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​Updated March 2020

Papers in Refereed Journals
 
  1. H. F. Schaake, M. A. Kinch, D. Chandra, F. Aqariden, P. K. Liao, D. F. Weirauch, C.-F. Wan, R. E. Scritchfield, W. W. Sullivan, J. T. Teherani, and H. D. Shih, “High-Operating-Temperature MWIR Detector Diodes,” Journal of Elec Materi, vol. 37, no. 9, pp. 1401–1405, Sep. 2008. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-008-0423-6
  2. J. Beck, R. Scritchfield, B. Sullivan, J. T. Teherani, C.-F. Wan, M. Kinch, M. Ohlson, M. Skokan, L. Wood, P. Mitra, M. Goodwin, and J. Robinson, “Performance and Modeling of the MWIR HgCdTe Electron Avalanche Photodiode,” Journal of Elec Materi, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 1579–1592, Aug. 2009. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-009-0684-8
  3. P. M. Solomon, I. Lauer, A. Majumdar, J. T. Teherani, M. Luisier, J. Cai, and S. J. Koester, “Effect of Uniaxial Strain on the Drain Current of a Heterojunction Tunneling Field-Effect Transistor,” Electron Device Letters, IEEE, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 464–466, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2011.2108993
  4. P. Hashemi, W. Chern, H. Lee, J. T. Teherani, Y. Zhu, J. Gonsalvez, G. G. Shahidi, and J. L. Hoyt, “Ultrathin Strained-Ge Channel P-MOSFETs With High-K/Metal Gate and Sub-1-nm Equivalent Oxide Thickness,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 943–945, Jul. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2012.2195631
  5. J. T. Teherani, W. Chern, D. A. Antoniadis, J. L. Hoyt, L. Ruiz, C. D. Poweleit, and J. Menéndez, “Extraction of large valence-band energy offsets and comparison to theoretical values for strained-Si/strained-Ge type-II heterostructures on relaxed SiGe substrates,” Phys. Rev. B, vol. 85, no. 20, p. 205308, May 2012. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.205308
  6. J. T. Teherani, S. Agarwal, E. Yablonovitch, J. L. Hoyt, and D. A. Antoniadis, “Impact of Quantization Energy and Gate Leakage in Bilayer Tunneling Transistors,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 298–300, Feb. 2013. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2012.2229458
  7. T. Yu, J. T. Teherani, D. A. Antoniadis, and J. L. Hoyt, “InGaAs/GaAsSb Quantum-Well Tunnel-FETs With Tunable Backward Diode Characteristics,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 1503–1505, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2013.2287237
  8. S. Agarwal, J. T. Teherani, J. L. Hoyt, D. A. Antoniadis, and E. Yablonovitch, “Engineering the Electron-Hole Bilayer Tunneling Field-Effect Transistor,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 1599–1606, May 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2014.2312939
  9. W. Chern, P. Hashemi, J. T. Teherani, D. A. Antoniadis, and J. L. Hoyt, “Record Hole Mobility at High Vertical Fields in Planar Strained Germanium on Insulator With Asymmetric Strain,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 309–311, Mar. 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2014.2300197
  10. J. T. Teherani, W. Chern, D. A. Antoniadis, and J. L. Hoyt, “Ultra-Thin, High Quality HfO2 on Strained-Ge MOS Capacitors with Low Leakage Current,” ECS Trans., vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 267–271, Aug. 2014. https://doi.org/10.1149/06406.0267ecst
  11. T. Yu, J. T. Teherani, D. A. Antoniadis, and J. L. Hoyt, “Effects of substrate leakage and drain-side thermal barriers in In0.53Ga0.47As/GaAs0.5Sb0.5 quantum-well tunneling field-effect transistors,” Appl. Phys. Express, vol. 7, no. 9, p. 094201, Sep. 2014. https://doi.org/10.7567/APEX.7.094201
  12. J. T. Teherani, S. Agarwal, W. Chern, P. M. Solomon, E. Yablonovitch, and D. A. Antoniadis, “Auger generation as an intrinsic limit to tunneling field-effect transistor performance,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 120, no. 8, p. 084507, Aug. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960571
  13. A. Kerelsky, A. Nipane, D. Edelberg, D. Wang, X. Zhou, A. Motmaendadgar, H. Gao, S. Xie, K. Kang, J. Park, J. T. Teherani, and A. Pasupathy, “Absence of a Band Gap at the Interface of a Metal and Highly Doped Monolayer MoS2,” Nano Lett., Sep. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01986
  14. A. Nipane, S. Jayanti, A. Borah, and J. T. Teherani, “Electrostatics of lateral p-n junctions in atomically thin materials,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 122, no. 19, p. 194501, Nov. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4994047
  15. J. T. Teherani, “A Comprehensive Theoretical Analysis of Hole Ballistic Velocity in Si, SiGe, and Ge: Effect of Uniaxial Strain, Crystallographic Orientation, Body Thickness, and Gate Architecture,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 64, no. 8, pp. 3316–3323, Aug. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2017.2708691
  16. A. Borah, P. J. Sebastian, A. Nipane, and J. T. Teherani, “An Intuitive Equivalent Circuit Model for Multilayer Van Der Waals Heterostructures,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 4209–4215, Oct. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2018.2851920
  17. A. Nipane, S. Jayanti, A. Borah, and J. T. Teherani, “Erratum: ‘Electrostatics of lateral p-n junctions in atomically thin materials,’” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 124, no. 13, p. 139902, Oct. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5051548
  18. A. Nipane, Y. Zhang, and J. T. Teherani, “Role of out-of-plane dielectric thickness in the electrostatic simulation of atomically thin lateral junctions,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 123, no. 21, p. 214302, Jun. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5027520
  19. Y. Jung, M. S. Choi, A. Nipane, A. Borah, B. Kim, A. Zangiabadi, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, W. J. Yoo, J. Hone, and J. T. Teherani, “Transferred via contacts as a platform for ideal two-dimensional transistors,” Nature Electronics, vol. 2, no. 5, p. 187, May 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-019-0245-y
  20. I. Moon, S. Lee, M. Lee, C. Kim, D. Seol, Y. Kim, K. Hyun Kim, G. Young Yeom, J. T. Teherani, J. Hone, and W. Jong Yoo, “The device level modulation of carrier transport in a 2D WSe 2 field effect transistor via a plasma treatment,” Nanoscale, vol. 11, no. 37, pp. 17368–17375, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NR05881H  
 
