# Universal Scaling Laws in Schottky Heterostructures Based on Two-Dimensional Materials.

@article{Ang2018UniversalSL,
title={Universal Scaling Laws in Schottky Heterostructures Based on Two-Dimensional Materials.},
author={Yee Sin Ang and Hui Ying Yang and Lay Kee Ang},
journal={Physical review letters},
year={2018},
volume={121 5},
pages={
056802
}
}
• Published 5 March 2018
• Physics
• Physical review letters
We identify a new universality in the carrier transport of two-dimensional (2D) material-based Schottky heterostructures. We show that the reversed saturation current (J) scales universally with temperature (T) as log(J/T^{β})∝-1/T, with β=3/2 for lateral Schottky heterostructures and β=1 for vertical Schottky heterostructures, over a wide range of 2D systems including nonrelativistic electron gas, Rashba spintronic systems, single- and few-layer graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and…
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