Van der Waals heterostructures for high‐performance device applications: challenges and opportunities

SJ Liang, B Cheng, X Cui, F Miao - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of two‐dimensional (2D) materials with unique electronic, superior
optoelectronic, or intrinsic magnetic order has triggered worldwide interest in the fields of …

Two-dimensional semiconductors for transistors

M Chhowalla, D Jena, H Zhang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
In the quest for higher performance, the dimensions of field-effect transistors (FETs) continue
to decrease. However, the reduction in size of FETs comprising 3D semiconductors is limited …

Electronics based on two-dimensional materials

G Fiori, F Bonaccorso, G Iannaccone, T Palacios… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The compelling demand for higher performance and lower power consumption in electronic
systems is the main driving force of the electronics industry's quest for devices and/or …

A subthermionic tunnel field-effect transistor with an atomically thin channel

D Sarkar, X Xie, W Liu, W Cao, J Kang, Y Gong… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The fast growth of information technology has been sustained by continuous scaling down of
the silicon-based metal–oxide field-effect transistor. However, such technology faces two …

Tunnel field-effect transistors as energy-efficient electronic switches

AM Ionescu, H Riel - nature, 2011 - nature.com
Power dissipation is a fundamental problem for nanoelectronic circuits. Scaling the supply
voltage reduces the energy needed for switching, but the field-effect transistors (FETs) in …

Multigate transistors as the future of classical metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors

I Ferain, CA Colinge, JP Colinge - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
For more than four decades, transistors have been shrinking exponentially in size, and
therefore the number of transistors in a single microelectronic chip has been increasing …

Low-voltage tunnel transistors for beyond CMOS logic

AC Seabaugh, Q Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Steep subthreshold swing transistors based on interband tunneling are examined toward
extending the performance of electronics systems. In particular, this review introduces and …

Tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) with subthreshold swing (SS) less than 60 mV/dec

WY Choi, BG Park, JD Lee… - IEEE Electron Device …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have demonstrated a 70-nm n-channel tunneling field-effect transistor (TFET) which has
a subthreshold swing (SS) of 52.8 mV/dec at room temperature. It is the first experimental …

Tunable SnSe2/WSe2 Heterostructure Tunneling Field Effect Transistor

X Yan, C Liu, C Li, W Bao, S Ding, DW Zhang, P Zhou - Small, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The burgeoning 2D semiconductors can maintain excellent device electrostatics with an
ultranarrow channel length and can realize tunneling by electrostatic gating to avoid …

Science and engineering beyond Moore's law

RK Cavin, P Lugli, VV Zhirnov - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the historical effects and benefits of Moore's law for semiconductor
technologies are reviewed, and it is offered that the rapid learning curve obtained to the …