Integrated Circuits Based on Bilayer MoS2 Transistors

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the fabrication and integration of multiple digital logic circuits, including an inverter, NAND gate, SRAM, and ring oscillator, using bilayer MoS2 transistors on a single sheet, showcasing MoS2's potential for complex electronics.

Contribution

It presents the first integrated multi-stage digital circuits on bilayer MoS2, including logic gates and memory, using direct-coupled transistor logic technology.

Findings

Successfully fabricated and integrated 2-12 transistors on bilayer MoS2

Demonstrated functional digital logic circuits and memory elements

Achieved both enhancement and depletion mode transistors with different gate metals

Abstract

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), have been shown to exhibit excellent electrical and optical properties. The semiconducting nature of MoS2 allows it to overcome the shortcomings of zero-bandgap graphene, while still sharing many of graphene's advantages for electronic and optoelectronic applications. Discrete electronic and optoelectronic components, such as field-effect transistors, sensors and photodetectors made from few-layer MoS2 show promising performance as potential substitute of Si in conventional electronics and of organic and amorphous Si semiconductors in ubiquitous systems and display applications. An important next step is the fabrication of fully integrated multi-stage circuits and logic building blocks on MoS2 to demonstrate its capability for complex digital logic and high-frequency ac applications. This paper demonstrates an inverter, a NAND gate, a static random access memory, and a five-stage ring oscillator based on a direct-coupled transistor logic technology. The circuits comprise between two to twelve transistors seamlessly integrated side-by-side on a single sheet of bilayer MoS2. Both enhancement-mode and depletion-mode transistors were fabricated thanks to the use of gate metals with different work functions.