• 文献标题:   Effects of Electrode Layer Band Structure on the Performance of Multilayer Graphene-hBN-Graphene Interlayer Tunnel Field Effect Transistors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KANG S, PRASAD N, MOVVA HCP, RAI A, KIM K, MOU XH, TANIGUCHI T, WATANABE K, REGISTER LF, TUTUC E, BANERJEE SK
  • 作者关键词:   interlayer tunnel fet itfet, resonant tunneling, negative differential resistance ndr, multilayer graphene, band structure, stacking order
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Texas Austin
  • 被引频次:   16
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01646
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Interlayer tunnel field-effect transistors based on graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently attracted much interest for their potential as beyond-CMOS devices. Using a recently developed method for fabricating rotationally aligned two-dimensional heterostructures, we show experimental results for devices with varying thicknesses and stacking order of the graphene electrode layers and also model the current voltage behavior. We show that an increase in the graphene layer thickness results in narrower resonance. However, due to a simultaneous increase in the number of sub-bands and decrease of sub-band separation with an increase in thickness, the negative differential resistance peaks becomes less prominent and do not appear for certain conditions at room temperature. Also, we show that due to the unique band structure of odd number of layer Bernal-stacked graphene, the number of closely spaced resonance conditions increase, causing interference between neighboring resonance peaks. Although this can be avoided with even number of layer graphene, we find that in this case the bandgap opening present at high biases tend to broaden the resonance peaks.