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Description: Learn a reliable fabrication method for 2D nanoelectronics using molybdenum disulfide and electron-beam lithography. This technique enables precise location of materials for small-scale device development.

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This work was supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan under contract No. MOST 105-2112-M-003-016-MY3. This work was also in part supported by the National Nano Device Laboratories and e-beam laboratory in electrical engineering of National Taiwan University.

1. 2D Quasi-heterojunction Transistors Fabrication Process
<ol>
	<li>Prepare commercial c-plane sapphire.
	<ol>
		<li>Wash the whole single-side polished sapphire (2-inch) with acetone.</li>
		<li>Rinse the sapphire substrate with isopropyl alcohol.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Grow MoS2 on sapphire substrate using CVD in a hot-wall furnace.
	<ol>
		<li>Place 0.6 g of molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) powder in a quartz boat located at the heating zone center of the furnace. Put the sapphire substrate downstream next to the quartz boat containing the MoO3 powder.</li>
		<li>Prepare sulfur (S) powder in a separate quartz boat at the upstream side of the furnace. Maintain its temperature at 190 &#176;C during the reaction.</li>
		<li>Use argon (Ar = 70 sccm, 40 Torr) gas flow to bring the S and MoO3 vapors to the sapphire substrate while heating the center zone to 750 &#176;C.</li>
		<li>Keep the heating zone, after reaching the desired growth temperature of 750 &#176;C, for 15 min and then naturally cool down the furnace to room temperature.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Perform EBL. 
	NOTE: A thin Au of about 5 nm was deposited by the sputtering for discharging during all EBL processes on sapphire substrate
	<ol>
		<li>Identify, using an optical microscope, an area where MoS2 monolayer flakes are observed, then design the stripe pattern layout for that specific area using a design software (AutoCAD).</li>
		<li>Spin-coat photoresist (PR), for example polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or P015, on top of the sample at 2000 rpm for 60 s (room temperature). Ensure that the PR has covered the entire sample after spin coating.</li>
		<li>Heat the sample (Soft Bake) at 100 &#176;C for 90 s in order to evaporate the solvents in the PR and enhance the adhesion.</li>
		<li>Convert the pattern layout in step 1.3.1 into a specific file (example: GDS file), and upload it in the EBL software.</li>
		<li>Determine the ideal dose of electron beam based on the width of the lines in the layout. 
		NOTE: For line width narrower than 1 &#181;m, the ideal dose of electron beam is 110 &#181;C/cm2; for 1 to 5 &#181;m line width, the dose is 100 &#181;C/cm2; and for line width wider than 5 &#181;m, the dose is 80 &#181;C/cm2.</li>
		<li>Start exposing the sample to electron beam.</li>
		<li>Apply post-exposure bake (PEB) on the sample after the exposure in order to reduce the standing wave effects. Heat the sample at 120 &#176;C for 90 s.</li>
		<li>Use tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) 2.38% as developer. Immerse the sample to TMAH for 80 s. Wash out the TMAH with 200 mL of deionized water for 10 s.</li>
		<li>Examine if the pattern is well developed by optical microscopy.</li>
		<li>Conduct hard bake to get rid of extra water in PR. Heat the sample at 110 &#176;C for 90 s.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Define the stripe structures using 50 W oxygen (O2) plasma etching (1st etching) for 30 s to 2 min and remove PR using 50 mL of acetone.</li>
	<li>Grow tungsten diselenide (WSe2) using CVD on the target location, which will result in a preferred growth of WSe2 layer between the already existing MoS2 stripes on the sapphire substrate.
	<ol>
		<li>Place 0.6 g of tungsten trioxide (WO3) powder in a quartz boat located at the heating zone center of the furnace. Put the sapphire substrate downstream next to the quartz boat containing the WO3 powder.</li>
		<li>Prepare selenium (Se) powder in a separate quartz boat at the upstream side of the furnace. Maintain its temperature at 260 &#176;C during the reaction.</li>
		<li>Use Ar/H2 (Ar = 90 sccm, H2 = 6 sccm, 20 Torr) gas flow to bring the Se and WO3 vapors to the sapphire substrate while heating the center zone to 925 &#176;C.</li>
		<li>Keep the heating zone, after reaching the desired growth temperature of 925 &#176;C, for 15 min and then naturally cool down the furnace to room temperature.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Fabricate the metal pad arrays and alignment marks.
	<ol>
		<li>Overlay the patterns of metal pad arrays and alignment the marks using photolithography patterning technique.</li>
		<li>Deposit 20 nm/60 nm Ti/Au using electron gun evaporator. 
		NOTE: Gold is used to avoid the oxidization of the metal pads.</li>
