Title :
Modelling and analysis of island region in Single Electron Transistor with nanotube and oxide layers
Author :
Ravindiran, M. ; Mahalakshmi, S. ; Shankar, Prithvi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Saveetha Univ., Chennai, India
Abstract :
Single Electron Transistor (SET) works on the phenomenon of electron tunnelling from source to drain through the Island region called as Coulomb blockade. This can be achieved by placing a material of different energy band gap in the island region so that the electrons gets accumulated at the island and the electrons with higher energy able to pass through the island and reaches the drain region. Normally 0D, 1D, 2D nanostructures have varying band gaps due to the electron confinement. In our approach two different Island regions have been achieved by placing CNT and TiO2 between the source and the drain regions as two different approaches. In this paper the performances of the SET with two different Island regions have been analyzed using Material Studio software package.
Keywords :
Coulomb blockade; carbon nanotubes; nanotube devices; single electron transistors; titanium compounds; tunnelling; 0D nanostructure; 1D nanostructure; 2D nanostructure; CNT; Coulomb blockade; Material Studio software package; SET; TiO2; drain region; electron confinement; electron tunnelling; island region analysis; island region modelling; nanotube; nergy band gap; oxide layers; single-electron transistor; titanium dioxide; CNT; Coulomb Blockade; Material Studio;
Conference_Titel :
Sustainable Energy and Intelligent Systems (SEISCON 2012), IET Chennai 3rd International on
Conference_Location :
Tiruchengode
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-797-7
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2012.2210