High-Current Gain Two-Dimensional MoS2-Base Hot-Electron Transistors

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• 作者：Carlos M. Torres Jr. ; Yann-Wen Lan ; Caifu Zeng ; Jyun-Hong Chen ; Xufeng Kou ; Aryan Navabi ; Jianshi Tang ; Mohammad Montazeri ; James R. Adleman ; Mitchell B. Lerner ; Yuan-Liang Zhong ; Lain-Jong Li ; Chii-Dong Chen ; Kang L. Wang
• 刊名：Nano Letters
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 9, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：15
• 期：12
• 页码：7905-7912
• 全文大小：494K
• ISSN：1530-6992

文摘

The vertical transport of nonequilibrium charge carriers through semiconductor heterostructures has led to milestones in electronics with the development of the hot-electron transistor. Recently, significant advances have been made with atomically sharp heterostructures implementing various two-dimensional materials. Although graphene-base hot-electron transistors show great promise for electronic switching at high frequencies, they are limited by their low current gain. Here we show that, by choosing MoSb>2b> and HfOb>2b> for the filter barrier interface and using a noncrystalline semiconductor such as ITO for the collector, we can achieve an unprecedentedly high-current gain (伪 鈭?0.95) in our hot-electron transistors operating at room temperature. Furthermore, the current gain can be tuned over 2 orders of magnitude with the collector-base voltage albeit this feature currently presents a drawback in the transistor performance metrics such as poor output resistance and poor intrinsic voltage gain. We anticipate our transistors will pave the way toward the realization of novel flexible 2D material-based high-density, low-energy, and high-frequency hot-carrier electronic applications.