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2009 APS March Meeting

Volume 54, Number 1

Monday–Friday, March 16–20, 2009;

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Session A36: Carbon Nanotubes: Electrical Transport and Noise

8:00 AM–11:00 AM,

Monday, March 16, 2009

Room: 408

Sponsoring

Unit:

DMP

Chair: Hui Tang, Yale University,

Abstract ID: BAPS.2009.MAR.A36.6

Abstract: A36.00006 : Theoretical Study of Multiple-Trap Correlations in Random Telegraph Signals of a Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor

9:00 AM–9:12 AM

Authors:

Smitha Vasudevan

(University of Virginia)

Jack Chan

Brian Burke

Kenneth Evans

Kamil Walczak

Mingguo Liu

Joe Campbell

Keith Williams

Avik Ghosh

We develop a theoretical model to explain the observation of high amplitude,

multiple-trap random telegraph signatures (RTS) in the electronic transport

of a one-dimensional field effect transistor (FET) with a carbon nanotube

channel. A unique RTS pattern is observed, with an initial strong blockade

of the current that continues over a well-defined bias window, and

subsequent reversal of the blockade through a separate RTS series. We

ascribe our observations to correlated electrostatic effects between

multiple charge traps along the channel, whereby one trap 'passivates' the

other purely electrostatically and without any direct chemical bond. We

present a robust quantum transport model that provides quantitative

validation of this hypothesis. We assert that this effect, which has not

been reported in bulk silicon devices, arises from the logarithmic

electrostatic potential profile of the 1-D channel that allows the trap

levels to slip past each other under the action of a remote gate, ultimately

reversing their energy hierarchy and annihilating each other. Our results

suggest that multiple-trap behavior in low-dimensional field-effect devices

may be adaptable for several new transistor and sensor technologies.

To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2009.MAR.A36.6