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We use numerical simulations to analyze recent experimental measurements of short-channel carbon nanotube field-effect transistors with palladium contacts. We show that the gate strongly modulates the contact properties, an effect that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Aron W. Cummings , François Léonard

This paper investigates the use of carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNFETs) for the design of ternary full adder cells. The proposed circuits have been designed based on the unique properties of CNFETs such as having desired…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Fazel Sharifi , Atiyeh Panahi , Mohammad Hossein Moaiyeri , Keivan Navi

We describe a robust technique for the fabrication of high performance vertically scaled n-doped field-effect transistors from large band gap carbon nanotubes. These devices have a tunable threshold voltage in the technologically relevant…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Radosavljevic , J. Appenzeller , Ph. Avouris , J. Knoch

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNT FETs) are regarded as promising candidates for next-generation energy-efficient computing systems. While research has employed the lift-off process to demonstrate the performance of CNT FETs,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Xilong Gao , Jia Si , Zhiyong Zhang

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…

A simple scalable scheme is reported for fabricating suspended carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNT-FETs) without exposing pristine as-grown carbon nanotubes to subsequent chemical processing. Versatility and ease of the technique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-22 V. K. Sangwan , V. W. Ballarotto , M. S. Fuhrer , E. D. Williams

Nanotransistors typically operate in far-from-equilibrium (FFE) conditions, that cannot be described neither by drift-diffusion, nor by purely ballistic models. In carbonbased nanotransistors, source and drain contacts are often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-01 Paolo Michetti , Giuseppe Iannaccone

Spatially resolved photocurrent measurements on carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) operated in various transport regimes are reported. It is demonstrated that the photocurrents measured at different biasing conditions provide…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-24 E. J. H. Lee , K. Balasubramanian , J. Dorfmueller , R. Vogelgesang , N. Fu , A. Mews , M. Burghard , K. Kern

We performed a comprehensive scaling study of Schottky barrier carbon nanotube transistors using self-consistent, atomistic scale simulations. We restrict our attention to Schottky barrier carbon nanotube FETs whose metal source/drain is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jing Guo , Supriyo Datta , Mark Lundstrom

Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNFET) is a promising new technology that overcomes several limitations of traditional silicon integrated circuit technology. In recent years, the potential of CNFET for analog circuit applications…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Ishit Makwana , Vitrag Sheth

Full Adder is one of the critical parts of logical and arithmetic units. So, presenting a low power full adder cell reduces the power consumption of the entire circuit. Also, using Nano-scale transistors, because of their unique…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Ali Ghorbani , Ghazaleh Ghorbani

We report density-functional theory (DFT), atomistic simulations of the non-equilibrium transport properties of carbon nanotube (CNT) field-effect transistors (FETs). Results have been obtained within a self-consistent approach based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Latessa , A. Pecchia , A. Di Carlo

We use numerical simulations to investigate the effect of electrostatics on the source and drain contacts of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors. We find that unscreened charge on the nanotube at the contact-channel interface leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Aron W. Cummings , François Léonard

We presents a data-calibrated compact model of carbon nanotube (CNT) field-effect transistors (CNFETs) based on the virtual-source (VS) approach, describing the intrinsic current-voltage and charge-voltage characteristics. The features of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Chi-Shuen Lee , Eric Pop , Aaron D. Franklin , Wilfried Haensch , H. -S. Philip Wong

This paper presents a ternary half adder and a 1-trit multiplier using carbon nanotube transistors. The proposed circuits are designed using pass transistor logic and dynamic logic. Ternary logic uses less connections than binary logic, and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Farzin Mahboob-Sardroudi , Mehdi Habibi , Mohammad-Hossein Moaiyeri

A vertical partial gate carbon nanotube (CNT) field-effect transistor (FET), which is amenable to the vertical CNT growth process and offers the potential for a parallel CNT array channel, is simulated using a self-consistent atomistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Youngki Yoon , James Fodor , Jing Guo

As metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET) channel lengths (Lg) are scaled to lengths shorter than Lg<8 nm source-drain tunneling starts to become a major performance limiting factor. In this scenario a heavier transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Saumitra Mehrotra , SungGeun Kim , Tillmann Kubis , Michael Povolotskyi , Mark Lundstrom , Gerhard Klimeck

By developing a two-dimensional (2D) full quantum simulation, the attributes of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) in different temperatures have been comprehensively investigated. Simulations have been performed by…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-07 Ali Naderi , S. Mohammad Noorbakhsh , Hossein Elahipanah

Carbon electronics based on carbon nanotube array field-effect transistors (AFETs) and 2-dimensional graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) have recently attracted significant attention for potential RF applications. Here, we explore the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Siyuranga O. Koswatta , Alberto Valdes-Garcia , Mathias B. Steiner , Yu-Ming Lin , Phaedon Avouris

In this study, a model of a Schottky-barrier carbon nanotube field- effect transistor (CNT-FET), with ferromagnetic contacts, has been developed. The emphasis is put on analysis of current-voltage characteristics as well as shot (and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Krompiewski