Mo-based van der Waals heterojunction p-n diodes with p-type α-MoTe2 and n-type MoS2 are fabricated on glass, and demonstrate excellent static and dynamic device performances at a low voltage of 5 V, with an ON/OFF current ratio higher than 10(3) , ideality factors of 1.06, dynamic rectification at a high frequency of 1 kHz, high photoresponsivity of 322 mA W(-1) , and an external quantum efficiency of 85% under blue-light illumination.
Lead sulfide (PbS) quantum dots (QDs) have great potential in optoelectronic applications because of their desirable characteristics as a light absorber for near-infrared (NIR) photodetection. However, most PbS-based NIR photodetectors are two-terminal devices, which require an integrated pixel circuit to be practical photosensors. Here we report on PbS QD/indium gallium zinc oxide (InGaZnO, IGZO) metal oxide semiconductor hybrid phototransistors with a photodetection capability between 700 and 1400 nm, a range that neither conventional Si nor InGaAs photodetectors can cover. The new hybrid phototransistor exhibits excellent photoresponsivity of over 10 6 A W − 1 and a specific detectivity in the order of 10 13 Jones for NIR (1000 nm) light. Furthermore, we demonstrate an NIR (1300 nm) imager using photogating inverter pixels based on PbS/IGZO phototransistors at an imaging frequency of 1 Hz with a high output voltage photogain of~4.9 V (~99%). To the best of our knowledge, this report demonstrates the first QD/metal oxide hybrid phototransistor-based flat panel NIR imager. Our hybrid approach using QD/metal oxide paves the way for the development of gate-tunable and highly sensitive flat panel NIR sensors/ imagers that can be easily integrated.
Molybdenum ditelluride (α-MoTe2) is an emerging transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductor that has been attracting attention due to its favorable optical and electronic properties. Field-effect transistors (FETs) based on few-layer α-MoTe2 nanosheets have previously shown ambipolar behavior with strong p-type and weak n-type conduction. We have employed a direct imprinting technique following mechanical nanosheet exfoliation to fabricate high-performance complementary inverters using α-MoTe2 as the semiconductor for the p-channel FETs and MoS2 as the semiconductor for the n-channel FETs. To avoid ambipolar behavior and produce α-MoTe2 FETs with clean p-channel characteristics, we have employed the high-workfunction metal platinum for the source and drain contacts. As a result, our α-MoTe2 nanosheet p-channel FETs show hole mobilities up to 20 cm(2)/(V s), on/off ratios up to 10(5), and a subthreshold slope of 255 mV/decade. For our complementary inverters composed of few-layer α-MoTe2 p-channel FETs and MoS2 n-channel FETs we have obtained voltage gains as high as 33, noise margins as high as 0.38 VDD, a switching delay of 25 μs, and a static power consumption of a few nanowatts.
High‐performance, air‐stable, p‐channel WSe2 top‐gate field‐effect transistors (FETs) using a bilayer gate dielectric composed of high‐ and low‐k dielectrics are reported. Using only a high‐k Al2O3 as the top‐gate dielectric generally degrades the electrical properties of p‐channel WSe2, therefore, a thin fluoropolymer (Cytop) as a buffer layer to protect the 2D channel from high‐k oxide forming is deposited. As a result, a top‐gate‐patterned 2D WSe2 FET is realized. The top‐gate p‐channel WSe2 FET demonstrates a high hole mobility of 100 cm2 V−1 s−1 and a ION/IOFF ratio > 107 at low gate voltages (VGS ca. −4 V) and a drain voltage (VDS) of −1 V on a glass substrate. Furthermore, the top‐gate FET shows a very good stability in ambient air with a relative humidity of 45% for 7 days after device fabrication. Our approach of creating a high‐k oxide/low‐k organic bilayer dielectric is advantageous over single‐layer high‐k dielectrics for top‐gate p‐channel WSe2 FETs, which will lead the way toward future electronic nanodevices and their integration.
Two-dimensional (2D) MoS2 is a representative n-type transition-metal dichalcogenide
(TMD) semiconductor
that has great potential for future nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic
applications. Here, we report a high-performance MoS2 phototransistor
that exhibits a photoresponse in the 400–700 nm range with
the maximum responsivity of over 1 × 104 A/W. As a
more sophisticated optoelectronic application than a simple unit device,
it is implemented in a photoinverter (NOT logic gate) connected to
an external resistor, which clearly shows photoinduced static and
dynamic characteristics. Furthermore, we demonstrate a prototype visible
imager using the MoS2 photoinverter as imaging pixels as
an excellent example of advanced developments in an optoelectronic
system based on the 2D semiconductors.
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