Current on/off ratio enhancement of field effect transistors with bundled carbon nanotubes

This work examines the enhancement of current on/off ratio in field effect transistordevices with bundled single-walled carbon nanotubes(CNTs) by incorporating a substrate etching step before the electrical cutting for metallic CNT elimination. The etching step prevents the damaging of the semicondu...

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Main Authors: Feng, Y., Lee, K., Farhat, Hootan, Kong, Jing
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87047
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0551-1208
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Summary:This work examines the enhancement of current on/off ratio in field effect transistordevices with bundled single-walled carbon nanotubes(CNTs) by incorporating a substrate etching step before the electrical cutting for metallic CNT elimination. The etching step prevents the damaging of the semiconducting CNTs while burning off the metallic ones by electrical current. By further incorporating a repeated gate voltage sweeping step, devices with low I[subscript off] (less than 2 nA) and high I[subscript on]/I[subscript off], which is one to five orders of magnitude larger than before etching/cutting combination process, can be obtained.