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Tunnel field-effect transistors as energy-efficient electronic switches
Adrian M. Ionescu,Heike Riel +1 more
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Tunnels based on ultrathin semiconducting films or nanowires could achieve a 100-fold power reduction over complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor transistors, so integrating tunnel FETs with CMOS technology could improve low-power integrated circuits.Abstract:
Power dissipation is a fundamental problem for nanoelectronic circuits. Scaling the supply voltage reduces the energy needed for switching, but the field-effect transistors (FETs) in today's integrated circuits require at least 60 mV of gate voltage to increase the current by one order of magnitude at room temperature. Tunnel FETs avoid this limit by using quantum-mechanical band-to-band tunnelling, rather than thermal injection, to inject charge carriers into the device channel. Tunnel FETs based on ultrathin semiconducting films or nanowires could achieve a 100-fold power reduction over complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors, so integrating tunnel FETs with CMOS technology could improve low-power integrated circuits.read more
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Carbon Nanotubes: Present and Future Commercial Applications
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A subthermionic tunnel field-effect transistor with an atomically thin channel.
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TL;DR: This paper demonstrates band-to-band tunnel field-effect transistors (tunnel-FETs), based on a two-dimensional semiconductor, that exhibit steep turn-on and is the only planar architecture tunnel-fET to achieve subthermionic subthreshold swing over four decades of drain current, and is also the only tunnel- FET (in any architecture) to achieve this at a low power-supply voltage of 0.1 volts.
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