Growth and performance of yttrium oxide as an ideal high-kappa gate dielectric for carbon-based electronics.
High-quality yttrium oxide (Y(2)O(3)) is investigated as an ideal high-kappa gate dielectric for carbon-based electronics through a simple and cheap process. Utilizing the excellent wetting behavior of yttrium on sp(2) carbon framework, ultrathin (about few nm) and uniform Y(2)O(3) layers have been directly grown on the surfaces of carbon nanotube (CNT) and graphene without using noncovalent functionalization layers or introducing large structural distortion and damage. A top-gate CNT field-effect transistor (FET) adopting 5 nm Y(2)O(3) layer as its top-gate dielectric shows excellent device characteristics, including an ideal subthreshold swing of 60 mV/decade (up to the theoretical limit of an ideal FET at room temperature). The high electrical quality Y(2)O(3) dielectric layer has also been integrated into a graphene FET as its top-gate dielectric with a capacitance of up to 1200 nF/cm(2), showing an improvement on the gate efficiency and on state transconductance of over 100 times when compared with that of its back-gate counterpart.
Wang
Zhenxing
Z
Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Xu
Huilong
H
Zhang
Zhiyong
Z
Wang
Sheng
S
Ding
Li
L
Zeng
Qingsheng
Q
Yang
Leijing
L
Pei
Tian
T
Liang
Xuelei
X
Gao
Min
M
Peng
Lian-Mao
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