Effects of low-dimensional material channels on energy consumption of Nano-devices

TL;DR

This study investigates the thermal properties of various 2D materials as silicon channel replacements in transistors, highlighting blue phosphorene's superior heat management and potential for energy-efficient nano-device design.

Contribution

It introduces a non-Fourier thermal analysis of five 2D materials, identifying blue phosphorene as thermally optimal for transistor channels compared to graphene and others.

Findings

Graphene and blue phosphorene have the lowest maximum temperatures.

These materials exhibit faster heat dissipation and do not reach critical temperature thresholds.

Blue phosphorene is recommended for thermally efficient transistor channels.

Abstract

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 MoS$_2$ 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.