Theory and practice of “Striping” for improved ON/OFF Ratio in carbon nanonet thin film transistors

Pimparkar, Ninad; Cao, Qing; Rogers, John A.; Alam, Muhammad A.

doi:10.1007/s12274-009-9013-z

Title: Theory and practice of “Striping” for improved ON/OFF Ratio in carbon nanonet thin film transistors

Journal Article · 05 March 2010 · Nano Research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-009-9013-z · OSTI ID:1876436

Pimparkar, Ninad ^[1]; Cao, Qing ^[2]; Rogers, John A. ^[2]; Alam, Muhammad A. ^[3]

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); University of Illinois
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States)
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

A new technique to reduce the influence of metallic carbon nanotubes (CNTs)—relevant for large-scale integrated circuits based on CNT-nanonet transistors—is proposed and verified. Historically, electrical and chemical filtering of the metallic CNTs have been used to improve the ON/OFF ratio of CNT-nanonet transistors; however, the corresponding degradation in ON-current has made these techniques somewhat unsatisfactory. Here, we abandon the classical approaches in favor of a new approach based on relocation of asymmetric percolation threshold of CNT-nanonet transistors by a technique called “striping”; this allows fabrication of transistors with ON/OFF ratio >1000 and ON-current degradation no more than a factor of 2. We offer first principle numerical models, experimental confirmation, and renormalization arguments to provide a broad theoretical and experimental foundation of the proposed method.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-07ER46453; FG02-07ER46471

OSTI ID:: 1876436

Journal Information:: Nano Research, Journal Name: Nano Research Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 2; ISSN 1998-0124

Publisher:: SpringerCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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