Issue 2, 2024

Contact engineering for 2D Janus MoSSe/metal junctions

Abstract

The flourish of two-dimensional (2D) materials provides a versatile platform for building high-performance electronic devices in the atomic thickness regime. However, the presence of the high Schottky barrier at the interface between the metal electrode and the 2D semiconductors, which dominates the injection and transport efficiency of carriers, always limits their practical applications. Herein, we show that the Schottky barrier can be controllably lifted in the heterostructure consisting of Janus MoSSe and 2D vdW metals by different means. Based on density functional theory calculations and machine learning modelings, we studied the electrical contact between semiconducting monolayer MoSSe and various metallic 2D materials, where a crossover from Schottky to Ohmic/quasi-Ohmic contact is realized. We demonstrated that the band alignment at the interface of the investigated metal-semiconductor junctions (MSJs) deviates from the ideal Schottky–Mott limit because of the Fermi-level pinning effects induced by the interface dipoles. Besides, the effect of the thickness and applied biaxial strain of MoSSe on the electronic structure of the junctions are explored and found to be powerful tuning knobs for electrical contact engineering. It is highlighted that using the sure-independence-screening-and-sparsifying-operator machine learning method, a general descriptor WM3/exp(Dint) was developed, which enables the prediction of the Schottky barrier height for different MoSSe-based MSJ. These results provide valuable theoretical guidance for realizing ideal Ohmic contacts in electronic devices based on the Janus MoSSe semiconductors.

Graphical abstract: Contact engineering for 2D Janus MoSSe/metal junctions

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Oct 2023
Accepted
16 Nov 2023
First published
16 Nov 2023

Nanoscale Horiz., 2024,9, 264-277

Contact engineering for 2D Janus MoSSe/metal junctions

Y. Shu, T. Li, N. Miao, J. Gou, X. Huang, Z. Cui, R. Xiong, C. Wen, J. Zhou, B. Sa and Z. Sun, Nanoscale Horiz., 2024, 9, 264 DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00450C

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