Статья

Doping against the Native Propensity of MoS<sub>2</sub>: Degenerate Hole Doping by Cation Substitution

Joonki SuhDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United StatesTae‐Eon ParkSpin Convergence Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 136-791, KoreaDer-Yuh LinDepartment of Electronics Engineering, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua 50007, TaiwanDeyi FuDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United StatesJoonsuk ParkDepartment of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United StatesHee Joon JungEnergy and Environmental Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United StatesYabin ChenDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United StatesChanghyun KoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United StatesChaun JangSpin Convergence Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 136-791, KoreaYinghui SunMaterials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United StatesRobert SinclairDepartment of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United StatesJoonyeon ChangSpin Convergence Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 136-791, KoreaSefaattin TongayDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United StatesJunqiao WuDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States

2014en

ABI

Аннотация

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) draw much attention as the key semiconducting material for two-dimensional electrical, optoelectronic, and spintronic devices. For most of these applications, both n- and p-type materials are needed to form junctions and support bipolar carrier conduction. However, typically only one type of doping is stable for a particular TMD. For example, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is natively an n-type presumably due to omnipresent electron-donating sulfur vacancies, and stable/controllable p-type doping has not been achieved. The lack of p-type doping hampers the development of charge-splitting p-n junctions of MoS2, as well as limits carrier conduction to spin-degenerate conduction bands instead of the more interesting, spin-polarized valence bands. Traditionally, extrinsic p-type doping in TMDs has been approached with surface adsorption or intercalation of electron-accepting molecules. However, practically stable doping requires substitution of host atoms with dopants where the doping is secured by covalent bonding. In this work, we demonstrate stable p-type conduction in MoS2 by substitutional niobium (Nb) doping, leading to a degenerate hole density of ∼ 3 × 10(19) cm(-3). Structural and X-ray techniques reveal that the Nb atoms are indeed substitutionally incorporated into MoS2 by replacing the Mo cations in the host lattice. van der Waals p-n homojunctions based on vertically stacked MoS2 layers are fabricated, which enable gate-tunable current rectification. A wide range of microelectronic, optoelectronic, and spintronic devices can be envisioned from the demonstrated substitutional bipolar doping of MoS2. From the miscibility of dopants with the host, it is also expected that the synthesis technique demonstrated here can be generally extended to other TMDs for doping against their native unipolar propensity.

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DOI: 10.1021/nl503251h

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