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Atomically Thin Ohmic Edge Contacts Between Two-Dimensional Materials

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

Marcos Guimarães
Hui Gao
Yimo Han
Kibum Kang
Saien Xie
Cheol-Joo Kim
David Muller
Daniel Ralph
Jiwoong Park

Abstract

With the decrease of the dimensions of electronic devices, the role played by electrical contacts is ever increasing, eventually coming to dominate the overall device volume and total resistance. This is especially problematic for monolayers of semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), which are promising candidates for atomically thin electronics. Ideal electrical contacts to them would require the use of similarly thin electrode materials while maintaining low contact resistances. Here we report a scalable method to fabricate ohmic graphene edge contacts to two representative monolayer TMDs, MoS2 and WS2. The graphene and TMD layer are laterally connected with wafer-scale homogeneity, no observable overlap or gap, and a low average contact resistance of 30 kΩ·μm. The resulting graphene edge contacts show linear current-voltage (I-V) characteristics at room temperature, with ohmic behavior maintained down to liquid helium temperatures. © 2016 American Chemical Society.

Date Published

Journal

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Volume

10

Issue

6

Number of Pages

6392-6399,

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84976621528&doi=10.1021%2facsnano.6b02879&partnerID=40&md5=58286743d0d7a016e7dbd48d2b2eebf9

DOI

10.1021/acsnano.6b02879

Funding Source

1406333
FA2386-13-1-4118
680-50-1311

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