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Mohammadreza Jafari

Mohammadreza Jafari

Academic rank: Associate Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1277-480X
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 55334633100
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Research

Title
Ultra-scaled Resonant Tunneling Diodes Based on BN Decorated Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbon Lateral Heterostructures
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
BN, Lateral Heterostructure, NEGF, RTD, Ultra-scaled, ZGNR
Year
2020
Journal IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
DOI
Researchers Majid Sanaeepur ، Mohammadreza Jafari ، Maryam Esmaeili

Abstract

Ultra-scaled 2D resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs), with dimensions of 2 nm×4.55 nm and 2 nm×5.3 nm, exhibiting negative differential resistance (NDR) are proposed. Zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) are used as base material. Boron nitride (BN) decoration is utilized to open a gap in ZGNR energy bandstructure. Within the framework of nonequilibrium green’s function (NEFG) and tight binding (TB) approximated Hamiltonian the device operation of proposed RTDs is investigated. The effect of well and barrier length modulation on the device figures is studied. Results show that extremely small changes, in the order of few angstroms, in the well or the barrier dimensions translates to significant change in device figures.