High-Performance All 2D-Layered Tin Disulfide: Graphene Photodetecting Transistors with Thickness-Controlled Interface Dynamics

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2018 Apr 18;10(15):13002-13010. doi: 10.1021/acsami.8b01038. Epub 2018 Apr 9.

Abstract

Tin disulfide crystals with layered two-dimensional (2D) sheets are grown by chemical vapor deposition using a novel precursor approach and integrated into all 2D transistors with graphene (Gr) electrodes. The Gr:SnS2:Gr transistors exhibit excellent photodetector response with high detectivity and photoresponsivity. We show that the response of the all 2D photodetectors depends upon charge trapping at the interface and the Schottky barrier modulation. The thickness-dependent SnS2 measurements in devices reveal a transition from the interface-dominated response for thin crystals to bulklike response for the thicker SnS2 crystals, showing the sensitivity of devices fabricated using layered materials on the number of layers. These results show that SnS2 has photosensing performance when combined with Gr electrodes that is comparable to other 2D transition metal dichalcogenides of MoS2 and WS2.

Keywords: 2D; Schottky barrier height; SnS2; TMDs; graphene; photodetectors; transistors; vertical-layered heterostructures.