Electronic transport properties of top-gated epitaxial-graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistors on SiC wafers Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2014 American Vacuum Society. Top-gated epitaxial-graphene nanoribbon (GNR) field-effect transistors on SiC wafers were fabricated and characterized at room temperature. The devices exhibited extremely high current densities (10 000mA/mm) due to the combined advantages of the one-dimensionality of GNRs and the SiC substrate. These advantages included good heat dissipation as well as the high optical phonon energy of the GNRs and SiC substrate. An analytical model explains the measured family of ID-VDS curves with a pronounced 'kink' at a high electric field. The effective carrier mobility as a function of the channel length was extracted from both the ID-VDS modeling and the maximum transconductance from the ID-VGS curve. The effective mobility decreased for small channel lengths (<1m), exhibiting ballistic or quasiballistic transport properties.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY B

author list (cited authors)

  • Hwang, W. S., Tahy, K., Zhao, P., Nyakiti, L. O., Wheeler, V. D., Myers-Ward, R. L., ... Jena, D.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Hwang, Wan Sik||Tahy, Kristof||Zhao, Pei||Nyakiti, Luke O||Wheeler, Virginia D||Myers-Ward, Rachael L||Eddy, Charles R Jr||Gaskill, D Kurt||Xing, Huili Grace||Seabaugh, Alan||Jena, Debdeep

publication date

  • January 2014