High-Performance Atomically-Thin Room-Temperature NO2 Sensor

Azizi, Amin; Dogan, Mehmet; Long, Hu; Cain, Jeffrey D.; Lee, Kyunghoon; Eskandari, Rahmatollah; Varieschi, Alessandro; Glazer, Emily C.; Cohen, Marvin L.; Zettl, Alex

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02221

High-Performance Atomically-Thin Room-Temperature NO₂ Sensor

Journal Article · Fri Jul 17 04:00:00 EDT 2020 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02221· OSTI ID:1616138

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Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Kavli Energy NanoScience Inst.
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Kavli Energy NanoScience Inst.; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

The development of room-temperature sensing devices for detecting small concentrations of molecular species is imperative for a wide range of low-power sensor applications. Here, we demonstrate a room-temperature, highly sensitive, selective, and reversible chemical sensor based on a monolayer of the transition metal dichalcogenide Re_0.5Nb_0.5S₂. The sensing device exhibits thickness dependent carrier type, and upon exposure to NO₂ molecules, its electrical resistance considerably increases or decreases depending on the layer number. The sensor is selective to NO₂ with only minimal response to other gases such as NH₃, CH₂O, and CO₂. In the presence of humidity, not only are the sensing properties not deteriorated, but also the monolayer sensor shows complete reversibility with fast recovery at room temperature. We present a theoretical analysis of the sensing platform and identify the atomically-sensitive transduction mechanism.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1616138

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Journal Name: Nano Letters Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 20; ISSN 1530-6984

Publisher:: American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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