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Enhanced Transport and Optoelectronic Properties of van der Waals Materials on CaF 2 Films.

Haizeng SongFei ZhouShancheng YanXin SuHan WuQi WuYuan GaoRui ChenTianhong ChenJie YaoYi Shi
Published in: Nano letters (2023)
To achieve better properties of van der Waals (vdW) devices, vdW heterointerfaces with substrates such as hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) were introduced to alleviate adverse substrate effects. However, the premature dielectric breakdown and its scale limitation make wider application of h-BN substrates challenging. Here we report a fluoride-based substrate that substantially improves optoelectronic and transport properties of dichalcogenide devices, with enhancement factors comparable to those of h-BN. A model system of wafer-scale fluoride calcium (CaF 2 ) ultrathin films with the preferable growth direction along [111] is prepared by the magnetron sputtering method. Results show that the constructed SnS 2 /CaF 2 and WS 2 /CaF 2 devices exhibit 1 order of magnitude higher than devices based on the SiO 2 substrate in electronic mobility and photoresponsivity. Theoretical calculations reveal that devices based on fluoride substrates are immune from the Coulomb impurity scattering by forming quasi-vdW interfaces, exhibiting great potential for high responsivity and mobility of photogenerated carriers in 2D vdW devices.
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