Wednesday, 16 May 2018: 15:20
Room 201 (Washington State Convention Center)
We have fabricated van der Waals (vdW) Schottky junction between high work function conducting NbS2 transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) and semiconducting n-MoS2 TMD for metal semiconductor field effect transistors (MESFETs). The Schottky barrier between NbS2 and MoS2 appeared as large as ~0.5 eV due to their work function difference, as measured by scanning Kelvin probe. Schottky effect MESFET operates with a low threshold gate voltage of -0.5 ~ -1 V exhibiting easy saturation. Since this FET contains low density traps at the vdW interface, little gate hysteresis and ideal subthreshold swing of 60~80 mV/dec are expected. In addition, source/drain (S/D) contact for n-channel MoS2 could significantly affect device mobility. In the case of the graphene S/D contact, the device shows the highest mobility of more than 800 cm2/V s, although the device shows the lowest mobility of ~15 cm2/V s in the case of Au/MoS2 contact without an annealing process. TMD-based MESFET with NbS2/n-MoS2 junction is considered novel and promising in future 2D device electronics.