Coupling Two-Dimensional MoTe2 and InGaZnO Thin-Film Materials for Hybrid PN Junction and CMOS Inverters

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2017 May 10;9(18):15592-15598. doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b02838. Epub 2017 Apr 26.

Abstract

We report the fabrication of hybrid PN junction diode and complementary (CMOS) inverters, where 2D p-type MoTe2 and n-type thin film InGaZnO (IGZO) are coupled for each device process. IGZO thin film was initially patterned by conventional photolithography either for n-type material in a PN diode or for n-channel of top-gate field-effect transistors (FET) in CMOS inverter. The hybrid PN junction diode shows a good ideality factor of 1.57 and quite a high ON/OFF rectification ratio of ∼3 × 104. Under photons, our hybrid PN diode appeared somewhat stable only responding to high-energy photons of blue and ultraviolet. Our 2D nanosheet-oxide film hybrid CMOS inverter exhibits voltage gains as high as ∼40 at 5 V, low power consumption less than around a few nW at 1 V, and ∼200 μs switching dynamics.

Keywords: 2D MoTe2 nanosheet; IGZO thin film; PN junction diode; complementary inverter; hybrid device.