Research field
Mesoscopic physics / Solid state physics, chemistry and nanosciences
Electronics and microelectronics - Optoelectronics / Engineering science
Title
High frequency electronics from 2D atomic crystals : graphene and MoS2
Abstract
The electronic properties of graphene (in particular the high carrier mobility) are ideally suited for high frequency electronics. When handled in solution, this 2D material is a serious competitor of organic semiconductors for the realization of fast and flexible circuits. The LEM recently initiated the study of field effect transistors using solution-based graphene as the channel material and achieved cut-off frequencies as high as 8 GHz on flexible (plastic) substrates. However, graphene is a semi-metal. The charge density can be modulated but the current in such transistor cannot be totally blocked, which limits the perspectives for analog RF electronic applications. Graphene can be turned into a semiconductor when structured in the form of nano-ribbons with sub-10nm width but this structuration severely degrades its electronic properties. Other materials can, just a graphite, be exfoliated to form single-layer 2D crystals. Among them, some are semiconductors, such as for example MoS2. Charge mobility in MoS2 is lower than in graphene but equivalent to the one of graphene nano-ribbons. The aim of this project is to study the electronic properties of 2D semiconductors and to compare their merits to graphene for high frequency electronics.
Location
Institut rayonnement et matière de Saclay
Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé
Laboratoire d'Electronique Moléculaire
Centre : Saclay
Starting date : 01/10/2013
Contact person
Vincent DERYCKE
CEA / DSM/IRAMIS/SPEC/LEM
CEA/Saclay
Bât 125 p.156
Phone : 01 69 08 55 65
More about
http://iramis.cea.fr/Pisp/14/vincent.derycke.html http://iramis.cea.fr/spec/LEM/
University / Graduate School
Paris Sud
Sciences et Technologies de l'Information, des Télécommunications et des Systèmes (STITS) - Paris XI -
Thesis supervisor
Vincent DERYCKE
CEA / DSM/IRAMIS/SPEC/LEM
CEA/Saclay
Bât 125 p.156
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