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Jinbao Jiang1,2, Manh-Ha Doan2, Linfeng Sun2, Hyun Kim1,2, Hua Yu1, Min-Kyu Joo3, Sang Hyun Park1, Heejun Yang1,2, Dinh Loc Duong1,2, Young Hee Lee1,2,4.
Abstract
Atomically thin 2D van der Waals semiconductors are promising candidates for next-generation nanoscale field-effect transistors (FETs). Although large-area 2D van der Waals materials have been successfully synthesized, such nanometer-length-scale devices have not been well demonstrated in 2D van der Waals semiconductors. Here, controllable nanometer-scale transistors with a channel length of ≈10 nm are fabricated via vertical channels by squeezing an ultrathin insulating spacer between the out-of-plane source and drain electrodes, and the feasibility of high-density and large-scale fabrication is demonstrated. A large on-current density of ≈70 µA µm-1 nm-1 at a source-drain voltage of 0.5 V and a high on/off ratio of ≈107-109 are obtained in ultrashort 2D vertical channel FETs with monolayer MoS2 synthesized through chemical vapor deposition. The work provides a promising route toward the complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor-compatible fabrication of wafer-scale 2D van der Waals transistors with high-density integration.Entities:
Keywords: 2D nanoelectronics; ultrashort channel; van der Waals semiconductors; vertical type transistors
Year: 2019 PMID: 32099767 PMCID: PMC7029639 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201902964
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Sci (Weinh) ISSN: 2198-3844 Impact factor: 16.806
Figure 1Schematic illustration of 2DVFETs and the feasibility of high‐density and large‐scale fabrication. a) Schematic illustration of the 3D view of the device layout, with mainly six layers, namely, the bottom electrode, insulating spacer, top electrode, 2D vertical channel, top‐side gate insulator, and gate electrode. b) Cross‐sectional TEM image of a typical 2DVFET. Inset: tilt‐view SEM image of the devices, where the black dashed curve marks the direction for the TEM image. c) Confirmation of continuous MoS2 monolayer well‐attaching to the SID patterns. I) Top‐view optical image. II) Top‐view SEM image. III) Tilt‐view SEM image. IV) Tilt‐view AFM image. d) Demonstration for high‐density and large‐scale fabrication. I–IV) Top‐view SEM images showing the key fabrication processes of an array of 2DVFETs with the bottom electrode width of ≈200 nm. V) Top‐view SEM image of the fabricated large‐scale high‐density 2DVFETs with CVD‐grown MoS2 prior to top‐side gate fabrication and metal interconnection. Inset: schematic illustration of a single CMOS of 2DVFETs. VI) Higher‐magnification SEM image of a single 2DVFET in (d‐V) with the electrode width of ≈100 nm and transferred MoS2 shown in the dotted box as the channel. VII) AFM image of the devices in (d‐V)
Figure 2Electrical characteristics of the ultrashort CVD‐grown MoS2‐based 2DVFETs. a) Cross‐sectional schematic illustration of the device. b) I ds–V g transfer characteristics of the MoS2‐based 2DVFET in the linear form and logarithm, with V ds = 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, and 0.5 V, and V g = −5 to 16 V. c) I ds–V ds output characteristics of the device. Inset: I ds–V ds output curves at log–log scale. d) Comparison of device performance between 2DVFET and conventional planar 2D FET with CVD‐grown monolayer MoS2. Here, we take V g × C as the X‐axis to consider the influence of thickness and dielectric constant differences of hBN and SiO2 as the gate insulators in 2DVFETs and planar devices, respectively. Inset: schematic illustration of the local enhancement of electric field in 2DVFETs
Figure 3Schottky barrier height and contact resistance calculation for the MoS2‐based 2DVFETs. a) Typical temperature‐dependent I ds–V ds curves at V g = 10 V (left). The corresponding Arrhenius plots of ln(I d/T 3/2)∼1000/T (right). b) Calculated SBH depending on V g. Here, we take three separated near‐linear ranges (0.1–0.3, 0.3–0.6, and 0.6–1.0 V) to calculate the SBH. c) Calculated detailed SBH changing with V ds at V g = 10 V. Inset: circuit diagram involving both contact resistance and channel resistance for the device and schematic illustration to show tilt of the band bending close to the barrier. d) Typical processes of the Y‐function method for contact resistance calculation (left) and the calculated contact resistance at V ds = 0.05, 0.1, and 0.2 V (right). Here, G m is the transconductance calculated from the transfer curves
Figure 4Mechanically exfoliated MoTe2‐based 2DVFET. a) AFM image (left) and optical image (right bottom) of the device, optical image of the transferred hBN spacer (right top) before top electrode fabrication, and optical image of MoTe2 transferred onto the fabricated SID pattern as the vertical channel (right middle). b) I ds–V g transfer characteristics of the device in the linear form and logarithm, with V ds = 0.1, 0.5, 1, and 2 V. c) I ds–V ds output characteristics of the device with V g = −3 to 10 V. d) Comparison of device performance between MoTe2‐based 2DVFET and conventional planar FET