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Silicene is one of the most promising 2D materials for the realization of next-generation electronic devices, owing to its high carrier mobility and bandgap tunability through the imposition of an external electric field. To exploit this…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have great potential for use in future electronics due to their atomically thin nature which withstands short channel effects and thus enables better scalability. Device scaling is the process of reducing all…

Making ultra-short gate-length transistors significantly contributes to scaling the contacted gate pitch. This, in turn, plays a vital role in achieving smaller standard logic cells for enhanced logic density scaling. As we push the…

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Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials-based field-effect transistors (FETs) are promising for ultimate scaled electron device applications because of the improved electrostatics to atomically thin body thickness. However, compared with the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Nan Fang , Kosuke Nagashio

Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising candidates for next-generation transistor channels due to their superior scaling properties. However, the integration of ultra-thin gate dielectrics remains a challenge,…

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…

Van der Waals (vdW) semiconductors are attractive for highly scaled devices and heterogeneous integration since they can be isolated into self-passivated, two-dimensional (2D) layers that enable superior electrostatic control. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Jinshui Miao , Xiwen Liu , Kiyoung Jo , Kang He , Ravindra Saxena , Baokun Song , Huiqin Zhang , Jiale He , Myung-Geun Han , Weida Hu , Deep Jariwala

Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials are promising for replacing Si to overcome the scaling limit of recent ~5 nm-length metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). However, the insulator/2D channel interface severely…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-20 N. Fang , S. Toyoda , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , K. Nagashio

Ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFET) with two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor channels are promising low-power, embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) candidates for next-generation in-memory computing. However, the performance of…

We report the realization of field-effect transistors (FETs) made with chemically synthesized multilayer 2D crystal semiconductor MoS2. Electrical properties such as the FET mobility, subthreshold swing, on/off ratio, and contact resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-30 Wan Sik Hwang , Maja Remskar , Rusen Yan , Tom Kosel , Jong Kyung Park , Byung Jin Cho , Wilfried Haensch , Huili , Xing , Alan Seabaugh , Debdeep Jena

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors offer a promising prospect for high-performance and energy-efficient devices especially in the sub-10 nm regime. Inspired by the successful fabrication of 2D $\beta$-TeO$_2$ and the high on/off ratio and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Shiying Guo , Hengze Qu , Wenhan Zhou , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yee Sin Ang , Jing Lu , Haibo Zeng , Shengli Zhang

As the continuing down-scaling of field-effect transistors (FETs) in more-than-Moore integrated circuits, finding new functional two-dimensional (2D) materials with a higher dielectric constant (high-k) serve as gate dielectrics is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-06 Yue Hu , Jingwen Jiang , Peng Zhang , Fuxin Guan , Da Li , Zhengfang Qian , Pu Huang , Xiuwen Zhang

The interest in MoS2 for radio-frequency (RF) application has recently increased. However, little is known on the scaling behavior of transistors made from MoS2 for RF applications, which is important for establishing performance limits for…

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Field-effect transistors (FETs) with non-covalently functionalised molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) channels grown by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) on SiO2 are reported. The dangling-bond-free surface of MoS2 was functionalised with a…

Excellent gate electrostatics in field effect transistors (FETs) based on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (2D TMD) channels can dramatically decrease static power dissipation. Energy efficient FETs operate in enhancement…

Using accurate dissipative DFT-NEGF atomistic-simulation techniques within the Wannier-Function formalism, we give a fresh look at the possibility of sub-10 nm scaling for high-performance CMOS applications. We show that a combination of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Aryan Afzalian

2D materials are expected to be favorable channel materials for field-effect transistor (FET) with extremely short channel length because of their superior immunity to short-channel effects (SCE). Graphene, which is the most famous 2D…

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Advancing complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology into the sub-1-nm angstr\"om-scale technology nodes is expected to involve alternative semiconductor channel materials, as silicon transistors encounter severe performance…

Semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are emerging as top candidates for post-silicon electronics. While most of 2D TMDs exhibit isotropic behavior, lowering the lattice symmetry could induce…

Transistor miniaturization requires controlling gate leakage through ultrathin dielectrics and minimizing source/drain contact resistance. Although two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors offer excellent electrostatic control, their interfaces…

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