Integrating carbon nanotubes into silicon by means of vertical carbon nanotube field-effect transistors
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Li, JingqiWang, Qingxiao
Yue, Weisheng
Guo, Zaibing
Li, Liang
Zhao, Chao

Wang, Xianbin
Abutaha, Anas I.

Alshareef, Husam N.

Zhang, Yafei
Zhang, Xixiang

KAUST Department
Advanced Nanofabrication, Imaging and Characterization Core LabCore Labs
Imaging and Characterization Core Lab
Material Science and Engineering Program
Nanofabrication Core Lab
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2014Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563223
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes have been integrated into silicon for use in vertical carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs). A unique feature of these devices is that a silicon substrate and a metal contact are used as the source and drain for the vertical transistors, respectively. These CNTFETs show very different characteristics from those fabricated with two metal contacts. Surprisingly, the transfer characteristics of the vertical CNTFETs can be either ambipolar or unipolar (p-type or n-type) depending on the sign of the drain voltage. Furthermore, the p-type/n-type character of the devices is defined by the doping type of the silicon substrate used in the fabrication process. A semiclassical model is used to simulate the performance of these CNTFETs by taking the conductance change of the Si contact under the gate voltage into consideration. The calculation results are consistent with the experimental observations. This journal is © the Partner Organisations 2014.Citation
Li, J., Wang, Q., Yue, W., Guo, Z., Li, L., Zhao, C., … Zhang, X. X. (2014). Integrating carbon nanotubes into silicon by means of vertical carbon nanotube field-effect transistors. Nanoscale, 6(15), 8956–8961. doi:10.1039/c4nr00978aSponsors
This research was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The authors would like to thank Zhihong Wang, Yang Yang, Longqing Chen, Basil Chew, Ahad A Syed, Elhadj M. Diallo and Abdulrazaq Alharbi in the Nanofabrication, Imaging & Characterization core labs at KAUST for their help in device fabrication and characterization.Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)Journal
NanoscalePubMed ID
24965261ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1039/c4nr00978a
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