Dual-Gate All-Electrical Valleytronic Transistors.

Lai, Shen; Zhang, Zhaowei; Wang, Naizhou; Rasmita, Abdullah; Deng, Ya; Liu, Zheng; Gao, Wei-Bo · Nano Lett · 2023

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The development of integrated circuits (ICs) based on a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor through transistor scaling has reached the technology bottleneck; thus, alternative approaches from new physical mechanisms are highly demanded. Valleytronics in two-dimensional (2D) material systems has recently emerged as a strong candidate, which utilizes the valley degree of freedom to process information for electronic applications. However, for all-electrical valleytronic transistors, very low room-temperature "valley on-off" ratios (around 10) have been reported so far, which seriously limits their practical applications. In this work, we successfully illustrated both n- and p-type valleytronic transistor performances in monolayer MoS<sub>2</sub> and WSe<sub>2</sub> devices, with measured "valley on-off" ratios improved up to 3 orders of magnitude greater compared to previous reports. Our work shows a promising way for the electrically controllable manipulation of valley degree of freedom toward practical device applications.