International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395 -0056
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GRAPHENE BASED TUNNEL FET
Jaya Verma
Centre for Nanotechnology Research Vellore Institute of Technology,Vellore
Taminadu-632007,India
Abstract -In this paper, Graphene Based Tunnel Field
Effect Transistor is presented. Graphene based tunnel field
effect transistor mainly based on quantum tunneling from a
graphene electrode through a thin insulating barrier.
Graphenes are mainly used for grow film on substrate
having much lower thermal coefficient. For preparing this
hexagonal boron nitrite are used with oxidized Si wafer (300
nm of SiO2) and DRY transfer procedure are used to obtain
monolayer graphene on to hbN crystal (20-25 nm thick) and
this graphene layer reports for Dirac point . For tunneling of
the device considered 1 to 30 hbN layers and doping
concentration for encapsulated graphenes are
approximately 0 and 10
11
that describes current-voltage
characteristics over a wide range of operating conditions
and provides viable route for high speed graphene tunnel
field effect transistor with higher stability. The lack of an
OFF state has been the main obstacle to the application of
graphene based transistors in digital circuits. Recently
vertical graphene tunnel field effect transistors with a low
OFF state current have been reported; however, they
exhibited a relatively weak effect of gate voltage on channel
conductivity.
Key Words:Graphene,Tunnel Field Effect Transistor,Gate
Voltage
1.Introduction
Graphene is highly transmittance material around 97.7%
with high current density(10
8
amp /cm
2 ) .
This material is
most stronger than steel having 1100 GPa modulus and
have atwo dimension honey combed structure of allotrope
Carbon.Bare graphene is a semimetal with a zero band gap
and shows performance of sp
2
hybridized material as
shown in fig-1.
A graphene based tunnel FET possess unique high
frequency properties due to their high carrier mobility.
Application of these FETs in digital circuits is, however,
impossible due to the low ratio of ON to OFF state
currents
1-4
.
Fig -1:Graphene structure
The vertical construction represented two parallel
graphene sheets (source and drain) separated by a thin
tunnel transparent dielectric layer of boron nitride. Both
the barrier height and electron density in the contacts
were controlled by the bottom gate. The measured
characteristics showed that the influence of the gate
voltage on the channel conductivity was weak (non-
exponential) and the ON/OFF ratio reached only 50.The
dependence of the current on the gate voltage in the
proposed device is exponential with an inverse sub
threshold slope reaching (60 mV/dec)
–1
at room
temperature. Considering the current–voltage
characteristics of the device we take into account
simultaneously both tunnel and thermionic current and
show that the inverse sub threshold slope of the proposed
FET (as well as of any schottky barrier FET) is limited to
(60 mV/dec)
–1
.The performance of graphene-based tunnel
field effect transistors has been hampered by
graphene’smetallic conductivity at the neutrality point
(NP) and the unimpeded electron transport through
potential barriers due to Klein tunneling, which limit the
achievable ON-OFF switching ratios to ~10
3
and those
achieved so far at room temperature to less than 10. These
low ratios are sufficient for individual high-frequency
transistors and analogue electronics but they present a
fundamental problemfor any realistic prospect of
graphene-based integrated circuits. A possible solution is
to open a band gap in graphene, for example by using
bilayer graphene , nanoribbons ,quantum dots or chemical