{"id":809,"date":"2013-06-27T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/?p=809"},"modified":"2013-08-13T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T21:44:45","slug":"a-unified-charge-current-vs-compact-model-for-graphene-transistors-applicable-in-analog-circuit-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/a-unified-charge-current-vs-compact-model-for-graphene-transistors-applicable-in-analog-circuit-simulations\/","title":{"rendered":"A Unified Charge-current VS Compact Model for Graphene Transistors Applicable in Analog Circuit Simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"

With its rich physics, graphene has properties that make it a viable candidate for implementing electronic devices. For example, graphene as a two-dimensional material has a limited phase space for scattering of electrons; hence, the electrons in graphene can have a long MFP–a property that can be utilized to build high frequency devices[1<\/a>]<\/sup>,[2<\/a>]<\/sup>. However, to design and simulate electronic circuits built with graphene transistors, compact device models are needed to describe electron transport in both long and short-channel graphene field effect transistors (GFETs).<\/p>\n

In this work, we extend the compact virtual source (VS) model originally developed for silicon transistors[3<\/a>]<\/sup> to describe current conduction in quasi-ballistic graphene transistors. Because of the absence of bandgap in graphene, graphene can uniquely exhibit ambipolar transport[4<\/a>]<\/sup>. Hence, the VS model is adjusted from the original VS model for silicon to accurately describe current conduction in ambipolar regime in GFETs (see Figures 1b and 1b). The key parameters of the VS model- apparent channel mobility, \u00b5app<\/sub><\/i>, and the virtual source velocity, vxo<\/sub><\/i>, are extracted from published experimental results on short-channel GFETs[5<\/a>]<\/sup>. It is found that vxo<\/sub><\/i> in quasi-ballistic GFETs can be quite large compared to its value for silicon FETs with similar channel lengths. This velocity is attributed to the large effective mobility, \u00b5eff<\/sub><\/i>, in graphene for technologically relevant carrier concentrations (see Figure 2)[6<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

The physics of electron transport in long-channel GFETs can be described fairly accurately within the drift diffusion (DD) transport framework. The DD-model for GFETs is used to explain the experimental findings in[7<\/a>]<\/sup>,[8<\/a>]<\/sup>, and reasonable match with experimental data is demonstrated (see Figures 3a and 3b). Both VS and DD current models are implemented in Verilog-A to provide a platform for simulation of basic analog circuits such as frequency multipliers with graphene.<\/p>\n

Future work includes introducing intrinsic charge partitioning, and therefore an intrinsic capacitance model, that will be strictly consistent with both the quasi-ballistic VS model in both nano-scale unipolar and ambipolar GFETs and the DD model for long-channel unipolar and ambipolar GFETs.<\/p>\n\n\t\t