielectric operating in negative capacitance zone, called the Negative Capacitance Tunnel FET (NCTFET). The proposed device…

General Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Nadim Chowdhury , S. M. Farhaduzzaman Azad , Quazi D. M. Khosru

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

Strain engineering has recently been explored to improve tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs). Here, we report design and performance of strained ultra-thin-body (UTB) III-V TFETs by quantum transport simulations. It is found that for an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Jun Z. Huang , Yu Wang , Pengyu Long , Yaohua Tan , Michael Povolotskyi , Gerhard Klimeck

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are highly promising for tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) with low subthreshold swing and high drive current because the shorter tunnel distance and strong gate controllability can be expected from the…

Using calibrated simulations, we report a detailed study of the doping-less tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) on a thin intrinsic silicon film using charge plasma concept. Without the need for any doping, the source and drain regions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 M. Jagadesh Kumar , Sindhu Janardhanan

Tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) based on vertical stacking of two dimensional materials are of interest for low-power logic devices. The monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with sizable band gaps show promise in…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-06 Cheng Gong , Hengji Zhang , Weihua Wang , Luigi Colombo , Robert M. Wallace , Kyeongjae Cho

Vertical tunneling field-effect-transistor (FET) based on graphene heterojunctions with layers of hBN is simulated by self-consistent quantum transport simulations. It is found that the asymmetric p-type and n-type conduction is due to work…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Bala Kumar , Gyungseon Seol , Jing Guo

State of the art quantum transport models for semiconductor nanodevices attribute negative (positive) unit charges to states of the conduction (valence) band. Hybrid states that enable band-to-band tunneling are subject to interpolation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yuanchen Chu , Prasad Sarangapani , James Charles , Gerhard Klimeck , Tillmann Kubis

In the present work, we have investigated ballistic quantum transport in vertical halo implanted p plus minus GaSb InAs n TFETs. We have investigated the current voltage characteristics, ON current, OFF current leakage, subthreshold swing…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-26 Bhupesh Bishnoi , BahnimanGhosh

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

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

We review the construction of a low-energy effective field theory and its state space for "abelian" quantum Hall fluids. The scaling limit of the incompressible fluid is described by a Chern-Simons theory in 2+1 dimensions on a manifold…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Samuel Bieri , Juerg Froehlich

Band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) devices have recently gained a lot of interest due to their potential for reducing power dissipation in integrated circuits. We have performed extensive simulations for the BTBT operation of carbon nanotube…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Siyuranga O. Koswatta , Mark S. Lundstrom , Dmitri E. Nikonov