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Woods-Robinson R, Han Y, Zhang H, Ablekim T, Khan I, Persson KA, Zakutayev A. Wide Band Gap Chalcogenide Semiconductors. Chem Rev 2020; 120:4007-4055. [PMID: 32250103 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Wide band gap semiconductors are essential for today's electronic devices and energy applications because of their high optical transparency, controllable carrier concentration, and tunable electrical conductivity. The most intensively investigated wide band gap semiconductors are transparent conductive oxides (TCOs), such as tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) and amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O (IGZO), used in displays and solar cells, carbides (e.g., SiC) and nitrides (e.g., GaN) used in power electronics, and emerging halides (e.g., γ-CuI) and 2D electronic materials (e.g., graphene) used in various optoelectronic devices. Compared to these prominent materials families, chalcogen-based (Ch = S, Se, Te) wide band gap semiconductors are less heavily investigated but stand out because of their propensity for p-type doping, high mobilities, high valence band positions (i.e., low ionization potentials), and broad applications in electronic devices such as CdTe solar cells. This manuscript provides a review of wide band gap chalcogenide semiconductors. First, we outline general materials design parameters of high performing transparent semiconductors, as well as the theoretical and experimental underpinnings of the corresponding research methods. We proceed to summarize progress in wide band gap (EG > 2 eV) chalcogenide materials-namely, II-VI MCh binaries, CuMCh2 chalcopyrites, Cu3MCh4 sulvanites, mixed-anion layered CuMCh(O,F), and 2D materials-and discuss computational predictions of potential new candidates in this family, highlighting their optical and electrical properties. We finally review applications-for example, photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical solar cells, transistors, and light emitting diodes-that employ wide band gap chalcogenides as either an active or passive layer. By examining, categorizing, and discussing prospective directions in wide band gap chalcogenides, this Review aims to inspire continued research on this emerging class of transparent semiconductors and thereby enable future innovations for optoelectronic devices.
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- Rachel Woods-Robinson
- Materials Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Colorado 80401, United States.,Applied Science and Technology Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.,Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Materials Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Colorado 80401, United States.,School of Physics and Microelectronics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- Materials Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Materials Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Materials Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.,Department of Applied Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Materials Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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Tang H, Li Y, Sokolovskij R, Sacco L, Zheng H, Ye H, Yu H, Fan X, Tian H, Ren TL, Zhang G. Ultra-High Sensitive NO 2 Gas Sensor Based on Tunable Polarity Transport in CVD-WS 2/IGZO p-N Heterojunction. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:40850-40859. [PMID: 31577407 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b13773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In this work, a thin-film transistor gas sensor based on the p-N heterojunction is fabricated by stacking chemical vapor deposition-grown tungsten disulfide (WS2) with a sputtered indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (IGZO) film. To the best of our knowledge, the present device has the best NO2 gas sensor response compared to all the gas sensors based on transition-metal dichalcogenide materials. The gas-sensing response is investigated under different NO2 concentrations, adopting heterojunction device mode and transistor mode. High sensing response is obtained of p-N diode in the range of 1-300 ppm with values of 230% for 5 ppm and 18 170% for 300 ppm. On the transistor mode, the gas-sensing response can be modulated by the gate bias, and the transistor shows an ultrahigh response after exposure to NO2, with sensitivity values of 6820% for 5 ppm and 499 400% for 300 ppm. Interestingly, the transistor has a typical ambipolar behavior under dry air, while the transistor becomes p-type as the amount of NO2 increases. The assembly of these results demonstrates that the WS2/IGZO device is a promising platform for the NO2-gas detection, and its gas-modulated transistor properties show a potential application in tunable engineering for two-dimensional material heterojunction-based transistor device.
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- Hongyu Tang
- Department of Microelectronics , Delft University of Technology , Delft 2628 CD , The Netherlands
- Institute of Microelectronics, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist) , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , China
- Changzhou Institute of Technology Research for Solid State Lighting , Changzhou 213161 , China
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist) , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , China
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- Department of Microelectronics , Delft University of Technology , Delft 2628 CD , The Netherlands
- School of Microelectronics , Southern University of Science and Technology , Shenzhen 518055 , China
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- Department of Microelectronics , Delft University of Technology , Delft 2628 CD , The Netherlands
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- School of Microelectronics , Southern University of Science and Technology , Shenzhen 518055 , China
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- School of Microelectronics , Southern University of Science and Technology , Shenzhen 518055 , China
- Shenzhen Institute of Wide-bandgap Semiconductors , Shenzhen 518055 , China
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- School of Microelectronics , Southern University of Science and Technology , Shenzhen 518055 , China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Lamar University , Beaumont , Texas 77710 , United States
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist) , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , China
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist) , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , China
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- Department of Microelectronics , Delft University of Technology , Delft 2628 CD , The Netherlands
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Fang HB, Li N, Xue Z, Zhang Y, Zheng YZ, Tao X. Efficient charge separation promoting visible-light-driven photocatalytic activity of MnO x decorated WS 2 hybrid nanosheets. Electrochem commun 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2016.09.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Chen J, Gao C, Mallik AK, Qiu H. A WS2 nanosheet-based nanosensor for the ultrasensitive detection of small molecule–protein interaction via terminal protection of small molecule-linked DNA and Nt.BstNBI-assisted recycling amplification. J Mater Chem B 2016; 4:5161-5166. [DOI: 10.1039/c6tb00881j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A novel, ultrasensitive and specific fluorescent nanosensor for the detection of small molecule–protein interaction based on the terminal protection of small molecule-linked DNA and Nt.BstNBI-assisted recycling amplification was reported.
