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  • Title: HfO2/HfS2 hybrid heterostructure fabricated via controllable chemical conversion of two-dimensional HfS2.
    Author: Lai S, Byeon S, Jang SK, Lee J, Lee BH, Park JH, Kim YH, Lee S.
    Journal: Nanoscale; 2018 Oct 21; 10(39):18758-18766. PubMed ID: 30276384.
    Abstract:
    While preparing uniform dielectric layers on two-dimensional (2D) materials is a key device architecture requirement to achieve next-generation 2D devices, conventional deposition or transfer approaches have been so far limited by their high cost, fabrication complexity, and especially poor dielectric/2D material interface quality. Here, we demonstrate that HfO2, a high-K dielectric, can be prepared on the top surface of 2D HfS2 through plasma oxidation, which results in a heterostructure composed of a 2D van der Waals semiconductor and its insulating native oxide. A highly uniform dielectric layer with a controlled thickness can be prepared; the possibility of unlimited layer-by-layer oxidation further differentiates our work from previous attempts on other 2D semiconducting materials, which exhibit self-limited oxidation up to only a few layers. High resolution transmission electron microscopy was used to show that the converted HfO2/HfS2 hybrid structure is of high quality with an atomically abrupt, impurity- and defect-free interface. Density functional theory calculations show that the unlimited layer-by-layer oxidation occurs because oxygen atoms can barrierlessly penetrate into the HfS2 surface and the extracted sulfur atoms are absorbed into the oxygen vacancy sites within HfO2 under O-rich conditions. A top-gated field-effect transistor fabricated with the converted HfO2/HfS2 hybrid structure was found to exhibit a low interface trap density Dit of 6 × 1011 cm-2 eV-1 between the HfS2 channel and the converted HfO2 dielectric, and a high on/off current ratio above 107. Our approach provides a low cost, simple, and ultraclean manufacturing technique for integrating 2D material into device applications.
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