Performance of Monolayer Blue Phosphorene Double-Gate MOSFETs from the First Principles

We systematically study the device characteristics of the monolayer (ML) blue phosphorene metal–oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) by using ab initio quantum-transport simulations. The ML blue phosphorene MOSFETs show superior performances with ultrashort-channel length. We first predict the ultrascaled ML blue phosphorene MOSFETs with proper doping concentration and underlap structures are compliant with the high-performance (HP) and low-power (LP) requirements of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors in the next decade in the aspects of the on-state current, delay time, and power dissipation. Encouragingly, the performances of the ML blue phosphorene MOSFETs are superior to that of the MOSFETs based on arsenene, antimonene, InSe, etc. in terms of the on-state current at similar device size. We also consider the electron–phonon scattering in 10.2 nm gate ML blue phosphorene MOSFET. It is found that the on-state current with the scattering of the blue phosphorene device is degraded by 25.4 and 23.6% for HP and LP applications, which can also fulfill the HP and LP application target. Therefore, we can deduce that ML blue phosphorene is an alternative channel material to silicon for ultrascaled FETs if the large-scale and high-quality blue phosphorene can be achieved.