Thursday, February 7, 2013

1302.1360 (Daniele Braga et al.)

Quantitative Determination of the Band-Gap of WS2 with Ambipolar Ionic
Liquid-Gated Transistors
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Daniele Braga, Ignacio Gutiérrez Lezama, Helmuth Berger, Alberto F. Morpurgo
We realized ambipolar Field-Effect Transistors by coupling exfoliated thin flakes of tungsten disulphide (WS2) with an ionic liquid-dielectric. The devices show ideal electrical characteristics, including very steep sub-threshold slopes for both electrons and holes and extremely low OFF-state currents. Thanks to these ideal characteristics, we determine with high precision the size of the band-gap of WS2 directly from the gate-voltage dependence of the source-drain current. Our results demonstrate how a careful use of ionic liquid dielectrics offers a powerful strategy to study quantitatively the electronic properties of nano-scale materials.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1360

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