Metal-insulator crossover in monolayer MoS2
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2023-08-13
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10
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Nanotechnology, Volume 34, issue 33
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We report on transport measurements in monolayer MoS2devices, close to the bottom of the conduction band edge. These devices were annealedin situbefore electrical measurements. This allows us to obtain good ohmic contacts at low temperatures, and to measure precisely the conductivity and mobility via four-probe measurements. The measured effective mobility up toμeff= 180 cm2V-1s-1is among the largest obtained in CVD-grown MoS2monolayer devices. These measurements show that electronic transport is of the insulating type forσ≤ 1.4e2/handn≤ 1.7 × 1012cm-2, and a crossover to a metallic regime is observed above those values. In the insulating regime, thermally activated transport dominates at high temperature (T> 120 K). At lower temperatures, conductivity is driven by Efros-Schklovkii variable range hopping in all measured devices, with a universal and constant hopping prefactor, that is a clear indication that hopping is not phonon-mediated. At higher carrier density, and high temperature, the conductivity is well modeled by the Boltzmann equation for a non-interacting Fermi gas, taking into account both phonon and impurity scatterings. Finally, even if this apparent metal-insulator transition can be explained by phonon-related phenomena at high temperature, the possibility of a genuine 2D MIT cannot be ruled out, as we can observe a clear power-law diverging localization length close to the transition, and a one-parameter scaling can be realized.Description
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electronic transport, metal insulator transition, MoS2, transition metal dichalcogenides
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Castillo, I, Sohier, T, Paillet, M, Cakiroglu, D, Consejo, C, Wen, C, Wasem Klein, F, Zhao, M Q, Ouerghi, A, Contreras, S, Johnson, A T C, Verstraete, M J, Jouault, B & Nanot, S 2023, ' Metal-insulator crossover in monolayer MoS 2 ', Nanotechnology, vol. 34, no. 33, 335202, pp. 1-10 . https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/acd3f7