• 文献标题:   Current Saturation and Voltage Gain in Bilayer Graphene Field Effect Transistors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SZAFRANEK BN, FIORI G, SCHALL D, NEUMAIER D, KURZ H
  • 作者关键词:   bilayer graphene, field effect transistor, graphene device, current saturation, voltage gain
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   AMO GmbH
  • 被引频次:   87
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl2038634
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

The emergence of graphene with its unique electrical properties has triggered hopes in the electronic devices community regarding its exploitation as a channel material in field effect transistors. Graphene is especially promising for devices working at frequencies in the 100 GHz range. So far, graphene field effect transistors (GFETs) have shown cutoff frequencies up to 300 GHz, while exhibiting poor voltage gains, another important figure of merit for analog high frequency applications. In the present work, we show that the voltage gain of GFETs can be improved significantly by using bilayer graphene, where a band gap is introduced through a vertical electric displacement field. At a displacement field of-1.7 V/nm the bilayer GFETs exhibit an intrinsic voltage gain up to 35, a factor of 6 higher than the voltage gain in corresponding monolayer GFETs. The transconductance, which limits the cutoff frequency of a transistor, is not degraded by the displacement field and is similar in both monolayer and bilayer GFETs. Using numerical simulations based on an atomistic p(z), tight-binding Hamiltonian we demonstrate that this approach can be extended to sub-100 nm gate lengths.