Proceedings of Refereed Conferences
 
  1. J. Beck, R. Scritchfield, B. Sullivan, J. T. Teherani, C.-F. Wan, M. Kinch, M. Ohlson, M. Skokan, L. Wood, P. Mitra, M. Goodwin, and J. Robinson, “Performance and modeling of the MWIR HgCdTe electron avalanche photodiode,” Proceedings of the SPIE, 2009, vol. 7298, pp. 729838-729838–17. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.819045
  2. P. Hashemi, J. T. Teherani, and J. L. Hoyt, “Investigation of hole mobility in gate-all-around Si nanowire p-MOSFETs with high-K/metal-gate: Effects of hydrogen thermal annealing and nanowire shape,” IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2010, pp. 34.5.1-34.5.4. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEDM.2010.5703477
  3. W. Chern, P. Hashemi, J. T. Teherani, T. Yu, Y. Dong, G. Xia, D. A. Antoniadis, and J. L. Hoyt, “High mobility high-K-all-around asymmetrically-strained Germanium nanowire trigate p-MOSFETs,” IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2012, pp. 16.5.1-16.5.4. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEDM.2012.6479055
  4. S. Agarwal, J. T. Teherani, J. L. Hoyt, D. A. Antoniadis, and E. Yablonovitch, “Optimization of the electron hole bilayer tunneling field effect transistor,” 71st Device Research Conference (DRC), 2013, pp. 109–110. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2013.6633817
  5. J. T. Teherani, W. Chern, D. A. Antoniadis, and J. L. Hoyt, “Simulation of enhanced hole ballistic velocity in asymmetrically strained Germanium nanowire trigate p-MOSFETs,” IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2013, pp. 32.4.1-32.4.4. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEDM.2013.6724737
  6. J. T. Teherani, T. Yu, D. A. Antoniadis, and J. L. Hoyt, “Electrostatic design of vertical tunneling field-effect transistors,” Third Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (E3S), 2013, pp. 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1109/E3S.2013.6705872
  7. J. T. Teherani, W. Chern, S. Agarwal, J. L. Hoyt, and D. A. Antoniadis, “A framework for generation and recombination in tunneling field-effect transistors,” Fourth Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (E3S), 2015, pp. 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1109/E3S.2015.7336797
  8. A. Kerelsky, A. Nipane, D. Edelberg, D. Wang, M. Cheng, A. Dadgar, H. Gao, K. Kang, J. Park, J. T. Teherani, and A. Pasupathy, “Band Structure Evolution in Vertically Contacted MoS2 Probed Using Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy,” Bulletin of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2017, vol. Volume 62, Number 4. http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR17/Session/L32.12
  9. M. S. Choi, Y. Jung, D. Rhodes, B. Kim, J. T. Teherani, J. Hone, and W. J. Yoo, “Study of Contact Properties for Semiconducting TMDCs Using Via Contacts Embedded in h-BN,” Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Los Angeles, California, 2018. http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR18/Session/T60.169
  10. Y. Jung, M. S. Choi, A. Borah, A. Nipane, W. J. Yoo, J. Hone, and J. T. Teherani, “Reliable High-Quality Metal-Embedded h-BN Contacts to p-type WSe2,” 76th Device Research Conference (DRC), 2018, pp. 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2018.8442181
  11. J. T. Teherani, “The Auger FET: a Novel Device Concept for Subthermal Switching,” IEEE 2nd Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing Conference (EDTM), 2018, pp. 208–210. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDTM.2018.8421442
  12. J. T. Teherani, “Orientation Dependence of the Hole Ballistic Velocity in Si, SiGe, and Ge Thin-Body Structures with Uniaxial Compressive Strain,” ECS Fall Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, 2018, vol. MA2018-02, pp. 1017–1017. http://ma.ecsdl.org/content/MA2018-02/31/1017
  13. A. Nipane, P. J. Sebastian, Y. Jung, M. S. Choi, A. Borah, W. J. Yoo, J. Hone, and J. T. Teherani, “Atomic Layer Etching (ALE) of WSe2 Yielding High Mobility p-FETs,” 2019 Device Research Conference (DRC), 2019, pp. 231–232. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC46940.2019.9046402
 
