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We have demonstrated selective gas sensing with molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) thin films transistors capped with a thin layer of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). The resistance change was used as a sensing parameter to detect chemical vapors…
We report on the transport and low-frequency noise measurements of MoS2 thin-film transistors with "thin" (2-3 atomic layers) and "thick" (15-18 atomic layers) channels. The back-gated transistors made with the relatively thick MoS2…
A method for assessing the quality of electronic material properties of thin-film metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) is presented. By investigating samples with MOCVD-grown MoS${_2}$ channels exposed to atmospheric…
Metal oxide semiconductors have been thoroughly studied for gas sensing applications due to the electrical transduction phenomenon in the presence of gaseous analytes. The chemiresistive sensors prevalent in the applications have several…
Despite the concerted effort of several research groups, a detailed experimental account of defect dynamics in high-quality single- and few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides remain elusive. In this paper we report an experimental study…
The measurement of acetone in human breath, a known biomarker for diabetes, can act as an effective screening method for diabetes. While gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy based methods can detect gases in low concentration, they are…
We fabricate monolayer MoS2 field effect transistors and study their electric characteristics from 10^-6 Torr to atmospheric air pressure. We show that the threshold voltage of the transistor increases with the growing pressure. Hence, we…
We show that vapors of different chemicals produce distinguishably different effects on the low-frequency noise spectra of graphene. It was found in a systematic study that some gases change the electrical resistance of graphene devices…
We study the channel width scaling of back-gated MoS2 metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) from 2 {\mu}m down to 60 nm. We reveal that the channel conductance scales linearly with channel width, indicating no evident…
Electrical characterization of few-layer MoS2 based field effect transistors with Ti/Au electrodes is performed in the vacuum chamber of a scanning electron microscope in order to study the effects of electron beam irradiation on the…
Gas sensors built using two-dimensional (2D) MoS2 have conventionally relied on a change in field-effect-transistor (FET) channel resistance or a change in Schottky contact/pn homojunction barrier. This report demonstrates, for the first…
Monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) nanosheets, obtained via chemical vapor deposition onto SiO$_2$/Si substrates, are exploited to fabricate field-effect transistors with n-type conduction, high on/off ratio, steep subthreshold slope…
We report on the low-frequency current fluctuations and electronic noise in thin-films made of bismuth selenide topological insulators. The films were prepared via the graphene-like mechanical exfoliation and used as the current conducting…
This paper presents a chemical microwave flexible sensor based on a resonant electromagnetic transducer in micro-strip technology with poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate -- multi wall carbon nanotubes (PEDOT:PSS-MWCNTs)…
The ability to actively regulate heat flow at the nanoscale could be a game changer for applications in thermal management and energy harvesting. Such a breakthrough could also enable the control of heat flow using thermal circuits, in a…
We present an ultrasensitive technique for probing transient optical changes in atomically thin molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) layers integrated onto silicon nitride (Si$_3$N$_4$) ring resonators. The MoS$_2$ is illuminated by a femtosecond…
In this article, we investigate electrical transport properties in ultrathin body (UTB) MoS2 two-dimensional (2D) crystals with channel lengths ranging from 2 {\mu}m down to 50 nm. We compare the short channel behavior of sets of MOSFETs…
We report on "graphene-like" mechanical exfoliation of thin films of titanium ditelluride and investigation of their electronic properties. The exfoliated crystalline TiTe2 films were used as the channel layers in the back-gated…
Ultrathin sheets of MoS2 are a newly discovered 2D semiconductor that holds great promise for nanoelectronics. Understanding the pattern of current flow will be crucial for developing devices. In this talk, we present images of current flow…
Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Most studies so far have focused on the electronic and optoelectronic properties of…