Abstract
The role of phonon scattering in carbon nanotube field-effect transistors sCNTFETsd is explored by solving the Boltzmann transport equation using the Monte Carlo method. The results show that elastic scattering in a short-channel CNTFET has a small effect on the source-drain current due to the long elastic mean-free path smfpd s,1 mmd. If elastic scattering with a short mfp were to exist in a CNTFET, the on current would be severely degraded due to the one-dimensional channel geometry. At high drain bias, optical phonon scattering, which has a much shorter mfp s,10 nmd, is expected to dominate, even in a short-channel CNTFET. We find, however, that inelastic optical scattering has a small effect in CNTFETs under modest gate bias
Date of this Version
2005
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Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 043101 (2005); http://doi.org/10.1063/1.2001158
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