TY - JOUR
T1 - Additive manufacturing of patterned 2D semiconductor through recyclable masked growth
AU - Guo, Yunfan
AU - Shen, Pin-Chun
AU - Su, Cong
AU - Lu, Ang-Yu
AU - Hempel, Marek
AU - Han, Yimo
AU - Ji, Qingqing
AU - Lin, Yuxuan
AU - Shi, Enzheng
AU - McVay, Elaine
AU - Dou, Letian
AU - Muller, David A.
AU - Palacios, Tomás
AU - Li, Ju
AU - Ling, Xi
AU - Kong, Jing
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-04-13
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): OSR-2015-CRG4-2634
Acknowledgements: We acknowledge support from Air Force Office of Scientific Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative-Foldable and Adaptive Two-Dimensional Electronics Program Grant FA9550-15-1-0514, the Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science through NSF Grant 0939514, the US Army Research Office through Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Grant 023574, the Center for Integrated Quantum Materials, Science and Technology Center through NSF Grant DMR-1231319 (to Q.J. and Y.L.), and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Contract OSR-2015-CRG4-2634. Y.H. and D.A.M. acknowledge the Cornell Center for Materials Research for funding through NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program DMR-17198751. X.L. acknowledges the support of Boston University.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2019/2/12
Y1 - 2019/2/12
N2 - The 2D van der Waals crystals have shown great promise as potential future electronic materials due to their atomically thin and smooth nature, highly tailorable electronic structure, and mass production compatibility through chemical synthesis. Electronic devices, such as field effect transistors (FETs), from these materials require patterning and fabrication into desired structures. Specifically, the scale up and future development of “2D”-based electronics will inevitably require large numbers of fabrication steps in the patterning of 2D semiconductors, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). This is currently carried out via multiple steps of lithography, etching, and transfer. As 2D devices become more complex (e.g., numerous 2D materials, more layers, specific shapes, etc.), the patterning steps can become economically costly and time consuming. Here, we developed a method to directly synthesize a 2D semiconductor, monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), in arbitrary patterns on insulating SiO2/Si via seed-promoted chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and substrate engineering. This method shows the potential of using the prepatterned substrates as a master template for the repeated growth of monolayer MoS2 patterns. Our technique currently produces arbitrary monolayer MoS2 patterns at a spatial resolution of 2 μm with excellent homogeneity and transistor performance (room temperature electron mobility of 30 cm$^{2}$ V$^{−1}$ s$^{−1}$ and on–off current ratio of 10$^{7}$). Extending this patterning method to other 2D materials can provide a facile method for the repeatable direct synthesis of 2D materials for future electronics and optoelectronics.
AB - The 2D van der Waals crystals have shown great promise as potential future electronic materials due to their atomically thin and smooth nature, highly tailorable electronic structure, and mass production compatibility through chemical synthesis. Electronic devices, such as field effect transistors (FETs), from these materials require patterning and fabrication into desired structures. Specifically, the scale up and future development of “2D”-based electronics will inevitably require large numbers of fabrication steps in the patterning of 2D semiconductors, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). This is currently carried out via multiple steps of lithography, etching, and transfer. As 2D devices become more complex (e.g., numerous 2D materials, more layers, specific shapes, etc.), the patterning steps can become economically costly and time consuming. Here, we developed a method to directly synthesize a 2D semiconductor, monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), in arbitrary patterns on insulating SiO2/Si via seed-promoted chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and substrate engineering. This method shows the potential of using the prepatterned substrates as a master template for the repeated growth of monolayer MoS2 patterns. Our technique currently produces arbitrary monolayer MoS2 patterns at a spatial resolution of 2 μm with excellent homogeneity and transistor performance (room temperature electron mobility of 30 cm$^{2}$ V$^{−1}$ s$^{−1}$ and on–off current ratio of 10$^{7}$). Extending this patterning method to other 2D materials can provide a facile method for the repeatable direct synthesis of 2D materials for future electronics and optoelectronics.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/668695
UR - http://www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.1816197116
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062034866&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.1816197116
DO - 10.1073/pnas.1816197116
M3 - Article
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 116
SP - 3437
EP - 3442
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
IS - 9
ER -