		<li>Prepare and submerge the sample to 100 mL of acetone to dissolve PR and perform lift-off. Shake and blow the acetone while monitoring the whole process via optical microscopy until the metal pads become apparent.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Perform another EBL process to overlay a ribbon shape pattern on top of the MoS2-WSe2 heterojunction.
	<ol>
		<li>Measure the coordinate displacement between the target locations in the MoS2-WSe2 heterojunction and the alignment marks using optical microscopy and design the ribbon-shape layout based on these measurements using a software (AutoCAD).</li>
		<li>Spin-coat PR, for example PMMA or P015, on top of the sample at 2000 rpm for 60 s (room temperature). Ensure that the PR has covered the entire sample after spin coating.</li>
		<li>Heat the sample (Soft Bake) at 100 &#176;C for 90 s in order to evaporate the solvents in the PR and enhance the adhesion.</li>
		<li>Convert the pattern layout in step 1.7.1 into a specific file (example: GDS file), and upload it in the EBL software.</li>
		<li>Determine the ideal dose of electron beam based on the width of the lines in the layout. 
		NOTE: For line width narrower than 1 &#181;m, the ideal dose of electron beam is 110 &#181;C/cm2; for 1 to 5 &#181;m line width, the dose is 100 &#181;C/cm2; and for line width wider than 5 &#181;m, the dose is 80 &#181;C/cm2.</li>
		<li>Set up the EBL machine such that the position of the alignment marks in the sapphire substrate matches its correspondence in the layout.</li>
		<li>Start exposing the sample to electron beam.</li>
		<li>Apply PEB on the sample after exposure in order to reduce the standing wave effects. Heat the sample at 120 &#176;C for 90 s.</li>
		<li>Use TMAH 2.38% as the developer. Immerse the sample to TMAH for 80 s. Wash out the TMAH with 200 mL deionized water for 10 s.</li>
		<li>Examine if the pattern is well developed by optical microscopy.</li>
		<li>Conduct hard bake to get rid of extra water in PR. Heat the sample at 110 &#176;C for 90 s.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Use O2 plasma etching (2nd etching) to define a ribbon-shaped lateral heterojunction, and remove PR by acetone.</li>
	<li>Perform the EBL process to overlay the pattern of the Ti/Au metal electrodes.
	<ol>
		<li>Measure the coordinate displacement between the target locations in the MoS2-WSe2 heterojunction and the alignment marks using optical microscopy and design the metal electrode layout based on these measurements using a software (AutoCAD).</li>
		<li>Spin-coat PR, for example PMMA or P015, on top of the sample at 2000 rpm for 60 s (room temperature). Ensure that the PR has covered the entire sample after spin coating.</li>
		<li>Heat the sample (Soft Bake) at 100 &#176;C for 90 s in order to evaporate the solvents in the PR and enhance the adhesion.</li>
		<li>Convert the pattern layout in step 1.9.1 into a specific file (example: GDS file), and upload it in the EBL software.</li>
		<li>Determine the ideal dose of electron beam based on the width of the metal lines in the layout. 
		NOTE: For metal line width narrower than 1 &#181;m, the ideal dose of electron beam is 110 &#181;C/cm2; for 1 to 5 &#181;m line width, the dose is 100 &#181;C/cm2; and for line width wider than 5 &#181;m, the dose is 80 &#181;C/cm2.</li>
		<li>Set up the EBL machine such that the positions of the alignment marks in the sapphire substrate matches its correspondence in the layout.</li>
		<li>Start exposing the sample to electron beam.</li>
		<li>Apply PEB on the sample after exposure in order to reduce the standing wave effects. Heat the sample at 120 &#176;C for 90 s.</li>
		<li>Use TMAH 2.38% as the developer. Immerse the sample to TMAH for 80 s. Wash out the TMAH with 200 mL deionized water for 10 s.</li>
		<li>Examine if the pattern is well developed by optical microscopy.</li>
		<li>Conduct hard bake to get rid of extra water in PR. Heat the sample at 110 &#176;C for 90 s.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Perform Ti/Au Metal Deposition and Lift-off
	<ol>
		<li>Deposit Ti/Au metal using electron gun evaporator with the thickness of less than 100 nm, otherwise, it will be difficult to remove the PR and the unwanted metal by lift-off.</li>
		<li>Prepare and submerge the sample to 100 mL of acetone to dissolve PR and perform lift-off. Shake and blow the acetone while monitoring the whole process via optical microscopy until there are only metal lines and pads left.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Perform the EBL process in step 1.9 but overlay the Pd/Au metal electrode&#39;s pattern instead of Ti/Au.</li>
	<li>Perform the metal deposition and lift-off process in step 1.10 but deposit Pd/Au instead of Ti/Au.</li>
</ol>
2. 2D Back-gated Transistors Fabrication Process
<ol>
	<li>Prepare back-gated Si/SiO2 substrates with alignment marks.
	<ol>
