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In this work, the transport of tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) based on vertically stacked hereto-structures from 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials is investigated by atomistic quantum transport simulations. WTe2-MoS2…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Fan Chen , Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Yaohua Tan , Daniel Valencia , Gerhard Klimeck , Rajib Rahman

Ferroelectric field-effect transistors employ a ferroelectric material as a gate insulator, the polarization state of which can be detected using the channel conductance of the device. As a result, the devices are of potential to use in…

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

Few-layer black phosphorus, a new elemental 2D material recently isolated by mechanical exfoliation, is a high-mobility layered semiconductor with a direct bandgap that is predicted to strongly depend on the number of layers, from 0.35 eV…

Two key subjects stand out in the pursuit of semiconductor research: material quality and contact technology. The fledging field of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) faces a number of challenges in both efforts. This…

Bottom-up synthesized GNRs and GNR heterostructures have promising electronic properties for high performance field effect transistors (FETs) and ultra-low power devices such as tunnelling FETs. However, the short length and wide band gap…

Black phosphorous (BP) is is recently unveiled as a promising two-dimensional direct bandgap semiconducting material. Here, we report the ambipolar field effect transistor behavior of multilayers of BP with ferromagnetic tunnel contacts. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-07 M. Venkata Kamalakar , B. N Madhushankar , André Dankert , Saroj P. Dash

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

This study addresses high electric field transport in multilayer black phosphorus (BP) field effect transistors (FETs) with self-heating and thermal spreading by dielectric engineering. Interestingly, we found that multilayer BP device on a…

The switching speed and the write current required for spin-transfer-torque reversal of spintronic devices such as magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) currently hinder their wide implementation into memory and logic devices. This problem is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 Kerem Yunus Camsari , Ahmed Zeeshan Pervaiz , Rafatul Faria , Ernesto E. Marinero , Supriyo Datta

In this paper we study the device physics of a technique for realizing an n-p-n bipolar transistor action in the source side of a junctionless nanowire tunneling FET (BJN-TFET). In the on-state, tunneling of electrons from valence band of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Morteza Rahimiana , Morteza Fathipour

Topological insulator field-effect transistors (TIFETs) built on 2-D quantum spin Hall insulators are being considered as advanced logic transistors due to their potentially superior performance originating from the dissipationless edge…

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

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

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

For the first time, n-type few-layer MoS2 field-effect transistors with graphene/Ti as the hetero-contacts have been fabricated, showing more than 160 mA/mm drain current at 1 {\mu}m gate length with an on-off current ratio of 107. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-13 Yuchen Du , Lingming Yang , Jingyun Zhang , Han Liu , Kausik Majumdar , Paul D. Kirsch , Peide D. Ye

In this letter, a new approach to chemically dope black phosphorus (BP) is presented, which significantly enhances the device performance of BP field-effect transistors for an initial period of 18 h, before degrading to previously reported…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-21 Yuchen Du , Lingming Yang , Hong Zhou , Peide D. Ye

We have developed and optimized two categories of spin transfer torque magnetic tunnel junctions (STT-MTJs) that exhibit a high tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) ratio, low critical current, high outputpower in the micro watt range, and…

It has been indicated that the path forward for the widespread usage of ferroelectric (FE) materials may be considerably facilitated through the reduction of programming voltages to on-chip logic compatible values of < 1 V. Obstacles…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 S. Natani , P. Khajanji , L. Cheng , K. Eshraghi , Z. Zhang , W. Shipley , A. Tao , P. R. Bandaru

We present a quasi-analytical model for Tunnel Field Effect Transistors (TFETs) that includes the microscopic physics and chemistry of interfaces and non-idealities. The ballistic band-to-band tunneling current is calculated by modifying…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Sheikh Z. Ahmed , Yaohua Tan , Daniel S. Truesdell , Benton H. Calhoun , Avik W. Ghosh

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are good candidates for high-performance flexible electronics. However, most demonstrations of such flexible field-effect transistors (FETs) to date have been on…