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ArticleNature communications2025

Toward high-current-density and high-frequency graphene resonant tunneling transistors.

Zihao Zhang, Baoqing Zhang, Yifei Zhang, Yiming Wang, Patrick Hays, Seth Ariel Tongay, Mingyang Wang, Hecheng Han, Hu Li, Jiawei Zhang and 1 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Gallium Nitride Semiconductor Resonant Tunneling Transistor.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Zihao ZhangInstitute of Nanoscience and Applications, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-7119-2626
Baoqing ZhangInstitute of Nanoscience and Applications, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Yifei ZhangShandong Technology Center of Nanodevices and Integration, School of Integrated Circuits, Shandong University, Jinan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6077-8525
Yiming WangShandong Technology Center of Nanodevices and Integration, School of Integrated Circuits, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Patrick HaysSchool for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Seth Ariel TongaySchool for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-984X
Mingyang WangShandong Technology Center of Nanodevices and Integration, School of Integrated Circuits, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Hecheng HanShandong Technology Center of Nanodevices and Integration, School of Integrated Circuits, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Hu LiShandong Technology Center of Nanodevices and Integration, School of Integrated Circuits, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Jiawei ZhangShandong Technology Center of Nanodevices and Integration, School of Integrated Circuits, Shandong University, Jinan, China. Jiawei.Zhang@sdu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1624-9535
Aimin SongInstitute of Nanoscience and Applications, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. songam@sustech.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-518X

Funding

Department of Science and Technology of Shandong Province 2017GGX10111Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology) 2022YFA1405200Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology) 2022YFB3603900Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation) BK20200221Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation) ZR2020QF082Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation) ZR2022ZD04Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission JCYJ20240813100810014Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission JCYJ20240813100900002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Negative differential resistance (NDR), a peculiar electrical property in which current decreases with increasing voltage, is highly desirable for multivalued logic gates, memory devices, and oscillators. Recently, 2D quantum-tunneling NDR devices have attracted considerable attention because of the inherent atomically flat and dangling-bond-free surfaces of 2D materials. However, the low current density of 2D NDR devices limits their operating frequency to less than 2 MHz. In this study, graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN)/graphene resonant tunneling transistors (RTTs) were fabricated using graphene and h-BN barriers with different numbers of atomic layers, showing a mechanism enabling the observation of NDR in high current density devices. A triangular etching approach was proposed to suppress the effects of graphene-metal contact resistance and graphene sheet resistance, enabling pronounced NDR effect even in a 2D tunneling device with a single atomic layer h-BN barrier. A room-temperature peak current density up to 2700 μA/μm

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