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Murastov G, Aslam MA, Leitner S, Tkachuk V, Plutnarová I, Pavlica E, Rodriguez RD, Sofer Z, Matković A. Multi-Layer Palladium Diselenide as a Contact Material for Two-Dimensional Tungsten Diselenide Field-Effect Transistors. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 14:481. [PMID: 38470809 DOI: 10.3390/nano14050481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Revised: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024]
Abstract
Tungsten diselenide (WSe2) has emerged as a promising ambipolar semiconductor material for field-effect transistors (FETs) due to its unique electronic properties, including a sizeable band gap, high carrier mobility, and remarkable on-off ratio. However, engineering the contacts to WSe2 remains an issue, and high contact barriers prevent the utilization of the full performance in electronic applications. Furthermore, it could be possible to tune the contacts to WSe2 for effective electron or hole injection and consequently pin the threshold voltage to either conduction or valence band. This would be the way to achieve complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor devices without doping of the channel material.This study investigates the behaviour of two-dimensional WSe2 field-effect transistors with multi-layer palladium diselenide (PdSe2) as a contact material. We demonstrate that PdSe2 contacts favour hole injection while preserving the ambipolar nature of the channel material. This consequently yields high-performance p-type WSe2 devices with PdSe2 van der Waals contacts. Further, we explore the tunability of the contact interface by selective laser alteration of the WSe2 under the contacts, enabling pinning of the threshold voltage to the valence band of WSe2, yielding pure p-type operation of the devices.
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- Gennadiy Murastov
- Department Physics, Mechanics and Electrical Engineering, Montanuniversität Leoben, Franz Josef Strasse 18, 8700 Leoben, Austria
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- Department Physics, Mechanics and Electrical Engineering, Montanuniversität Leoben, Franz Josef Strasse 18, 8700 Leoben, Austria
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- Department Physics, Mechanics and Electrical Engineering, Montanuniversität Leoben, Franz Josef Strasse 18, 8700 Leoben, Austria
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- Laboratory of Organic Matter Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, SI-5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Organic Matter Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, SI-5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia
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- Research School of Chemistry & Applied Biomedical Sciences, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Lenina ave. 30, 634034 Tomsk, Russia
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department Physics, Mechanics and Electrical Engineering, Montanuniversität Leoben, Franz Josef Strasse 18, 8700 Leoben, Austria
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Xiong J, Gong Q, Feng T, Wang M, Zhang X, Liu G, Qiao G, Xu Z. Enhance Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Performance via Double-Stacked Edges of Black Phosphorene. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:21115-21127. [PMID: 38063020 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2023]
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Based on the density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we explored the structures and HER catalytic properties of reconstructed and double-stacked black phosphorene (BP) edges. Ten bilayer BP edges were constructed by the double stacking of three typical monolayer edges, i.e., zigzag (ZZ) edge, armchair (AC) edge, skewed diagonal (SD) edge, and their reconstructed derivatives with their layer's configurations, edge deformations and thermodynamic stabilities were discussed. Based on these edges, five chemical sites on four bilayer BP edges were selected to be promising candidates for a HER catalyst, which present higher HER activities than that of Pt(111). Besides, among these four edges, two edges have even lower energetic barriers for the Tafel reaction. Compared with the monolayer edges, these selected bilayer BP edges confirm the remarkable enhancement of the HER catalytic properties, which can be attributed to their unique edge structures and the enhanced electronic densities after the hydrogen adsorptions. Finally, the thermostability of these edges at room temperature has also been proved by the DFT-MD simulations. This theoretic study deepens our fundamental understanding of the double-stacked edge structures of the BP and provides a new way for the rational design of highly efficient and noble-metal-free HER catalysts.
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- Jianling Xiong
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, P.R. China
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- College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225002, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, P.R. China
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Electronic Nanodevices. NANOMATERIALS 2022; 12:nano12132125. [PMID: 35807961 PMCID: PMC9268397 DOI: 10.3390/nano12132125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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