• 文献标题:   A graphene Zener-Klein transistor cooled by a hyperbolic substrate
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG W, BERTHOU S, LU XB, WILMART Q, DENIS A, ROSTICHER M, TANIGUCHI T, WATANABE K, FEVE G, BERROIR JM, ZHANG GY, VOISIN C, BAUDIN E, PLACAIS B
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   1748-3387 EI 1748-3395
  • 通讯作者地址:   UPMC Univ Paris 06
  • 被引频次:   23
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41565-017-0007-9
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

The engineering of cooling mechanisms is a bottleneck in nanoelectronics. Thermal exchanges in diffusive graphene are mostly driven by defect-assisted acoustic phonon scattering, but the case of high-mobility graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is radically different, with a prominent contribution of remote phonons from the substrate. Bilayer graphene on a hBN transistor with a local gate is driven in a regime where almost perfect current saturation is achieved by compensation of the decrease in the carrier density and Zener-Klein tunnelling (ZKT) at high bias. Using noise thermometry, we show that the ZKT triggers a new cooling pathway due to the emission of hyperbolic phonon polaritons in hBN by out-of-equilibrium electron-hole pairs beyond the super-Planckian regime. The combination of ZKT transport and hyperbolic phonon polariton cooling renders graphene on BN transistors a valuable nanotechnology for power devices and RF electronics.