It is shown that current saturation in semiconducting carbon nanotubes is indistinguishable from metallic nanotubes if the carrier density is above a critical value determined by the bandgap and the optical phonon energy. This feature stems from the higher number of current-carrying states in the semiconducting tubes due to the van Hove singularity at the band edge. Above this critical carrier density, the ensemble saturation velocity at high fields is found to be independent of the bandgap, but strongly dependent on the carrier density, explaining recent observations. The results derived are valid in the limit of ultrafast electron-optical phonon interaction and diffusive transport at high electric fields. The analytical results derived are then applied to one-dimensional (1D) semiconducting graphene nanoribbons as well as semiconductor nanowires with parabolic bandgap. A generalized concept of phonon-limited saturation currents in high-field transport in 1D structures emerges from these considerations.
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15 June 2009
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June 16 2009
A theory for the high-field current-carrying capacity of one-dimensional semiconductors
Debdeep Jena
Debdeep Jena
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Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame
, Indiana 46556, USA
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J. Appl. Phys. 105, 123701 (2009)
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Received:
December 30 2008
Accepted:
May 08 2009
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Debdeep Jena; A theory for the high-field current-carrying capacity of one-dimensional semiconductors. J. Appl. Phys. 15 June 2009; 105 (12): 123701. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3147877
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