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Deterministic grayscale nanotopography to engineer mobilities in strained MoS2 FETs

Giovanni Boero, Andras Kis, Jürgen Brugger, Georg Fantner, Nicola Marzari, Norma Rivano, Zhenyu Wang, Xia Liu, Ana Conde Rubio, Berke Erbas, Mitali Banerjee, Jin Jiang, Marcos Penedo Garcia

Field-effect transistors (FETs) based on two-dimensional materials (2DMs) with atomically thin channels have emerged as a promising platform for beyond-silicon electronics. However, low carrier mobility in 2DM transistors driven by phonon scattering remain ...

Nature Research2024

Combining thermal scanning probe lithography and dry etching for grayscale nanopattern amplification

Giovanni Boero, Arnaud Bertsch, Andras Kis, Jürgen Brugger, Georg Fantner, Zhenyu Wang, Xia Liu, Ana Conde Rubio, Berke Erbas, Mitali Banerjee, Marcos Penedo Garcia

Grayscale structured surfaces with nanometer-scale features are used in a growing number of applications in optics and fluidics. Thermal scanning probe lithography achieves a lateral resolution below 10 nm and a vertical resolution below 1 nm, but its maxi ...

Springernature2024

Ferroelectric gating of two-dimensional semiconductors for the integration of steep-slope logic and neuromorphic devices

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Jürgen Brugger, Ali Saeidi, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei, Xia Liu

The co-integration of logic switches and neuromorphic functions could be used to create new computing architectures with low power consumption and novel functionalities. Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors and ferroelectric materials could be potentially u ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Fully integrated Si:HfO2 Negative Capacitance 2D-2D WSe2/SnSe2 Subthermionic Tunnel FETs

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Jürgen Brugger, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Ali Saeidi, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei, Xia Liu

We report the first experimental demonstration and performance characterization of a fully integrated negative capacitance (NC) WSe2/SnSe2 p-type Tunnel FETs (TFETs), validating the use of NC as a technology booster to achieve a significantly improved sub- ...

IEEE2022

Study of the enhanced electricity output of a sliding droplet-based triboelectric nanogenerator for droplet sensor design

Jürgen Brugger, Xia Liu, Wei Xu, Xiaopeng Li

Triboelectric nanogenerators are establishing themselves as promising candidates for realizing high-efficient energy harvesting from largely available droplets. However, the conventional droplet-based liquid-solid triboelectric nanogenerator (DLS-TENG) has ...

Elsevier2022

Edge-Contact MoS2 Transistors Fabricated Using Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography

Giovanni Boero, Jürgen Brugger, Xia Liu, Ana Conde Rubio

The science and engineering of two-dimensional materials (2DMs), in particular, of 2D semiconductors, is advancing at a thriving pace. It is well known that these delicate few-atoms thick materials can be damaged during the processing toward their integrat ...

2022

Method for patterning a thin film of a solid material

Giovanni Boero, Jürgen Brugger, Samuel Tobias Howell, Xia Liu, Ana Conde Rubio

A method for patterning a thin film of (a) solid material(s), comprising the steps of providing a thin film of said solid material(s) onto a substrate, said substrate being deformable by heat and indentation; and performing a thermo-mechanical indentation ...

2021

Thermomechanical Nanostraining of Two-Dimensional Materials

Giovanni Boero, Jürgen Brugger, Samuel Tobias Howell, Xia Liu, Ana Conde Rubio

Local bandgap tuning in two-dimensional (2D) materials is of significant importance for electronic and optoelectronic devices but achieving controllable and reproducible strain engineering at the nanoscale remains a challenge. Here, we report on thermomech ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2020

Thermomechanical Nanocutting of 2D Materials

Giovanni Boero, Jürgen Brugger, Samuel Tobias Howell, Xia Liu, Ana Conde Rubio

Atomically thin materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, are promising candidates for future applications in micro/nanodevices and systems. For most applications, functional nanostructures have to be patterned by lithography. Devel ...

Wiley2020