Arguments for The NOT Nanotransistor Affiliation to The FETs Family
Among the nanodevices, the vacuum nanotransistors are intensively studied in the last decade. A recent novel device was proposed as the NOT - Nothing On Insulator - nanotransistor, inspired from ultrathin SOT devices. Therefore, this new device preserves some properties from the SOT structures. Obviously, the NOT nanotransistor is a vacuum tunnel device among the vacuum field emission devices. But the main target, in this paper, is to prove that its particularity comes from affiliation to the FETs family, monitoring the gate-control on the drain current. The drain current is activated by the V-DS voltage under tunneling conditions. But the gate terminal modulates the carriers concentration and consequently the drain current flow, accordingly with its inherent included SOT structure. Also, a new model parameter comes to complete the NOT theory. The third order derivative was used for the extraction of a threshold drain-source voltage that splits the work domain in two conduction regions.
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