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.

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Advanced Materials
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2026-03-17
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https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.72813
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Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
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Abstract

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.

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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)
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