Designing high performance metal-mMoS2interfaces by two-dimensional insertions with suitable thickness.
Thickness has been proved to have significant influence on the physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their corresponding devices. Understanding the effect of the thickness of 2D insertions on the contact properties of metal-monolayer MoS2interfaces (viz. metal-mMoS2interfaces) is vital to designing high performance mMoS2devices. In this work, the electronic structures, Schottky barriers, contact resistance, and tunneling barriers of scandium-mMoS2(Sc-mMoS2) interfaces with BN and graphene insertions have been comparatively studied by density functional theory. No Schottky barriers are found at Sc-mMoS2interfaces with monolayer 2D insertions. Although the contact resistance and charge injection efficiency of Sc-mMoS2interfaces with monolayer insertions deteriorate relatively to those of the Sc-mMoS2interface, they are still sufficient to realize high-performance mMoS2-based devices. Note that, upon increasing the number of layers of 2D insertions, these contact properties are further deteriorated with the increasing number of layers of insertions. Moreover, additional significant Schottky barriers are introduced into Sc-mMoS2interfaces with multilayer BN; the nature Dirac points of graphene insertions are opened, suggesting low performances of Sc-mMoS2interfaces with multilayer BN and graphene insertions. These variations can be understood on the basis of the orbital hybridization and charge redistribution between the Sc slab and mMoS2layer. In addition, these characteristics are expected to occur in other metal-mMoS2interfaces with two-dimensional material insertions. Overall, monolayer rather than multilayer two-dimensional insertions can be used to improve the transport properties of mMoS2-based devices.
State Key Lab of Solidification Processing, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China. lpfeng@nwpu.edu.cn.
Jie
J
Su
State Key Lab of Solidification Processing, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China. lpfeng@nwpu.edu.cn.
Liping
L
Feng
State Key Lab of Solidification Processing, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China. lpfeng@nwpu.edu.cn.
Wei
W
Zeng
State Key Lab of Solidification Processing, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China. lpfeng@nwpu.edu.cn.
Zhengtang
Z
Liu