Publications
Prof. Zonghoon Lee’s Atomic-Scale Electron Microscopy Lab
Prof. Zonghoon Lee’s Atomic-Scale Electron Microscopy Lab
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Nature Materials, 24, 1507–1508, 2025 / Nature Communications, 16:7180, 2025 / Science Advances, 10 (45), 2024 / Nature, 629, 348-354,2024 / Nature Communications, 14:4747, 2023 / Nature Communications, 13:4916, 2022 / Nature Communications, 13:2759, 2022 / Nature, 596, 519-524, 2021 / Nature, 582, 511-514, 2020 / Nature Nanotechnology, 15, 289-295, 2020 / Nature Nanotechnology, 15, 59-66, 2020 / Science Advances, 6 (10), 2020 / Nature Electronics, 3, 207-215, 2020 / Nature Communications, 11 (1437), 2020 / Nature Energy, 3, 773-782, 2018 / Nature Communications, 8:1549, 2017 / Nature Communications, 6:8294, 2015 / Nature Communications, 6:7817, 2015 / Nature Communications, 5:3383, 2014
Edge contacts offer significant potential for scaling down 2D transistors due to their minimal contact resistance and reduced contact length. However, their intricate fabrication complicates reproducible large-scale production and evaluation of electrical properties, particularly for p-type channels. Here, the wafer-scale production of p-type nanosheet transistors with pure edge contacts by leveraging the alloying-mediated phase engineering of 2D MoTe2 is demonstrated. The relative 1T’-phase stability of WxMo1-xTe2 facilitates the one-pot growth of lateral polymorphic junctions by combining the 2H-single-crystalline MoTe2 channels with WxMo1-xTe2 edge contacts. These edge-contact transistors exhibit improved carrier transfer, which is attributed to the impurity-free contact interface and suppressed metal-induced gap states. Consequently, their electrical performance is both exceptional and reproducible, compared with that of transistors fabricated using two-step metallization. Furthermore, irrespective of contact length scaling (8–15 nm), the contact resistivity remains consistently low (≈5.9 × 10-7 Ω cm2) owing to edge-confined transport, providing a promising ultra-scaled contact scheme for Ångström-node 2D integrated circuits.