Large peak-to-valley ratio of negative-differential-conductance in graphene p-n junctions
arXiv:1105.1283 · doi:10.1063/1.3587570
Abstract
We investigate the transport characteristics of monolayer graphene p-n junctions by means of the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. It is shown that thanks to the high interband tunneling of chiral fermions and to a finite bandgap opening when the inversion symmetry of graphene plane is broken, a strong negative-differential-conductance behavior with peak-to-valley ratio as large as a few tens can be achieved even at room temperature. The dependence of this behavior on the device parameters such as the Fermi energy, the barrier height, and the transition length is then discussed.
5 pages, 5 figures
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