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The superconducting diode effect has been recently reported in a variety of systems and different symmetry breaking mechanisms have been examined. However, the frequency range of these potentially important devices still remains obscure. We…
Transistor is a three terminal semiconductor device normally used as an amplifier or as a switch. Here the alternating current (a.c) rectifying property of the transistor is considered. The ordinary silicon diode exhibits a voltage drop of…
This letter reports the demonstration of lateral AlN Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) on single-crystal AlN substrates by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) with an ultra-low ideality factor ({\eta}) of 1.65, a breakdown voltage…
This work presents the design of beta-Ga2O3 schottky barrier diode using high-k dielectric superjunction to significantly enhance the breakdown voltage vs on-resistance trade-off beyond its already high unipolar figure of merit. The device…
We report a strategy to design nanoscale cold-source field-effect transistors (CS-FETs) with bias-independent sub-60 mV/dec subthreshold swing (SS). By first-principles calculations and quantum-transport simulations, we reveal that the…
High-performance, low-power transistors are core components of advanced integrated circuits, and the ultimate limitation of Moore's law has made the search for new alternative pathways an urgent priority. Two-dimensional (2D) materials have…
We report the realization of field-effect transistors (FETs) made with chemically- synthesized layered two dimensional (2D) crystal semiconductor WS2. The 2D Schottky-barrier FETs demonstrate ambipolar behavior and a high (~105x) on/off…
The use of metal van der Waals contacts and the implicit reduction in Fermi-level pinning in contacted semiconductors has led to remarkable device optimizations. For example, using graphene as an electrical contact allows for tunable…
Graphene thermionic electron emission across high-interface-barrier involves energetic electrons residing far away from the Dirac point where the Dirac cone approximation of the band structure breaks down. Here we construct a full-band…
Because the conductivity of organic semiconductors is very low, a useful model for the organic diode consists of treating the organic layer as an insulator, an approximation often referred to as the metal-insulator-metal (MIM) model.…
A new Schottky-gate Bipolar Mode Field Effect Transistor (SBMFET) is proposed and verified by two-dimensional simulation. Unlike in the case of conventional BMFET, which uses deep diffused p+-regions as the gate, the proposed device uses…
Non-reciprocal charge transport in supercurrent diodes (SDs) polarized growing interest in the last few years for its potential applications in superconducting electronics (SCE). So far, SD effects have been reported in complex hybrid…
Here, we report the observation of a hitherto unreported optoelectronic effect, namely a light-induced diode-like response in multi-layered MoSe$_2$ field-effect transistors whose sense of current rectification is controllable through a…
The electrical behavior of Ni Schottky barrier formed onto heavily doped (ND>1019 cm-3) n-type phosphorous implanted silicon carbide (4H-SiC) was investigated, with a focus on the current transport mechanisms in both forward and reverse…
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…
Realizing an optimal Schottky interface of graphene on Si is challenging, as the electrical transport strongly depends on the graphene quality and the fabrication processes. Such interfaces are of increasing research interest for…
We report the realization of an ultra-efficient low-temperature hybrid heat current rectifier, thermal counterpart of the well-known electric diode. Our design is based on a tunnel junction between two different elements: a normal metal and…
Spin-diodes are usually resonant in nature (GHz frequency) and tuneable by magnetic field and bias current with performances, in terms of sensitivity and minimum detectable power, overcoming the semiconductor counterpart, i.e. Schottky…
Single-event burnout and single-event leakage current (SELC) in SiC power devices induced by heavy ions severely limit their space application, and the underlying mechanism is still unclear. One fundamental problem is lack of…
The forward and reverse current-voltage characteristics of the Mo/n-Si Schottky barrier structures have been studied experimentally in the temperature range 130-330 K. It is found that Shottky barrier height increases and time ideality…