A review of quantum transport in field-effect transistors

Author(s):  
David K Ferry ◽  
Josef Weinbub ◽  
Mihail Nedjalkov ◽  
Siegfried Selberherr

Abstract Confinement in small structures has required quantum mechanics, which has been known for a great many years. This leads to quantum transport. The field-effect transistor has had no need to be described by quantum transport over most of the century for which it has existed. But, this has changed in the past few decades, as modern versions tend to be absolutely controlled by quantum confinement and the resulting modifications to the normal classical descriptions. In addition, correlation and confinement lead to a need for describing the transport by quantum methods as well. In this review, we describe the quantum effects and the method of treating by various approaches to quantum transport.

MRS Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (23) ◽  
pp. 1249-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Michael Sawatzki ◽  
Alrun A. Hauke ◽  
Duy Hai Doan ◽  
Peter Formanek ◽  
Daniel Kasemann ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTTo benefit from the many advantages of organic semiconductors like flexibility, transparency, and small thickness, electronic devices should be entirely made from organic materials. This means, additionally to organic LEDs, organic solar cells, and organic sensors, we need organic transistors to amplify, process, and control signals and electrical power. The standard lateral organic field effect transistor (OFET) does not offer the necessary performance for many of these applications. One promising candidate for solving this problem is the vertical organic field effect transistor (VOFET). In addition to the altered structure of the electrodes, the VOFET has one additional part compared to the OFET – the source-insulator. However, the influence of the used material, the size, and geometry of this insulator on the behavior of the transistor has not yet been examined. We investigate key-parameters of the VOFET with different source insulator materials and geometries. We also present transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of the edge area. Additionally, we investigate the charge transport in such devices using drift-diffusion simulations and the concept of a vertical organic light emitting transistor (VOLET). The VOLET is a VOFET with an embedded OLED. It allows the tracking of the local current density by measuring the light intensity distribution.We show that the insulator material and thickness only have a small influence on the performance, while there is a strong impact by the insulator geometry – mainly the overlap of the insulator into the channel. By tuning this overlap, on/off-ratios of 9x105 without contact doping are possible.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suman Yadav ◽  
Shivani Sharma ◽  
Satinder K Sharma ◽  
Chullikkattil P. Pradeep

Solution-processable organic semiconductors capable of functioning at low operating voltages (~5 V) are in demand for organic field-effect transistor (OFET) applications. Exploration of new classes of compounds as organic thin-film...


2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 1230-1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Croitoru ◽  
V. N. Gladilin ◽  
V. M. Fomin ◽  
J. T. Devreese ◽  
W. Magnus ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
pp. 8758-8764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaole Dai ◽  
Jingjing Chang ◽  
Linzhi Jing ◽  
Chunyan Chi

Two diacenopentalene dicarboximides were synthesized, and their devices made with solution-processing technique exhibited n-type field-effect transistor behavior with electron mobility of up to 0.06 cm2 V−1 s−1.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Chaw Su Nandar Hlaing Chaw ◽  
Thiri Nwe

This paper presents the band gap design and J-V characteristic curve of Zinc Oxide (ZnO) based on Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET). The physical properties for analysis of semiconductor field effect transistor play a vital role in semiconductor measurements to obtain the high-performance devices. The main objective of this research is to design and analyse the band diagram design of semiconductor materials which are used for high performance junction field effect transistor. In this paper, the fundamental theory of semiconductors, the electrical properties analysis and bandgap design of materials for junction field effect transistor are described. Firstly, the energy bandgaps are performed based on the existing mathematical equations and the required parameters depending on the specified semiconductor material. Secondly, the J-V characteristic curves of semiconductor material are discussed in this paper. In order to achieve the current-voltage characteristic for specific junction field effect transistor, numerical values of each parameter which are included in analysis are defined and then these resultant values are predicted for the performance of junction field effect transistors. The computerized analyses have also mentioned in this paper.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3121
Author(s):  
Monica La Mura ◽  
Patrizia Lamberti ◽  
Vincenzo Tucci

The interest in graphene-based electronics is due to graphene’s great carrier mobility, atomic thickness, resistance to radiation, and tolerance to extreme temperatures. These characteristics enable the development of extremely miniaturized high-performing electronic devices for next-generation radiofrequency (RF) communication systems. The main building block of graphene-based electronics is the graphene-field effect transistor (GFET). An important issue hindering the diffusion of GFET-based circuits on a commercial level is the repeatability of the fabrication process, which affects the uncertainty of both the device geometry and the graphene quality. Concerning the GFET geometrical parameters, it is well known that the channel length is the main factor that determines the high-frequency limitations of a field-effect transistor, and is therefore the parameter that should be better controlled during the fabrication. Nevertheless, other parameters are affected by a fabrication-related tolerance; to understand to which extent an increase of the accuracy of the GFET layout patterning process steps can improve the performance uniformity, their impact on the GFET performance variability should be considered and compared to that of the channel length. In this work, we assess the impact of the fabrication-related tolerances of GFET-base amplifier geometrical parameters on the RF performance, in terms of the amplifier transit frequency and maximum oscillation frequency, by using a design-of-experiments approach.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (43) ◽  
pp. 15312-15321
Author(s):  
Davide Blasi ◽  
Fabrizio Viola ◽  
Francesco Modena ◽  
Axel Luukkonen ◽  
Eleonora Macchia ◽  
...  

A large-area processable ink-jet-printed poly(3-hexylthiophene) electrolyte-gated field-effect transistor, designed for bioelectronic applications, is proven to be stable for one week of continuous operation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 2050181
Author(s):  
Cross T. Asha Wise ◽  
G. R. Suresh ◽  
M. Palanivelen ◽  
S. Saraswathi

Mounting electronics circuits on a plastic flexible substrate are pertinent for biosensing applications due to their resilient nature, minimal processing conditions, lightweight and low cost. Organic Field-Effect Transistors (OFET)-based amplifier for flexible biosensors have been proposed in this paper. To design flexible biosensing circuits, Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) with Polycyclic Hydrocarbon is a suitable choice. It is a big challenge to build an organic circuit using graphene electrode due to its poor performance of [Formula: see text]-type OFET, therefore it is advisable to use Pentacene as [Formula: see text]- and [Formula: see text]-type Organic semiconductors. Pentacene being one among the foremost totally investigated conjugated organic molecules with a high application potential because the hole mobility in OFETs goes up to 0.2[Formula: see text]cm2/(Vs), which exceeds that of amorphous silicon. In biosignal process, the first and most important step is to amplify the biosignal for further processing. Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) plays an essential role in biological signal measuring instruments like EEG, ECG, EMG modules which measure the heart, muscle and brain activities. The OTA designed using this OFET is adaptable for flexible sensor circuits and also it derives the transconductance of 67 which is similar to silicon OTA. The amplifier designed here gives unit gain of 42[Formula: see text]dB with a frequency of 195[Formula: see text]Hz which is suitable for low-frequency biosignal processing applications.


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