Despite heightened interest in 2D transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) doping methods for future layered semiconductor devices, most doping research is currently limited to molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), which is generally used for n-channel 2D transistors. In addition, previously reported TMD doping techniques result in only high-level doping concentrations (degenerate) in which TMD materials behave as near-metallic layers. Here, we demonstrate a controllable nondegenerate p-type doping (p-doping) technique on tungsten diselenide (WSe2) for p-channel 2D transistors by adjusting the concentration of octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS). This p-doping phenomenon originates from the methyl (-CH3) functional groups in OTS, which exhibit a positive pole and consequently reduce the electron carrier density in WSe2. The controlled p-doping levels are between 2.1 × 10(11) and 5.2 × 10(11) cm(-2) in the nondegenerate regime, where the performance parameters of WSe2-based electronic and optoelectronic devices can be properly designed or optimized (threshold voltage↑, on-/off-currents↑, field-effect mobility↑, photoresponsivity↓, and detectivity↓ as the doping level increases). The p-doping effect provided by OTS is sustained in ambient air for a long time showing small changes in the device performance (18-34% loss of ΔVTH initially achieved by OTS doping for 60 h). Furthermore, performance degradation is almost completely recovered by additional thermal annealing at 120 °C. Through Raman spectroscopy and electrical/optical measurements, we have also confirmed that the OTS doping phenomenon is independent of the thickness of the WSe2 films. We expect that our controllable p-doping method will make it possible to successfully integrate future layered semiconductor devices.
A high-performance ReS2 -based thin-film transistor and photodetector with high on/off-current ratio (10(4) ), high mobility (7.6 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) ), high photoresponsivity (2.5 × 10(7) A W(-1) ), and fast temporal response (rising and decaying time of 670 ms and 5.6 s, respectively) through O2 plasma treatment is reported.
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