مشخصات پژوهش

عنوان	Tunable negative differential resistance in planar graphene superlattice resonant tunneling diode
نوع پژوهش	مقاله چاپ شده
کلیدواژه‌ها	Negative resistance, Band gap, Superlattices, Transport properties, Current-voltage characteristic, Resonant tunneling diodes, Electrostatics, Graphene, Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
چکیده	Here, we study the negative differential resistance (NDR) of Dirac electrons in biased planar graphene superlattice (PGSL) and investigate the transport characteristics by adopted transfer matrix method within Landauer-Buttiker formalism. Our model device is based on one-dimensional Kronig–Penney type electrostatic potential in monolayer graphene deposited on a substrate, where the bias voltage is applied by two electrodes in the left and right. At Low bias voltages, we found that NDR appears due to breaking of minibands to Wannier-Stark ladders (WSLs). At the critical bias voltage, delocalization appeared by WS states leads to tunneling peak current in current-voltage (I-V) characteristics. With increasing bias voltage, crossing of rungs from various WSL results in multipeak NDR. The results demonstrate that the structure parameters like barrier/well thickness and barrier height have remarkable effect on I-V characteristics of PGSL. In addition, Dirac gap enhances peak to valley (PVR) value due to suppressing Klein tunneling. Our results show that the tunable PVR in PGSL resonant tunneling diode can be achievable by structure parameters engineering. NDR at ultra-low bias voltages, such as 100mV, with giant PVR of 20 is obtained. In our device, the multiple same NDR peaks with ultra-low bias voltage provide promising prospect for multi-valued memories and the low power nanoelectronic tunneling devices.
پژوهشگران	سعید شجاعی (نفر سوم)، جواد فولادی اسکوئی (نفر دوم)، سید مهدی ستاری اسفهلان (نفر اول)