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Junctionless transistors made of silicon have previously been demonstrated experimentally and by simulations. Junctionless devices do not require fabricating an abrupt source-drain junction and thus can be easier to implement in aggressive geometries. In this paper, we explore a similar architecture for aggressively scaled devices with the channel consisting of doped carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Gate all around (GAA) field effect transistor (FET) structures are investigated for n- and p-type doping. Current-voltage characteristics and sub-threshold characteristics for a CNTbased junctionless FET is compared with a junctionless silicon nanowire (SiNW) FET with comparable dimensions. Despite the higher on-current of the CNT channels, the device characteristics are poorer compared to the silicon devices due to the smaller CNT band gap.
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