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Performance limits of graphene-ribbon-based field effect transistors

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-04-09 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

The performance of field effect transistors based on an single graphene ribbon with a constriction and a single back gate are studied with the help of atomistic models. It is shown how this scheme, unlike that of traditional carbon-nanotube-based transistors, reduces the importance of the specifics of the chemical bonding to the metallic electrodes in favor of the carbon-based part of device. The ultimate performance limits are here studied for various constriction and metal-ribbon contact models. In particular we show that, even for poorly contacting metals, properly taylored constrictions can give promising values for both the on-conductance and the subthreshold swing.

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@article{arxiv.0707.0375,
  title  = {Performance limits of graphene-ribbon-based field effect transistors},
  author = {F. Munoz-Rojas and J. Fernandez-Rossier and L. Brey and J. J. Palacios},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0375},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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