2018/03/31 by Zahra Shomali, Reza Asgari
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #2D Materials and Applications #Electrical engineering #Engineering physics #Graphene #Graphene research and applications #Materials science #Nanotechnology #Optoelectronics #Phosphorene #Physics #Silicene #Silicon #Thermal properties of materials #Transistor #Voltage #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2018.03.014
published as INT COMMUN HEAT MASS 94 (2018 )77
openalex created_date 2018/03/29 · openalex publication_date 2018/04/17 · arxiv created 2018/04/20 · arxiv updated 2018/04/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
It is commonly believed that the significant energy saving advantages are belonged to the logic circuits which operate at low temperature as less enegy is needed for cooling them to the treshold temperature after operation. Also, nanoscale thermal management, efficient energy usage in nanoscale and especially thermal optimization are the most challenging issues, while dealing with the new generation of transistors as the miniaturizing unlimitedly the silicon channels of the transistors has resulted in an increase in the energy consumption of computers and the leakage currents. In this paper, the non-Fourier thermal attitudes of well-known two-dimensional crystalline materials of graphene, blue phosphorene, germanene, silicene and MoS2 as the silicon channels replacements are studied by using the phonon Monte-Carlo method. We show that graphene and blue phosphorene have the least maximum temperature, representer of the reliability of the transistors, among the all five investigated nano-channels during the Monte-Cralo simulation. The established hotspots of these two materials are always cooler, not reaching the temperature threshold level, and they lose the heat much faster as the heat generation zone is switched off. The obtained results considered along with the electrical disadvantages of the graphene layer, suggests the blue phosphorene as the more thermally appropriate and optimal choice for the silicon channel replacement in new designed field effect transistors. That is to say that the limit of the energy and economic cost of the producing the advanced blue phosphorene chips meets the value of the product for the computing enterprise.