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Performance of arsenene and antimonene double-gate MOSFETs from first principles.

ABSTRACT: In the race towards high-performance ultra-scaled devices, two-dimensional materials offer an alternative paradigm thanks to their atomic thickness suppressing short-channel effects. It is thus urgent to study the most promising candidates in realistic configurations, and here we present detailed multiscale simulations of field-effect transistors based on arsenene and antimonene monolayers as channels. The accuracy of first-principles approaches in describing electronic properties is combined with the efficiency of tight-binding Hamiltonians based on maximally localized Wannier functions to compute the transport properties of the devices. These simulations provide for the first time estimates on the upper limits for the electron and hole mobilities in the Takagi's approximation, including spin-orbit and multi-valley effects, and demonstrate that ultra-scaled devices in the sub-10-nm scale show a performance that is compliant with industry requirements.

SUBMITTER: Pizzi G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5007351 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Performance of arsenene and antimonene double-gate MOSFETs from first principles.

Pizzi Giovanni G Gibertini Marco M Dib Elias E Marzari Nicola N Iannaccone Giuseppe G Fiori Gianluca G

Nature communications 20160825

In the race towards high-performance ultra-scaled devices, two-dimensional materials offer an alternative paradigm thanks to their atomic thickness suppressing short-channel effects. It is thus urgent to study the most promising candidates in realistic configurations, and here we present detailed multiscale simulations of field-effect transistors based on arsenene and antimonene monolayers as channels. The accuracy of first-principles approaches in describing electronic properties is combined wi ...[more]

PMID: 27557562

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