Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Electron aspirator using electron–electron scattering in nanoscale silicon

  • Himma Firdaus,
  • Tokinobu Watanabe,
  • Masahiro Hori,
  • Daniel Moraru,
  • Yasuo Takahashi,
  • Akira Fujiwara,
  • Yukinori Ono

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07278-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Power dissipation is usually unavoidable in transistor channels due to the inelastic scattering of electrons. Here, Firdaus et al. propose a nanoscaled silicon electron-aspirator to remove this constraint, which shows enhanced current output by 3 times at 8 K without additional power supply.