• 文献标题:   Fermi Level Depinning in Two-Dimensional Materials Using a Fluorinated Bilayer Graphene Barrier
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUN CZ, XIANG C, HONG RD, ZHANG F, BOOTH TJ, BOGGILD P, DOAN MH
  • 作者关键词:   bilayer graphene, band gap opening, 2d material, fermi level pinning, schottky barrier
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsaelm.2c00609
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

Strong Fermi level pinning (FLP), often attributed to metal-induced gap states at the interfacial contacts, severely reduces the tunability of the Schottky barrier height of the junction and limits applications of two-dimensional (2D) materials in electronics and optoelectronics. Here, we show that fluorinated bilayer graphene (FBLG) can be used as a barrier to effectively prevent FLP at metal/2D material interfaces. FLBG can be produced via short exposure (1-3 min) to SF6 plasma that fluorinates only the top layer of a bilayer graphene with covalent C-F bonding, while the bottom layer remains intrinsic, resulting in a band gap opening of about 75 meV. Inserting FBLG between the metallic contacts and a layer of MoS2 reduces the Schottky barrier height dramatically for the low-work function metals (313 and 260 meV for Ti and Cr, respectively) while it increases for the high-work function one ( 160 meV for Pd), corresponding to an improved pinning factor. Our results provide a straightforward method to generate atomically thin dielectrics with applications not only for depinning the Fermi level at metal/transition metal dichalcogenide interfaces but also for solving many other problems in electronics and optoelectronics.