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- Title
Wafer-scale and universal van der Waals metal semiconductor contact.
- Authors
Kong, Lingan; Wu, Ruixia; Chen, Yang; Huangfu, Ying; Liu, Liting; Li, Wei; Lu, Donglin; Tao, Quanyang; Song, Wenjing; Li, Wanying; Lu, Zheyi; Liu, Xiao; Li, Yunxin; Li, Zhiwei; Tong, Wei; Ding, Shuimei; Liu, Songlong; Ma, Likuan; Ren, Liwang; Wang, Yiliu
- Abstract
Van der Waals (vdW) metallic contacts have been demonstrated as a promising approach to reduce the contact resistance and minimize the Fermi level pinning at the interface of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. However, only a limited number of metals can be mechanically peeled and laminated to fabricate vdW contacts, and the required manual transfer process is not scalable. Here, we report a wafer-scale and universal vdW metal integration strategy readily applicable to a wide range of metals and semiconductors. By utilizing a thermally decomposable polymer as the buffer layer, different metals were directly deposited without damaging the underlying 2D semiconductor channels. The polymer buffer could be dry-removed through thermal annealing. With this technique, various metals could be vdW integrated as the contact of 2D transistors, including Ag, Al, Ti, Cr, Ni, Cu, Co, Au, Pd. Finally, we demonstrate that this vdW integration strategy can be extended to bulk semiconductors with reduced Fermi level pinning effect. Laminated van der Waals (vdW) metallic electrodes can improve the contact of 2D electronic devices, but their scalability is usually limited by the transfer process. Here, the authors report a strategy to deposit vdW contacts onto various 2D and 3D semiconductors at the wafer scale.
- Subjects
SEMICONDUCTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR wafers; COPPER; FERMI level; METALS; OHMIC contacts; FLUX pinning
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-023-36715-6