Nanophotonics (Mar 2020)

Temperature-stable black phosphorus field-effect transistors through effective phonon scattering suppression on atomic layer deposited aluminum nitride

  • Liu Wenjun,
  • Zheng Hemei,
  • Ang Kahwee,
  • Zhang Hao,
  • Liu Huan,
  • Han Jun,
  • Liu Weiguo,
  • Sun Qingqing,
  • Ding Shijin,
  • Zhang David Wei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0075
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 7
pp. 2053 – 2062

Abstract

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Black phosphorus (BP) shows great potential in electronic and optoelectronic applications; however, maintaining the stable performance of BP devices over temperature is still challenging. Here, a novel BP field-effect transistor (FET) fabricated on the atomic layer deposited AlN/SiO2/Si substrate is demonstrated. Electrical measurement results show that BP FETs on the AlN substrate possess superior electrical performance compared with those fabricated on the conventional SiO2/Si substrate. It exhibits a large on-off current ratio of 5 × 108, a low subthreshold swing of <0.26 V/dec, and a high normalized field-effect carrier mobility of 1071 cm2 V−1 s−1 in the temperature range from 77 to 400 K. However, these stable electrical performances are not found in the BP FETs on SiO2/Si substrate when the temperature increases up to 400 K; instead, the electrical performance of BP FETs on the SiO2/Si substrate degrades drastically. Furthermore, to gain a physical understanding on the stable performance of BP FETs on the AlN substrate, low-frequency noise analysis was performed, and it revealed that the AlN film plays a significant role in suppressing the lattice scattering and charge trapping effects at high temperatures.

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