Highly sensitive MoTe2 chemical sensor with fast recovery rate through gate biasing. (1st February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Feng, Zhihong; Xie, Yuan; Chen, Jiancui; Yu, Yuanyuan; Zheng, Shijun; Zhang, Rui; Li, Quanning; Chen, Xuejiao; Sun, Chongling; Zhang, Hao; Pang, Wei; Liu, Jing; Zhang, Daihua
• Is Part Of: 2D materials. Volume 4:Number 2(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-02-01
• Subjects: MoTe2 -- transition metal dichalcogenide -- chemical sensor -- sensitivity -- recovery; Graphene -- Periodicals; Materials science -- Periodicals; Nanostructured materials -- Periodicals; 620.115
• DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/aa57fe
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2053-1583

Abstract

Abstract: The unique properties of two dimensional (2D) materials make them promising candidates for chemical and biological sensing applications. However, most 2D nanomaterial sensors suffer very long recovery time due to slow molecular desorption at room temperature. Here, we report a highly sensitive molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2 ) gas sensor for NO2 and NH3 detection with greatly enhanced recovery rate. The effects of gate bias on sensing performance have been systematically studied. It is found that the recovery kinetics can be effectively adjusted by biasing the sensor to different gate voltages. Under the optimum biasing potential, the MoTe2 sensor can achieve more than 90% recovery after each sensing cycle well within 10 min at room temperature. The results demonstrate the potential of MoTe2 as a promising candidate for high-performance chemical sensors. The idea of exploiting gate bias to adjust molecular desorption kinetics can be readily applied to much wider sensing platforms based on 2D nanomaterials.