{"id":226989,"date":"2025-12-12T09:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-method-realize-ohmic-contacts-in-n-type-mos%e2%82%82-transistors-at-cryogenic-temperatures"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:06:01","slug":"new-method-realize-ohmic-contacts-in-n-type-mos%e2%82%82-transistors-at-cryogenic-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-method-realize-ohmic-contacts-in-n-type-mos%e2%82%82-transistors-at-cryogenic-temperatures","title":{"rendered":"New method realize ohmic contacts in n-type MoS\u2082 transistors at cryogenic temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-method-realize-ohmic-contacts-in-n-type-mose28282-transistors-at-cryogenic-temperatures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of layered materials exhibiting unique optoelectronic properties that could be leveraged to develop transistors, sensors and other nanoelectronics. Despite their advantages, creating robust ohmic contacts that connect a metal electrode in transistors to semiconducting TMDs at cryogenic temperatures has proved challenging.<\/p>\n<p>This has so far limited the use of these materials for either studying <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fundamental+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fundamental physics<\/a> or developing nanoelectronics that operate at low temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-024-01274-1\" target=\"_blank\">a paper in <i>Nature Electronics<\/i><\/a>, researchers at the Liaoning Academy of Materials, Shanxi University and other institutes introduced a new technique for realizing ohmic contacts to the TMD molybdenum disulfide (MoS<sub>2<\/sub>) at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cryogenic+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cryogenic temperatures<\/a>, and found that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electron+mobility\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electron mobility<\/a> in those transistors can be surprisingly high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of layered materials exhibiting unique optoelectronic properties that could be leveraged to develop transistors, sensors and other nanoelectronics. Despite their advantages, creating robust ohmic contacts that connect a metal electrode in transistors to semiconducting TMDs at cryogenic temperatures has proved challenging. This has so far limited the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}