Nanodevices in Flatland: Two-dimensional graphene-based transistors with high I<inf>on</inf>/I<inf>off</inf> ratio

Abstract

We present a multi-scale investigation of graphene-based transistors with a hexagonal boron-carbon-nitride (h-BCN) barrier in the channel. Our approach exploits ab-initio calculations for an accurate extraction of energy bands and tight-binding simulations in order to compute charge transport. We show that the h-BCN barrier inhibits the ambipolar behavior of graphene transistors, leading to a large I <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">on</sub> /I <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">off</sub> ratio, within the ITRS roadmap specifications for future semiconductor technology nodes.