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In this letter, we propose the resonant tunneling diode (RTD) based on a double-barrier graphene/boron nitride (BN) heterostructure as device suitable to take advantage of the elaboration of atomic sheets containing different domains of BN…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Nguyen Viet Hung , Fulvio Mazzamuto , Arnaud Bournel , Philippe Dollfus

The electronic properties of two-dimensional materials such as graphene are extremely sensitive to their environment, especially the underlying substrate. Planar van der Waals bonded substrates such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is drawing increasing attention as an insulator and substrate material to develop next generation graphene-based electronic devices. In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport in heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , X. Xu , S. R. Patil , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

The same as in microprocessor fabrication, nonvolatile memory devices are facing the problem in device size scaling down, such as large leakage current density. High-k materials are considered to solve it. However, simply replacing low-k to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-20 Jian Cui

Hysteresis and memory effects in graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) offer unique opportunities for neuromorphic computing, sensing, and memory applications, yet their physical origins remain debated due to competing volatile and…

By using four layered graphene/gallium nitride (GaN) Schottky diodes with an undoped GaN spacer, we demonstrate highly effective gating of graphene at low bias rendering this type of structure very promising for potential applications. An…

Graphene-based vertical heterostructures, particularly stacks incorporated with other layered materials, are promising for nanoelectronics. The stacking of two model Dirac materials, graphene and topological insulator, can considerably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Liang Zhang , Yuan Yan , Han-Chun Wu , Dapeng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

Cryogenic field-effect transistors (FETs) offer great potential for a wide range of applications, the most notable example being classical control electronics for quantum information processors. In the latter context, on-chip FETs with low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 E. Icking , D. Emmerich , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , B. Beschoten , M. C. Lemme , J. Knoch , C. Stampfer

We present an analytical device model for a field-effect transistor based on a heterostructure which consists of an array of nanoribbons clad between the highly conducting substrate (the back gate) and the top gate controlling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 V. Ryzhii , M. Ryzhii , A. Satou , T. Otsuji

We utilize an organic polymer buffer layer between graphene and conventional gate dielectrics in top-gated graphene transistors. Unlike other insulators, this dielectric stack does not significantly degrade carrier mobility, allowing for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-17 Damon B. Farmer , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Yu-Ming Lin , Keith A. Jenkins , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

The memory wall bottleneck is a key challenge across many data-intensive applications. Multi-level FeFET-based embedded non-volatile memories are a promising solution for denser and more energy-efficient on-chip memory. However, reliable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Mohammad Mehdi Sharifi , Lillian Pentecost , Ramin Rajaei , Arman Kazemi , Qiuwen Lou , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks , Kai Ni , X. Sharon Hu , Michael Niemier , Marco Donato

Interfacial ferroelectricity emerges in heterostructures consisting of nonpolar van der Waals (vdW) layers, greatly expanding the scope of two dimensional ferroelectrics. In particular, the unconventional moire ferroelectricity observed in…

We investigate interlayer adhesion and relaxation at interfaces between graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) monolayers in van der Waals heterostructures. The adhesion potential between graphene and hBN is calculated as a function of…

We report on the fabrication and characterization of field effect transistors (FETs) based on chemical vapor deposited (CVD) graphene encapsulated between few layer CVD boron nitride (BN) sheets with complementary metal oxide semiconductor…

We experimentally demonstrate DC functionality of graphene-based hot electron transistors, which we call Graphene Base Transistors (GBT). The fabrication scheme is potentially compatible with silicon technology and can be carried out at the…

The absence of a band gap in graphene restricts its straight forward application as a channel material in field effect transistors. In this letter, we report on a new approach to engineer a band gap in graphene field effect devices (FED) by…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Echtermeyer , M. C. Lemme , M. Baus , B. N. Szafranek , A. K. Geim , H. Kurz

Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) provide a versatile platform for quantum electronics. Experiments generally require encapsulating graphene within hBN flakes, forming a protective van der…

The electronic properties graphene nanoflakes (GNFs) with embedded hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) domains are investigated by combined {\it ab initio} density functional theory calculations and machine learning techniques. The energy gaps of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 G. A. Nemnes , T. L. Mitran , A. Manolescu

We report on the fabrication and electrical characterization of few-layer graphene (FLG) devices coated with a ferroelectric polymer layer of poly(vinylidene fluoride/trifluoroethylene) [P(VDF/TrFE)]. Highly stable and reliable resistance…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-16 Yong-Joo Doh , Gyu-Chul Yi

In this work, we demonstrate the suitability of Reconfigurable Ferroelectric Field-Effect- Transistors (Re-FeFET) for designing non-volatile reconfigurable logic-in-memory circuits with multifunctional capabilities. Modulation of the energy…