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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 111, Issue 34, Pages 12504-12507Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp074692q
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- Korea Institute of Industrial Technology(KITECH) [10027883] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- Ministry of Education, Science & Technology (MoST), Republic of Korea [kaist40] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- National Research Foundation of Korea [과06A1506] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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We have studied gate hysteresis of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) on silicon oxide substrates in an ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) at low temperatures. It is found that the hysteresis is neither reduced by thermal annealing at temperatures over 300 C under UHV nor significantly affected by independent adsorption of ammonia or water at T = 56 K. However, the hysteresis decreases greatly upon coadsorption of water and ammonia below condensation temperatures and restores completely with desorption of the adsorbed water layer. On the basis of these results, it is concluded that the main cause of gate hysteresis in CNFETs on silicon oxide substrate is charge transfer between the carbon nanotube and charge traps at the silicon oxide/ambient interface. We propose a mechanism for gate hysteresis that involves surface silanol groups as the major sources of screening charges. This surface silanol model is supported by results from scanning surface potential microscopy (SSPM).
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