Abstract
In this paper we perform a simulation study on the limits of graphene-nanoribbon field-effect transistors (GNR-FETs) for post-CMOS digital applications. Both conventional and tunneling FET architectures are considered. Simulations of conventional narrow GNR-FETs confirm the high potential of these devices, but highlight at the same time OFF-state leakage problems due to various tunneling mechanisms, which become more severe as the width is made larger and require a careful device optimization. Such OFF-state problems are partially solved by the tunneling FETs, which allow subthreshold slopes better than 60 mV/dec, at the price of a reduced ON-current. The importance of a very good control on edge roughness is highlighted by means of a direct simulation of devices with non-ideal edges.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 441-450 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Computational Electronics |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2009 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements This work has been supported by the EU FP7 IST Project GRAND (Contract n. 215752) via the IU.NET Consortium.
Keywords
- Carbon electronics
- Graphene nanoribbons
- Nanoelectronic devices
- Tunneling FET