• 文献标题:   Conductance Asymmetry of Graphene p-n Junction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LOW T, HONG S, APPENZELLER J, DATTA S, LUNDSTROM MS
  • 作者关键词:   conductance asymmetry, graphene, nonequilibrium green function, pn junction
  • 出版物名称:   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES
  • ISSN:   0018-9383
  • 通讯作者地址:   Purdue Univ
  • 被引频次:   91
  • DOI:   10.1109/TED.2009.2017646
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

We use the nonequilibrium Green function method in the ballistic limit to provide a quantitative description of the conductance of graphene p-n junctions-an important building block for graphene electronics devices. In this paper, recent experiments on graphene junctions are explained by a ballistic transport model, but only if the finite junction transition width D(w) is accounted for. In particular, the experimentally observed anomalous increase in the resistance asymmetry between n-n and n-p junctions under low source/drain charge density conditions is also quantitatively captured by our model. In light of the requirement for sharp junctions in applications such as electron focusing, we also examine the p-n junction conductance in the regime where D(w) is small and find that wave-function mismatch (so-called pseudospin) plays a major role in sharp, p-n junctions.