APL Materials (Mar 2024)

Area-selective deposition of germanium on patterned graphene/monolayer molybdenum disulfide stacks via dipole engineering

  • Yeonjoo Lee,
  • Towfiq Ahmed,
  • Xuejing Wang,
  • Michael T. Pettes,
  • Yeonhoo Kim,
  • Jeongwon Park,
  • Woo Seok Yang,
  • Kibum Kang,
  • Young Joon Hong,
  • Soyeong Kwon,
  • Jinkyoung Yoo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0187351
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 3
pp. 031103 – 031103-7

Abstract

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Heterogeneous integration of two-dimensional materials and the conventional semiconductor has opened opportunities for next-generation semiconductor devices and their processing. Heterogeneous integration has been studied for economical manufacturing by substrate recycling and novel functionalities by a combination of incommensurate materials. However, utilizing the integration requires controlling locations of the integrated architectures. Here, we show area-selective deposition (ASD) of germanium on the graphene/MoS2 stack. Ge nucleation precisely occurred on the surfaces of the patterned graphene/MoS2 stack via dipole engineering. In this study, the growth temperature of ASD of Ge was significantly lower than that based on precursor desorption on SiO2. The first-principles calculations revealed that Ge deposited by ASD on the graphene/MoS2 stack was not affected by charge transfer. This work provides a viable way to utilize atomically thin materials for next-generation semiconductor devices, which can be applicable for “Beyond Moore” and “More Moore” approaches.