Fermi Level Pinning at Electrical Metal Contacts of Monolayer Molybdenum Dichalcogenides
- Authors
- Kim, C.[Kim, C.]; Moon, I.[Moon, I.]; Lee, D.[Lee, D.]; Choi, M.S.[Choi, M.S.]; Ahmed, F.[Ahmed, F.]; Nam, S.[ Nam, S.]; Cho, Y.[ Cho, Y.]; Shin, H.-J.[ Shin, H.-J.]; Park, S.[ Park, S.]; Yoo, W.J.[Yoo, W.J.]
- Issue Date
- Feb-2017
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Keywords
- contact resistance; Fermi level pinning; molybdenum disulfide; molybdenum ditelluride; Schottky barrier height; transition metal dichalcogenides
- Citation
- ACS NANO, v.11, no.2, pp.1588 - 1596
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ACS NANO
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 1588
- End Page
- 1596
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/30210
- DOI
- 10.1021/acsnano.6b07159
- ISSN
- 1936-0851
- Abstract
- Electrical metal contacts to two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are found to be the key bottleneck to the realization of high device performance due to strong Fermi level pinning and high contact resistances (R-c). Until now, Fermi level pinning of monolayer TMDCs has been reported only theoretically, although that of bulk TMDCs has been reported experimentally. Here, we report the experimental study on Fermi level pinning of monolayer MoS2 and MoTe2 by interpreting the thermionic emission results. We also quantitatively compared our results with the theoretical simulation results of the monolayer structure as well as the experimental results of the bulk structure. We measured the pinning factor S to be 0.11 and -0.07 for monolayer MoS2 and MoTe2, respectively, suggesting a much stronger Fermi level pinning effect, a Schottky barrier height (SBH) lower than that by theoretical prediction, and interestingly similar pinning energy levels between monolayer and bulk MoS2. Our results further imply that metal work functions have very little influence on contact properties of 2D-material-based devices. Moreover, we found that Re is exponentially proportional to SBH, and thee processing parameters can be controlled sensitively upon chemical doping into the 2D materials. These findings provide a practical guideline for depinning Fermi level at the 2D interfaces so that polarity control of TMDC-based semiconductors can be achieved efficiently.
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