In‐situ p‐Doping of Nanometer Tellurium‐based Oxide for Room‐Temperature CMOS Circuits
The development of high-performance p-type oxide semiconductors is crucial for scalable CMOS technologies, yet conventional oxides remain intrinsically difficult to p-dope owing to the localized nature of oxygen orbitals and strong defect compensation. Here, we report a reaction-metal-mediated redox strategy that exploits the deposition environment for intrinsic in situ p-type doping of tellurium oxide. Mo-assisted reduction produces nanometer Te-based oxide films with tunable Te nanochannels, which form percolative pathways that markedly enhance hole transport. Remarkably, films deposited at room temperature (RT) achieve mobilities above 10 cm<sup>2</sup> V<sup>-1</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> and carrier densities tunable over more than five orders of magnitude. Co-integration with n-type oxide transistors enables the fabrication of all-oxide CMOS circuits entirely at RT with robust logic functionality. This intrinsically regulated doping pathway provides a generalizable route to overcome long-standing bottlenecks in p-type oxides and advance oxide semiconductors toward large-area, flexible CMOS electronics.
Authors
- Youjin Reo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7939-5946)
- Sai Bai
- Mengfei He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-4055)
- Yanlin Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7450-6050)
- Huihui Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7241-3344)
- Xiaomin Yang
- Hamin Choi
- Zhikai Le
- Mingyang Wang
- Ao Liu
- Yong‐Young Noh
Institutions
- Pohang University of Science and Technology (KR)
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN)
- National Engineering Research Center of Electromagnetic Radiation Control Materials (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Materials
- Published
- 2026-03-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.72813
- Primary Topic
- Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00