		<li>Prepare homemade or commercial SiO2/Si substrate.</li>
		<li>Use photolithography or EBL patterning techniques to define the alignment mark.</li>
		<li>Perform reactive ion etching (RIE) on the SiO2/Si substrate until the total depth of the target area reaches 1000 nm and remove the PR by O2 plasma to reveal the formed alignment marks.</li>
		<li>Overlay the patterns of metal pad arrays using photolithography patterning technique.</li>
		<li>Deposit 20 nm/60 nm Ti/Au using electron gun evaporator. 
		NOTE: Gold is used to avoid oxidization of the metal pads.</li>
		<li>Prepare and submerge the sample to 100 mL of acetone to dissolve PR and perform lift-off. Shake and blow the acetone while monitoring the whole process by optical microscopy until the metal pads become apparent.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Perform CVD of MoS2 on sapphire substrate in a hot-wall furnace.
	<ol>
		<li>Place 0.6 g of MoO3 powder in a quartz boat located at the heating zone center of the furnace. Put the sapphire substrate downstream next to the quartz boat containing the MoO3 powder.</li>
		<li>Prepare S powder in a separate quartz boat at the upstream side of the furnace. Maintain its temperature at 190 &#176;C during the reaction.</li>
		<li>Use argon (Ar = 70 sccm, 40 Torr) gas flow to bring the S and MoO3 vapors to the sapphire substrate while heating the center zone to 750 &#176;C.</li>
		<li>Keep the heating zone, after reaching the desired growth temperature of 750 &#176;C, for 15 min and then naturally cool down the furnace to room temperature.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Transfer MoS2 from the sapphire to the back-gated SiO2/Si substrate.
	<ol>
		<li>Spin coat PMMA with the spin speed of 3500 rpm for 30 s on top of the MoS2 film.</li>
		<li>Bake the MoS2/sapphire sample at 120 &#176;C for 3 min in order to strengthen the PMMA coating.</li>
		<li>Dip the MoS2/Sapphire sample into 50 mL of ammonia solution (14.5%) for around 30 min to 2 h to separate the MoS2 film from the sapphire substrate.</li>
		<li>Pick up the film and transfer it to the SiO2/Si substrate.</li>
		<li>Bake the MoS2/SiO2/Si sample in order to enhance the adhesion between the MoS2 and SiO2 layers. Heat the sample at 120 &#176;C for around 30 min to 1 h.</li>
		<li>Remove the PMMA by washing it with 30 mL of acetone for around 30 min to 2 h.</li>
		<li>Rinse the sample with isopropyl alcohol and use nitrogen to blow it dry.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Perform EBL. 
	NOTE: There is no thin Au deposited on SiO2/Si substrate during EBL process since Si is somehow conductive.
	<ol>
		<li>Measure the coordinate displacement between the target locations and the alignment marks using optical microscopy and, based on these measurements, design the pattern layout of the metal electrodes using a design software. 
		NOTE: Metal electrodes connect the target points in the MoS2 sample to the metal pads in the SiO2/Si substrate.</li>
		<li>Spin-coat PR, for example PMMA or P015, on top of the sample at 2000 rpm for 60 s (room temperature). Ensure that the PR has covered the entire sample.</li>
		<li>Heat the sample (Soft Bake) at 100 &#176;C for 90 s in order to evaporate the solvents in the PR and enhance the adhesion.</li>
		<li>Convert the pattern layout in step 2.4.1 into a specific file (example: GDS file), and upload it in the EBL software.</li>
		<li>Determine the ideal dose of electron beam based on the width of the metal lines in the layout. 
		NOTE: For metal line width narrower than 1 &#181;m, the ideal dose of electron beam is 110 &#181;C/cm2; for 1 to 5 &#181;m line width, the dose is 100 &#181;C/cm2; and for line width wider than 5 &#181;m, the dose is 80 &#181;C/cm2.</li>
		<li>Set up the EBL machine such that the position of the alignment marks in the Si/SiO2 substrate matches its correspondence in the layout.</li>
		<li>Start exposing the sample to electron beam.</li>
		<li>Apply PEB on the sample after the exposure in order to reduce the standing wave effects. Heat the sample at 120 &#176;C for 90 s.</li>
		<li>Use TMAH 2.38% as the developer. Immerse the sample to TMAH for 80 s. Wash out the TMAH with 200 mL of deionized water for 10 s.</li>
		<li>Examine if the pattern is well developed by optical microscopy.</li>
		<li>Conduct hard bake to get rid of extra water in PR. Heat the sample at 110 &#176;C for 90 s.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Perform Au Metal Deposition and Lift-off
	<ol>
		<li>Deposit Au metal using electron gun evaporator with the thickness of less than 100 nm, otherwise, it will be difficult to remove the PR and the unwanted metal by lift-off.</li>
		<li>Prepare and submerge the sample to 100 mL of acetone to dissolve PR and perform lift-off. Shake and blow the acetone while monitoring the process via optical microscopy until there are only metal lines and pads left.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
</ol>

