Enhanced thermally aided memory performance using few-layer ReS 2 transistors

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2020-02-03

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Applied Physics Letters, Volume 116, issue 5

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Thermally varying hysteretic gate operation in few-layer ReS 2 and MoS 2 back gate field effect transistors (FETs) is studied and compared for memory applications. Clockwise hysteresis at room temperature and anti-clockwise hysteresis at higher temperature (373 K for ReS 2 and 400 K for MoS 2) are accompanied by step-like jumps in transfer curves for both forward and reverse voltage sweeps. Hence, a step-like conductance (STC) crossover hysteresis between the transfer curves for the two sweeps is observed at high temperature. Furthermore, memory parameters such as the RESET-to-WRITE window and READ window are defined and compared for clockwise hysteresis at low temperature and STC-type hysteresis at high temperature, showing better memory performance for ReS 2 FETs as compared to MoS 2 FETs. Smaller operating temperature and voltage along with larger READ and RESET-to-WRITE windows make ReS 2 FETs a better choice for thermally aided memory applications. Finally, temperature dependent Kelvin probe force microscopy measurements show decreasing (constant) surface potential with increasing temperature for ReS 2 (MoS 2). This indicates less effective intrinsic trapping at high temperature in ReS 2, leading to earlier occurrence of STC-type hysteresis in ReS 2 FETs as compared to MoS 2 FETs with increasing temperature.

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Goyal, N, MacKenzie, D M A, Panchal, V, Jawa, H, Kazakova, O, Petersen, D H & Lodha, S 2020, ' Enhanced thermally aided memory performance using few-layer ReS 2 transistors ', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 116, no. 5, 052104 . https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5126809