Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 14, Issue 8, Pages 4660-4664Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl501735k
Keywords
Graphene; ideal diode; Landauer transport formalism; injection rate
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The proper understanding of semiconductor devices begins at the metal semiconductor interface. The metal/semiconductor interface itself can also be an important device, as Schottky junctions often forms when the doping in the semiconductors is low. Here, we extend the analysis of metal-silicon Schottky junctions by using graphene, an atomically thin semimetal. We show that a fundamentally new transport model is needed to describe the graphene-silicon Schottky junction. While the current-voltage behavior follows the celebrated ideal diode behavior, the details of the diode characteristics is best characterized by the Landauer transport formalism, suggesting that the injection rate from graphene ultimately determines the transport properties of this new Schottky junction.
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