Room temperature device performance of electrodeposited InSb nanowire field effect transistors

Suprem Das, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
Collin J. Delker, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
Dmitri Zakharov, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
Yong P. Chen, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
Timothy D. Sands, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
David B. Janes, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University

Date of this Version

6-13-2011

Citation

Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 243504 (2011)

Comments

Copyright (2011) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters and may be found at . The following article has been submitted to/accepted by Applied Physics Letters. Copyright (2011) Suprem R. Das, Collin J. Delker, Dmitri Zakharov, Yong P. Chen, Timothy D. Sands, and David B. Janes. This article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Abstract

InSb nanowires have been formed by electrodeposition in porous anodic alumina templates and employed as transistor channels. The 100 nm diameter nanowires had a zinc blende crystal structure. Single-nanowire field-effect transistors (NW-FETs) with a channel length of 500 nm exhibited on-currents of similar to 40 mu A, on/off ratios of similar to 16-20, drain conductances of similar to 71 mu S and field-effect electron mobility of similar to 1200 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1). Compared with reported NW-FETs, the on-current is large and the current saturation occurs at low source-drain voltages. These characteristics can be understood in terms of velocity saturation effects with enhanced scattering. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3587638]

Discipline(s)

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

 

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