Frensley eric jonsson school of engineering and computer science, university of texas at dallas, richardson, texas 750830688 ted moise. Resonanttunneling hot electron transistor listed as rhet. Japanese researchers have developed a compact model for circuit simulation to predict the circuit behavior of tunnel fieldeffect transistors tunnel. Occurs when an electron passes through a potential barrier without having enough energy to do so. Realization of a doublebarrier resonant tunneling diode for cavity polaritons. Quantitative simulation of a resonant tunneling diode r. Simulation of ntype mosfets and tunneling fieldeffect. And study a resonant tunnelling device in which carriers tunnel through a thin boron. Second, the resistance of the tunnel junction has to be suf. Tunnel fieldeffect transistors as energyefficient electronic switches. Quantum transport devices based on resonant tunneling reza m. With their multiple stable states, resonant tunneling devices are promising candidates.
Resonant tunneling transistor characteristics using a fabrypariot resonator. Resonant tunneling can be described by the transmission and reflection processes of coherent electron waves through the. Fieldeffect tunneling transistor based on vertical graphene. Quantumwellbase resonanttunneling transistor how is quantumwellbase resonanttunneling transistor abbreviated. Field effect tunneling transistor based on vertical. Tunneling transistors texas advanced computing center feature story. Rommel, materials science in semiconductor processing, 8, pp.
The ss is ultimately limited by the density of states broadening at the band edges. In this chapter, a new type of fieldeffect transistors is considered with a gate and a channel on a basis of twodimensional systems of carriers. Nanoelectronics with tunneling devices inspiring innovation. Even though its structure is very similar to a metaloxidesemiconductor fieldeffect transistor, the fundamental switching mechanism differs, making this device a promising candidate for low power electronics. A resonanttunneling diode rtd is a diode with a resonanttunneling structure in which electrons can tunnel through some resonant states at certain energy.
Tfets switch by modulating quantum tunneling through a barrier instead of modulating thermionic. Quantum tunneling is a limitation in todays transistors, but it could be the key to future devices. Tunneling transistors texas advanced computing center. Quantumwellbase resonanttunneling transistor listed as qwbrtt. Chapter 4 alasgaas double barrier resonant tunneling diodes. The resistor re represents the lowfrequency impedance of the environment. Alasgaas double barrier resonant tunneling diodes 4. Progress in multiplevalued logic mvl depends much on the development of devices that are inherently suitable for mvl operation. Yaps team had made a transistor without a semiconductor. Tunneling diodes tds have been widely studied for their importance in achieving very high speed in wideband devices and circuits that are beyond conventional transistor technology. An extra electrode gate defined in a way to have very large resistance between it and the island.
Unlike the mosfet, which works by raising or lowering an energy barrier to control the flow of. Abstract a natural consequence of shrinking the size of semiconductor devices is that tunneling becomes an increasingly important transport process. Resonant tunnelling and negative differential conductance in graphene transistors. This phenomena can be intuitively although not 100% accur.
The rhet uses a resonant tunneling barrier as a hot carrier injector as shown in fig. Quantitative simulation of a resonant tunneling diode. When sufficient voltage was applied, it switched to a conducting state. The chemical stability of graphene and other freestanding twodimensional crystals means that they can be stacked in different combinations to produce.
We show that a non resonant laser beam, focused ontothe island, can modulate. The tunnel fieldeffect transistor tfet is an experimental type of transistor. The two pn junctions in each transistor provide electronic barriers to the flow of. Due to this difference, the coherent tunneling is reduced and inelastic tunneling requires. In the last few years, a new transistor designthe tunnel fet, or tfethas been gaining momentum. A new transistor effect is demonstrated in a 120 nm base, bipolar quantumwell, resonant tunneling transistor biquartt. Schulman the resonant tunneling diode rtd has been widely studied because of its importance in the. Double gate coupling and quantum tunneling 103 nm using an existing cmos mask set. Resonant tunneling tunneling is a quantum mechanical phenomenon with no analogy in classical physics. Development of compact model for tunnel fieldeffect. Twodimensional heterojunction interlayer tunneling field. Since the off state is always little leaky, the goal is to increase the ratio of on current to off current to at least 10,000. In addition to tunneling through the gate oxide, there is a more fundamental tunneling path that is the problem.
Electron tunneling between the wells is controlled by the voltage bias between them and voltage applied to the top control gate. Realization of a doublebarrier resonant tunneling diode. Resonanttunneling hot electron transistor how is resonanttunneling hot electron transistor abbreviated. Government microelectronics applications conference gomac98. Not only does the device have to switch on and off, it must also be able to distinguish between the two states. In devices governed by drift and diffusion, tunneling can limit minimum layer dimensions as it does. Fundamental limits of the switching abruptness of tunneling transistors by james towfik teherani submitted to the department of electrical engineering and computer science on may 20, 2015 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in electrical engineering and computer science abstract. The rhet, yokoyama 1985a, 19b proposed, is essentially the same as a hot electron transistor, but with one important difference. Quantumwellbase resonanttunneling transistor how is. Theoretical investigation of the resonant tunneling. Lake central research laboratories, texas instruments incorporated, dallas, texas 75265 william r.
Invited paper lowvoltagetunneltransistors forbeyondcmoslogic the use of interband tunneling to obtain steep subthreshold transistors. Sibased resonant interband tunneling diodes and quantum. It is quantumwellbase resonanttunneling transistor. A particularly useful form of a tunneling diode is the resonant tunneling diode rtd. The key point of the device is that the systems are different. The energy of the electrons can be raised by increasing the temperature or by. Quantum transport devices based on resonant tunneling. Resonant tunneling transistor and its application to. Phosphorus diffusion in sibased resonant interband tunneling diodes and tristate logic using vertically stacked diodes, niu jin, sungyong chung, roux m. In this biquartt, a strong, multiple negative differential resistance ndr characteristic is obtained at room temperature with high current gain 50. Singleelectron transistor set is a key element of current research area of nanotechnology which can offer low power consumption and high operating speed.
That is direct tunneling from the source to the drain of a transistor. Double gate coupling and quantum tunneling in ultrathin. Rad umbc based on pages 407422 of nanoelectronics and information technology, rainer waser. The first transistor that exploited this effect was built by fulton and. Johnny ling, university of rochester, rochester, ny 14627 brief overview of nanoelectronic devices, james c. Resonant transmission in the basecollector junction of a. This is the type of structure which is utilized in resonant tunneling diodes. Seabaugh central research laboratories texas instruments incorporated dallas, texas 75265 mark a. The exponential increase of ds with g is visible in fig. Heterojunction tunneling transistor hettbased extremely. A vertical resonant tunneling transistor vrtt has been developed, its properties and its application in digital logic circuits based on the monostablebistable transition logic element mobile. The single electron transistor is a new type of switching device that uses controlled electron tunneling to amplify current. Single electron tunneling 16 singleelectron tunneling. Building blocks for nanodevices twodimensional electron gas 2deg quantum wires and quantum point contacts.
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