Miniaturization
of electronic circuits increases their overall
performance. So far, electronics based on organic semiconductors has
not played an important role in the miniaturization race. Here, we
show the fabrication of liquid electrolyte gated vertical organic
field effect transistors with channel lengths down to 2.4 nm. These
ultrashort channel lengths are enabled by using insulating hexagonal
boron nitride with atomically precise thickness and flatness as a
spacer separating the vertically aligned source and drain electrodes.
The transistors reveal promising electrical characteristics with output
current densities of up to 2.95 MA cm–2 at −0.4
V bias, on–off ratios of up to 106, a steep subthreshold
swing of down to 65 mV dec–1 and a transconductance
of up to 714 S m–1. Realizing channel lengths in
the sub-5 nm regime and operation voltages down to 100 μV proves
the potential of organic semiconductors for future highly integrated
or low power electronics.
The response of solids to electromagnetic fields is of crucial importance in many areas of science and technology. Many fundamental questions remain to be answered about the dynamics of the photoexcited electrons that underpin this response, which can evolve on timescales of tens to hundreds of attoseconds. How, for example, is the photoexcited electron affected by the periodic potential as it travels in the solid, and how do the other electrons respond in these strongly correlated systems? Furthermore, control of electronic motion in solids with attosecond precision would pave the way for the development of ultrafast optoelectronics. Attosecond electron dynamics can be traced using streaking, a technique where a strong near-infrared laser field accelerates an attosecond electron wavepacket photoemitted by an extreme ultraviolet light pulse, imprinting timing information onto it. We present attosecond streaking measurements on the wide-bandgap semiconductor tungsten trioxide, and on gold, a metal used in many nanoplasmonic devices. Information about electronic motion in the solid is encoded on the temporal properties of the photoemitted electron wavepackets, which are consistent with a spread of electron transport times to the surface following photoexcitation.
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