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All‐Printed Ultrahigh‐Responsivity MoS2 Nanosheet Photodetectors Enabled by Megasonic Exfoliation

Kuo, Lidia; Sangwan, Vinod K.; Rangnekar, Sonal V.; Chu, Ting‐Ching; Lam, David; Zhu, Zhehao; Richter, Lee J.; Li, Ruipeng; Szydłowska, Beata M.; Downing, Julia R.; Luijten, Benjamin J.; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Hersam, Mark C.

Organizations

MDF Open

Year

2023

Source Name

kuo_mos2_mse

Contacts

"Kuo, Lidia" (lidiakuo2023@u.northwestern.edu)

DOI

10.18126/d5dp-eglo View on Datacite
Printed 2D materials, derived from solution-processed inks, offer scalable and cost-effective routes to mechanically flexible optoelectronics. With micrometer-scale control and broad processing latitude, aerosol-jet printing (AJP) is of particular interest for all-printed circuits and systems. Here, AJP is utilized to achieve ultrahigh-responsivity photodetectors consisting of well-aligned, percolating networks of semiconducting MoS2 nanosheets and graphene electrodes on flexible polyimide substrates. Ultrathin (≈1.2 nm thick) and high-aspect-ratio (≈1 μm lateral size) MoS2 nanosheets are obtained by electrochemical intercalation followed by megasonic atomization during AJP, which not only aerosolizes the inks but also further exfoliates the nanosheets. The incorporation of the high-boiling-point solvent terpineol into the MoS2ink is critical for achieving a highly aligned and flat thin-film morphology following AJP as confirmed by grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering and atomic force microscopy. Following AJP, curing is achieved with photonic annealing, which yields quasi-ohmic contacts and photoactive channels with responsivities exceeding 103 A W−1 that outperform previously reported all-printed visible-light photodetectors by over three orders of magnitude. Megasonic exfoliation coupled with properly designed AJP ink formula-tions enables the superlative optoelectronic properties of ultrathin MoS2nanosheets to be preserved and exploited for the scalable additive manufac-turing of mechanically flexible optoelectronics