Achieving Ultrahigh Carrier Mobility in Two-Dimensional Hole Gas of Black Phosphorus

Nano Lett. 2016 Dec 14;16(12):7768-7773. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03951. Epub 2016 Dec 5.

Abstract

We demonstrate that a field-effect transistor (FET) made of few-layer black phosphorus (BP) encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) in vacuum exhibits a room-temperature hole mobility of 5200 cm2/(Vs), being limited just by the phonon scattering. At cryogenic temperatures, the FET mobility increases up to 45 000 cm2/(Vs), which is five times higher compared to the mobility obtained in earlier reports. The unprecedentedly clean h-BN-BP-h-BN heterostructure exhibits Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations and a quantum Hall effect with Landau level (LL) filling factors down to v = 2 in conventional laboratory magnetic fields. Moreover, carrier density independent effective mass of m* = 0.26 m0 is measured, and a Landé g-factor of g = 2.47 is reported. Furthermore, an indication for a distinct hole transport behavior with up- and down-spin orientations is found.

Keywords: Black phosphorus; Landau level coincidence; g-factor; mobility; quantum Hall effect; spin-selective transport.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't