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Ultra-high current gain tunneling hot-electron transfer amplifier based on vertical van der Waals heterojunctions
Nano Research 2020, 13(8): 2085-2090
Published: 05 August 2020
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Due to the backscattered parasitic current from the barriers, the current gain of the widely used amplifier is far from ideal. In this work, we demonstrate a vertical Au/Al2O3/BP/MoS2 tunneling hot-electron transfer amplifier with a hot-electron emitter-base junction and a p-n junction as the base-collector barrier. Fairly monoenergetic electrons traverse through the ultrathin Al2O3 dielectric via tunneling, which are accelerated and shifted to the collector region. The devices exhibit a high current on-off ratio of > 105 and a high current density (JC) of ~ 1,000 A/cm2 at the same time. Notably, this work demonstrates a common-emitter current gain (β) value of 1,384 with a nanowatt power consumption at room temperature, which is a record high value among the all 2D based hot-electron transistors. Furthermore, the temperature dependent performance is investigated, and the β value of 1,613 is obtained at 150 K. Therefore, this work presents the potential of 2D based transistors for high-performance applications.

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Erratum to: Ultra-high current gain tunneling hot-electron transfer amplifier based on vertical van der Waals heterojunctions
Nano Research 2020, 13(8): 2308
Published: 05 August 2020
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