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Electrostatic Doping-Based All GNR Tunnel FET: An Energy-Efficient Design for Power Electronics
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices IEEE Trans. Electron Devices Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on. 66(4):1971-1978 Apr, 2019
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Doping
Logic gates
Graphene
TFETs
Electrodes
Electrostatics
Electrostatic doping (ED)
graphene nanoribbons (GNR)
nonequilibrium Green’s function (NEGF)
power electronics
tunneling transistor
Language
ISSN
0018-9383
1557-9646
Abstract
Electrostatic doping (ED)-based graphene nanoribbon (GNR) tunneling field-effect transistor (TFET) with trigate design is studied. The transfer and output characteristics of the GNR-TFET are explored using extended Hückel semiempirical method. An ${I}_{ \mathrm{\scriptscriptstyle ON}}/{I}_{ \mathrm{\scriptscriptstyle OFF}}$ ratio as high as 10 14 is obtained with the ON-state current on the order of $10^{\textsf {3}}~\mu \text{A}/\mu \text{m}$ . A sub-60 mv/decade subthreshold swing is also observed (35 mv/decade). Armchair GNR with widths of 11 and 9 dimmers is found to be the best geometry to obtain a high ${I}_{ \mathrm{\scriptscriptstyle ON}}/{I}_{ \mathrm{\scriptscriptstyle OFF}}$ ratio, and channel length of greater than 6.9 nm suppresses short-channel effect. The scaling behavior of the ED-based GNR-TFET is also studied. It is observed that a smaller gate-to-gate distance facilitate large ON-state current and small OFF-state current. Moreover, it is shown that for a high-quality switching performance, the lowest required built-in gate voltage must provide enough energy differential ${\Delta } \text{E}$ between the source- and drain-side energy bands.