Issue 2, 2018

TiS3 sheet based van der Waals heterostructures with a tunable Schottky barrier

Abstract

Monolayer titanium trisulfide (TiS3), synthesized recently through exfoliation [Adv. Mater., 2015, 27, 2595], has emerged as a new 2D material with outstanding electronic and optical properties. Here, using first-principles calculations we show for the first time the great potential of the TiS3 monolayer as a channel material when in contact with graphene and other 2D metallic materials to form van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures, where the intrinsic properties of both the TiS3 monolayer and the 2D materials are preserved, different from the conventional 3D metal/TiS3 semiconductor heterojunction [Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 2068]. Moreover, the TiS3 monolayer forms an n-type Schottky barrier (Φe) when in contact with graphene, exhibiting a tunneling barrier and a negative band bending at the lateral interface; the Schottky barrier character can also be changed from n-type to p-type by doping graphene with boron atoms or replacing graphene with other high-work-function 2D metals, while a Schottky-barrier-free contact can be realized by doping graphene with nitrogen atoms, thus providing a solution to the contact-resistance problem in 2D electronics.

Graphical abstract: TiS3 sheet based van der Waals heterostructures with a tunable Schottky barrier

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
30 jul 2017
Accepted
02 des 2017
First published
04 des 2017

Nanoscale, 2018,10, 807-815

TiS3 sheet based van der Waals heterostructures with a tunable Schottky barrier

J. Liu, Y. Guo, F. Q. Wang and Q. Wang, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 807 DOI: 10.1039/C7NR05606K

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