Reconfigurable Tunneling Transistors Heterostructured by an Individual Carbon Nanotube and MoS2

Abstract

Low-dimensional semiconductors have shown great potential in switches for their atomically thin geometries and unique properties. It is significant to achieve new tunneling transistors by the efficient stacking methodology with low-dimensional building blocks. Here, we report a one-dimensional (1D)-two-dimensional (2D) mixed-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure, which was efficiently fabricated by stacking an individual semiconducting carbon nanotube (CNT) and 2D MoS2. The CNT-MoS2 heterostructure shows specific reconfigurable electrical transport behaviors and can be set as a nn junction, pn diode, and band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) transistor by gate voltage. The transport properties, especially BTBT, could be attributed to the electron transfer from MoS2 to CNT through the ideal vdW interface and the 1D nature of the CNT. The progress suggests a new solution for tunneling transistors by making 1D-2D heterostructures from the rich library of low-dimensional nanomaterials. Furthermore, the reconfigurable functions and nanoscaled junction show that it is prospective to apply CNT-MoS2 heterostructures in future nanoelectronics and nano-optoelectronics.