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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
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	<li>Prepare commercial c-plane sapphire.
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		<li>Wash the whole single-side polished sapphire (2-inch) with acetone.</li>
		<li>Rinse the sapphire substrate with isopropyl alcohol.</li>
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	<li>Grow MoS2 on sapphire substrate using CVD in a hot-wall furnace.
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		<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 downstr...

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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

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&#39;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 monol...

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