A guiding path for graphene circuits

Gate-controlled guiding of electrons in graphene.

Ballistic semiconductor structures have allowed the realization of optics-like phenomena in electronic systems, including the magnetic focusing and electrostatic lensing of electrons. An extension that appears unique to graphene is to use both n and p carrier types to create electronic analogues of optical devices with both positive and negative indices of refraction. Here, we use the gate-cont...

Proposal for all-graphene monolithic logic circuits

Building blocks for integrated graphene circuits.

The observation of single sheets of graphite (graphene) presents new possibilities for carbon-based nanoelectronics. We report defect tolerant configurations for a nearly reflectionless 120 degrees turn and nearly reflectionless symmetric and asymmetric splitters, which can be cut from graphene. Connections between zigzag strips of different widths can be made with either low or high reflectanc...

Guiding of Electrons in a Few-Mode Ballistic Graphene Channel.

In graphene, the extremely fast charge carriers can be controlled by electron-optical elements, such as waveguides, in which the transmissivity is tuned by the wavelength. In this work, charge carriers are guided in a suspended ballistic few-mode graphene channel, defined by electrostatic gating. By depleting the channel, a reduction of mode number and steps in the conductance are observed, unt...

A New Circuit Scheme for Wide Dynamic Circuits

In this paper, a new circuit scheme is proposed to reduce the power consumption of dynamic circuits. In the proposed circuit, an NMOS keeper transistor is used to maintain the voltage level in the output node against charge sharing, leakage current and noise sources. Using the proposed keeper scheme, the voltage swing on the dynamic node is lowered to reduce the power consumption of wide fan-in...