Journal article
Oxide Thin-Film Electronics using All-MXene Electrical Contacts
Advanced materials (Weinheim), Vol.30(15), pp.e1706656-n/a
Apr 2018
PMID: 29473236
Abstract
2D MXenes have shown great promise in electrochemical and electromagnetic shielding applications. However, their potential use in electronic devices is significantly less explored. The unique combination of metallic conductivity and hydrophilic surface suggests that MXenes can also be promising in electronics and sensing applications. Here, it is shown that metallic Ti3C2 MXene with work function of 4.60 eV can make good electrical contact with both zinc oxide (ZnO) and tin monoxide (SnO) semiconductors, with negligible band offsets. Consequently, both n-type ZnO and p-type SnO thin-film transistors (TFTs) have been fabricated entirely using large-area MXene (Ti3C2) electrical contacts, including gate, source, and drain. The n- and p-type TFTs show balanced performance, including field-effect mobilities of 2.61 and 2.01 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) and switching ratios of 3.6 x 10(6) and 1.1 x 10(3), respectively. Further, complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) inverters are demonstrated. The CMOS inverters show large voltage gain of 80 and excellent noise margin of 3.54 V, which is 70.8% of the ideal value. Moreover, the operation of CMOS inverters is shown to be very stable under a 100 Hz square waveform input. The current results suggest that MXene (Ti3C2) can play an important role as contact material in nanoelectronics.
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- Title
- Oxide Thin-Film Electronics using All-MXene Electrical Contacts
- Creators
- Zhenwei Wang - King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyHyunho Kim - King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyHusam N. Alshareef - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Publication Details
- Advanced materials (Weinheim), Vol.30(15), pp.e1706656-n/a
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000430101200029
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85042266696
- Other Identifier
- 991022059920604721