中国物理B ›› 2015, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (8): 88105-088105.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/24/8/088105

所属专题: TOPICAL REVIEW — Silicene

• TOPICAL REVIEW—Silicene • 上一篇    下一篇

Silicene transistors–A review

屈贺如歌a c d, 王洋洋a e, 吕劲a b   

  1. a State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
    b Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China;
    c State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China;
    d School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China;
    e Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 收稿日期:2015-03-18 修回日期:2015-04-26 出版日期:2015-08-05 发布日期:2015-08-05
  • 基金资助:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11274016, 11474012, and 1207141) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2013CB932604 and 2012CB619304).

Silicene transistors–A review

Quhe Ru-Ge (屈贺如歌)a c d, Wang Yang-Yang (王洋洋)a e, Lü Jin (吕劲)a b   

  1. a State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
    b Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China;
    c State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China;
    d School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China;
    e Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • Received:2015-03-18 Revised:2015-04-26 Online:2015-08-05 Published:2015-08-05
  • Contact: Lü Jin E-mail:jinglu@pku.edu.cn
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11274016, 11474012, and 1207141) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2013CB932604 and 2012CB619304).

摘要:

Free standing silicene is a two-dimensional silicon monolayer with a buckled honeycomb lattice and a Dirac band structure. Ever since its first successful synthesis in the laboratory, silicene has been considered as an option for post-silicon electronics, as an alternative to graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Despite its theoretical high carrier mobility, the zero band gap characteristic makes pure silicene impossible to use directly as a field effect transistor (FET) operating at room temperature. Here, we first review the theoretical approaches to open a band gap in silicene without diminishing its excellent electronic properties and the corresponding simulations of silicene transistors based on an opened band gap. An all-metallic silicene FET without an opened band gap is also introduced. The two chief obstacles for realization of a silicene transistor are silicene's strong interaction with a metal template and its instability in air. In the final part, we briefly describe a recent experimental advance in fabrication of a proof-of-concept silicene device with Dirac ambipolar charge transport resembling a graphene FET, fabricated via a growth-transfer technique.

关键词: silicene, two-dimensional materials, transistor, electronic device

Abstract:

Free standing silicene is a two-dimensional silicon monolayer with a buckled honeycomb lattice and a Dirac band structure. Ever since its first successful synthesis in the laboratory, silicene has been considered as an option for post-silicon electronics, as an alternative to graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Despite its theoretical high carrier mobility, the zero band gap characteristic makes pure silicene impossible to use directly as a field effect transistor (FET) operating at room temperature. Here, we first review the theoretical approaches to open a band gap in silicene without diminishing its excellent electronic properties and the corresponding simulations of silicene transistors based on an opened band gap. An all-metallic silicene FET without an opened band gap is also introduced. The two chief obstacles for realization of a silicene transistor are silicene's strong interaction with a metal template and its instability in air. In the final part, we briefly describe a recent experimental advance in fabrication of a proof-of-concept silicene device with Dirac ambipolar charge transport resembling a graphene FET, fabricated via a growth-transfer technique.

Key words: silicene, two-dimensional materials, transistor, electronic device

中图分类号:  (Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization)

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