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  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Optoelectronics
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Developing multifunctional optoelectronic devices is crucial for advanced integrated circuits.
  • Monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and gallium nitride (GaN) offer unique electronic and optical properties.
  • Heterojunctions with van der Waals (vdW) gaps enable novel device architectures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate a reconfigurable, multifunctional optoelectronic device using an n-MoS2/p-GaN heterojunction.
  • To leverage a third terminal for flexible control over device output characteristics.
  • To integrate multiple functionalities, including photodetection and logic operations, into a single device.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of a three-terminal device based on a monolayer n-MoS2/p-GaN heterojunction with a vdW gap.
  • Characterization of the device's performance as a self-powered ultraviolet (UV) photodetector under two-terminal bias.
  • Modulation of photocurrent using a third-terminal voltage and incident light for reconfigurable logic operations.

Main Results:

  • The device functions as a self-powered UV photodetector with broad spectral response (visible and UV light).
  • The third terminal enables flexible control, facilitating tunable photodetectors and optoelectronic logic gates (NAND, NOR).
  • Demonstrated reconfigurable ternary and quaternary multivalued logic gates within the single device architecture.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed three-terminal device offers a feasible strategy for designing reconfigurable optoelectronic systems.
  • Integration of GaN and MoS2 advantages enables versatile functionalities in a single platform.
  • Potential applications include artificial vision systems, low-power integrated circuits, and opto-electric interconnections.