Contact-induced negative differential resistance in short-channel graphene FETs

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 140-146

  Grassi, Roberto ^a   Low, Tony ^b   Gnudi, Antonio ^a   Baccarani, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphene FETs; negative differential resistance; nonequilibrium Green's function

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC MODEL; BOTTLENECK EFFECTS; DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCES; DIRAC POINT; DRAIN-SOURCE VOLTAGE; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCES; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SOURCE AND DRAINS; TRANSPORT MODES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84871736715     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2012.2228868     Document Type: Article

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