Other Major Publications
 
  1. J. T. Teherani, “Band-to-band tunneling in silicon diodes and tunnel transistors,” Thesis, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2010. https://doi.org/1721.1/60215
  2. J. T. Teherani, “TEM Lattice Calculator,” nanohub.org, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4231/D3VQ2S96B
  3. J. T. Teherani and J. L. Hoyt, “A Physically-Intuitive Method for Calculation of the Local Lattice Constant from a High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Image by Fourier Analysis,” arXiv, Sep. 2013. http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3155
  4. J. T. Teherani, “Uniaxial and Biaxial Stress/Strain Calculator for Semiconductors,” nanohub.org, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4231/D33F4KN4J
  5. J. T. Teherani, “How Computers Compute,” YouTube, 2014. https://youtu.be/8cVsgFN3hSM
  6. J. T. Teherani, “What is a Semiconductor?” YouTube, 2015. https://youtu.be/gUmDVe6C-BU
  7. J. T. Teherani, “Fundamental limits of the switching abruptness of tunneling transistors,” Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. https://doi.org/1721.1/99853
  8. A. Borah and J. T. Teherani, “Electrostatic Properties Simulation of Layered 2D Material Devices,” nanohub.org, 2017. https://doi.org/10.21981/D3C24QQ39
  9. J. T. Teherani, “Building at the Nanoscale | Part 01: 2D vs 3D Materials,” YouTube, 2019. https://youtu.be/4m-1vxXQHtY
  10. J. T. Teherani, “Building at the Nanoscale | Part 02: How to Build 2D Atomic Stacks,” YouTube, 2019. https://youtu.be/JgfkLhMo1fA​

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A. Borah and J. T. Teherani, “Electrostatic Properties Simulation of Layered 2D Material Devices,” nanohub.org, 2017. https://doi.org/10.21981/D3C24QQ39

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J. T. Teherani, “(Talk) Auger Generation as an Intrinsic Limit to Tunneling Field-Effect Transistor Performance,” nanohub.org, 2016. https://nanohub.org/resources/24982

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J. T. Teherani, “Uniaxial and Biaxial Stress/Strain Calculator for Semiconductors,” nanohub.org, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4231/D33F4KN4J

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J. T. Teherani, “TEM Lattice Calculator,” nanohub.org, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4231/D3VQ2S96B

​​Department of Electrical Engineering 
Columbia University, New York, NY
 

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