Bilayer Graphene-Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heterostructure Negative Differential Resistance Interlayer Tunnel FET

Author

Sangwoo Kang ; Fallahazad, Babak ; Kayoung Lee ; Movva, Hema ; Kyounghwan Kim ; Corbet, Chris M. ; Taniguchi, Takashi ; Watanabe, Kenji ; Colombo, Luigi ; Register, Leonard F. ; Tutuc, Emanuel ; Banerjee, Sanjay K.

Author_Institution

Microelectron. Res. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

Volume

36

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Apr-15

Firstpage

405

Lastpage

407

Abstract

We present the room temperature operation of a vertical tunneling field-effect transistor using a stacked double bilayer graphene (BLG) and hexagonal boron nitride heterostructure. The device shows two tunneling resonances with negative differential resistance (NDR). An analysis of the electrostatic potential drop across the heterostructure indicates the resonances are associated with the relative alignment of the lower or upper bands of the two BLG. Using the NDR characteristic of the device, one-transistor latch or SRAM operation is demonstrated. The device characteristics are largely insensitive to temperature from 1.5 to 300 K.

Keywords

SRAM chips; boron compounds; flip-flops; graphene; high electron mobility transistors; resonant tunnelling transistors; stacking; BLG; BN; C; NDR characteristic; SRAM operation; electrostatic potential drop analysis; hexagonal heterostructure; lower-upper bands; negative differential resistance interlayer tunnel FET; one-transistor latch; relative alignment; room temperature operation; stacked double bilayer graphene; temperature 1.5 K to 300 K; tunneling resonances; vertical tunneling field-effect transistor; Electric potential; Electrostatics; Graphene; Latches; Random access memory; Resonant tunneling devices; Negative differential resistance; bilayer graphene; hexagonal boron nitride; latch; negative differential resistance; resonant tunneling; static random access memory; tunneling field effect transistor;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electron Device Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0741-3106

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LED.2015.2398737

Filename

7027824