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Silicon nitride gate dielectrics and band gap engineering in graphene layers.

Wenjuan Zhu, +3 more
- 17 Aug 2010 - 
- Vol. 10, Iss: 9, pp 3572-3576
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It is shown that silicon nitride can provide uniform coverage of graphene in field-effect transistors while preserving the channel mobility and the field-induced band gap or band overlap in the different layers.
Abstract
We show that silicon nitride can provide uniform coverage of graphene in field-effect transistors while preserving the channel mobility. This insulator allowed us to study the maximum channel resistance at the Dirac (neutrality) point as a function of the strength of a perpendicular electric field in top-gated devices with different numbers of graphene layers. Using a simple model to account for surface potential variations (electron-hole puddles) near the Dirac point we estimate the field-induced band gap or band overlap in the different layers.

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Graphene: electronic and photonic properties and devices.

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Hysteresis in single-layer MoS2 field effect transistors.

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Temperature-Dependent Raman Studies and Thermal Conductivity of Few-Layer MoS2

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