Browsing by Author "Chen, Chii-Dong"

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Direct Observation of Electron Dephasing due to Inelastic Scattering from Defects in Weakly Disordered AuPd Wires
(2010-05-21)
Zhong, Yuan-Liang
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Sergeev, Andrei
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Chen, Chii-Dong
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Lin, Juhn-Jong
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電子物理學系
To identify and investigate the mechanisms of electron-phonon (e-ph) relaxation in weakly disordered metallic conductors, we measure the electron dephasing rate in a series of suspended and supported 15-nm thick AuPd wires. In a wide temperature range, from similar to 8 K to above 20 K, the e-ph interaction dominates in the dephasing processes. The corresponding relaxation rate reveals a quadratic temperature dependence, tau(-1)(e-ph) = A(ep)T(2), where A(ep) approximate to 5 x 10(9) K(-2) s(-1) is essentially the same for all samples studied. Our observations are shown to be in good agreement with the theory which predicts that, even in weakly disordered metallic structures at moderately low temperatures, the major mechanism of the e-ph relaxation is the electron scattering from vibrating defects and impurities.
Recovery Based Nanowire Field-Effect Transistor Detection of Pathogenic Avian Influenza DNA
(2012-02-01)
Lin, Chih-Heng
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Chu, Chia-Jung
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Teng, Kang-Ning
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Su, Yi-Jr
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Chen, Chii-Dong
Fast and accurate diagnosis is critical in infectious disease surveillance and management. We proposed a DNA recovery system that can easily be adapted to DNA chip or DNA biosensor for fast identification and confirmation of target DNA. This method was based on the re-hybridization of DNA target with a recovery DNA to free the DNA probe. Functionalized silicon nanowire field-effect transistor (SiNW FET) was demonstrated to monitor such specific DNA-DNA interaction using high pathogenic strain virus hemagglutinin 1 (H1) DNA of avian influenza (AI) as target. Specific electric changes were observed in real-time for AI virus DNA sensing and device recovery when nanowire surface of SiNW FET was modified with complementary captured DNA probe. The recovery based SiNW FET biosensor can be further developed for fast identification and further confirmation of a variety of influenza virus strains and other infectious diseases. (C) 2012 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
Ultralow Schottky Barriers in Hexagonal Boron Nitride-Encapsulated Monolayer WSe2 Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors
(2020-04-22)
Pande, Gaurav
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Siao, Jyun-Yan
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Chen, Wei-Liang
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Lee, Chien-Ju
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Sankar, Raman
To explore the potential of field-effect transistors (FETs) based on monolayers (MLs) of the two-dimensional semiconducting channel (SC) for spintronics, the two most important issues are to ensure the formation of variable low-resistive tunnel ferromagnetic contacts (FCs) and to preserve intrinsic properties of the SC during fabrication. Large Schottky barriers lead to the formation of high resistive contacts, and methods adopted to control the barriers often alter the intrinsic properties of the SC. This work aims at addressing both issues in fully encapsulated ML WSe2 FETs using bilayer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) as a tunnel barrier at the FC/SC interface. We investigate the electrical transport in ML WSe2 FETs with the current-in-plane geometry that yields hole mobilities of similar to 38.3 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) at 240 K and on/off ratios of the order of 10(7), limited by the contact regions. We have achieved an ultralow effective Schottky barrier (similar to 5.34 meV) with an encapsulated tunneling device as opposed to a nonencapsulated device in which the barrier heights are considerably higher. These observations provide an insight into the electrical behavior of the FC/h-BN/SC/h-BN heterostructures, and such control over the barrier heights opens up the possibilities for WSe2-based spintronic devices.