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  • Semiconductor Physics
  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology

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  • Floating-base bipolar transistors are crucial for signal amplification and noise suppression.
  • Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer superior photoelectric properties but face doping and homojunction fabrication challenges.
  • Existing heterojunctions in 2D materials often suffer from interface degradation and complex manufacturing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To overcome doping limitations in 2D materials for realizing homojunction bipolar transistors.
  • To investigate the performance of a floating-base bipolar transistor based on a 2D material homojunction.
  • To explore the phototransistor characteristics and optimize performance under illumination.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a solid ionic dielectric material (LiTaO3) to enable doping in a 2D material.
  • Fabricated a floating-base bipolar transistor using a monolayer MoS2 homojunction.
  • Characterized the transistor's ambipolar transport and phototransistor performance, including photoresponsivity and detectivity.

Main Results:

  • Successfully realized a 2D material homojunction floating-base bipolar transistor, overcoming prior doping difficulties.
  • Demonstrated tunable ambipolar transport characteristics in the fabricated transistor.
  • Achieved optimized photoresponsivity of 7.9 A W-1 and ultrahigh detectivity of 3.39 × 1011 Jones under illumination.

Conclusions:

  • The developed device effectively solves doping challenges for 2D materials, enabling homojunction fabrication.
  • The floating-base bipolar transistor exhibits tunable phototransistor performance, with optimized amplification under gate voltage control.
  • This approach offers a pathway to extend the application of 2D materials in advanced electronic and optoelectronic devices with conventional fabrication compatibility.