Exploring the Application of Gold‐Assisted Exfoliation in Large‐scale Integration of n‐Type and p‐Type 2D‐FETs
2D materials, with their atomic-scale thickness and exceptional electronic properties, hold immense potential for advancing transistor technologies beyond silicon's limitations. While large-area growth techniques like metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) enable scalable device fabrication, achieving monolayers with high crystallinity remains challenging. Recently, gold-assisted mechanical exfoliation has emerged as a promising alternative, offering large-area monolayers isolated directly from bulk crystals. In this work, gold-assisted mechanical exfoliation is utilized to obtain large-area monolayers of MoS<sub>2</sub> and WSe<sub>2</sub> and fabricate over 100 NMOS and 100 PMOS FETs - the largest statistical dataset of FETs created with gold-assisted exfoliation and the first to include p-FET performance analysis. Leveraging these devices, the performance of CMOS inverter circuits is constructed and evaluated. This study establishes gold-assisted exfoliation as a reliable technique for obtaining large-area 2D materials and highlights the need to optimize bulk crystal growth processes for large-area monolayer production.
Authors
- Andrew Pannone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8446-9946)
- Saptarshi Das (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0188-945X)
- Małgorzata Giza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0800-6621)
- Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2412-5580)
- Subir Ghosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0883-4478)
- Harikrishnan Ravichandran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2230-370X)
Institutions
- Warsaw University of Technology (PL)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Small Methods
- Published
- 2025-07-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202500559
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- 2D Materials and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.55
Funders
- Narodowym Centrum Nauki