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In this article, the detailed procedures of fabricating novel electronics based on 2D materials in nanometer scale are demonstrated. Since the sample preparation procedures of each application have differences with each other, the overlapped processes were treated as the protocol. Electron beam patterning combined with material location determination and metal electrode definition thus serves as the protocol here. Among the two types of devices mentioned, the whole process of 2D back-gated transistors starting at wet tra...

Since past decades, mankind has been experiencing rapid downscale in the size of transistors and, consequently, an exponential increase in the number of transistors in integrated circuits (ICs). This maintains the continuous progress of silicon-based complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology1. Moreover, this current trend in the size and performance of fabricated devices are still on-track with Moore&#39;s law, which states that the number of transistors on electronic chips, as well as their performance, doubles roughly every two years2. CMOS transistors are present in most, if not all, of the electronic devices available in the market and thus making it an integral part of human lives. Due to this, there are continuous demands for improvements in chip size and performance which have been pushing the manufacturers to keep following the Moore&#39;s law track.
Unfortunately, Moore&#39;s law appears to be nearing its end due to the amount of heat generated as more silicon circuitry is squeezed into a small area2. This calls for new types of materials that can provide the same, if not better, performance as silicon and, at the same time, can be implemented in a relatively smaller scale. Recently, new promising materials have been subjects of many material science researches. Such materials as one-dimensional (1D) carbon nanotubes3,4,5,6,7, 2D graphene8,9,10,11,12, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)13,14,15,16,17,18, are good candidates that can be used as substitute for the silicon-based CMOS and continue the Moore&#39;s law track.
Fabrication of small-scale devices requires careful determination of the material&#39;s location to successfully proceed to the other fabrication techniques such as lithography and metal electrode definition. So, the method presented in this paper was designed to address this need. Compared to the traditional semiconductor fabrication techniques19, the approach presented in this paper is tailor-fitted to the development of small-scale devices which needs more attention in terms of finding the location of the material. The aim of this method is to reliably fabricate 2D nanomaterial devices, such as 2D back-gated transistors and Q-HBTs, using standard fabrication processes. This can serve as a platform for future nanodevice developments as it paves the way towards the production of future advanced nano-scale devices.
In the proceeding section, the fabrication processes for 2D materials-based devices namely, the Q-HBT and 2D back-gated transistor are discussed in detail. Electron beam patterning combined with material location determination and metal electrode definition comprises the protocol since they are required in both mentioned processes. Part 1 discusses the step-by-step fabrication process of Q-HBTs20; and part 2 demonstrates a universal approach to obtain chemical vapor deposition (CVD) molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) back-gated transistors from transfer to lift-off21, which has been completely shown in the article. The detailed process flow is illustrated in (Figure 1).

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a standard and reliable method to fabricate two-dimensional nanoelectronics

A Standard and Reliable Method to Fabricate Two-Dimensional Nanoelectronics

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted huge attention due to their unique properties and potential applications. Since wafer scale synthesis of 2D materials is still in nascent stages, scientists cannot fully rely on traditional semiconductor techniques for related research. Delicate processes from locating the materials to electrode definition need to be well controlled. In this article, a universal fabrication protocol required in manufacturing nanoscale electronics, such as 2D quasi-heterojunction bipolar transistors (Q-HBT), and 2D back-gated transistors are demonstrated. This protocol includes the determination of material position, electron beam lithography (EBL), metal electrode definition, et al. A step by step narrative of the fabrication procedures for these devices are also presented. Furthermore, results show that each of the fabricated devices has achieved high performance with high repeatability. This work reveals a comprehensive description of process flow for preparing 2D nano-electronics, enables the research groups to access this information, and pave the way toward future electronics.

The device fabrication processes have been applied to several of the corresponding author's researches involving the development of 2D material devices. In this part, the results of some of these researches are presented to demonstrate the effectivity of the protocol discussed above. A monolayer of lateral WSe2-MoS2 Q-HBT20 is selected as the first example. Using the standard device fabrication processes detailed in the protocol, the monolayer...

The article aims to introduce a standard and reliable fabrication procedure for the development of future low dimensional nanoelectronics.

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