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- Jia Chen
- Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Northwestern Plant Resources
- Key Laboratory for Natural Medicine of Gansu Province
- Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lanzhou 730000
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- Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Northwestern Plant Resources
- Key Laboratory for Natural Medicine of Gansu Province
- Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lanzhou 730000
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- University of Dhaka
- Dhaka-1000
- Bangladesh
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- Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Northwestern Plant Resources
- Key Laboratory for Natural Medicine of Gansu Province
- Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lanzhou 730000
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Yeo SJ, Oh H, You TS, Jeon DJ, Chung TM, Park BK, Kim CG. Synthesis and characterization of Mo and W compounds containing aminothiolate ligand for disulfide materials. Polyhedron 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2015.07.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Yuan Y, Li R, Liu Z. Establishing water-soluble layered WS₂ nanosheet as a platform for biosensing. Anal Chem 2014; 86:3610-5. [PMID: 24611524 DOI: 10.1021/ac5002096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Layered WS2 nanosheet is a kind of two-dimensional (2D) covalent-network solid material with remarkable structural and electronic properties that has attracted increasing interest in recent years. In this work, we propose a one-step sonication-assisted exfoliation method to prepare water-soluble WS2 nanosheet and demonstrate its application as a biosensing platform. The synthesis route is simple and straightforward. We reveal that single-strand DNA (ssDNA) chains can readily be adsorbed on the nanosheet, leading to complete and fast quenching of a fluorescent dye tagged to the DNA chain. The adsorbed ssDNA is detachable from the nanosheet upon the interaction with other biomolecules, resulting in the restoration of the fluorescence. The 2D WS2 nanosheet thus acts as an efficient platform for assembling of bioprobes. Because of the extraordinarily high quenching efficiency, which is the synergic result of both excited-state energy transfer and static quenching, the WS2 platform affords minimal background and high sensitivity. Our attempt will extend the application of this material to biosensing and probing areas.
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- Yunxia Yuan
- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University , Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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Xu F, Almeida TP, Chang H, Xia Y, Wears ML, Zhu Y. Multi-walled carbon/IF-WS2 nanoparticles with improved thermal properties. NANOSCALE 2013; 5:10504-10510. [PMID: 24057128 DOI: 10.1039/c3nr03844k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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A unique new class of core-shell structured composite nanoparticles, C-coated inorganic fullerene-like WS2 (IF-WS2) hollow nanoparticles, has been created for the first time in large quantities, by a continuous chemical vapour deposition method using a rotary furnace. Transmission electron microscopy and Raman characterisations of the resulting samples reveal that the composite nanoparticles exhibited a uniform shell of carbon coating, ranging from 2-5 nm on the IF-WS2 core, with little or no agglomeration. Importantly, thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry analysis confirm that their thermal stability against oxidation in air has been improved by about 70 °C, compared to the pristine IF-WS2, making these new C-coated IF-WS2 nanoparticles more attractive for critical engineering applications.
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- Fang Xu
- College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK.
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Polycrystalline WS2 films were grown by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) system at relatively low temperature. The main objective of this study is to optimize the growth conditions for polycrystalline WS2 films at relatively low temperature to use them for photovoltaics (PVs). Different growth conditions and substrates are used and examined systematically. It is found out that films grown on strontium titanate SrTiO3 (STO) substrate have the best structural properties when compared to other substrates examined in this work. X-ray diffraction and optical characterizations of these films reveal crystallographic growth and very promising optical properties for PVs. Furthermore, it was observed that higher growth temperature (>300°C) has an unfavorable effect on the layers by creating some tungsten metallic droplets.
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Du G, Ba D, Tan Z, Liu K. Research on Frictional Behavior of Tungsten Disulfide Thin Films Prepared by Rf Magnetron Sputtering on Restless Steel. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2012.03.597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Stempel T, Aggour M, Skorupska K, Muñoz A, Lewerenz HJ. Efficient photoelectrochemical nanoemitter solar cell. Electrochem commun 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2008.05.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Carmalt CJ, Parkin IP, Peters ES. Atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition of WS2 thin films on glass. Polyhedron 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s0277-5387(03)00194-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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