Issue 5, 2022

A floating gate negative capacitance MoS2 phototransistor with high photosensitivity

Abstract

Monolayer MoS2 exhibits interesting optoelectronic properties that have been utilized in applications such as photodetectors and light emitting diodes. For image sensing applications, improving the light sensitivity relies on achieving a low dark current that enables the detection weak light signals. Although previous reports on improving the detectivity have been explored with heterostructures and pn junction devices, some of these approaches lack CMOS compatibility processing and sufficient low dark current suppression. Steep slope transistors that overcome the Boltzmann tyranny can further enhance the performance in photodetectors by providing efficient extraction of photogenerated charges. Here, we report a monolayer MoS2 floating gate negative capacitance phototransistor with the integration of a hafnium–zirconium oxide ferroelectric capacitor. In this study, a SSmin of 30 mV dec−1, very low dark currents of 10−13–10−14 A, and a high detectivity of 7.2 × 1015 cm Hz1/2 W−1 were achieved under weak light illumination due to an enhancement in the photogating effect. In addition, its potential as an optical memory and as an optical synapse with excellent long-term potentiation characteristics in an artificial neural network was also explored. Overall, this device structure offers high photosensitivity to weak light signals for future low-powered optoelectronic applications.

Graphical abstract: A floating gate negative capacitance MoS2 phototransistor with high photosensitivity

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Sep 2021
Accepted
30 Dec 2021
First published
03 Jan 2022

Nanoscale, 2022,14, 2013-2022

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A floating gate negative capacitance MoS2 phototransistor with high photosensitivity

R. Nur, T. Tsuchiya, K. Toprasertpong, K. Terabe, S. Takagi and M. Takenaka, Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 2013 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR06315D

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