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Controlling Tunneling Characteristics via Bias Voltage in Bilayer Graphene/WS 2 /Metal Heterojunctions.

Zongqi BaiSen ZhangYang XiaoMiaomiao LiFang LuoJie LiShiqiao QinGang Peng
Published in: Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
Van der Waals heterojunctions, formed by stacking two-dimensional materials with various structural and electronic properties, opens a new way to design new functional devices for future applications and provides an ideal research platform for exploring novel physical phenomena. In this work, bilayer graphene/WS 2 /metal heterojunctions (GWMHs) with vertical architecture were designed and fabricated. The tunneling current-bias voltage ( I t - V b ) properties of GWMHs can be tuned by 5 × 10 6 times in magnitude for current increasing from 0.2 nA to 1 mA with applied bias voltage increasing from 10 mV to 2 V. Moreover, the transfer properties of GWMHs exhibit n-type conduction at V b = 0.1 V and bipolar conduction at V b = 2 V; these findings are explained well by direct tunneling ( DT ) and Fowler-Nordheim tunneling ( FNT ), respectively. The results show the great potential of GWMHs for high-power field-effect transistors (FETs) and next-generation logic electronic devices.
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