Energy-efficient transistors: suppressing the subthreshold swing below the physical limit

Y Zhai, Z Feng, Y Zhou, ST Han - Materials Horizons, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
With the miniaturization of silicon-based electronic components, power consumption is
becoming a fundamental issue for micro–nano electronic circuits. The main reason for this is …

Band-to-band tunneling switches based on two-dimensional van der Waals heterojunctions

P Chava, Z Fekri, Y Vekariya, T Mikolajick… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum mechanical band-to-band tunneling is a type of carrier injection mechanism that is
responsible for the electronic transport in devices like tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) …

Source pocket-engineered hetero-gate dielectric SOI Tunnel FET with improved performance

V Sharma, S Kumar, J Talukdar, K Mummaneni… - Materials Science in …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we have studied and proposed a planar Tunnel FET device with source side
SiGe pocket and hetero-gate dielectric structure that works by utilizing quantum mechanical …

Calibration of bulk trap-assisted tunneling and Shockley–Read–Hall currents and impact on InGaAs tunnel-FETs

Q Smets, AS Verhulst, E Simoen… - … on Electron Devices, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The tunnel-FET (TFET) is a promising candidate for future low-power logic applications,
because it enables a sub-60-mV/decadesubthresholdswing. However, themost …

Experimental details of a steep-slope ferroelectric InGaAs tunnel-FET with high-quality PZT and modeling insights in the transient polarization

AS Verhulst, A Saeidi, I Stolichnov… - … on Electron Devices, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The steep-slope ferroelectric tunnel-FET (SS-FeTFET), consisting of an InGaAs TFET with a
sub-60 mV/dec subthreshold swing (SS) at room temperature and an externally connected …

Boosting the sensitivity of the nanopore field-effect transistor to translocating single molecules

AS Verhulst, D Ruić, K Willems… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nano-scaling of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (FETs) is exploited
to benefit the interdisciplinary field of single-molecule biosensing. While single-molecule …

Band-tails tunneling resolving the theory-experiment discrepancy in Esaki diodes

J Bizindavyi, AS Verhulst, Q Smets… - IEEE Journal of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Discrepancies exist between the theoretically predicted and experimentally measured
performance of band-to-band tunneling devices, such as Esaki diodes and tunnel field-effect …

An ultra-low-power black phosphorus (B-Ph)/Si heterojunction do**less-tunnel FET (HD-TFET) with enhanced electrical characteristics

R Misra, K Singh, M Kumar, R Rastogi, A Kumar… - Superlattices and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The execution of two-dimensional (2D) layered material in the source-region of a silicon-
based tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) is proposed for ultra-low-power (ULP) …

Signature of ballistic band-tail tunneling current in tunnel FET

J Bizindavyi, AS Verhulst, B Sorée… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To improve the interpretation of the tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) measurements, we
theoretically identify the signatures of the ballistic band-tail (BT) tunneling (BTT) current in …

Large variation in temperature dependence of band-to-band tunneling current in tunnel devices

J Bizindavyi, AS Verhulst, D Verreck… - IEEE Electron …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The observation of a significant temperature-dependent variation in the IV characteristics of
tunneling devices is often interpreted as a signature of a trap-assisted-tunneling dominated …