• 文献标题:   Thermally Evaporated SiO Serving as Gate Dielectric in Graphene Field-Effect Transistors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG LT, WANG HB, ZHANG XJ, LI YX, CHEN XF, XU XG, ZHAO X, SONG AM
  • 作者关键词:   gate dielectric, graphene fieldeffect transistor gfet, silicon monoxide sio, thermal evaporation
  • 出版物名称:   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES
  • ISSN:   0018-9383 EI 1557-9646
  • 通讯作者地址:   Shandong Univ
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1109/TED.2017.2665598
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

A thermally evaporated silicon monoxide (SiO) film has been experimented as the gate dielectric in graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) due to its room-temperature and low-damage deposition without introducing chemical gases or ionized particles as in other film deposition techniques, which may cause damage to graphene. In order to evaluate the dielectric properties, a double-gated GFET was fabricated with a standard commercial thermally grown SiO2 layer as the bottom gate dielectric and thermally evaporated SiO as the top dielectric. The electrical characterizations revealed that the top-gate carrier mobility was 1081.3 cm(2)/Vs, reasonably comparable to the bottom-gatemobility. Furthermore, the breakdown strength of the SiO film reached 5.7MV/cm, which was lower than that of the SiO2 dielectric (similar to 10 MV/cm) but in the same order of magnitude. The breakdown mechanism of the SiO film was studied, and the current-voltage characteristics were in agreement with the Frenkel-Poole emission model. Finally, the relative dielectric constant of SiO was found to be 5.3, significantly higher than that of SiO2 (3.9). These results indicate that the thermally evaporated SiO can function as an excellent dielectric for graphene-based devices.