Ultraflat Sub-10 Nanometer Gap Electrodes for Two-Dimensional Optoelectronic Devices.
Seon NamgungSteven J KoesterSang-Hyun OhPublished in: ACS nano (2021)
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are promising candidates for building ultrashort-channel devices because their thickness can be reduced down to a single atomic layer. Here, we demonstrate an ultraflat nanogap platform based on atomic layer deposition (ALD) and utilize the structure to fabricate 2D material-based optical and electronic devices. In our method, ultraflat metal surfaces, template-stripped from a Si wafer mold, are separated by an Al2O3 ALD layer down to a gap width of 10 nm. Surfaces of both electrodes are vertically aligned without a height difference, and each electrode is ultraflat with a measured root-mean-square roughness as low as 0.315 nm, smaller than the thickness of monolayer graphene. Simply by placing 2D material flakes on top of the platform, short-channel field-effect transistors based on black phosphorus and MoS2 are fabricated, exhibiting their typical transistor characteristics. Furthermore, we use the same platform to demonstrate photodetectors with a nanoscale photosensitive channel, exhibiting higher photosensitivity compared to microscale gap channels. Our wafer-scale atomic layer lithography method can benefit a diverse range of 2D optical and electronic applications.
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