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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…
Investigation of the inherent field-driven charge transport behaviour of 3D lead halide perovskites has largely remained a challenging task, owing primarily to undesirable ionic migration effects near room temperature. In addition, the…
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…
Reverse-biased graphene (Gr)/semiconductor Schottky diodes exhibit much enhanced sensitivity for gas sensing. However, carrier transport across the junctions is not fully understood yet. Here, Gr/SiC, Gr/GaAs and Gr/Si Schottky junctions…
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…
In this work, the performance of Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors (TFETs) based on two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide (TMD) materials is investigated by atomistic quantum transport simulations. One of the major challenges of…
This work deals with the electron beam irradiation of the Schottky metal contacts in monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) field-effect transistors (FETs). We show that the exposure of the Ti/Au source/drain leads to an electron beam…
We adopt a stochastic approach to study the charge transport in transistors. In this approach, the hole and electron densities are ruled by diffusion-reaction stochastic partial differential equations satisfying local detailed balance…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are particularly attractive to build the channel of next-generation field-effect transistors (FETs) with gate lengths below 10-15 nm. Because the 2D technology has not yet reached the same level of maturity as…
In this paper we carry out a theoretical and experimental study of the nature of graphene/semiconductor Schottky contact. We present a simple and parameter-free carrier transport model of graphene/semiconductor Schottky contact derived from…
We report the fabrication of back-gated field-effect transistors (FETs) using ultra-thin, mechanically exfoliated MoSe2 flakes. The MoSe2 FETs are n-type and possess a high gate modulation, with On/Off ratios larger than 106. The devices…
We present a physics-based circuit-compatible model for pH-sensitive field-effect transistors based on two-dimensional (2D) materials. The electrostatics along the electrolyte-gated 2D-semiconductor stack is treated by solving the Poisson…
We simulate the electron transport across the Au(111)-pentacene interface using non-equilibrium Green's functions and density-functional theory (NEGF-DFT), and calculate the bias-dependent electron transmission. We find that the electrical…
Solution processed field-effect transistors based on single crystalline silicon nanowires (Si NWs) with metal Schottky contacts are demonstrated. The semiconducting layer was deposited from a nanowire ink formulation at room temperature.…
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…
The Schottky barrier height ($E_{SBH}$) is a crucial factor in determining the transport properties of semiconductor materials as it directly regulates the carrier mobility in opto-electronics devices. In principle, van der Waals (vdW)…
Organic semiconductors based on small conjugated molecules generally behave as insulators when undoped, but the hetero-interfaces of two such materials can show electrical conductivity as large as in a metal. Although charge transfer is…
High-gain photodetectors based on two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, in particular those in photoconductive mode, have been extensively investigated in the past decade. However, the classical photoconductive theory was derived on two…
Two-dimensional material (2DM)-based field-effect transistors (FETs), such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS${_2}$)-FETs, have gained significant attention for their potential for ultra-short channels, thereby extending Moore's law. However,…
We theoretically investigate electron spin injection and spin-polarization sensitive current detection at Schottky contacts between a ferromagnetic metal and an n-type or p-type semiconductor. We use spin-dependent continuity equations and…